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WordPress Plugins
WordPress rocks. Here are some plugins.
WPBook 0.7.2
Updated: 5/25/08
This plugin enables you to pull recent blog posts from your blog in to facebook, and allow facebook users to enter comments. Their comments show up on your blog whether accessed directly or through facebook, and regular blog comments will show up in facebook as well.
You can see this plugin in action (on Facebook) at OpenParenthesis - a facebook version of this blog’s three most recent posts.
Download WPBook 0.7.2 from this site or the WordPress plugin directory.
MBLA+ 0.5.2
Updated: 6/01/08
This plugin is in essence an enhanced (from my point of view) version of MBLA, which is changed in order to:
- Use hAvatar (included, also slightly modified) to get avatars from commenter’s hCards, if one exists at the URL they provide
- Get URL-based avatars as well as Email based avatars from MyBlogLog
- Not use Google Preview image if no avatar is found
Installation is simple - just put both the mbla_plus and hAvatar folders inside your wp-content/plugins/ folder and activate both through the administration plugins screen.
The entire caching system, mechanism for getting avatars into templates, and mechanism for setting priority order, as well as the preferences administration is directly used from MBLA - as changes are made there I will try to keep in synch with that code base.
You should NOT install this along with either MBLA or hAvatar in their original versions: conflicts will undoubtedly occur.
You can see this plugin in action on OpenParenthesis and Goatless.
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3 Comments for this post
Hello,
I find this plug-in very interesting, but I cannot get it really working. Once installed following the installation procedure on wordpress plugin directory, I get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{’ in /home/mhd-01/www.tecnopolis.eu/htdocs/blog/wp-content/themes/wp-facebook/config.php on line 28
my canvas url:
http://apps.facebook.com/wpfbtecnopolis/
many thanks for any help.
regards, Alex
Alex - I updated to WPBook 0.7.2 - perhaps you were using PHP4, which doesn’t support try{ } catch{ }.
Download and try out 0.7.2 and let me know if that works for you.
John,
Perhaps I am stupid…
But I get a blank page on my Facebook canvas page.
I see it is because my WP install can’t handle the querystring parameters coming from facebook’s page request.
This, in turn, is because the page on my site is not using your template. It’s using the template I designed.
So what do I do?
Am I supposed to merge them both? (Both index.php files??)
Or is it supposed to be able to get my WP install to bypass my own theme in favour of yours automatically or something??
Thanks for your help.
-Alister
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