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Features

• Works with a complementary Facebook application to update your Facebook Wall and friends' News Feeds about your blog and page postings.
• A miniature version of your recent blog posts will be displayed in the "Boxes" tab of your Facebook profile.
• Supports multi-author blogs: each blog author notifies only their own friends of their blog/page posts.

Bugs that will be fixed

1. Internationalization/Localization

   I would like for Wordbook to work everywhere, but I lack expertise in this sort of thing and welcome any pointers and/or patches.

Feature requests under consideration (as time permits)

1. How can I customize the way Wordbook appears in my profile?

   For the immediately-forseeable future, Wordbook will not be that configurable. The only immediately-available configuration is the number of posts showing up in the mini-blog. This number is the same as the number of posts that show up on the front page of your blog; navigate to your Dashboard Options → Reading and configure the "Blog Pages: Show at most" option.

2. Wordbook sends all my posts to Facebook. Can I do this selectively?

   At this time, no. You will have to log in to Facebook immediately after posting and manually remove the item from your Wall.

   Someday I'll add a "Post to Facebook" checkbox next to the WordPress "Publish" button or something.

3. I have multiple blogs; I'd like for all of them to update the same Facebook account.

   This is possible, but does not work at this time. This features requires a UI to allow Facebook session keys (currently not displayed anywhere in the UI) to be cut-and-pasted between multiple blogs.

4. I use WordPress excerpts for my RSS feeds; Wordbook doesn't use this for the profile box.

   This is a Wordbook bug; it doesn't know about excerpts yet.

Feature requests not under consideration

1. My blog has multiple authors. Can they all post to the same Facebook account using their own name?

   The name shown as the source of a News Feed update is determined solely by the Facebook account connected to Wordbook, and has nothing to do with the WordPress blog author. Using multi-author support, each blog author can post to their own Facebook account (using their own respective Facebook names), or they can all post to the same Facebook account using the same Facebook name.

   This is a Facebook restriction (see reference). All News Feed updates must include the first name of the Facebook account owner. If the Facebook app doesn't supply it, Facebook will automatically add it. There is no way for Wordbook to make a News Feed update appear to come from some other account.

2. Will this work with Facebook Pages?

   No. Facebook Pages look similar to user account profile pages, but the Facebook API treats the two very differently, and it is currently not possible to show the blog on a Facebook Page as is done for profile pages.

3. My WordPress is 1.x/2.0/2.1. The plugin doesn't work!

   This plugin is written for and tested on WordPress-2.3. I cannot test on older WordPress releases. I will happily accept any patches, if you are able to write a patch to get things to work. Otherwise, you really should consider upgrading your WordPress installation.

4. Can this work with PHP-4.x or MySQL-4.x?

   It is true that the WordPress minimum requirements are PHP-4.3 or greater and MySQL-4.0 or greater.

   There are two obstacles to Wordbook getting PHP4 support again: (a) My development environment is PHP5 and MySQL-5.0, and (b) Facebook has stopped releasing an "official" client library for PHP4.

   I cannot actively maintain PHP4 support, but will happily accept patches.