So after several hours of beating my head against the keyboard I’ve finally been able to integrate Facebook’s Connect feature to http://blog.gnucom.cc – mainly for the comments box. I decided not to go with a WordPress plugin and instead modified the comments.php section of my WordPress installation.
This URL made the process sound mindlessly easy – http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/198 – and looking back on the process, I guess it was. I just had a few peculiarities: I was running the Connect feature on a subdomain and had typical WordPress URL rewriting going on behind the scenes. These two peculiarities cost me 4 hours.
These two Facebook resources were the winners for me. If they’re not for you, it would probably behoove you to dig around in their wiki.
Supporting subdomains isn’t as obvious as it sounded, so Facebook kindly provided a how/what/why here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Supporting_Subdomains_In_Facebook_Connect
Apparently the cross domain communication channel (this is what breaks Connect on long URL with several directories) differed slightly between the one that Facebook’s development community originally suggested, and I found the fix on this page: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Cross_Domain_Communication_Channel.
Now Facebook can spy on my blog, too.
