[Plugin: Facebook Connect] Bug

zoran100, thanks for help testing this. Could you email changed function.php file to me (my email [email protected])?
And about the conflict – i will look into this and let you know.

more i look into this more it looks like its ajaxchat that creates this conflict…some ajaxchat files are missing ?> on the end…I will email you files now…

Hello again valentinas…I email you all files…but something just crossed my mind: what happens if your buddypress already has registered user that has exact same name as the new user that is trying to connect for the first time to your buddypress via his facebook account? Did not test this, but thought its worth letting you know that this is the possibility…

told you avatars are far away ??

cheers for the file, zoran100. Don’t worry about same user name. The plugin checks for that and if username is taken, then it will change it to “username1” or “username2”, or “username3” etc.. , whichever is free.

Great! Let us know when you update your files to contain new function.php cause it will make your plugin officially bugs free, at least as far as I could test! Also, let us know where is your official plugin page so that we can vote!

Every buddypress installation should have this fantastic and easy to use plugin and im sure many will have it soon! Congratulation on creating awesome contribution to wordpress /buddypress community!

As for the ajaxchat, I am still looking into it’s code and testing but no result yet… If no progress, I will just go with the different chat plugin. 2 bad for the localization and theme I already created ??

I would love the simplicity of this plugin. However I do not share my email address in fb and I expect some others to do the same.

Not sharing the email address causes my site not to load at all so this is unfortunately useless to me.

Motoristi, i appreciate your feedback.
In the future versions i will keep this in mind and try to do some fallbacks for cases when user does not share the email adress.
But i also want to say that you are wrong here (we both wrong actually: me for not having fallback and you for not knowing about Facebook): if you don’t want to share your email adress you can choose to use anonymous adress, Facebook gives you the ability to use something like [email protected] instead of your real email for cases like this.

Also, im pretty sure the plugin shouldn’t break your whole site. If you are keen to give second chance for this plugin i could help you to set it up on your website and troubleshoot anything that prevents you from using it. It wold also help me to improve the plugin.

let me know here, or contact me via email: v.bakaitis at gmail

Hi valentinas,

Sorry for the blunt feedback with insufficient info. It was late and I had just regained access to my site by removing the plugin via ftp.

My point is only that no plugin should simply “die” on error. I was completely locked out of my site after activating the plugin. I was logged onto Facebook at the time but not sharing my email address and that cooked the goose.

I understand that the plugin needs an email address to work. However it should just bow out if it does not get one and let WP continue. There are other security conscious people out there who do not share all on Fb. I want them to be able to view my site even if they are not able to login using this plugin. For them (and me) I suggest a method of graceful denial. ??

About my not knowing Facebook. You are correct – I do not know Fb but I do know that some IT consultants (including me) share only the bare minimum even to “Friends only”.

Good point, Motoristi. I’m super busy right now, but I hope i will find some time this week to update the plugin, so if you interested to test – follow this topic. I will let you know when the new version is out.

I have multisite enabled blog. As soon as I enable this plugin, I get this error on my site:

Notice: Undefined index: fbs_XX_appid_XX in /home/azubair/preciments.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-facebook-connect/functions.php on line 78

Notice: Undefined index: sig in /home/azubair/preciments.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-facebook-connect/functions.php on line 86

Could anyone please help me as to what I am doing wrong?

azubair, this is not error, this is notice. Nothing is broken and plugin works as it should do, its just some php debugging information. you should turns those off for live websites. however thanks for pointing that out, i will fix this in next version.

Thanks for your reply valentinas. Another problem is –
“Add a widget, or place a shortcode and start connecting!” I have added a widget, haven’t added any shortcode anywhere.
On my site, I still don’t see any buttons. It shows plain text for login – no link no button…

Probably I am doing something silly. PLMK if something obvious jumps out. The site is preciments.com

You need to include jQuery for this to work (another bug that i should fix).. add <?php wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' ); ?> before wp_head()

Thank you!!!! You are awesome!

Wonderful work. Looking forward to seeing the next update with avatars. Out of curiosity, what happens to users who registered via Facebook if I delete the plug-in? My organization is contemplating making our BuddyPress network private. As a lowly community manager, I have to be responsive to their needs and assess different possibilities. Will the profiles who registered via Facebook disappear? Will they be able to log-in the normal way? What about those users who “connected” or linked their profiles with Facebook? How are they affected?

Thank you!