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.
#1 by Bill on Wed Oct 15, 2008 - 10:58 am
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
#2 by Rob on Wed Oct 15, 2008 - 11:46 am
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
#3 by Bill on Thu Oct 16, 2008 - 12:02 am
Yes thanks Rob, I read the note. I’ll just have to be patient won’t I.
Bill
#4 by Bill Petro on Fri Oct 24, 2008 - 8:12 am
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.
#5 by noel on Thu Oct 30, 2008 - 4:18 am
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.
#6 by Nudger on Thu Oct 30, 2008 - 4:56 am
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
#7 by Darren Taylor on Thu Oct 30, 2008 - 9:10 am
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?
#8 by Chelle on Thu Oct 30, 2008 - 10:37 am
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.
#9 by Ross on Thu Oct 30, 2008 - 12:02 pm
v.14 only works with PHP5. Facebook didn’t provide a PHP4 version of the platform.
#10 by Giorgio on Fri Oct 31, 2008 - 9:27 am
Hey Man, version 0.14.2 doesn’t work.. fix it out! :-)
#11 by UrbanSkaters on Sat Nov 1, 2008 - 11:06 am
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.
#12 by cckhaw on Sun Nov 2, 2008 - 12:48 am
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
#13 by Nudger on Wed Nov 5, 2008 - 3:53 am
The plugin will work if you ensure your website hosting company enables your website to run PHP 5.0 or higher.
#14 by blogger on Sun Nov 9, 2008 - 5:44 pm
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.
#15 by Bill Petro on Mon Nov 10, 2008 - 7:44 am
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.
#16 by telefonmaster on Sat Nov 15, 2008 - 4:05 am
Thanks a lot for this post
#17 by Aland on Sat Nov 15, 2008 - 7:23 am
I really love to try it out. This is something new
#18 by Maurice on Tue Nov 18, 2008 - 6:37 am
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
#19 by Ross on Tue Nov 18, 2008 - 9:50 am
Check your hosting environment. The current version of wordbook requires PHP5. Based on the exception you are seeing your wordpress is running in php4.
#20 by pattyb on Tue Nov 18, 2008 - 11:47 am
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
#21 by Joel on Tue Nov 18, 2008 - 8:12 pm
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?
#22 by Julio on Wed Nov 19, 2008 - 7:50 am
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.
#23 by Mike Orren on Wed Nov 19, 2008 - 10:24 am
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.
#24 by OmEr Jamil on Thu Nov 27, 2008 - 6:05 pm
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.
#25 by Cyndy Otty on Thu Dec 4, 2008 - 4:10 am
Commenting mostly to subscribe for updates, but also to say a big “thank you” for this plugin. It’s wonderful!
#26 by Lucas on Sun Dec 7, 2008 - 9:58 am
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!!
#27 by Rosina Lippi on Mon Dec 8, 2008 - 12:47 pm
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?
#28 by Herramientas blog on Mon Dec 8, 2008 - 6:02 pm
cool job team, i use this plugin :) thanks!
#29 by Bill on Thu Dec 11, 2008 - 4:31 am
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
#30 by Lucas on Tue Dec 23, 2008 - 7:05 am
Is anyone else having problems with this on WP 2.7?
#31 by Lucas on Wed Dec 24, 2008 - 7:09 am
Looking at the WordBook forum on Facebook, i think the problem is due to ‘scheduled posts’.. Any ideas of a work around?
Thanks!
#32 by BGR on Thu Dec 25, 2008 - 9:15 pm
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.
#33 by Rich on Fri Dec 26, 2008 - 6:00 am
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
#34 by BGR on Tue Dec 30, 2008 - 10:17 pm
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
#35 by Mathgon on Tue Jan 6, 2009 - 12:51 am
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
#36 by Lucas on Tue Jan 6, 2009 - 5:59 am
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
#37 by lovefriends on Wed Jan 7, 2009 - 2:40 pm
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.
#38 by Anonymous on Mon Jan 12, 2009 - 7:01 pm
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?
#39 by Joseph Zitt on Mon Jan 12, 2009 - 7:02 pm
(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?
#40 by darren on Wed Jan 14, 2009 - 12:59 am
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
#41 by Mathgon on Wed Jan 14, 2009 - 5:18 am
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
#42 by Lucas on Thu Jan 15, 2009 - 5:07 am
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?
#43 by Lucas on Thu Jan 15, 2009 - 5:09 am
stupid thing wont let me write code in here…. it’s the ‘?php wp_footer(); ?’ tag…. before the /body end tag
#44 by Mathgon on Thu Jan 15, 2009 - 2:30 pm
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
#45 by Fabian on Sun Jan 18, 2009 - 12:46 pm
Nice its working http://blog.insnet.de/2009/01/facebook-meets-wordpress/
#46 by Doug on Tue Jan 20, 2009 - 9:04 pm
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?
#47 by Mathgon on Tue Jan 27, 2009 - 5:08 am
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?
#48 by Mathgon on Tue Jan 27, 2009 - 5:24 am
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!
#49 by benjamin m. on Sun Feb 8, 2009 - 5:46 am
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 ?
#50 by Gregg on Wed Feb 11, 2009 - 6:24 pm
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