How exactly do you connect with Facebook Connect? Read on to find out!
So, you might have seen the huge “Login using Facebook” button on the sidebar. It’s right below the freshbytes logo, and when you click it, it logs you into this site with your Facebook profile. Don’t worry, I don’t automatically download all of your profile pics or anything freaky like that, nor can I change any of your settings, view anything you don’t want me to view, or invade your privacy in any way, it’s just an easier way for you to comment without having a login for freshbytes.
Simply put, if you have facebook, you can now post comments on this site without logging into this site.
In the interests of full disclosure, any comments you post to Facebook freshbytes will now be posted to your Facebook wall if you choose to login via the Facebook Connect button, as seen below:
In my original testing of this new WordPress Plugin, I found it irritating that the profile page borked the layout of the site. However, this has now been fixed, and the profile page now shows in the correct location.
Yet the only annoying thing that remains is the fact that if you choose to logout of freshbytes (when you’re logged in via facebook connect) is that you also get logged out of facebook. It’s something I want to try and fix, as it’s completely not cool, but as of this moment, I really can’t be bothered diving into the code to get that done. If I have to deal with it, so do you. 
At the end of the day, it’s completely up to you whether you use this plugin or not. Use it, don’t use it, hey, I don’t care.
It would be awesome if I could get some more people in the “Last Visitors” column, though.
Right, so I suppose you lot want some links, then…
Sociable! – The Social Media Blog » Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin
Facebook Developers | Resources
Facebook Developers | Facebook Developers News
So that’s about it, then. Comments below.
UPDATE: Thanks for the proofread, Martin! Much appreciated.
March 20th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Your comment makes me smile. Hang around with us bloggers, especially me with my typos and you’ll get use to the fact that we value you for your person and your ideas (and that gorgeous art I add) and not for those perfect details.