Facebook Connect WordPress Plugin Configuration

Installation and configuration videotutorial:


1. Log in to the Facebook Developer application: http://www.facebook.com/developers/

2. Create a new application, more info: http://developers.facebook.com/get_started.php

3. Upload the `fbconnect` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory

4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

5. Configure the plugin through the ‘Facebook Connector’ section of the ‘Settings’ menu

6. Use the Facebook App info (step 2) to configure the plugin

7. Create a new template for comments.

8. Activate the Facebook Connector widget from the ‘Design / Widtgets’ menu.

9. Important: If you dont see the Facebook Connect login button and the user photos (on IExplorer), you need to modify your “header.php” theme file:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
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  3. Keep getting:

    Templates not synchronized with Facebook, write the templates text and press create templates!

    Using WP 2.7.1
    Template: Arthemia

    I have seen other blogs using this plugin and the same template I just need to know how to make it work correctly.

    Manually configured templates to match the plug-in templates and that does not work either.

    client website: http://www.biggayhudsonvalley.com

  4. Hi,

    Thank you for a great plugin!

    I have a problem: The plugin worked on website flawlessly but I deleted my facebook application to recreate a new one. When I redo the steps, the step where I am supposed to create a comment template gives me this error message: “Error updating Facebook templates!”

    Do you know what happens? Maybe there was a template created during my first attempt?

    Please help. Thank you

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  8. Hello, I did all the setup but it shows this on the login :

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_avatar() in /mnt/w0001/d27/s30/b028d447
    /www/mywebsite.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/fbconnect/fbconnect_widget.php on line 38

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

  11. I am getting error when I enter the api key and secret key in setting facebook connect.
    The error is

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() in /usr/home/cl-elstop/wp-htdocs/wp-content/plugins/fbconnect/facebook-client/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 2668

    can u please help me

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  14. This is a great Plugin, one question. Im already using Wordbook so my Posts on my blog are being published.

    I have one question, do you recommend making your own Facebook Profile an Admin in your WordPress Installation?

    And will that result into Posting your Post to facebook too?