This plugin allows you to cross-post to your Facebook account directly from your WordPress blog:
![[screenshot]](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/screenshot-1.png)
The Facebook app that this plugin works with will display a mini-version of your blog’s first page (a list of the most recent blog posts):
![[screenshot]](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/screenshot-2.png)
Requirements:
- A Facebook profile :).
- Privileges to install WordPress plugins on your blog. In particular, this means that wordpress.com bloggers are left out. Sorry :(. Bloggers using wordpress.com should check out the WordPress Facebook app.
Installation instructions are at wordpress.org.
For problem reports or feature requests, please first check the FAQ or Other Notes, then use the Wordbook Discussion Board.
To be notified of updates (this plugin is still rather young), monitor the Wordbook Discussion Board.
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Posted in WordPress on Sun Jul 29, 2007 at 4:31 pm by Rob
Cool idea…
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Me likes…look forward to more news on this useful plugin. Thanks!
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I’m planning to install this… so I sell my soul (and e-mail) to be notified of changes :-)
Hello,
I installed the plugin, generated the one-time key and added the application to my Facebook profile, but I cannot see the Wordpress block anywhere in it. Do I have to wait a bit to appear? Did I miss something?
Thanks for your help.
Nice idea, now I can finally begin to ditch Twitter.
I don’t think you’re missing anything. If you click on “Applications” in your profile, Wordbook should show up. I think it might be “hidden” because Facebook hasn’t accepted the app yet (Wordbook isn’t yet in the Facebook app directory). I am guessing it will show up when/if Wordbook gets accepted.
Great plugin!!
When I try to clear errors on the admin page I get errors.
Warning: main(/path/to/wordpress/plugins/) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such device in /path/to/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php on line 65
Warning: main(/path/to/wordpress/plugins/) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such device in /path/to/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php on line 65
Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/path/to/wordpress/plugins/’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /path/to/wordpress/wp-admin/admin.php on line 65
Any thoughts?
Version 0.5.3 is available. Changes from 0.5.2: activation of the Wordbook plugin will add a link to your blog in your Facebook profile’s “Wordbook” box. After that, the “Wordbook” box will be filled with the title of your most recent blog post.
Version 0.5.2 is available. Changes from 0.5.1: from the WordPress admin panel, URLs to facebook.com will be launched in a new browser window.
Interesting idea. Keep me posted
very neat idea, i like it a lot. thank you =)
Hi,
Is it just me or is the download link dead? :S
Hmm… Download not working.
Great idea for a plugin. Very useful!
Just curious though: I keep getting error code 343, “Feed story title is too long” under Plugins–>FacePress… what is the Facebook title limit?
Yeah, somethings wrong? Got the title down to 4 chars – same error. I’m using facePress 0.4.1 so perhaps you have already fixed this in the new wordbook? (the download link appears to be broken though ;-)
Download link is busted.
Hi,
The download link is broken….can anyone send me the plugin on gautham (@) maediratta dot com
Thanks!
Would try this app if I could actually download it.
Rob,
Version 0.5.1 is definitely not showing the newest posts in the mini-feed or anywhere else. I’ll upgrade anytime today, but it’s still strange. I’m switching back to importing notes meanwhile.
Version 0.5.5 is out, and the download link is fixed.
Long post titles are now truncated with “…” if necessary.
The blog name is now not included in the Mini-Feed title (to favor the post title, since that will have a link to your blog anyway).
Each post will now update the “Wordbook” block in your profile with your blog name and latest post title.
Thank you so much Rob! I’ve been looking for something that does exactly this… you rock.
yay the link works now.
I’ve been looking for something like this, i even tried making something like it myself, but failed very badly ^^.
Thanks :D.
Hello Rob,
I’ve upgraded the version to 0.5.5, and tried to re-add the application in Facebook and re-install the plug-in, but I still don’t see the posts published. I usually timestamp my entries, rather than publishing anything at once.
Could you assist me in this? Thanks!
If you mean you are post-dating your entries (giving everything a date in the future), then I will have to investigate it. It wouldn’t surprise me if that wasn’t working, because I haven’t planned for that use case.
This plugin seems really wicked. I’ve yet to test it but if it works out for me, this could be one of my most useful plugins. When I was installing this, I came up with a question: does this plugin support multiple WordPress users and corresponding Facebook accounts?
I must be missing this thing on how to generate the “one-time code” by logging into facebook. Can anyone assist?
A single WordPress blog can currently only be associated with a single Facebook account; a multi-author blog cannot be associated with multiple Facebook accounts.
This Wordbook limitation is something that could be fixed in a future release.
A useful plugin. Will try it out
Version 0.6.1 is available for download. New features:
Enjoy.
I’ve just installed the new version. I like it a lot, already! Nice one.
nice job
Hey, great plugin. The one-time use code thing was due to my being an idiot. My adblocking software was blocking the link to generate the code.
Installed and tested the plugin, it works great! Good job!
Hi, thanks for putting the work into this. Just a couple of thoughts:
Is there any way to import older posts, or will it only ever show latest posts? Flog Book has an option to manually add posts, but since this application has stopped working for me for the last 48 hours, I’ve turned to Wordbook.
Secondly, the link that Wordbook provides as the link to my blog is actually the Wordpress installation URL, not the blog address URL. My Wordpress is installed in its own directory, and my blog is actually the frontpage of the site.
It will show the most recent posts using the same option that controls the number of posts on your blog’s first page. The idea is that the Facebook page displays a mini-version of your blog front page.
If you can describe exactly what it is you are trying to do, I can think about it. But it sounds like you are looking for some kind of tool to manage text in your Facebook page; Wordbook is probably not that tool. I have to believe that there must be some app out there that can do a better job of letting you manually create some box on your Facebook page.
I think you actually found a bug; thanks! Try downloading 0.6.2 and see if that works better for you.
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Hello Rob
I’m wondering if it’s possible to alter the plugin so that for multi-authored blogs, in the mini-feed of FB, it doesn’t write the username of FB ‘blogged’ the article (as another blog author could have written it).
It would work if it showed the blog title rather than the FB user?
thanks again for this very nice plugin
thank you. it works perfectly.
I get the following error when I submit the one-time code:
WARNING IsterXmlExpatNonValid->parse(): expat: Invalid document end [0/1/1]
I get sql errors (webhost is running sql 4.0) – specifically:
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , `postid` BIGINT(20) NOT NULL , `error]
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wordbook_errorlogs ( `timestamp` TIMESTAMP DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP , `postid` BIGINT(20) NOT NULL , `error_code` INT NOT NULL , `error_msg` VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL )
WordPress database error: [Table 'dbXXXXXX.wordbook_errorlogs' doesn't exist]
DELETE FROM wordbook_errorlogs WHERE timestamp
Suggestions?
I forgot to mention in my previous comment: my database does not use the default wp_ prefix. Would that make a difference?
What version of PHP do you have installed on your web server? I have written this for PHP-4 (php-4.4.2); PHP-5 has not been tested at all (it will just run the PHP-4 code, so it should theoretically be backwards-compatible).
Otherwise, make sure you copy-and-paste in the one-time code exactly as presented by Facebook – no extra leading or trailing whitespace, all-caps, etc.
I will work on the MySQL-4.0 forwards-compatibility problem; you’ll have to wait for a fix.
The non-default, non-`wp_` database table prefix should not be a problem.
I’ve addressed the above MySQL-4.x and `wp_` prefix questions in more detail in the Other Notes and FAQ.
This is not possible (Facebook limitation). See the Other Notes.
Looks sweet. Keep me updated.
What version of PHP do you have installed on your web server?
Possibly running 4.3.X – but I need to confirm this.
… no extra leading or trailing whitespace, all-caps, etc …
Tried this already.
Will check with hosts re: PHP 4.3
Checking it out. Will post back soon with my experiences and observations. Thanks.
Hello again… Evidently my host is running PHP 5.2.1 – hoping you have some further suggestions! Thanks!
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This isn’t working for me. I’m running WordPress 2.1.2 if that makes a difference.
Ahhh, it DOES make a difference. I just upgraded, after procrastinating for a really long time, and it actually works now. Now that it’s working, I am very impressed! Just waiting for a multi-author, multi-facebook account version…
Thanks!
I have WordPress 2.2.2 and Wordbook 0.6.3, and when I activated the plug-in I get this error on top:
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of get_post(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. in /home/.marcilyn/diehard/diehard.cc/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 189
My DreamHost server specification:
PHP 5.2.2
MySQL 5
Wordbook 0.7 is available.
If things are already working fine for you, there is no real reason to upgrade.
I updated Wordbook to 0.7, same error different line:
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of get_post(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. in /home/.marcilyn/diehard/diehard.cc/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 180
I was researching and found that “allow_call_time_pass_reference” is set off because according to the PHP authors they said:
Hi! I like the plugin but it intefer with the wordpress fotoplugin which also connect to facebook. What happen is that you cant update or manage the fotos when having the wordbook activated. Would be superb if this could be fixed. Please drop me a mail (u see it at my site) if you decide to fix it!
Best Regards!
Daniel Andersson
please keep me updated
i’d love to be able to update my blog from within facebook
Is it possible to use this on more than one blog?
Wordbook 0.7.1 works great! Your an awesome developer.
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pffft.. well done my friend!!! Pls keep on..
If you are looking for suggestions, an option in the facebook configuration to turn off publishing to newsfeeds might be a good idea, especially for blogs that post a lot in a day so as to avoid spamming one’s facebook network with news items..
to clarify, the minifeed updates would stay on the owners profile, but news items in the global feed might be able to be shut off, I realize now shutting one shuts them both.
Cheers
Great plug :)
Works great, thanks so much!
This is an interesting plugin.
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I have 2 blogs that I would like to use this on. I want them both to publish to the same Facebook profile. Installation on the first blog went fine. Installation on the second blog yielded error code 102 – Session key invalid or no longer valid. What is going on here?
Thanks.
Just uploaded and installed the plugin. However, after entering the one-time code into wordpress, all it does is refresh the screen, reset the form and prompt me again to enter a code.
Help?
I just installed the plugin but had the same problem as Markus (posting #69 on this list). After entering the one-time code the screen refreshes and prompt again to enter the code. This repeats endlessly and Wordpress tells me that “Wordbook needs configuration.”
Any help to get past this?
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Now the one blog I have this working on is double posting to Facebook. Every post I make shows up 2 times in my Mini-Feed.
I am having the same problem – that the post shows up twice in my mini-feed. Any way to fix this?
This is just a great little piece of development, Robert. Awesome job! Give me a paypal email address or a donate button so I can give you some money!
I haven’t looked at your code yet, so this might be an addition I can make myself, but it would be great if the post excerpt could be included as well if available. Just a little piece of feature creep for you.
Thanks!
First of all, great work! However, I had the same issue with the other 2
users… I have 2 mini-feed entries per blog entry that I have. Any
solution?
What I have done for myself… is to commented out one of the line:
add_action(’private_to_published’, ‘wordbook_force_publish_post’);
because I suspect it got fired when you go from a saved post to a
published post… and it did seem to work for me…
Anyways, it maybe done because of other cases, but that’s my current
workaround!
I can’t seem to get the activation to work, it keeps returning me to the same page every time I enter a code. I’ve updated both WP and the plugin to the latest version. Any ideas? Otherwise, I’m really looking forward to using this!
Thanks
I’ve got it working, seems my WP update didn’t work – sorry!
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Version 0.8 is now available. It should fix the double-post-to-Mini-Feed problem that has been reported by quite a few people.
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Hope you get this plug-in Safari-friendly soon! :-)
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Version 0.9 is now available. It adds:
- A new feature to show blog post excerpts in the Facebook profile (see updated screenshot on wordpress.org for an example).
- A voluntary donation button on the Wordbook admin page. Donors will be acknowledged on the Wordbook admin page with a link to their site.
I will give it a shot. Looks like LJ is out and Facebook is in. I’ve gotta adapt to the times it seams :D
Sorry to dampen the new version excitement, but there seems to be a problem with it. I’m using WordPress 2.2.1, and just tried deactivating my current Wordbook (0.5.5) and installing the new version.
I get the following message after generating and entering the one-time code from Facebook….
—
2007-08-26 21:05:30
Error code: 102. Session key invalid or no longer valid
Method: profile.setFBML
—
Deactivated and reactivated old version and everything back to normal. Tried the “Reset Config” button on the new one, no luck.
This is a benign bug with no ill effects, and the plugin actually does work. I released 0.9.1 to address the spurious error message after one-time code generation. Thanks!
That fixes it! Quick response too, thanks.
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Wow! This looks awesome. I hate having to double post stuff on to Facebook as well as my blog so this will be a big time saver and will hopefully move a bit of traffic to my blog.
Dang! This worked perfect :) No issues whatsoever, installation went faultlessly. Thank you very much for a great plugin.
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Hi
I get this error when i’m trying to acivate
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error
i’m using 2.2.2 of wp and o.9.1 of wb
any ideas
thanks
andy
This is a general WordPress error when a plugin cannot be installed (not specific to Wordbook). Try re-downloading the plugin and re-installing it on your server.
rats :(
thanks for the quick response
i get the same error, i deleted and re-loaded. i guess there must be something quirky with my wp config.
andy
Hi!
What versions of WP does this plugin work with?
I am currently using 2.1.3 and wonder if it works with that or only 2.2.x.
Jimisola
I should have been clearer in my previous question/comment since I read that the author only tests with WP 2.2. Does anyone else have experience with Wordbook under WP 2.1.x?
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I like it and think it is superior to the “Notes” app on Facebook.
Just here for followups.
Version 0.9.2 is released. A small new feature: the Wordbook box on your Facebook profile will show differing amounts of text depending on whether you drag it into the narrow column or the wide column.
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Hi Robert,
Wordbook is rock.
But I have came across the following problem.
Blog subject in chinese big5 encoding not showing correctly under wordbook@facebook. Is there any way to fix or tweak the encoding ?
I haven’t really looked at your code yet… do you use WordPress API’s or do you query the DB ? if the latter, I suppose you will need to rewrite quite a bit of it with upcoming WP 2.3….
This rocks, I’d like some more fine grained control if possible on what updates/doesn’t update to FB. I do several blogs and not all make sense for my Facebook profile. My 2 cents, keep up the great work!
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Version 0.10.3 is now available. It adds support for multi-author blogs, where each author can post to their own Facebook account. If you don’t need multi-author support, then there is no real reason to upgrade.
Facebook, bitches!…
So here I am in Facebook now. I was never much into social sites (I pretty much loath Yourspace) and I don’t know how much this fad will last me but I’ve created a little profile and started enriching it with pics and vids and group members…
Nifty little plugin that is really useful! I started up my Facebook profile about 3 months back and am glad for this cross-platform plugin. Thanks!
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Hello. My theme is now set up to support per-article feeds, so if you prefer, you may unsubscribe your e-mail address and subscribe to the Wordbook RSS Feed instead.
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Do you know if there are going to be any compatability problems between the current version of Wordbook and the new version of WordPress 2.3 that is coming out?
Wordbook 10.4 is released. It contains a few minor install-time fixes which might fix some problems people are having with the one-time code. It has also been tested with WP-2.3 with no problems.
Can you check the download link? It seems to be circular in pointing back to wordpress.org which doesn’t have a download option.
Thanks.
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I got this error message today
Wordbook failed to communicate with Facebook: method = profile.setFBML, error_code = 0 (). Your blog is OK, but Facebook didn’t get the update.
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Version 0.10.5 is released; it addresses some problems related to posts with dates in the future, and some other problems related to WordPress-2.3 API changes. Wordbook should continue to work on both WP-2.2 and WP-2.3 platforms (it has been tested on both platforms).
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Version 0.11 is available. This is an under-the-covers release to use new Facebook APIs; there is no user-visible impact.
However, use of the new API supposedly increases the odds of your WordPress feed stories being promoted on your friends’ News Feeds.
I am no longer able to test with PHP4, so I’d appreciate any reports confirming whether or not this works. Your blog host PHP version will be reported in the Wordbook “Options” page of the WordPress Dashboard. If things don’t work, you can always downgrade to the previous version.
Version 0.11.4 is available.
A minor new feature is that the first four pictures (if any) of a blog post will now appear in the news feed along with the blog excerpt.
Version 0.11.5 is available.
Blog posts where img src URLs did not begin with “http://” were not getting their images posted to the News Feed. Version 0.11.5 addresses this problem.
Blog posts where img src URLs begin with “http://” do not have any problems.
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Hei!
Great Plugin but i look like it is has conflict with the custom query string plugin. I get this error.
SELECT ID FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = 'post' AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_author = 1 ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT -1
Mayby can you help.
Thanks a lot!
Markus
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This has nothing to do with the custom query plugin; for some reason your blog does not have ‘posts_per_page’ configured. Please try Version 0.11.6.
Hei!
Now it works great! Thanks a lot. That was fast! Crazy…
Greeting! M
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Truly great app. Coming up on my mini-feed nicely. But I’ve asked around and it doesn’t seem to be appearing on my friends news feeds. Do I have to activate something?
Great plugin, which works as advertised for me.
I’ve one small issue, which is that I use this plugin in combination with the phpmarkdown plugin. When I do that, the items which appear in the mini-feed do not have the Markdown tags stripped out properly. If there was an easy way to make a call for that, it would be great.
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This has been addressed with Version 0.11.13 – all content-modifying plugins now have a chance to run (which may not necessarily be desirable for everyone, but for now, that is the way things will be, unless I get feedback otherwise). This should give them a chance to change their tags to HTML tags, which will then get processed as usual by Wordbook.
Hi,
Great app. Regarding a previous comment: I have a blog with other people. It’d be great the feed got updated when *any* of the blog’s authors posts in the blog.
Cheers.
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Thank you very much for this awesome plugin!
It would be nice to see ability to add a Facebook account by author, or even multiple Facebook accounts.
Keep up the good work!
Dumb question: I downloaded the plugin, the Wordpress.zip is unzipped—what is the name of the DIRECTORY I upload? In the wordbook folder I have Facebook-platform, readme, screensho1 and 2, wordbook.php, wordbook_php4.php and wordbook_php5.php
Thanks for the great plugi–help!
Ernie
Yep upload the entire directory…
Yes you have to upload the entire folder.
Hi…
Needless to say I’m LOVING the Wordbook plugin. It works, but upon hitting ‘Publish’, I get a white screen with the following error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/*******/public_html/wp-includes/post-template.php:79) in /home/*******/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 390
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated :)
Brilliant plugin, and it works terrifically.
Has it been tested on the upcoming WordPress 2.5 (currently Beta 1, I think) yet? It looks like they’re making quite a few big changes in this next version of WordPress, and I’d hate to lose this great plugin when upgrading!
Hey, great plugin. The one-time use code thing was due to my being an idiot. My adblocking software was blocking the link to generate the code.
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Hi’
great plugin and thanks!…
I just have a problem when i’ve entered the one time code and press submit…. I get the below error…
WARNING isterxmlexpatnonvalid->parse(): expat: no element found [-1/0/1]
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/dan16600/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/facebook-platform/php4client/simplexml44-0_4_4/class/IsterLoggerStd.php:83) in /usr/home/dan16600/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 331
——–
* Wordbook: 0.11.14
* Facebook PHP API: PHP4
* JSON library: Wordbook
* SimpleXML library: Facebook
* WordPress: 2.2.1
* PHP: 4.4.4
* MySQL: Unknown
——-
Any ideas?
Maccie, it sound like you don’t have the expat library installed.
THanks for your answer…
Is that a server side thing?
How do I install the expat library or check if it’s installed?
thanks again,
I had successfully installed this application. For testing purpose i had configured this application in a test blog. I could see the recent posts on my profile in with wordpress box. Now that i was happy with the plugin i deactivated the plugin from the blog. and configured it in another blog whose posts i actually wanted to display. But the problem is even now the posts from the test blog is dispalyed on the wordbook box… is there any way to delete them?
Any way that this can post to a group or a page on Facebook?
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just to let you know. wordbook error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() in /www/jbeaman.com/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/facebook-platform/client/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php on line 1373
When I click on “Options –> Wordbook” it takes me to this error page:
Warning: main(/wp-content/plugins/wordbook) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Success in /wp-admin/admin.php on line 69
Warning: main(/wp-content/plugins/wordbook) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Success in /wp-admin/admin.php on line 69
Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/wp-content/plugins/wordbook’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /wp-admin/admin.php on line 69
I have no idea what that means? I did notice that “pluggable.php” was missing but I have a “pluggable-functions.php” so I renamed the setting in wordbook.php to that file instead just to get this far!
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I can’t find where to download the latest wordpress. When I go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbook/ I get a ‘404 file not found’ error. Is there anywhere else where I can download it from?
OK,
1. A while back I posted notes by supplying my blog RSS feed to the mini-feed.
Now I want to undo that and put in WordBook. Can someone discuss how I remove the existing RSS feed?
2. I have
- added WordBook to my Facebook applications
- downloaded the files and uploaded to my server site for my blog
- Now what? I don’t know what to do with the instructions 4 and 5 that say: ” Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.”
Then
“Follow the on-screen prompts; you will be prompted to add the complementary Wordbook Facebook app to your Facebook account.”
Please discuss,
Carl
I was very excited to find a Plugin that does exactly what I want. I had installed it on our WordPress site (currently running version 2.3.2) a few weeks ago. The WordPress site has multiple users, but I was careful to only configure it for the one with the Facebook account. I went through the Facebook setup and everything appeared to be working correctly.
However, a few days later the Facebook Mini Feed was looking for articles written by one of the other WordPress users. I looked for answers from others who may have experienced similar issues, but did not find any. Not knowing what to do or what went wrong, I went in and reset the configurations to relink the two together, and again it appeared to work alright, but only for a few days.
I just saw that a new version of WordBook was available, so I downloaded and installed it, hoping it might help. Anyway, if anyone could provide insight as to why this may be happening or how to correct it, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Just wanted to say a BIG thank you for such a super plugin – which works a treat on Wordpress 2.5.1 btw :-)
I have a bug, but it doesn’t appear the discussion board is working. The MiniFeed and NewsFeed display correct local time, but the Wordbook application on my Facebook page displays apparently Central Daylight Time.
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Does this work anymore? When i click the auth link, it just gives me an infinitely loading page…
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Ian, already asked, but I couldn’t find an answer. Is it possible to integrate this with a facebook group page, or does it only work with user profiles?
was working fine, then it either deactivated itself or i did it on accident. after that i’ve tried several times to uninstall/deactivate/reinstall. it reconnects to my account fine however new posts don;t show up in my minifeed anymore.. look forward to updates..
dreamhost / wp 2.5.1 here
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Hi Robert. in the new Facebook interface, one just sees a “..posted a new Blog entry” without the blog post excerpt.
Anyway thanks for your great plugin!
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Hi there ,
great Job.
Is it compatible to Wordpress 2.61 ?
Thanks
Great Idea for an app. Shame the new version of facebook breaks it, but I prefer the old version anyways!!
Cool Facebook App for Wordpress…
……
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It doesn’t work in the new version of Facebook. You only see the text Username has posted a new blog entry.. But no link to the entry .. Shame really as we’ll be moving over to the new version whether we like it or not soon..
Any chance it’ll be fixed by then?
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will it update to new facebook ?
what are you guys talking about?
It WORKS in the new facebook profile already. Only it shows SHORT stories by default, not the multi-line ones. What’s the big deal? You expand them manually.
The app has never worked for me, either under the old facebook or the new. I installed the plugin, got the one-time key, installed the app on facebook, and have posted blog entries, but they never show up on Facebook.
I don’t get any error messages or anything to try to troubleshoot this plugin and app, so what’s a guy to do?
It doesn’t work properly in the new Facebook. It says “Chris posted a blog entry”, but doesn’t link to it or show a title for it. It’s basically useless.
Please fix this.
Well, for whatever reason, my posts are now appearing on my facebook, so hooray!
Chris, “[...]in the new Facebook. It says “Chris posted a blog entry”, but doesn’t link to it or show a title for it [...]“.
that’s because by default application now publish ONE LINE stories… basically just the TITLE of a story.
If you click on the “edit” link that appears on the right end side of that story, you’ll see that you can choose to show the SHORT story (which is, compared to the one-line one, the LONG one :-))
I too think it is unnecessary clumsy to have to go into Facebook and “edit” each blog post to make it “short”. There is a setting in the application tool, but it doesn’t really seem to work.
Is there any way I can get the New Facebook Wall to expand the Wordbook blog to more than just one line. Ideally would like it to default to Short but sadly doesn’t work. The old Facebook worked well with this app.
Another broken app with New Facebook
Is there any way to adjust my settings to make Wordbook items automatically appear on my wall as “short” instead of “one-line”?
hello.. i have the last version of wordpress (hopefully well installed, it works).. but word book give this error…
Wordbook
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_errorlogs
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_postlogs
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_userdata
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_onetimecode
Failed to create wp_wordbook_postlogs
Failed to create wp_wordbook_errorlogs
Failed to create wp_wordbook_userdata
Help!
I added the app and gave it full permission, i see the postings when its in my boxes but when i move it to the wall it says “NO CONTENT TO DISPLAY”
hello. i got this problem with the plugin…
Wordbook
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_errorlogs
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_postlogs
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_userdata
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_onetimecode
Failed to create wp_wordbook_postlogs
Failed to create wp_wordbook_errorlogs
Failed to create wp_wordbook_userdata
Thanks a lot
hello.. i have the last version of wordpress . but word book give this error…
Wordbook
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_errorlogs
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_postlogs
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_userdata
Failed to drop wp_wordbook_onetimecode
Failed to create wp_wordbook_postlogs
Failed to create wp_wordbook_errorlogs
Failed to create wp_wordbook_userdata
I’ve noticed that for some reason, the plugin skips some entries when it posts to my Facebook page. Any reason for this?
I just installed the plugin. I found it works successfully only on random postings, and it randomly reports the failure. Just now I got this message when accessing the plugin’s setting page:
“Wordbook failed to communicate with Facebook for BRITNEY SPEARS: FAILED GETAWAY: method = feed.publishTemplatizedAction, error_code = 11 (This method can only be used to publish Mini-Feed stories to Facebook Pages. Its use for posting feed stories to user pages has been deprecated.). Your blog is OK, but Facebook didn’t get the update.”
Any fix?
Okay, I just accessed the plugin config and got this too:
Wordbook failed to communicate with Facebook for Iraq – Another Hiroshima? Investigative report 14 October, 2008: method = feed.publishTemplatizedAction, error_code = 11 (This method can only be used to publish Mini-Feed stories to Facebook Pages. Its use for posting feed stories to user pages has been deprecated.). Your blog is OK, but Facebook didn’t get the update.
Status
William Drinking my morning cafe con leche (Wed Oct 15, 7:03 am).
Wordbook appears to be configured and working just fine.
If you like, you can start over from the beginning:
Now I posted a new piece and waited with baited breath to see it appear on FB but nada. Checked the plugin page and no error message. In fact none of the posts I put up today showed up.
I checked the settings on FB and I think the choices are just weird. Why isn’t there one that gives me the option of simply allowing every post to appear on my FB page (with some kind of option over the size of extract, similar to the settings it has now). And I have never been notified that the piece is large even though that’s the default setting. And in any case it’s not as if the entire post gets imported into FB, so the size is irrelevant. I’d rather it be straightforward link, with FB being a static ‘feedburner’ type to access new stuff from.
B
Wordbook has not yet been updated to work with the new Facebook; many cross-posting features will not work. Please see http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/topic.php?uid=3353257731&topic=5771
Yes thanks Rob, I read the note. I’ll just have to be patient won’t I.
Bill
I got a curious error code and failure on my latest blog posting. Have any of you seen this before?
Wordbook failed to communicate with Facebook for History of Kirking of the Tartans: method = profile.setFBML, error_code = 4 (Application request limit reached). Your blog is OK, but Facebook didn’t get the update.
Any help appreciated.
i’m sorry dude, i couldn’t get 0.14 to work. i was able to get the one time code and paste it on the wordbook set up page but after i click on submit, it just gives me a blank page.
The new Facebook engine certainly has put a stop to this great APP. I used to see the blogs appear on my profile page as a post… not any more. You have to go to the APPs page from your profile to see that.
Now that is pretty shite
when i install wordbook and successfully enter the one-time code it links up fine. however, as soon as i post something to my blog so it’ll appear on facebook when i go back to workbook in my settings it asks me to set it up again. why is it continually resetting?
I did the automatic upgrade to the plugin and I get a error for undefined function wordbook_rest_client( on line 1072 in wordbook.php. Rolled back to the previous version in the meantime, but though you’d like to know.
v.14 only works with PHP5. Facebook didn’t provide a PHP4 version of the platform.
Hey Man, version 0.14.2 doesn’t work.. fix it out! :-)
This is a dead project. I think someone else should take it over and revamp the code. I pulled this off my blogs months ago after the repeated number of emails asking for updates went unanswered. The new code doesn’t work either, so avoid this plugin for the meantime.
hey, 0.14.2 works well on my blog, but can you allow us to have facebook status message display as a widget ? I can see you get the message in admin>setting>wordbook…
thanks
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Problem with the latest version of Wordpress with the latest version of Wordbook.
When I’m running the plugin, and try to add tags to a post or delete a draft post or some other things, I get a blank page and the function doesn’t work. In other words, it seems to interfere with Wordpress working correctly. When I deactivate the plugin, Wordpress works fine again.
I too am getting the same experience, if I have the plug-in enabled, when I got to publish a post, the screen goes white.
Thanks a lot for this post
I really love to try it out. This is something new
Just upload and activated the plugin. When setting up wordbook with the activation code I receive this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wordbook_rest_client() in /home/bangkokm/domains/bangkok-market.com/public_html/blog/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 1074
I would really like to activate your plugin. Look forward hearing from you soon. thx
Check your hosting environment. The current version of wordbook requires PHP5. Based on the exception you are seeing your wordpress is running in php4.
Can I use this wonderful plugin to update a facebook page as well as a facebook profile? I have my facebook profile, but I also own a facebook page that I want to be able to sent new blog posts to. Will that work?
Thanks, Patty
PHP version 5.2.6
Call to undefined function: wordbook_rest_client() in /home/joelbl/public_html/most/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 1074
Are we still saying it’s a PHP version issue?
my blog also uses PHP5 and I get the same message. I just don’t know what to do to solve the problem that many people are having.
Setup went fine, but on post, I got this error:
Wordbook failed to communicate with Facebook for Maybe Facebook is the killer news app: method = feed.publishUserAction, error_code = 807 (No active template bundle with that ID or handle exists.). Your blog is OK, but Facebook didn’t get the update.
Hi
I hope this communiqué finds you in the best of health and spirit.
Dude, i AUTOMATICALLY upgraded the Wordpress (from 2.5 to 2.6.5), as it reactivated the plugins; the next day i realized the wordbook had stopped updating my facebook for new posts. I went back to wordpress admin page for wordbook, it asked me again for the Facebook one-time code. I regenerated it, pressed submit and since then i had continuously been getting the following error;
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Facebook in /home/omer9099/public_html/haqeeqat/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/facebook-platform/php/facebook.php on line 37
I deactivated the plugin, uninstalled it. Uploaded it again, activated it, repeated the Facebook one-time code procedure (generated new one each time) but the error wont go:s
I just loved the plugin as i’m quite social at facebook and my friends like to get to my blog there.
Kindly help.
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Commenting mostly to subscribe for updates, but also to say a big “thank you” for this plugin. It’s wonderful!
I’m using NextGen Gallery widget to post images to my blog, any suggestions for how to get these thumbnails posted to my Facebook at publishtime?
Thanks!!
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I’m wondering if you still check these comments, but I thought it was worth a try.
The plugin installed without a problem, no error messages. However, when I post to my wordpress blog, two things happen:
1. I get this error message ”
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 601725 bytes) in /home2/rosina/public_html/rosinalippi-com/weblog/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 429″
2. the fatal isn’t fatal — the post shows up fine, and the notation shows up on facebook (except without a thumbnail.
Is there something to do about this?
cool job team, i use this plugin :) thanks!
I still can’t get it to work for more than one post, I have to reset it EVERY time. Hardly seems worth the effort
Is anyone else having problems with this on WP 2.7?
Looking at the WordBook forum on Facebook, i think the problem is due to ’scheduled posts’.. Any ideas of a work around?
Thanks!
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does not work for me on wp 2.7
entered facebook code and screen went blank and could not do anything with it so I deactivated.
hey there.. Love the plugin, but I had a question?
I’m using version 0.14.2 of the plugin with my install of 2.3.2 of Wordpress. I have a multiple author blog http://worldramblers.com
The articles that I write are appearing as both an excerpt and also as a line entry with Richard wrote a blog posting and then the name of the article with a link to the article on the blog.
The problem is the excerpt of the articles that are displayed do not link to the blog, but instead to a link on Facebook notes. This is a problem as I limit the length of the article to 200 words using Feedburner. This prevents the user from being able to read the whole article in Facebook notes and as the title in notes is not a link to my blog the reader can’t see the whole article.
This problem isn’t too bad if I’m the article author as I mention above it does create two entries one that has an excerpt with link to facebook notes and another one line stating I wrote the article and a link to my blog. its not great but at least there is a way the user can read the whole thing.
The problem is worse when I’m not the article author. in this situation there is only the article excerpt on facebook which links to facebook notes. And yes you’ve guessed it the reader now has no way to read the whole thing as it’s limited to 200 words by feedburner and the title of the article in facebook notes does not link to my blog..
Is there a way to enable the user to be able to click a link to the article on my blog irrelevant of whether I’m the author or not. And without changing the amount of words I’ve set up in feedburner (needs to be this length for other reasons)…
Thanks
wordbook blows up wp27 install using revolution news
I activate, put in code from facebook click submit, screen goes blank during save; then pages go goes blank: dashboard and edit page, the options page for wordpress. Luckily the plugins page shows up so I can deactivate wordpress.
please advise
Hi,
I first want to thank you for this wonderful plugin, but I have the same problem as Lucas: I use the last release of WP and Worbook but my sheduled posts are not displayed
Best regards from france
i got mine up and running again by doing this:
theme must have a call to at the very bottom right before the tag.
also, you can set your facebook ‘notes’ section to import RSS feeds, which is a decent temp fix if you need to.
hope this helps
This problem isn’t too bad if I’m the article author as I mention above it does create two entries one that has an excerpt with link to facebook notes and another one line stating I wrote the article and a link to my blog. its not great but at least there is a way the user can read the whole thing.
This failed on an up-to-date Wordpress installation with the error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wordbook_rest_client() in /homepages/33/d115540885/htdocs/josephzitt/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 1074
How can I get this to work?
(Whoops — forgot to sign this):
This failed on an up-to-date Wordpress installation with the error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wordbook_rest_client() in /homepages/33/d115540885/htdocs/josephzitt/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 1074
How can I get this to work?
I have the same problem as Mathgon – scheduled posts are NOT showing up in Wordbook. When I manually post them, all is fine.
Can you provide some assistance as I schedule a lot of my posts and need to rely on Wordbook picking this up.
Thanks!
darren
Thx Lucas for the tips but import an RSS feed will not provide a link to my website.
Darren, if you find a way to fix the problem please give it to me. I’m still searching for a fix!
Thx
Oops, i forgot to post the txt for what i used to fix:
Inside the ‘footer.php’ makde sure this:
at the very bottom right before the
tag.
maybe helps?
stupid thing wont let me write code in here…. it’s the ‘?php wp_footer(); ?’ tag…. before the /body end tag
I’m not sure to have understand what I have to insert between ?php wp_footer(); ? and the body end tag on my footer.php
May you explain it by sending me an email please dfog22(at)hotmail(dot)com.
Thanks
Nice its working http://blog.insnet.de/2009/01/facebook-meets-wordpress/
I get this error trying to install
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wordbook_rest_client() in /homepages/14/d228592598/htdocs/dougottersberg/blog/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 1074
Any ideas?
Thanks guys trying to solve my problem inside footer.php, but it doesn’t solve it. An no more advice in the FAQ…
Wordbook seems to use RSS feeding… I use feedburner, perhaps is there an option in Feedburner to inactivate?
Any idea?
I found new informations
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8726
It could be a problem on the cron.php file. I made the modification into the file and my next scheduled post is for tomorrow morning…
I will report it tomorrow… cross fingers!
Hello,
This plugins work withtout any problem for me, but I really need to exclude some categories.
Is there a way to “hack” this plugins to exclude some categories ?
Wordbook not working with 2.7.1 I got this message
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wordbook_rest_client() in /home/content/g/a/t/gatorgse/html/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 1074
Correction. Upgraded PHP to 5.0 and all is well.
I still have the problem for the scheduled posts. Will upgrading PHP to 5.0 will solve my problem?
it did for me
Hello,
I posted this on the discussion fourm with no responce so i’ll try it here. I feel it is very important to take licensing into consideration when developing plugins.
I’m a co-author of wpbook which is a plugin that pulls the entire wordpress self hosted blog in as a facebook app. We have been looking at adding a mini feed type feature for a while now. What is the license of wordbook. Like always we would give credit where credit is due.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpbook/
Thanks,
Brandon
Rob,
Sorry to keep bugging you but now that i have installed the app and see how it works i wonder if there is a way to get a hold of the core wordbook app code. Our plugin allows users to create their own app and they generate their own api and secret. The main thing i would want to use from your app is the actually posting the mini feed from the new post.
I looked through the code of wordbook.php and i see where it connect to the wordbook app but i don’t see where it’s pulling the data from the local blog onto the minifeed. Logic would say this is being done from inside your app.
Any help would be great!
Brandon
Brandon,
There actually is no app server. Each copy of the wordbook.php is actually the ‘instance’ of the application. This avoid wordbook having to have a server or pay for bandwidth. The function you are looking for is
‘wordbook_fbclient_publishaction’. Which collects the post text and then calls wordbook_fbclient_publishaction_impl which just delegates off to the facebook php platform lib.
Ross
Thanks Ross,
I’m sorta getting a grasp on this! It’s always fun to try to take apart other peoples plugins and trying to figure out how they work :) If i can get this working though I’ll save me a TON of time so i really appreciate your help!
I guess i’m not understanding what “wordbook_fbclient_publishaction_impl” does it looks like it sends the data to the facebook template created by the app and this post the story is this correct?
Also, how often/how does it know to check for new post?
Thanks so much for all your help!
the publishaction_impl just delegates to the facebook php platform which makes the appropriate server call. I had forgotten about the template, which is defined on the wordbook admin page in facebook. This template defines a bunch of vars that are populated by the data pushed in the publishaction_impl.
The wordbook plugin doesn’t actually function on a timer. Instead the plugin hooks into the publish event that wordpress fires when a now blog post is published.
Hello,
I love your plugin and have been using it for some time now for my personal site, but I’ve now got a multi-author site and I’m curious as to how to get this to work for my contributors. My users at a “Contributor” level don’t have permission to view the options page to set up their individual accounts. Is there a way to do this?
And then to reiterate what benjamin m. asked about a little while ago, is there a way to exclude categories?
Thanks!
Tyler
Hey Tyler,
there’s a another way to publish your wordpress post on facebook with a probably the best efficient presentation and with choosing which article you what to publish.
it’s the button “Share on facebook” :
http://www.facebook.com/share_options.php
So you must do it manually, so it depend if you have a lot of post to publish, but this is the method I used actually.
The only problem is the fact that the comments are not reported on wordpress and the wordpress plugins made to report comments on facebook to wordpress by using rss feed import doesn’t work with this method and the author of the plugins seem not to be motivated to do it lol…
damn, I have forget to put my signature, i hate to post as anonymous lol
one thing i noticed today is that facebook’s publisher no longer sucks text / thumbnails out of wordpress 2.7.1 blogs properly (2.7 worked fine). may or may not be related to some issues reported here.
actually, scratch that. rolling back to 2.7 didn’t make the bug go away. must be something common across my themes :P
@ benjamin m.
I appreciate the advice, though I would rather have something automated in place to publish my articles to Facebook for me. I’m not too concerned about comments, I would just like to offer extended exposure for my contributors.
@ Rob
I’d just like to reiterate my concern from before. I’m currently running WordPress 2.7.1 and the options page for WordBook isn’t accessible by anyone at a “Contributor” level. Is there a remedy for this?
Thanks!
I can’t figure out how to make this work !!
how do you upload to:
/wp-content/plugins/
i know this is simple for some people… but I can’t figure it out !
In 2.7, just use the install extension menu item, and search for it.
Since a few weeks I get a blank page after writing a post in Wordpress. The post appears on the site, but I mentioned that it is not being published on Facebook. After I’ve deactivated the plugin the white page after posting disappeared. But re-enabling and even removing the plugin and re-installing won’t make it work any more. Any idea what could be the problem?
Great plugin! It’s definitely a must-have for all my future WordPress installations…
But, I have a feature request :)
I have one multi-author blog (not a MultiUser WP installation).
I think it would be great if we could set a author specific FaceBook “connection” so that when an author publish a new text it gets written on his own FaceBook profile wall…
Thank you,
keep up the good work !
I totally agree with you, Marti, we, @ http://www.967.fr would appreciate that exact same feature…
Thanks!
Wordbook already supports this. Each blog author (author level or above) needs to log in separately and configure the Wordbook page for their respective Facebook accounts.
Robert,
Thanks for the great idea for a plugin. But I had a problem.
When trying to install, I encountered the following after entering the FB-generated code: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: wordbook_rest_client() in /home/.amber/marginrelease/marginnotes.net/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook.php on line 1097
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Sutton
Never mind, figured out that my “call to undefined function” just meant I needed to switch from PHP 4 to PHP 5.
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Great plugin!
POST #288
I agree with Darko, we also run a mutli-author blog. Is it possible to have them link into our Wordbook app so that each time they write a post, it gets published to their wall?
POST #287
I’ve also found, that after upgrading, for a few weeks now, posts have not automatically been updating through Wordbook on my facebook page.
Help?!
darren
It would be good if this plugin worked with Yet Another PhotoBlog http://johannes.jarolim.com/yapb
Currently the thumbnails don’t get transferred to facebook eg http://www.ratbag.com.au .
Kind regards
Tim
Anyone figured out how we can get this plugin to post into the new ‘Highlights’ sidebar of the ‘new’ Facebook?
That would be really dang cool…..
This posts “short posts” to my profile, but not to the FB “home” page (mine or anyone else’s), which limits its utility. (I rarely click on other people’s profile pages, just relying on the overall “home” page feed.) Is there a setting to change to make the “short posts” show up on the home page for my friends, etc., to see?
Applications don’t control being added to the highlight bar. It’s based on how people interact with your content.
from facebook documentation “The Highlights area features content with which a user’s friends have interacted. Applications will frequently appear in the highlights area based on how often a users’ friends interact with the application.”
Hello and thank you for a great plugin!
Is there a way when creating a new post whether or not to publish to Facebook? By default, are ALL new posts published on Facebook?
Just curious.
Thanks again!
- Jes
Hi, it’s possible to use one Facebook account with more than one blog?
Thanks for your fantastic plugin!
Thank you for creating this plugin. I saves me a heap of time posting in facebook. Would it be possible to take the thumbnail from Yet Another PhotoBlog plugin and post into facebook as well?
Love the plugin
Cheers
Tim
I concur with post 297 from “sutton”.
The Wordbook posts appear on my wall, but not in my friends’ Facebook home page feed. Picasa, Flickr, Twitter and other 3rd-party updates appear there, so what’s going wrong here with Wordbook?
As mentioned, there is very little value in them appearing in my profile but not on the home page feed, as people generally only browse this one view looking for triggers to go see a profile.
Anyone familiar enough with the Facebook engine that a solution can be found quickly?
Thanks
Stephen,
I just switched to using Facebook’s “import blog” feature. Seems like a simpler solution, and it shows up on the home page, not just my profile page.
Sutton – that’s an excellent suggestion. Only problem is that I also tried that before I posted here and found it made no difference at all. I still didn’t see any of my posts on the front page feed.
Did you have to wait any time to see them appear for you?
Hmmm… it used to. I know I got it to work originally or I wouldn’t have accepted it as a solution. But now, checking for my most recent one, I don’t see it on the “home” page. I think I’ve noticed some weird fluctuations in what it will actually do from time to time, as though FB is tinkering with stuff that temporarily interrupts the process. I also remember it would sometimes stop importing the posts, and I would have to restart the process (i.e., by cancelling the import, then starting it again). At any rate, it is definitely not necessarily instantaneous. Sometimes it took my posts an hour or so to be imported.
Facebook is definitely tinkering daily behind the scenes, looking for the best balance between what they want and what they think their users want. They’ve said as such in their technical forums. So it’s pretty safe to say that what may work today may not work tomorrow, and could quite feasibly be turned back on the day after that.
One thing I can’t stand about Facebook is the difficulty in coming to terms with all the privacy, visibility and security settings. They need to come up with something easy to use and all in one place. Something that we can also monitor in such a way that changes can immediately be noticed.
So, since the time I’d asked the question I’ve come to terms with the fact that I can’t rely on Facebook for notifying my friends of the things that matter to me. I’ll just have to keep pushing them to subscribe to my blogs. Easier said than done in this country full of technophobes LOL.
First off, thanks for a really useful plug-in.
I’ve just noticed two things, after a Facebook friend pointed them out.
First, Wordbook does not update the Facebook post if I edit the WordPress post. So if I make corrections the FB version is always out of date.
Is there any way to force an update, or to build this in to Wordbook?
Secondly, I have a plugin called wp-footnotes enables, to allow me to insert numbered footnotes. Wordbook does not include the footnotes or, to be fair, the numbers.
Could it be tweaked to do so?
When I delete posts, I get on a blank page with this:
WordPress database error: [Table 'marvine_design.wp_wordbook_userdata' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_wordbook_userdata WHERE user_ID = 3
WordPress database error: [Table 'marvine_design.wp_wordbook_errorlogs' doesn't exist]
DELETE FROM wp_wordbook_errorlogs WHERE postid = 571
WordPress database error: [Table 'marvine_design.wp_wordbook_postlogs' doesn't exist]
DELETE FROM wp_wordbook_postlogs WHERE postid = 571
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/marvine/public_html/designgrafik/wp-includes/wp-db.php:517) in /home/marvine/public_html/designgrafik/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850
Tried some tricks to fix that (the header thing). Don’t work. Do you have a clue?
ok, Let me ask this too
Any way that this can post to a group or a page on Facebook?
After installing latest WB on WP 271 with PHP5 my admin options only show the “Status including reset”, “Thanks” and “Support”. There are really no options to set. Should there be? My login code doesn’t seem to helo either. It drops off and I have to reset the plugin. Should there be options in the admin?
Thanks
Craig
What a great plugin!!! thank you!
but I would like to post it to a PAGE in facebook and not to MY PROFILE. Is that possible anyhow?
thanks for any help or suggestions.
Thank you for this plugin.
Recommendation: have the post appear in my status update as oppose to the mini-feed.
Immediately after installation of the Wordbook plugin…..the content of every one of my existing posts disappeared from my site. I’ve deactivated and uninstalled the plugin but now my post content is still missing.
Appears that the plugin modified something…..any help?
Thanks,
Brad
I’m sorry to hear that, but my Wordbook plugin does not make any modifications to any posts; it only posts your blog to Facebook (the source code is freely available for anyone to inspect). I think that something else must be responsible.
Rob -
You’re right! So sorry – another plugin called “Fotobook” was deemed the responsible culprit. Your plugin is great! Keep up the great work!
Sincerely,
Brad
Hi,
Installed facebook connect now when I go to make a post i get Error 500.
Messages says
PHP Fatal error: Undefined class constant ‘FacebookRestClient::STORY_SIZE_SHORT’ in /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordbook/wordbook_php5.php on line 24, referer: http://mydomain.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
Thank you. This worked perfectly. =]
The WP_FBConnect plugin is broken; it needs to be updated with the latest Facebook PHP libraries: see http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226106
Great plugin! Hey, I want to change the wordpress icon that displays on the post in facebook to a different one. Where in the plugin code would I go to change that? Thanks!
Ok, that’s quite an annoying bug.
I’ve other plugins, like RB Internal Links, that uses special tags on posts to do their job.
Wordbook doesn’t renders or ignore these tags, so on my profile I see the actual tags that are really ugly to see.
Any chance to have this solved?
Sorry, I was referencing this.
I saw a couple of users ask, but I’m gonna pile on. Is it possible to use this plugin to post to a group instead of a profile? My blog is business related and it would be nice to keep business(the group) separate from personal (the profile).
Rob — I know from “Other Notes” on your WordPress plugin description that you won’t be adding WordBook for Facebook Pages.
Is there someone else doing this?
Would compensation inspire you to work on this?
We’ve just started a Facebook Page and it’s frustrating how inflexible it is. I’ve installed an RSS feed in a Box, but would love to get this content onto the Wall of the Page.
Thanks!
I used this plugin up until today when I narrowed down some issues I was having creating and deleting posts using WP 2.8 with Wordbook installed. Deactivating Wordbook eliminated server errors I was getting. Hope you will consider an update :-) Thanks for an awesome plugin.
I tried every configuration parameter in FB for the Wordbook application, and I always get a one-line message on my profile, and nothing is displayed elsewhere.
How is it possible to display a short message in Facebook and to show my new posts on my friends’ welcome page ?
Great plugin, but I’m having a problem. When I post using an auto poster, like YAAB, or wpanswers, the plugin attaches a number to the end of the url, like -2 or -4, so the url is not correct. When I post manually, it works fine. What can I do to fix this?