• Registered: 2010-11-20
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Topic: Facebook Integration (I.E. Facebook auto-publishing)

Just thought it would be nice to have Facebook integration as an option for theme, specifically for autopublishing to Facebook connected users.

This would entail Facebook Connect with Wordpress but on the theme side, this would require coding to enable the sending of a wall post to all subscribed users when a new wordpress post is made.

The idea being that this auto-sharing exposes the website to the newsfeeds of those users' friends - ergo increasing the audience.

I do have some code available that asks for the proper facebook permissions and that can send a wall post to the user's wall.

Problem is, I have no idea how to link the sending of the message to a specific post, nor how to prevent the code from sending this wall post everytime the website is visited.

This may have nothing to do witht he theme, and more to do with wordpress itself but I just thought I'd give it a try!

I know it is possible to do... the question is how?

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  • From: Netherlands
  • Registered: 2010-05-06
  • Posts: 49

Re: Facebook Integration (I.E. Facebook auto-publishing)

Probably plugin territory,
you might wanna check WordBooker, have been using it for a while and it's fine.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbooker/

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  • Registered: 2011-01-03
  • Posts: 3

Re: Facebook Integration (I.E. Facebook auto-publishing)

I've been using this plugin for a while (also availble for Twitter) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sim … k-connect/ it works like a charm!

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  • Registered: 2010-11-20
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Re: Facebook Integration (I.E. Facebook auto-publishing)

I am also using that plguin but it does not post to facebok automatically.

It requires you to press a publish to profil and publish to fan page button. It also only publishes to MY wall but no one else's.

I need something that posts to my wall and fan page automatically (as I press "publish" in wordpress) rather than require seperate buttons.

Most importantly, I require something that will post to the walls of all users that subscribe to that feature. I.E. a plugin that stores the user ID and Auth. Key for all auto-published subscribed users that once I press Publish on a post, will cycle through that list and post to their walls, my wall, and the fan page.

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  • Registered: 2011-02-08
  • Posts: 1

Re: Facebook Integration (I.E. Facebook auto-publishing)

mcfmullen wrote:

Just thought it would be nice to have Facebook integration as an option for theme, specifically for autopublishing to Facebook connected users.

This would entail Facebook Connect with Wordpress but on the theme side, this would require coding to enable the sending of a wall post to all subscribed users when a new wordpress post is made.

The idea being that this auto-sharing exposes the website to the newsfeeds of those users' friends - ergo increasing the audience.

I do have some code available that asks for the proper facebook permissions and that can send a wall post to the user's wall.

Problem is, I have no idea how to link the sending of the message to a specific post, nor how to prevent the code from sending this wall post everytime the website is visited.

This may have nothing to do witht he theme, and more to do with wordpress itself but I just thought I'd give it a try!

I know it is possible to do... the question is how?

I don't know the answer but I like your idea

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  • Registered: 2011-02-10
  • Posts: 2

Re: Facebook Integration (I.E. Facebook auto-publishing)

Just thought it would be nice to have Facebook integration as an option for theme, specifically for autopublishing to Facebook connected users.
The idea being that this auto-sharing exposes the website to the newsfeeds of those users' friends - ergo increasing the audience.

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  • Registered: 2011-02-11
  • Posts: 2

Re: Facebook Integration (I.E. Facebook auto-publishing)

Love your idea. It is a pain for me to post multiple times to Facebook, Twetter, and a few other social networks I am on. Would love something like this.

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  • Registered: 2011-04-18
  • Posts: 21
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Re: Facebook Integration (I.E. Facebook auto-publishing)

tiatorbert wrote:

Love your idea. It is a pain for me to post multiple times to Facebook, Twetter, and a few other social networks I am on. Would love something like this.

Adding Twitter is a good idea, too.

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