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FaceBook Connect Wordpress Plugin

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If you are a heavy Facebook user, you have probably heard of FaceBook Connect. It’s an amazing way of bringing the power of Facebook to your blog. Think about it. People being able to comment on your blog with Facebook tracking your latest Facebook visitors. And talk about your visitor’s network. Facebook connect can explode your traffic by leveraging Facebook’s power.

Now, if you are an aspiring developer, you can use the sample code provided by Facebook to implement FB Connect on your Wordpress blog. But thankfully, the good guys at Socialable have developed a Facebook WP plug-in that makes things so easy for Wordpress users. The plug-in is very easy to use. But you need to watch the video provided by the developers to set up the Facebook side of things. In essence, you need to create an application per blog and use the application and secret keys per application to activate the plug-in.

Once you activate the plug-in, you are going to see the latest visitor from Facebook, and your visitors get to comment on your blog without having to log in. This is a very innovative feature and something that you need to jump on before everyone else does.

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25 Wordpress Facebook Plugins You Shouldn’t Ignore

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It feels like yesterday when Facebook was launched. But it has quickly become one of the biggest social communities around the world with millions of people using it on a daily basis. If you have your own Wordpress blog, you should not ignore Facebook. Thankfully, there are lots of Facebook plug-ins that you can use to integrate Facebook into your blog:

  • Facebook Connect: Facebook connect Wordpress plug-in makes it easy for you to bring Facebook to your blog. If the guys at Tech Crunch use FB Connect, there is no reason you shouldn’t!
  • Facebook Photos: Show your Facebook photos right on your blog without too much fuss.
  • Wordbook: post your blogs to your Facebook wall.
  • Facebook Dashboard Widget: brings Facebook data right to your Wordpress blog.
  • Socialize Me!: add your blog posts to Facebook and other social networking sites.
  • StatusPress: Facebook updates on your blog.
  • Fotobook: show your Facebook photos on Wordpress.
  • Friend Bookmarklet: detect Facebook users on your blog.
  • WP Facebox: display your Facebook images using Facebox.
  • Add To Facebook: allow others to add your posts to Facebook.
  • Social Profiles: Social Profiles allows you to add social network profile links to the comments of your users.
  • Facelook: Display a Facebook Badge in your sidebar.
  • Wassup: track your visitors like a pro.
  • Facebook Status Widget: show your Facebook status on your blog.
  • Lifestream: show your social media updates on your blog.
  • WP Greet Box: greet different welcome messages to folks from different social communities.
  • WPBook: integrate Wordpress with your Facebook account.
  • Social Homes: proudly display Facebook and other social media favicons on your blog.
  • PrefPass Universal Login and Registration: allow your users to log on using their Facebook info.
  • Facebook Posted Items: fetch your posted items from Facebook and show them on your blog.
  • Publish To Facebook: Publishes posts, pages or both to your Facebook Mini-Feed directly from Wordpress.
  • Facebook Share Preview: add meta-data to your media files.
  • DandyID Services: display your Facebook information on your Wordpress blog.
  • QuailPress: another plug-in that allows your users to share your posts on their Facebook accounts.
  • Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter: post unique content to your blog from Friendfeed and Twitter. Connect your Facebook account to this plug-in and you are all set.

Did I miss anything?

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Clone Facebook On Your Wordpress Blog

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Facebook is one of the hottest properties on the Internet these days. Millions of people use it to communicate with their friends and colleagues and connect with others online. But what if you are not in love with Facebook but want to clone its design on your Wordpress blog? That’s exactly what you can do with Crybook theme. It’s an amazingly identical clone of Facebook that lets you start your very own blog with the look and feel of Facebook. Furthermore, it’s so flexible you can go beyond what’s offered on Facebook to make your blog look unique to your visitors.

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CryBaby also allows you to change the color and look and feel of the website fast. You can choose your favorite color by taking advantage of the color picker feature at the top right side of your theme. You get 5 colors to choose from. The logo can be easily changed as well. The theme also supports threaded comments and has an integrated feed counter to help you keep track of your subscribers easily.

The custom admin panel is easy to use as well, and you can also manage your AdSense and analytics codes easily on this theme. Overall, if you are looking for a free, SEO-friendly theme that looks awfully close to Facebook, you ought to give CryBaby a try. It’s the cheapest way to clone Facebook!

30 Best Clone Themes for Wordpress

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You’ve got to love what Wordpress is all about. Not only is it a killer CMS but it also lets you create sophisticated websites fast. And you can even try to clone what others have done in the past. Whether you want to clone Facebook or just want to have the look and feel of Digg on your site, you can do it all with Wordpress clone themes. And most of these themes are cheap or free, so you won’t have to spend too much money duplicating the look and feel of a site such as Digg.

With that in mind, here are 30 awesome Wordpress clone themes:

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1. OneNews: clone the legendary AllTop portal on Wordpress with OneNews. Very easy to customize too. Just add your feeds, and you are ready to go.

2. WhiteHouse Pro: so you want your site to have a similar look and feel to the White House’s website? Then WhiteHouse Pro is for you. It comes with an optional BBpress addon as well.

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3. PopURLs Clone: clone the good old PopURLs aggregator on your Wordpress blog with PopURLs Clone for Wordpress.

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4. Facebook Wordpress Theme: FWT lets you clone Facebook’s blog on your Wordpress site.

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5. CryBook Theme: Crybook is a very cool clone of Facebook. Get your Facebook Wordpress site up fast!

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6. Facebook Lover: Facebook Lover is the mother of all Facebook clones. Looks awfully close to the real thing.

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7. Smells Life Facebook: SLF is another fantastic Facebook Wordpress clone. If you are in love with Facebook, you should try this.

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8. Celebrity Gossip: create a celebrity website with the look and feel of Kineda with Celebrity Gossip.

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9. New Yorker 2 Theme: clone NY Times on your Wordpress blog with New Yorker 2.

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