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Overview

WPBook enables users to add your (self-hosted, not wordpress.com) wordpress blog as a Facebook application. Facebook users will see your posts in a Facebook look and feel, and can leave comments with their Facebook identity.

Comments are shared - meaning comments made by users on your blog at its regular domain and comments made by users inside Facebook are all shown to users of either "view" of your content.

Facebook users can also - at their option - add a profile box to their profile, using the "add to profile" button at the top of the default canvas page.

That profile box shows the 5 most recent posts from your blog, as links.

NOTE: These 2 plugins have been reported to conflict with WPBook: - Bad Behavior - Facebook Connect (from Sociable.es)

I'm working on identifying and eliminating conflict, but you should not try to use WPBook with either of these plugins in the current state.

(Note there is a workaround for the Sociable.es Facebook Connect plugin described here: http://bit.ly/hhach)

Finally, if one of your other plugins (Kaltura's Interactive Video for example) uses CSS and sets the height of either the body or html elements to 100%, the auto-resizing javascript in Facebook may fail. You can fix this by removing the plugin or editing the css.

Version History

Version 1.3.1

• Fix for XAMPP Windows users - add ABSPATH to include for config.php
• Fix for users who have the application name in the permalink structure
• Cleanup for images in instructions that were too wide for layout
• Cleanup button title for submit on invite friends page
• Remove unnecessary second 'include_once' in comments.php

Version 1.3

• Mostly improvements to the admin interface user experience - better separation of options into required, customization, social, and advanced.
• Ability to include a custom header/footer for each post, including author, date, time, category, and tags.
• Bugfix: No longer echoing blog name twice on the invite friends screen.
• Bugfix: Caught case where profile box could get updated with links to the original source (outside FB).
• Note: This is expected to be the final PHP4 compatible version. Facebook's client only supports PHP5, and I need to be able to wrap certain client calls in Try/Catch, which requires PHP5, to avoid nasty "uncaught exception" bugs. (Yes, there are unofficial PHP4 clients, but they are unsupported). If someone wants to create a PHP4 only version which trails the ongoing development, they are welcome to, taking this as the place from which to begin a fork.

Version 1.2

• Changed the mechanism for "Add to Profile" to avoid issues with the fb:ref url method, using fb:ref handle instead
• Eliminated /wpbook/theme/recent_posts.php
• Incorporated Brandon Dukes' fixes to admins screens
• Added timestamp to posts

Version 1.1.1

• Fixed minor bug which broke FB resize javascript when 'add to profile' option was off
• Fixed minor bug in the description of the plugin (display).

Version 1.1

• Fixed (I hope!) Profile.setFBML issues for pages, profiles Eliminated the need to copy defaultFBML into settings
• Added option to view link in external site
• Added option to move links (share, external) top or bottom
• Added option to enable "add to profile"
• Created documentation with photos

Version 1.0

• Added simplexml44 library (BSD Licensed) for php4client
• Added option for "Give Credit"
• Added option for "Enable Share"
• Added option for "Allow Comments"
• Moved "Invite Friends" to top of page
• Cleaned up CSS for "recent posts" in main page
• Added fix to facebookapiphp5restlib.php which affected hosts where curl libraries were not present or enabled
• Jumped version to 1.0 - functionally complete

Version 0.9.7

• template_directory deprecated in 2.7, use bloginfo('wpurl') instead

Version 0.9.6

• Clean up from moving plugin in to directory
• Added Share button to share posts on FB
• Added fix for conflict with other Facebook-based plugins

Version 0.9.5

• Moved plugin into wpbook dir in subversion
• Moved theme subdirectory inside plugin subdir
• Required several function changes
• Added check for existing FacebookRestClient

Version 0.9.4

• Bug in javascript (NULL isn't the same as null) for profile

Version 0.9.3

• Bug in commenting inside Facebook due to $facebook->redirect
• Now redirects to the post on which the user commented
• Added instruction for adding to FB Pages to settings page in WordPress

Version 0.9.2

• Didn't realize I had set default FBML inside Facebook, masked a bug
• Should now set profile FBML before calling add profile box

Version 0.9.1

• Fixed xdreciever.html versus xdreceiver.html issue
• (You'd think a guy with a PhD in English would know how to spell.)

Version 0.9

• Added profile boxes
• Shows 5 most recent posts in profile box
• Also sets FBML for "pages" profile boxes

Version 0.8.2

• Added option to require email address of comment author
• Can be set separately only for Facebook comment authors
• Functionality added by Brandon Dukes.

Version 0.8.1

• Oops. Typo in README.txt - Brandon Dukes.
• Issue with some text not being displayed on the invite form
• Tested with Wordpress 2.6.2

Version 0.8

• Thanks to Brandon Dukes for contributing facebook invites - if you select 'display invite friends link' checkbox in the wp-admin settings for WPBook, you can invite facebook friends!
• Display email box for commentors (optional)

Version 0.7.5

• bug fix: style.css is in template directory, not necessarily based on /wp-content/themes/wp-facebook - account for subdirs
• Same goes for the FB.XdComm.Server.init call

Version 0.7.4

• bug fix for subdirectory based blogs
• fixed hardcoded offset of permalinks
• added note to readme to update theme when updating plugin
• Updated javascript in theme to reflect "new" facebook js 0.4 (See http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/ResizableIFrame#NewProfile_Update)
• Fixed erroneous link in "theme not installed" check
• Added ABSPATH as appropriate to catch the right includes
• Removed hard dependency on specific Avatars plugin, now uses default gravatar

Version 0.7.3

• bug fix
• adding namespacing to plugin function
• anded min version to readme

Version 0.7.2

• bug fix
• no try { } catch {} in PHP4

Version 0.7.1

• bug fix
• comments_facebook.php was not being found
• created fbcommentstemplate function instead

Version 0.7

• Major architecture changes
• Relies on a theme, not creation of a page
• Inspired by Alex King's mobile plugin (http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress)
• Enables recent posts and post navigation
• Added app canvas url to options for use as redirect post-comment submission

Version 0.6

• Added support for posting comments
• Switched to iFrame to allow more code in blog posts
• Added Facebook javascript for resizing iFrame
• Added style.css for styling
• fixed bug in storing options
• consolidated Facebook client stuff in config.php
• auto detect php version and set client include accordingly

Version 0.5

• Added support for PHP4 Facebook Client Library
• Options combined into associative array to speed-up and remove interference w/ other plugins

Version 0.4

• First push to WP-Plugins Directory

To Do

• Update instructions in readme to match new options available in 1.3
• Leverage new Facebook API to set user's status when a new blog post gets posted.
• Capture Facebook Profile picture of user commenting in Facebook, display instead of Gravatar. (I think this will require actually fetching and storing the picture, not just its url, as it may not be available outside Facebook, and may change).
• Deal with non-standard front pages (where user has set a static page in WordPress options)
• Enable pages for things like cateories and tags, and enable links to those pages from the header/footer of the post (since 1.3).
• Add notification to wall/notes when user publishes a new post - for all users. (May require user to grant additional permissions).