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Facebook for WordPress

Facebook has just announced their official WordPress plugin on the Developers blog. You can get the plugin for free from the WordPress.org plugins directory, and don’t forget to rate it too!

Join the WordPress Moscow Meetup Group

If you’re in Moscow and use WordPress, join the WordPress Moscow Meetup Group on Facebook. Everybody’s welcome: bloggers, developers, designers, photographer, journalists, writers, content managers, entrepreneurs and anybody who’s using (our would like to use) WordPress. Our next meetup is sometime in April.

How To: Show Off Your Social Counters in WordPress

You know it’s all about social these days, and this post is about showing off how social you are on your WordPress website. I’m sure you’re using tonnes of social networks and all of them have friends, followers, fans and subscribers metrics, but let’s start from simple: Twitter, Facebook and RSS. We’ll write code in this post, and you may ask me why. Of course there...

Facebook Fans Count Using Python and the Graph API

I noticed some peeps struggling to show off their Facebook fans count on their websites using the Facebook API. I’ve shown before on how to do it in PHP, and this quick post is about Python. Honestly, you’ll laugh as soon as you read the following three lines of code: import facebook graph = facebook.GraphAPI() print "Mashable has %s fans" % graph.get_object('/mashable')['fan_count']...

WordPress and Magic Quotes

This is crazy, and based on a post called WordPress and PHP magic quotes: you want to run me crazy! by Stefano Lissa. I’m writing a plugin prototype for WordPress that uses the new Facebook Graph API to post stuff to my wall on Facebook (upcoming blog post). The original Facebook PHP SDK comes in very handy when working with the Facebook API, and I had quite some fun using it, but...

Counting Facebook Fans in PHP: The Graph API Way

In a previous blog post called How to Count Facebook Fans in PHP I’ve shown a code snippet of how to count the number of fans on a fan page using PHP. Times have changed, the Graph API has been introduced, and due to some responses I introduce here the new way of retrieving your fans count using the new Graph API and php. Before you copy and paste, flush my comments with ‘my code is...

Now with the Facebook Like Button!

Obviously, the Facebook Like button is one you’d like to implement inside your blog, website or whatsoever. I did too, although I am quite late as everyone has theirs for ages, but why not share some thoughts about it and the whole social widgets riot? As we all know (or maybe suspect) the web is going social, and what value is your blog if your readers can’t share your article with...

How to Count Facebook Fans in PHP

Update: There’s an new easier way of retrieving the fans count using the Graph API, covered here: Counting Facebook Fans in PHP: The Graph API Way Not too tricky this one, but very handy as the social media world is developing extremely fast. It may not be too useful to publish the fan count of your facebook fan page if you’ve got less than a hundred or so, but as soon as you jump...

Facebook-style Lightbox with jQuery and Facebox

I recently came across an awesome plugin for jQuery which is called Facebox. Facebox produces a clean lightbox that can be a container for popup images, text and basically any HTML layout as well as AJAX powered content. The problem with Facebox is the lightbox placement. The dialog itself is placed in the center of the page horizontally with a preset margin from the top, which looks good, but...

The Facebook Platform: Building a Custom Fan Page

As you may have heard, I’m only starting as a Facebook developer and with a few recent experiments, Timothy and I thought about customizing a fan page on Facebook, which will hopefully soon take advantage of its own domain name (Facebook’s Open Graph API). This is less of a technical post and more of a thinking one. We started our new experiment on a Sochi 2014 Olympiad fan page on...