Nothing seems to be working - so confused

Carrie,
Sorry to hear you're having issues getting things going. Hopefully, I can help answer your questions and get you moving quickly.

Login

The words you typed did not match the ones displayed. Please try again. Question, is it supposed to log me into my facebook? It does after about 20seconds.

It sounds like you have "Captcha" enabled across your site. That could be the built-in Joomla captcha (configurable in the Joomla Global Configuration area) or a 3rd party extension. I'd recommend disabling that and testing again to see if you can get things going. We should be able to help you re-enable captcha if you'd like to continue using it, but for now, it's best to test and get things going without it.

Once that's disabled, yes, it should log you in with Facebook to your Joomla account (and creating one for you if it's your first time logging in).

Open Graph Images
There's a few ways to add the og:image tag to pages on your site. The og:image tag is how you tell Facebook what image should be used in any news feed posts about your site for that page. In general, it's just a catchy way to draw attention to any content of yours that shows in a user's Timeline.

There are a few ways to add the tags:
* Simply enable the Open Graph - Content plugin that came with the JFBConnect zip file you downloaded. Once enabled, on any Joomla Content (article) pages, the first image in the article should automatically be chosen
* You can also add the following tag on any page to explicitly set the image tag for that page. That's good for fine control of the image that's used on any key pages:
{SCOpenGraph image=http://yoursite.com/link-to-image.jpg}
Obviously, replace the yoursite.com and link-to-image.jpg with values relevant to your site

Open Graph Actions

And each time I read a 'item' the notification pops up letting me know it has been added to my timeline. But it does this every time I read the same 'item'. Even though I have it set to once only, and when I do check my timeline it is not there.

That's normal. Per Facebook's guidelines, on pages where automatic actions (like 'reading an article') have been posted to the user's Timeline, the user *must* be made aware on that page if they return to it. So, JFBConnect is simply following Facebook's terms and notifying the user that that page was added to their Timeline in the past.

You may not see the news story feed on your actual Timeline, that's up to Facebook to determine when and how it should be shown. If you go to your "Activity Log" (via the button in the bottom right of your cover photo), you should see an entry there for the action (You read an article...)

Also, for Open Graph Actions, once setup, you do need to submit the action to Facebook for approval before other users (instead of just administrators of your Facebook application) can have those actions post to their timeline.

Like 'Error' message
That 'error' text is actually a link. If you click it, you should get a popup explaining what's wrong. Let us know what it says. There's lots of possible issues, but most are minor and easily fixable.

{JFBCSubscribe} to custom HTML module
This should work. The JFBCSubscribe button needs a href parameter as well though. When the user is 'subscribing', they are subscribing to a Facebook user profile in order to get news feed updates for that user. If you don't specify the href parameter, it won't work. So, it should look something like:
I hope that helps. Don't worry at all about the 'green' questions.. that's what we're here for. Facebook integration can be complex. Once you tackle a few issues, it should get much easier. We'll also be here along the way as you have questions.

Thanks,
Alex

I'm not sure why K2's captcha would be causing problems. We'll have to look into that more. What registration mode are you using in JFBConnect, normal or automatic? Joomla also has it's own built-in Captcha system. Is there a reason you don't want to use that? Just curious.

For Open Graph Actions, the administrator of your Facebook application can test them all on your site. Once you've set them up, simply login to your site with the Facebook account of an administrator of your App and then you can test everything until you get it working. Once done and the action has successfully posted to your admin's Facebook Activity Log, then you can submit it to Facebook for approval. Once approved, then any Facebook users that login to your site can trigger that action. If you haven't already, check out our Open Graph for Joomla Configuration guide.

However, what you're posting about is submitting your application to the "App Center". That's different. The App Center is like the white pages of Facebook for apps. They only let apps that have been around a while and built up traffic to submit to be in the App Center.. so yeah, I'd cancel that for now. If yours is a new app, there's no way it will be approved right now.

Moving forward, the 'tab' in your Facebook Page can be done by going to the Page Tab/Canvas area of JFBConnect's admin section. In there, at the top of Page Tab is some text like "Your Page Tab application appears to be setup properly. To add it to your Facebook Page, Click Here.". If you clicked that, it allows you to add your site to your Page Tab. That's how you 'link' apps and page tabs.. it has nothing to do with the creator of the app.. so, whether you did that knowingly, forgetfully, or whatever, it sounds like you did things right

Finally, no problem for the help on the weekends. That's what we're here for. Thank you for subscribing! If you need anything else, just let us know.

Alex

Carrie,
Very sorry for the delay in getting back to this. Not sure how I missed your response above, but hopefully we can continue to help get you going!

Since I have dl your extension I have noticed that one of my menu items set for 'vendor' is available to all registered users, which wasn't before as it should be.

I'm not sure how JFBConnect could be doing that. We don't modify menu items during installation or at any other time during configuration.

In VM2 I have it set so you do not need to register to purchase a item, yet now you have to.

If you disable the JFBCSystem plugin, that effectively disables all JFBConnect functionality. Can you do that and see if registration is still required. Again, there isn't any reason that JFBConnect should be requiring registration, or affecting VM shopping at all, really.

K2 Captcha

I'd continue to recommend leaving this disabled while you have issues. We do have it on our to-do list to investigate, and hopefully should have some more knowledge on what's happening later this week.

I hope the answers above help get you going some more, but if you have questions, absolutely let us know.

Thanks,
Alex