Wordbooker
Wordbooker is a plug-in for self hosted WordPress or WordPress MultiUser blogs which links your blog to a Facebook account.
The current version is 1.8.10 which uses the new Facebook Oauth process which streamlines the authorisaton process.
Wordbooker works with WordPress 3 in single and multi-site modes but cannot be activated network wide. This will be rectified in Wordbooker 2.0 which is currently under development.
Once the plugin has been installed and linked to your Facebook account you can configure it so that when you post a post to your blog your Facebook wall is automatically updated with an extract of your post with links back to the original article. So all your Facebook friends will be notified that you’ve written a new blog post automatically without you having to do anything.
Wordbooker can also post to Facebook Fan Page walls if you are an administrator for that fan page. This allows “commercial” blogs to basically tell all their Facebook fans that they’ve posted a new blog post.
Wordbooker also supports two multi-instance sidebar widgets (if you are running WordPress 2.8 or above). The first of these widget is a Facebook Status widget which shows your “current” Facebook status. For people who have Facebook Fan pages then there is a sidebar widget to display information from that. Both of these widgets can be seen in action on this blog.
There is a lot more to Wordbooker than that – it is highly configurable at both a “blog” and “user” level allowing each Wordbooker user to set their own configuration or accept the blog level settings.
Wordbooker supports blog posts made through the following methods:
- Traditional Edit Page (either immediate or Scheduled Posts)
- Press This Browser toolbar widget
- Dashboard QuickPress
- XMLRPC clients
- WP-O-Matic
It also works with the following plugins:
- AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget
- Shashin
- Viper’s Video Quicktags
- Share This
- Fluency Admin
PROBLEMS
If you’ve got problems its probably best to post them on the discussion board Wordbooker Page on Facebook where people can create new threads for each bug/problem and people can easily see if any fixes have been made
July 21st, 2010 at 5:45 pm
I love the plug in!
Any plans to support custom post types any time soon?
July 21st, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Right now my main drive has to be on getting comment handling working – that and changing the entire relational structure to make the plugin a lot more WP3-Networked (i.e. WPMU) friendly. Once that is all done and working and I’ve re coded the back end to make the administration a bit less daunting then Custom post types may well be on the list along with a lot of other things.
July 23rd, 2010 at 12:53 am
so why the hell am i getting this error?
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /homepages/21/d333525886/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wordbooker/wordbooker.php on line 256
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:02 am
Have you read the front page of the plugin page on WordPress ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordbooker/ ) :
“NOTE : You have to have PHP V5 installed for this plugin to work as the code contains several PHP V5 specific features.”
The reason you are getting that error is that you aren’t running php5 or if you have it installed the .php extension is still associated with php4
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Steve,
Any thoughts on when you might be releasing Wordbooker 2.x? I have been trying to get my comments to publish to fb, but have not been able to achieve it. Additionally, does the current version only work for comments posted after the plugin is installed, or does it also upload comments posted prior to the installation?
Thanks!
July 23rd, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Wordbooker can only handle comments on FB posts that it knows about and can associate with entries in your blog and it only fires on new comments. Having it push old comments would likely exceed your maximum number of FB post transactions.
Wordbooker 2.0 will be released sometime – I dont know when. I’ve just about finished on 1.x and I needed to get the core of that stable before pulling it all apart and rebuilding. Also Facebook are changing their Authentication processes again so I want to make sure that I can build on that base rather than having to recode at the last minute.
July 23rd, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Thanks Steve for the update.
I’m curious about something. Wordbooker does seem to push through the new comments for non-moderated posts. However, when I set the WordPress setting to “An administrator must always approve the comment,” the post does not seem to make it to facebook after approval. Any thoughts? Am I missing something?
Thanks much!
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:35 pm
Making wordbooker work with custom post types is very easy.
Suppose you have a post type called “news”, you can add the following line to your functions.php file and yo’re done:
if(function_exists(‘wordbooker_publish’)){
add_action(‘publish_news’, ‘wordbooker_publish’);
}
You won’t get the wordboo options in the bottom of the edit post page but if you set up your defaults correctly, you’ll be fine. I tested this with WP 3.0.
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:38 pm
The approval of comments went wrong when I changed how comments were submitted as an attempt to stop other comment based plugins breaking Wordbooker. The Auto approve doesn’t seem to work any more.
Comment handling is all going to be re-written in 2.0 so hopefully I can fix the mess then.
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Hmm – that’s an interesting approach – of course that could be problematical on WPMU (WP3-Networked Blogs) but its something to consider.
July 28th, 2010 at 5:54 am
How do i post the updates to my facebook page? i dont get the option as in screenshot given.i am the administrator of the page.i use wordbooker version 1.8.10 plz help
July 28th, 2010 at 6:18 am
Awsome plugin, I just have one hope and dont we all.
Any chance that I could get your plugin to recognize when an mp3 link is in the content of the post being submitted to Facebook and turn it into a actual mp3 player instead of just a text url. Its like the string is being parsed and not being recognized as a link but just as a string.
Thanks for Any Feedback and Support,
Jesse
July 28th, 2010 at 6:39 am
What can be posted into the Wall space on Facebook is extremely limited. I would not imagine that mp3 players can be embedded – the only possible way might be to link it out but that would probably break the wall post.
July 28th, 2010 at 6:39 am
Can you take that question over to the Wordbooker page on Facebook? There is a discussions tab there
July 28th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
What I found is I can make the mp3 an attachment like you have set up the image. I had tried to embed the FBML for an mp3 into a post but WordPress keeps removing it. I guess its not part of the allowed markup.
So know what I sould like to do is use some regex I have to search in the post for an anchor tag with an mp3 link in it to get the URL. I think I have custom fields for the artist and track titles.
So if you can just give me a little guidance as to where to make some mods in your code to make the attachment a MP3 instead of an image I would appreciate it. Thanks.
July 28th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
It would need some changes to the API call as the MP3 url would need including in the media array with different parameters (it needs a different type for starters). So that code would have to go in after all the image handing calls but before the call to the publishing process – so somewhere round about line 1600 in the main wordbooker.php.
As for the glitch with the CAPTCHA – someone else reported it back to the developer of that plugin so I’ll have to wait and see
July 29th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Steve,
I’m using Disqus to do commenting, and there seems to be an issue between the comments imported and Disqus. The comments pushed up from FB show up in my comments (non-Disqus) correctly. But when they get exported to Disqus, they all show the same user. I’m thinking it might be because they is something going on in the push from FB that causing it too use the same username – but they show up ok in the comments. Any thoughts?
July 29th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Because its not possible to pull back email addresses from FB (well not from most users) and because WP needs an email address for each comment Wordbooker uses a preset one. Version 2.0 will have the ability for the email address to be set by the end user.
Dont forget that FB comments are not threaded so I’m not sure how well they’ll integrate into Disqus
August 7th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Great job!! LOVE your plug-in!!
August 9th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
on opera browser don’t work… any solution?
August 9th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Can you please go to either the WordPress Forums and post a support question there, or over to the Wordbooker page on Facebook and please provide more information “Don’t work” is not much to go on.
August 21st, 2010 at 7:06 pm
steve,
amazing work, thanks sooo much!
the only feature i am missing is to post my custom-written excerpts instead of the machine-generated ones… is there any way to do that? so that the plugin first checks if there’s a handwritten excerpt for the post and only uses a machine-generated one of the handwritten one is not present?
August 21st, 2010 at 7:09 pm
oh, and one more question… is it possible to entirely remove the “posted in this blog” message so that just the blog post appears on the facebook wall, without additional text?
August 21st, 2010 at 8:31 pm
If you populate the WordPress Excerpt box and have set the “Use Post Excerpt” Option at the Wordbooker user level settings then it should work.
You can set the Post attribute line to a single space…. I think… I’m on my boat connecting via a very poor mobile broadband connection and haven’t got access to the source code.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Hi Steve !
I am soon to launch my personal blog and I been thinking of using wordbooker … it is a very useful plug-in. But I have question I’ve even posted it on wordbooker’s page on FB … The question is … Instead of posting feeds on my personal wall can wordbooker post feeds on the fan page of my blog on FB … If it does tell please tell me how can i do this … Thanks
Kind Regards,
Faisal
August 24th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
If you are the admin of the fan page then you can use the And/OR options to choose if you want to post to your personal wall and/or a fan wall.
August 24th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
So where do i find these AND/OR options … are they in the wordbook admin area ?? or I have to do it through PHP
August 24th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
They are on the Wordbooker options page at the user level. Also on the Wordbooker options that appear on the Edit/Add Post screen. Its all in the user documentation
August 24th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Ok … Got that …. I haven’t check the options …. Thanks so mush for your help. … and your plug-in rocks …..
August 24th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Ok one more thing …. does it show the feed of posts posted by me or any other author who is logged on to my blog ??
August 24th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
It will only post posts that you make unless you use the “Post As” and set it to a specific user and also set the option that allows non wordbooker user to post – in which case any blog post they make will be processed by Wordbooker as if if was posted by the specific user set in the Post As option
August 24th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Just want to let you know …. That wordbooker is conflicting with FB social plugins …. Have you tested this ??? or I’m the only one facing this problem ???
August 24th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
It probably does – I’ve not looked at FB Social plugins. In what way is it conflicting. Actually can you take this over to the Wordooker page on FB rather than on here?
August 27th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Hello – the plugin seems to want to download the login-status.php file from facebook. As well I noticed same thing happening on your site as well? Maybe a temp glich?
August 27th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
Its a bug with Facebook – At a guess you are using IE6 or IE7?
August 30th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Hi Steve,
thanks a lot for this really easy to user plugin. Nevertheless I still have one challenge to manage in wordpress. I build my own Theme that ist really minimalistic. I can see my posts and my own sites but I don´t see the “I Like”, “share” buttons and the comments field.
The comments field isn´t that big problem but would like see the I like and share button.
Could you please give me your help ?
Regards
Michael
August 30th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Steve,
I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work. I really appreciate how simple and straightforward Wordbooker is. I dreamed up a plugin that I’d like to use on my blog and then searched for it, and there it was. I understand it’s not totally polished off yet, but already it is solid and very useful. The next phases of it will just be more icing on top.
Thanks again,
~Joseph
August 30th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Its probably best to take this to the Wordbooker page on Facebook – where you can give me more details