Integrate WordPress with Facebook Apps

Facebook WordPress

Wow I was finding how to allow visitors that are visiting my sites to actually login to facebook to kind of link the account. Something like login to my wordpress blog with their facebook account linked. So I went around searching and came across this wordpress plugin, WPBOOK. So I tried.

This plugin is easy to find and it's a free opensource project by John Eckman. Very simple thing to follow and I thought I should share this if you happen to need something like this on your self hosted wordpress blog. Basically it's setting up a facebook application and allow people in facebook to reach your site's content with an application that you could invite. More social interactions to expose your site. Quite fun!

Simply go to your plugins directory in your wordpress dashboard, add new and search for WPBOOK. Once you installed and activated WPBOOK, it has some simple instructions to follow. If you haven't got a facebook developer account, you need one because it's dealing with facebook apps. Simply register one, it's free anyway, and "Set up new application". Fill in information you know, those URL simply put your wordpress blog's. For some of the URL, it will require a slash at the end like this - http://www.vexez.com/ instead of just http://www.vexez.com. It's weird but it worked that way if you happen to get validation fail.

You do not need to fill in all URL in the settings, just get some important ones done and try to save. When you save they will try to validate, fix those validation failed errors and you should be good to go. Get the Application Keys, API Keys and Canvas Page URL to put in the wordpress plugin settings. Read through the instruction and you will be required to allow some extended permission grant from facebook. Just click that link in the settings and grant it.

Okay by now your Facebook Application should be done and showing your blog's content. You need some users before you could submit to facebook apps directory, so hang on and start inviting friends manually!

Support my app too - http://apps.facebook.com/vexezweb/