Facebook + Mingle ?

• brandonmoeller

  said

  Any suggestions on how we can use the Facebook SDK or plugins like Simple Facebook Connect to integrate Facebook features in sites built with the Mingle theme?

  I’ve tried using the Comments Login function of Simple Facebook Connect plugin to no avail – I was trying to get it so that people who want to comment on my site could do so by logging into Facebook …

  I have gotten other parts of the Simple Facebook Connect plugin to work …

• andy

  said

  I haven’t used those plugins so I do not know what advice to give. If you can tell me what isn’t working or what it does/does not do when installed I may be better able to help.

• brandonmoeller

  said

  Thanks, Andy!

  The Simple Facebook Connect plugin is supposed to allow website members to sign in to Facebook to comment on articles, but it doesn’t seem to work with the Mingle Theme.

  Not sure if this is a Mingle-problem or a BuddyPress-problem.

  Do you know of another way to allow website visitors to comment on articles via signing into Facebook (instead of filling out name, email and URL fields in the comments section of posts)?

• rob83

  said

  You should just use the Disqus WordPress Plugin, it replaces any default WP comment form and allows people to comment using their Facebook, Twitter and other logins securely. I use it myself (I’m using Mingle) and I love it. Insanely easy to setup as well.

  You can find the plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/ and the disqus website is http://disqus.com/ for futher information about what disqus is.

• Holodigit

  said

  I agree with Rob83 and in case you need a FB connection/identification/new users registration compatible with WP+BP I can suggest http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-fb-autoconnect/ it works smoothly and effectively.

• brandonmoeller

  said

  Rob83 + Holodigit – thanks for the suggestions. I’ll take a look at both plugins and will report back here with what I think …

• byroncov

  said

  Does anyone know how to integrate the facebook social plugin like box in the mingle theme?

• brandonmoeller

  said

  byroncov – If I remember correctly, I tried but failed to get that to work on my site. But I did find luck with the ShareThis plugin’s like button, which I embedded in my main sidebar on all of my post pages – and when people click it, it shows up in their newsfeeds. See an example on this sample post here: http://remaxoftexas.net/news/2011/12/slippery-slope-of-discounting-commission-fees-and-other-news/

• byroncov

  said

  @brandonmoeller Thanks for the help, but I need a little bit more Facebook integration than your suggestion. Nice clean site by the way.

• brandonmoeller

  said

  Thanks, byroncov! If you ever figure it out, do let us know – here!

• Lokesh

  said

  Hi,

  I am using this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebook-connect/ for my website http://www.teluguin.com

  Regards,
  Lokesh

• byroncov

  said

  @lokeshkumarchippada Will this plugin allow me to use Facebook social apps such as Like Box?

• Lokesh

  said

  yes it will if you add like box because it uses Facebook API to create wordpress user accounts

• byroncov

  said

  @lokesh – the plugin seems to disable the drag and drop feature in the widgets section.

  Since updating to wordpress 3.3 this plugin no longer breaks the theme