James Andrews

I am happy to announce the release of Full Circle v0.5.1 This is a new feature release. I asked for feature requests, and Gary mentioned he would like to be able to enable disable posting to facebook and only enable it on certain posts. It was a relatively easy feature to add, so I did.

At the bottom of the advanced edit page. You will find 2 new checkbox fields at the bottom of the page. One for twitter one for Facebook. You can disable one or both. In your Full Circle settings page, you can enable Facebook and twitter, but set their default to be disabled posting. If this is the case then the 2 new checkbox fields on the advanced edit page will be unchecked. Checking them pushes the post to which ever ones you have activated.

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OK new version of Full Circle.  This one includes the ability to include links at the bottom of your blog posts.  Just another step in making Full Circle the only plugin you need to advertise your blog posts on your social networks.  I’d be interested in what other networks people think they need to have included.  Friend of mine mentioned linked in, so I am going to go look at linkedin’s api and see what I come up with.  Who knows that may be v0.5

The new version is available here.  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/full-circle/

New Version of Full Circle is now available at the WordPress plugin archive.  Plugin now offers the ability to connect to your Facebook feed and your Twitter feed.  All done in one handy dandy little plugin instead of 2.

When I get started on something sometimes it’s just hard to stop. Once I was pretty happy that it was working. I renamed a bunch of variables and functions to match the new name of the plugin. Full Circle. What Full Circle is right now is a combination WordPress plugin that talks via Facebook’s Application API. One of the things I wanted was to make it so that your FB friends did not have to install any application on their side. Once you install the FB app into your profile, you need to grant it authorization to “share things”. The plugin takes advantage of these permissions to post “links” to your feed making them application independent to your target audience.

Currently the only feature is post to your Facebook stream as a link. I am trying to think of other features that may be useful. I was thinking maybe making it so that your Facebook status showed on your blog as a widget, or maybe even posting to Twitter and other SM type sites, so you don’t have to post in 1000 places. I read one post the other day about that, and the guy thought it was bad, but I have to disagree with so many SM outlets it can be hard to manage. This way you can get the word out in one shot, and then interact with what people say. Let me know what you think.

One of my goals is to be able to advertise my Blog over Facebook. The most popular of the Facebook wordpress plugins is “WordBook”. I have it installed and indeed when I publish a blog post it shows up as a “recent action” link on my profile page. Not exactly what I want to happen. and survey says [X] I want to be able to have it show up in my new feed. No problem I say. I can hack anything ANYTHING, ok well maybe not anything, but I can hack PHP until my heart is content, or until I hit a brick wall I can do nothing about. I backed up my copy of WordBook, and started poking around the code. Once I figured out where it was calling Facebook’s client library, I saw what call it was making. Should be simple right? and survey says [X][X]. In order to post a link to your feed, which is what I was trying to do, you need to call facebook.links.set(…) which is not part of the current php library that facebook has published. No biggie. I understand what the library is doing, so I make a function similar to the one above but with only the attributes I need. It calls facebook, and survey says [X][X][X]. See in order to call facebook.links.set the user has to have granted the Wordbook application running on facebook access to a new kind of permission. Since the Wordbook developer has not done any work on his end to include this new feature I am how do we say. Shit out of luck.