Add Facebook Connect to Your Site

Facebook Connect

Facebook recently launched a new feature called Facebook Connect, it enables Facebook users to share their Facebook identity, friends and privacy to any websites they wanted. According to Facebook, this features will enable any websites to implement and offer more features of Facebook Platform.

Adding Facebook Connect to your or site is a bit tricky, but if you’re using WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal, VBulletin forum or MediaWiki you can add this feature easily because those CMS have a plugin/module to help add Facebook Connect in just a few steps.

Add Facebook Connect on WordPress

Facebook Connect for WordPress

This plugin was developed by a Spanish named Javier Reyes.

Plugin Features

• Build a community for your blog
• Login to your blog using your Facebook account
• Send comments to Facebook profile feed
• Invite your friends to your blog community
• See who visited your blog

Download Plugin

• Download Facebook Connect plugin for WordPress and instalation tutorial
  
• Plugin FAQ

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Add Facebook Connect on Drupal

Facebook Connect For Drupal

This module was developed by lanetscouade.

Module Features

• After logging through Facebook Connect, users can then create a Drupal account on your site
• Users can choose which of their Facebook public information they want to import and synchronize with their Drupal local account, following Facebook Connect API Terms of use
• Users can see which of their Facebook friends already have an account on the Drupal website
• Users can publish a customizable message on their Facebook feed announcing that they have created an account on the Drupal website
• Users can invite their Facebook friends to create an account on the Drupal website

Download Plugin

• Download Facebook Connect module for Drupal
• Support forum

Add Facebook Connect on Movable Type

Facebook Connect For Movable Type

Plugin Features

1. Allows any Facebook user to sign in, comment, and share their actions on Facebook
2. Displays Facebook users’ name and photo next to their comment.
3. Share comment with their network of friends on Facebook

Download Plugin

• Download Facebook Connect plugin for Movable Type

Add Facebook Connect on VBulletin Forum

Facebook Connect For VBulletin

Add-ons Features

• Facebook users will be able to receive Facebook notifications
• News-Feed will be published on to the user’s wall
• Fetch user data from Facebook

Automatically befriend user’s friends

Download Add-Ons

• Download Facebook Connect add-ons for VBulletin Forum

Add Facebook Connect on MediaWiki

Facebook Connect For Mediawiki

Plugin Features

• “Single Sign On” experience via Facebook Connect
• On a successful Connect, creates a new wiki user from their Facebook ID, fills in Real Name from Facebook
• Mouseover tooltips of profile pics and info for Connected users

Download Plugin from SVN
svn co https://fbconnect4mw.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fbconnect4mw/trunk/FBConnect FBConnect

For support and instalation guidelines you can go to http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Connect_Plugin_for_MediaWiki

Add Facebook Connect to Any Sites

If you’re not using one of the CMS listed above, you can still add Facebook Connect feature to your site but it’s gonna be a bit tricky. Here are a list of tutorials from Facebook to help you add Facebook connect to your site manually.

• Facebook Connect Tutorial1
• How To Write A Good Connect App
• How To Write A Good Connect Plugin
• Facebook Connect Fourth Party Code

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