Facebook recently launched Facebook Connect plattform, which gives Facebook users to logon using their facebook identity, to any facebook connect enabled sites they wanted. Enabling Facebook connect is quite complicated, but for site owners build their site with Wordpress, MovableType, vbulletin, and mediawiki is quite straight forward. The plugins are available!
I found another cool wordpress plugin related to facebook, wordbook. If you have facebook account you can make your blog posts displayed on your mini-feed and displays a summary of your blog on your profile. It even displays thumbnails if your blog post has image(s) in it. Here’s the example how it looks on my facebook profile:
Installation instructions are provided on the wordbook link above.
I found interesting Wordpress plugin called Fotobook. As you can see now I got a page called photos, and it contains photos I got in my facebook account. How cool is that? It’s very convenient, as I only needs to upload to one site to show it into multiple site, and it has cool features using lightbox effect. To import the photos it took less than a second on my site, this because the photos still stored on facebook’s server. It’s got some drawback though, it doesn’t have flexibility of a real gallery system such as coppermine or gallery plugin on my old geeklog site. It can’t display full resolution photos, exif data, commenting system, and doesn’t integrate with wordpress post system yet.
Anyway, I’m going to use it for now, until I found better image gallery plugin for Wordpress. I’ve tried NextGen Gallery plugin, but somehow I prefer not to use it. Can anyone recommend nice image gallery plugin?
