Comments on: HOWTO: Implement Facebook Connect on WordPress (in reality)

By: Tribulations, bafouilles et bricoles du 2009-02-24 « Christophe Milet Lifestream

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:19:23 +0000

[...] Comment implanter Facebook Connect avec WordPress [...]

By: facebook connect

facebook connect — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:06:09 +0000

I have a contol question..
If you hold and moderate comments on a WP blog, does FB connect override that moderation or are they held in the same way? If they are held, then do they stay off a FB feed until approved?

By: Yasmin

Yasmin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:58:02 +0000

I love the plugin, works great except for the feed. I can't seem to get it to feed comments into facebook. Error console tells me that
Error: FB.Connect is undefined

I have the correct API and feed dialogue #, so I am confused as far as what is wrong.

Thanks

By: Otto

Otto — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:11:25 +0000

Fair enough. I just thought it more than a little bit strange, because using "name" for the attribute won't actually work with WordPress. The wp-comments-post.php file is clearly looking for the "author" value. Not "name".

Admittedly, the ID is different than the NAME attribute, so you're right. Your snippet does have name="author" id="name". I've never seen a theme that didn't use them both as the same before…

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:22:04 +0000

Well, yes, as I said, I was just using what was in the theme that was
on my client's site. The name attribute (which is what defines the
name used by the form element in PHP) in the sample code is indeed
\"name\", it's the id that is set to author, which is what jQuery uses
to locate/access the field.

By: Otto

Otto — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:10:04 +0000

Huh. Well, that's more than a little bit strange, because using "name" for the attribute won't actually work with WordPress. The wp-comments-post.php file is clearly looking for the "author" value. Not "name".

Admittedly, the ID is different than the NAME attribute, so it could be done, I supposed, but I've never seen a theme that didn't use them both as the same thing.

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:52:29 +0000

If you use the HTML snippet provided for the comment form then it's actually #name (in my code), although I'm aware that a lot of templates use #author. I was just using what was there in the theme I worked on for my client.

By: Otto

Otto — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:25:15 +0000

Your use of #name is wrong. It should be #author instead.

By: Andy McGarry

Andy McGarry — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:47:09 +0000

Thanks very much, appreciated the walkthough!

Andy / Beyond Content

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:03:18 +0000

I believe Disqus supports its own FBC integration, so this wouldn't
make much sense. The short answer though is that it wouldn't work,
because it'd be trying to put values into the wrong form fields.

By: facebook developers

facebook developers — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:43:38 +0000

Any indication how the plugin will interface with a blog that has Disqus installed? Would it just add it on somewhere around the commenting field?

By: Umair Jabbar

Umair Jabbar — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:31:22 +0000

This is a great post !
hats off !

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:12:10 +0000

You'd need to do something like associate a user's facebook ID (or a
faked email like @facebook.com) with an author, probably
using either usermeta (would make the most sense) or postmeta, and
then load that when loading a post. It'd all be custom coding to get
it done though.

By: Aaqib

Aaqib — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:52:28 +0000

Hello Beau,

That really worked. Great post. I wanted to know that if there is any way to show facebook avatars with blog posts that users make. I have been able to show them with the comments, they post. Is there a way for the blog posts too ?

Thanks.

By: Scott Menzer

Scott Menzer — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:45:24 +0000

great post...exactly what i was looking for to put on my pixelpost blog since there aren't any plugins to do it for me. thanks! http://scott.menzer.org/photo

By: Zack Rosen

Zack Rosen — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:11:08 +0000

Thanks for the info, Beau! Do you happen to have an example of the updated JS code?

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:24:27 +0000

You'd need to register a different "template bundle" with Facebook, and then also make sure that you were outputting the correct variables/information as a JS object (in the very last bit of Javascript above, "FB.Connect.showFeedDialog……").

By: Zack Rosen

Zack Rosen — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:01:15 +0000

Hey Beau,

Love the script! Any way of making it a short/full story newsfeed instead of one line, though?

Thanks!

Zack

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:57:15 +0000

you are awesome.
worked like a charm

By: Beau Lebens

Beau Lebens — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:48:05 +0000

I'm getting JS errors on your page after posting, it's complaining
about FB.Connect not being available yet.

Try changing this section:

FB.Connect.ifUserConnected(update_user_details);
if (getCookie('fb_connect') == 'yes') {
setCookie('fb_connect', null);
FB.Connect.showFeedDialog(51618164969, {'blog':'LOOKS.GD Design Magazine', 'post':'Community Link
Sharing'}, null, null, null, FB.RequireConnect.promptConnect);
}

to this:

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
FB.Connect.ifUserConnected(update_user_details);
if (getCookie('fb_connect') == 'yes') {
setCookie('fb_connect', null);
FB.Connect.showFeedDialog(51618164969, {'blog':'LOOKS.GD Design Magazine', 'post':'Community Link
Sharing'}, null, null, null, FB.RequireConnect.promptConnect);
}
});

Same thing, just just wrapped it in the jQuery bit to try to make it
load a bit later