JFBConnect v2.6 - Facebook / Kunena Integration

JFBConnect v2.6, the powerful Facebook Connect extension for Joomla, has just been released.  This version adds Kunena integration to complement the current JomSocial and Community Builder abilities.  Now, your Kunena profiles can be automatically filled in with a user's Facebook profile fields.  The other heavily requested feature is the addition of fetching a user's Facebook email address to populate their profile with.  The major updates in this revision are:

  • Kunena integration
  • Real email import ability from Facebook
  • Enhanced SSL support (no more "Part of this page is unencrypted" warnings)
  • Option to re-request Stream Publish and Email permissions for previously created users
  • Addition of new fields for importing
  • Many bug-fixes and minor enhancements throughout

After over a year of development, version 2.6.0 brings the 2.x branch to a close.  With the recent announcement from Facebook of their new and improved Facebook Graph API, we're now beginning our focus on the 3.0 revision of JFBConnect.  The new Graph API is extremely exciting as the API is cleaner, easier to use, and much more feature-rich.  We'll be ensuring that while we re-architect the next version of JFBConnect, backward compatibility (so your users won't even notice the switch when the time comes) will be of utmost importance.

Please know that we are dedicated to continue bringing you a stable product.  Any bug-fixes and any critical issues that may arise in 2.6.0 will be fixed in future 2.6.x point releases.

Alex Andreae

Alex co-founded SourceCoast Web Development in 2008. Based in sunny Florida, SourceCoast develops extensions for integrating your Joomla powered website with popular social networks. He has spoken at more than a dozen Joomla User Groups and Joomla Days, including the Joomla World Conference in both 2012 and 2013. Topics have included social networking for Joomla, running a business around Joomla extensions, and Joomla development.


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