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 widgets manually:

<?php
$args=array();
$args['loginbutton'] = "xlarge"; //value: small,medium,large,xlarge
$args['maxlastusers'] = "10"; //Max. user photos to display
$args['avatarsize'] = "30"; //User photos size
widget_FacebookConnector($args);
?>

 

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:

...
<?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:

...
...
<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">
...
...
<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>
</form>
...
...

 

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:

...
...
<?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:
...
...

 






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.

6. How to show post author avatar (Gravatar or Facebook profile)
Use this code at the WP bucle (index.php or single.php):

<?php echo get_avatar( $authordata->ID,50 );?>

 

7. How to show facebook login button without the widget

Edit your WP theme files and paste this code:

<?php include(FBCONNECT_PLUGIN_PATH."/fbconnect_widget_login.php");?>

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  2. Hello I have just the same problem as Daniel Münster has

    I get an error page (404) when I click on Invite friends on on some profile on widget.
    it doesn’t use right URL for my blog -> which files source code do I need to change and where can I locate it?

    Thanks

    Daniel Münster problem is the same—->
    e.g. inviting people leads to the url:
    http://www.e-driven.de/e-blog/wordpress/?fbconnect_action=invite
    I think it should be:
    http://www.e-driven.de/?fbconnect_action=invite
    Any ideas how I can fix this?
    Thanks a lot!

  3. The issue of the checkbox not showing up is probably due to your theme. For kicks, I switched to the default wordpress theme, and presto! it worked. I grabbed the code for the comment submission form from the theme that worked, and slapped it into my beloved theme right under the comments display. Giddy up! Thanks Javier!

  5. As an update to the issues I was having with posting to FB from comments on a blog post.
    Here’s an error that users are reporting with IE:
    “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site
    http://sitename/date/posttitle/#comment-30
    where site name = my site, date = date of post, posttitle = Title of the post. and #comment-30 seems to refer to the comment number of the comment that users are trying to post.

    Please help!

  6. Anyone else experiencing this issue:
    - From Firefox – posting comments and having the popup to allow publishing to Facebook works fine
    - From safari – the check box for publishing to Facebook is there, but upon submitting a comment, there’s no popup to confirm publishing to facebook and there’s no update in Facebook, but comment posts on the blog post
    - From IE in windows, the checkbox for publishing to Facebook doesn’t show up at all…

    Any help would be appreciated, I already tried adding :
    <form action=”/wp-comments-post.php” method=”post” id=”commentform”>
    before
    ID); ?>

    in the comments.php file.

    Please help!

  7. What template is called by the plugin for the “user profile” pages or the “invite your friends” page? The widget seems to work but my template isn’t liking it, and I can’t figure out which template has the problem. My own author.php file works fine, do I need to make a special template for the plugin to use?

  8. I have problem with this plugin. as you can see in my blog, if you click on picture of any connected people, it would go to an index page of blog instead of that person’s profile. what should I do to make it work?

  10. Hi, I inserted the code:

    ID); ?>

    above the in the comments.php file for my current theme but the send comments to facebook still does not show up. Is there something i am doing wrong?

  11. I do have another question…… I like the Community function shown in the tutorial video….. how do I get that and make it available on my blog… I don’t see a place to activate it. What do i need to do to get this working?

    Chad

  13. I am also experiencing upon connecting with facebook the user profile picture doesnt show up…just a small question mark. Any ideas on how to fix this?

    Greatly appreciated and nice work…. i love it.

    Chad

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