Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin FAQs
1.My Wordpress Theme dont support widgets, What can i do?
If your wordpress don’t support widgets, you can add the FB Connect plugin manually:
< ?php
widget_FacebookConnector(array());
?>
2. IExplorer don’t show the login button and user photos
On some wordpress themes you need to modify your “header.php” 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">……
and check your “footer.php” theme file: if don’t have a < ?php wp_footer(); ?> line
Add it before the end body tag:
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< ?php wp_footer(); ?>
< /body>
< /html>
3. I can’t see the Send to Facebook checkbox, on the comments form
Check your comments.php Theme file, and add this code line:
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<form action="<?php echo get_option(’siteurl’); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
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<?php do_action(’comment_form’, $post->ID); ?>
</form>
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4. I can’t see the Facebook user photo on the comments
FB Connector plugin use the get_avatar Wordpress filter, to show the Facebook user photo or the Gravatar user image (based on the email).
Sample comments.php theme file that call this filter:
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<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?><li <?php echo $oddcomment; ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
<?php echo get_avatar( $comment, 32 ); ?>
<cite><?php comment_author_link() ?></cite> Says:
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5. How to configure the invitation limit
Facebook changed the notification/invitation limit from a fixed to a fluctuating limit based on user spamminess ratings. A formula based on some parameters like your historical invitation acceptance rate.
From your Facebook application admin page, you can see the current “allocation” limits.
Go to: Facebook app admin->statistics->Allocations.
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Very nice plugin. On my site I allow users who are logged it to post content, not just comments. I would like to be able to show their facebook avatar next to their post but can’t see to get it to work. Since using this plugin doesn’t enter an email for the user I can’t get the avatar by email address. And since I’m outside the comment loop I can’t use that method either. Any ideas?
Can anyone tell me why my picture only shows up if I am logged into Facebook? When I logout, I get the silhouette regardless of the site I am on; until I log in. I have checked and rechecked privacy settings to no avail. Ideas or resolution would be greatly appreciated. You can see what I am talking about at my site
http://www.stangsgarage.com
It’s because your facebook privacy settings are probably such that your picture is not visible unless you are logged in or a friend.
I’m guessing it’s one of them but I cannot figure out which one. I’ve changed I think just about everything I can.
Thanks for the reply though. Let me know if you happen to stumble across the right setting.
Cheers!
Stang
I have the same problem as Ben…
also when we published comments on facebook the website back link will go on website/wordpress folder instead of root.
Everything was working fine before i transfered the index page from the wordpress folder to the root.
anyone know where i can fix the problem?
thanks
hi… having a little issue where every time the ‘logout’ link is clicked, the user is taken back to the blog/ wordpress directory rather than the main site root. IE, instead of landing back at http://www.mysite.com, it’s going to http://www.mysite.com/wordpress/ . Any thoughts on a remedy?
thanks for a great little plugin!
Hi,
my issues are:
1.) the facebook images does not show up, not even the tiny “f” on the blank image. im using the facebook theme.
2.) Also on the pop-up window (where you insert the email and pasword for facebook) after i click “connect” this pop-up window just goes back to homepage. And im not logged in facebook unless i refresh the current page.
So I hope the pop-up window would just close automatically and current page will be refreshed..
thank you
it works for my wp 2.9. thanks. ^^
what about a mu version?
Hi there,
this is great plugin, got most of it to work on my site. I have two questions – Please help!!!
1. What do I need to do if I would like to enhahnce the plugin to include the “Add Bookmark” component so users of my blog can bookmark the blog as a facebook application on their facebook page.
2. The Invite freinds feature allows me to go thru the entire flow but none of my FB friends receive the actual invite. Do you know why this is happening?
Please advice.
Tanks a ton for your help.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to your families and you!!!
Nikita
Got the button to work in FF and IE but wont work in Safari or Google Chrome. ANy suggestions?
ya solucione mi problema funcionaa la perfeccion
Hi Jorge,
This plugin has awesome functionality so great work!
I would like to have JUST an FBConnect button on a header menu bar and the rest of the visitor box, profile update, etc on a specific user page (which will be widget enabled).
So, is there a function to call JUST the FBConnect button, instead of the whole visitor table? After the user logs in, I don’t want the table to appear on my menu bar.
Thanks very much!
Never mind. I figured it out. You just insert the appropriate XFBML tag in the theme. For example, fb:profile-pic for displaying the profile picture or fb:login-button for the login button.
Thanks tho.
Hi Reyes, i wanna ask something, i used your plugin in my blog, but why the login button only showed up in Firefox and Opera?
Ya solucione el error, ingrese a la carpeta del plugin en mi server, abri el archivo invitefriends y luego de:
<fb:request-form
action="”
method=”GET”
invite=”true”
Agregue la linea:
type=”AQUI_NOMBRE_DE_LA_APLICACION”
Hice todo esto y me funcionó correctamente…
Me sale el siguiente error al intentar invitar amigos:
Han ocurrido errores mientras cargábamos la página de la aplicación
Errores de tiempo de ejecución:
fb:request-form: Required attribute “type” not found in node fb:request-form
When clicking the Connect with Facebook icon, I get a security warning stating:
static.ak.connect.facebook.com:443 uses an invalid security certificate
The certificate is only valid for a248.e.akamai.net
Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain
I get two buttons, CANCEL and VIEW CERTIFICATE
@Tim Nicholson: is your version of the plugin at xtremelysocial publicly available?
Love this one too and all the effort that’s gone in this work.
Hi. This is a great plugin! We recently implemented this for a client, however the Facebook login button does not appear in IE or Chrome. We tried the suggestions in the site but to no avail. Please could you advise?
I can’t see the facebook user photos on the comments. I see that there’s a FAQ for that question but I don’t understand the solution. Would someone please explain the solution to me?
How do you put a “Connect with Facebook” on the blog post comments area? Is it possible. And also, how do I make facebook pull the articles from the blog (instead of showing the blog home page), and from there facebook users can comment (then it will export that to the blog) and vice versa.
Hi! Great plugin but when users click on a picture, it takes them to a page with info about that user, which breaks the CSS-structure entirely. How might I edit this so that the CSS isn’t destroyed?
Thanks!
Hi, I would just like to find out how to remove the “Login” link that takes you to the “wp-admin.php” page…? So, i just want people to be able to log in with Facebook credentials and not WP credentials… any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks
You should edit the file fbconnect_widget.php inside the “fbconnect” directory in your plugins directory.
Posting comments to facebook does not work. It showed an error with template. When I checked the facebook application to create a template, I see this message:
“Facebook will deprecate template bundles and their related API calls December 20, 2009.
Please start using stream attachments with stream.publish, FB.Connect.streamPublish, and Facebook.streamPublish instead.”
How to make this work?
Hello,
I can’t get the user photos to show. I did everything in the FAQs and comments (add code to comments.php and header, disable SSL, edit URL to drop www.), still nothing, only shows my profile pic. Any ideas for tweaks?
I’m using WP 2.8.4. with customized Thesis theme.
Thanks,
Peter
Sabes como mostrar mas visitantes que 9?
solo salen por defecto 9 y me gustaria mostrar 15.
http://www.blogswow.com puedes verlo aqui, al hacerlo en columanas de 4 queda un poco mal
gracias.
Cuando agregas el widget al sidebar te da la opcion para cambiar la cantidad de visitas que quieras mostrar.
@Simon, this plugin does not publish WP articles to a Facebook page, nor does it poll FB for comments. It only lets you login to WP with your FB ID and post comments both to the WP site and to Facebook. I have heard that there are WP plugins that will publish posts to FB and pull FB comments on those posts back into your WP site and I’m going to be checking those plugins out and seeing if they are compatible with this plugin. I’m develop FB apps and websites and my vision is to have a WP site that is completely integrated with FB (and MySpace and Twitter). I’ve made some enhancements to this plugin, like showing your FB home page news stream and a list of your FB friends at http://xtremelysocial.com. I’m pinging Javier these days to see if we can work together to enhance the plugin.
@Will, hablo solamente un poquito de espanol, pero en Engles: your callback URL doesn’t really matter. You can set it to the root of your website or wherever WordPress is installed. What’s important is that you have your API key and Secret key set properly in the plugin. The one strange thing with the callback URL is that FB will end up having an application that displays your WordPress page in an iframe. Its not going to look good, especially if you are using a theme with a sidebar, but that’s just how FB works with connect apps.
I can tell you how to create an FB app from scratch that displays on FB instead of your website in an iframe. Just let me know if you want more details.
I’m using this plugin but nothing is showing on the comments page. I have the correct code in. It’s as if the hook isn’t working. I’m on WP v2.8.4
Any ideas?
When logged in with FBConnect, it displays “Your email address is apps+153033057438.63105642.72cf2c30d180f452a57d089acb200d33@proxymail.facebook.com”
That’s ugly. I can’t find it in the PHP anywhere to remove it. Can anyone else find it or know how to remove it?
This is an amazingly great plugin. I have one issue with Internet Explorer though. I can’t login with the facebook button in IE. The same thing for even this very site here. If you could fix that would be great
Does the plugin pull comments put comments made on Facebook on the site?
Hmm.