Download Facebook Connect and Viral tool for WordPress

[ This Facebook plugin for WordPress enables you to add some Facebook functionalities to your WordPress blog or website, including the Facebook connect functionalities (connecting with Facebook, creating a WordPress account using Facebook… ). This plugin also provides a way for blog owners to post updates to their user’s wall, and store their user’s emails for marketing or n]

This Facebook plugin for WordPress enables you to add some Facebook functionalities to your WordPress blog or website, including the Facebook connect functionalities (connecting with Facebook, creating a WordPress account using Facebook… ). This plugin also provides a way for blog owners to post updates to their user’s wall, and store their user’s emails for marketing or newsletter uses.

Features

- Enables users to connect with their Facebook account.
- Enables users to create a WordPress account using their Facebook credentials.
- Enables users (and admin users) to login to the blog, using a Facebook account.
- Request the email permission from your users, and store it into your database.
- Ability to post updates (status, links, images…) to your user’s wall.
- Ability to customize the links posted (chose a thumbnail image, a caption, a description).
- Enables you to attach a Facebook account to your WordPress first admin user.
- 3 widgets ready to be used (one for the Facebook connect, one to display Facebook friends, and one to display the latest connected users).
- You can customize how many users are displayed in the widgets.
- Ability to display the Facebook connect button wherever you want in your theme(by adding a small PHP code provided in the documentation).

Updates and new features

Updates (12 Nov 2013)
- This plugin users data can now be exported and imported directly into our standalone Facebook Viral app for more advanced features in posting on users wall.
- Ability to consolidate the users into one unique database (using the standalone Facebook viral app)
- Fixed the cancel button redirection when a user decides not to authorize the app when connecting with his Facebook account

Updates (22 June 2012)
- Update on the Facebook connect functions

Updates (18 December 2012)
- Updated the plugin with the latest Facebook API changes.
- Support added for multiple instances of the widgets (based on the WP Widgets API)
- Latest WordPress install supported (v3.5)
- A whole new code base, and plugin settings interface
- Ability to export a users information as a CSV format (name, emails, Facebook user id…)
- Better management of the “post on users wall” feature

Updates (12 June 2012)
- Updated the plugin with the latest Facebook API changes.

Updates (13 Oct 2011)
- Fixed a bug preventing the connected users icons from appearing in the plugin settings.

Updates (20 Sep 2011)
- Added support for OAuth 2.0

Updates (19 Aug 2011)
- Added support for Latin characters when posting status on users wall.

Updates (23 July 2011)
- Added the ability to create the username based on the user’s Facebook first and last name.
- Added the ability for the blog admin to activate the auto post of a custom message on user’s wall when they connect the first time.

Updates (6 June 2011)
- Ability to connect/disconnect a Facebook account from the user profile page.
- Added a better Facebook connect image and improved the Facebook connect features.

Updates (24 April 2011)
- Ability to display the Facebook connect in posts or pages with a shortcode.
- Option to enable the use of Facebook user’s profile pictures as avatars in WordPress (whenever possible)
- Added an option to customize the widgets titles.

Updates (10 Mars 2011)
- Ability to display the Facebook connect button anywhere in a page (header, footer…) by calling a specific function.

Updates (26 February 2011)
- Ability to create a new WordPress user using Facebook.
- Ability to attach a Facebook account to an active WordPress user.
- Created 3 widgets (Facebook login, Facebook friends and last connected) instead of one for more flexibility.

Installing the plugin the first time

Please make sure you try the plugin with a default WordPress theme (ex: Twenty ten) to make sure it works properly. Some themes are not coded properly and doesn’t always respect the official best practices for themes development, and can cause some plugins to not work properly. Knowing that will help diagnostic any problems you could have making this plugin work as expected.

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