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Integrate your WordPress Blog into FaceBook

2 August 2009 2,928 views 3 Comments

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I was just wondering if there was a way to display my blog posts in a box on my facebook profile.

There is one WordPress application called simply WordPress by Developer Joseph Scott. I am only posting this application here in order for you NOT to use it! Besides its review (1.9 out of 5), it is lacking one major feature which is connecting your facebook with your wordpress blog that is hosted outside of wordpress.com.

On the discussion board there is one very busy thread Access to other WordPress installs not hosted at WordPress.com. It has a lot of comments quite recently and everybody is asking just this one feature. Even WordPress developer Matt Mullenberg replied saying that they will be trying to get this feature working in their own facebook app.

Well, maybe that is not necessary at all:
The only feature I really want is to be able to display my blog posts on facebook anyways, so the before mentioned application would be overkill anyways because it also enables you to write posts to wordpress.com directly form within facebook. Not really necessary for me!

One of the comments, written by the developer itself, was referring to the WordBook Application by Robert Tsai. You just need to Download WordBook, install it on your blog, to through two authorization/connection steps between your blog and facebook and then things should be set up.

This is actually my first post to test what the output of WordBook on my facebook page will be, so stay tuned :)


Update 1:

Modified WordBook output in Wall Box

I read in the description of the plugin that you cannot customize the displayed content of the Wordbook box. That is ony partially true as you can change the wordbook_fbmltext() function in wordbook.php directly. Of course you should know what you are doing, otherwise you might mess up the plugin. :)

A FaceBook wall box is limited to 250px height by the way, so your content might appear cut off as you see in the screenshot above. Still better than nothing!








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Access to other WordPress installs not hosted at WordPress.com
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3 Comments »

  • sebastian (author) said:

    Ok, some initial struggles but now I got it working.

    I needed to:
    1) go to my Application Settings (remember to select Show: Authorized on the top right)
    2) select “Edit Settings” of WordBook
    3) click on add for the box setting.

    Then everything was working just fine in my Boxes tab, from where you can move it to your Wall tab.

    Not bad!

  • sebastian (author) said:

    I read in the description of the plugin that you cannot customize the displayed content of the Wordbook box. That is ony partially true as you can of course change the wordbook_fbmltext() function in wordbook.php directly. Of course you should know what you are doing, otherwise you might mess up the plugin. A FaceBook wall box is limited to 250px height by the way, so your content might appear cut off.

  • Gruebler said:

    Due to the fact that my blog is hosted on wordpress.com and I can’t do any code modifications, I had to find another way to link the blog to facebook.

    I use networkedblogs.com and I really like it. You just install the facebook app, have networkedblogs pull your rss-feed, allow it to get published on your wall and voila… every single blogpost miraculously appears on your wall.

    Additionally networkedblogs offers a great javascipt badge showing the fb profile pics of your followers.

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