new articles broadcast to social media

So it is vital that we can figure out how to have these things post to facebook, twitter etc. Is this possible without a plugin?

You could configure custom actions, as noted above, which are buttons you can place on your site for user's to click and push activity to their Timeline. That can all be done without a specialized Open Graph plugin for your extension.

You would need a specific Open Graph plugin for SP, or any other extension, to tie into existing features in that extension. So adding new content to SP, adding a tip (comment?) or adding a community (unsure what this would be in SP) would need an Open Graph plugin created to do so. Without the plugin, you could add a custom button for "I visited this park" or "My Favorite!" or something like that that would post to Facebook, but it wouldn't be something integrated into an already existing feature of SP. I hope that makes sense.

An SP Open Graph plugin is on our investigation list, as mentioned, but I don't have any timeline on when it may be available as we haven't started working on it yet. If you have, or are, a developer, we could gladly give you tips on how to create an OG plugin. We've tried to make the process as easy as possible for a PHP developer to implement.

If you have any further questions, just let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

I apologize for the delayed response. We never mean for posts to languish this long.

My account expires tomorrow, so I am in a panick situation. Is support available today?

As noted in my initial response, even if your subscription expires, we'll gladly help you with any issues you've already run into. No worries about posting here tomorrow, or next week, if you're still having problems.

So where would i start with this? Is there a program and tutorials that you would recommend to assist me in the development?

The best thing to look at for an Open Graph plugin is the ones we've already created. The content (Joomla - Content), K2 and JomSocial plugins are all good examples of the code you'd need to write to set Open Graph Tags for your page or create Actions to post back to a users timeline for activity they do within the extension.

There is currently a plugin so that any articles added to joomla could be broadcast could post to their timeline, correct?

The 'read' action is a feature of Facebook that lets you post an article to a user's timeline if they remain on the page for 15 or more seconds. That's an indicator that they are likely reading the page. The 'read' action is triggered automatically without the user 'doing' any action, which Facebook gives much less weight to and will usually not show prominently on the Timeline, but it's up to Facebook's algorithms on how it would show.

The read action we support is in the Joomla - Content plugin. You can set any categories to have an Object type of 'read' and then setup an Action of 'news.reads' to trigger after the user remains on the page for 20s or so.

How would you suggest i setup the sclogin for new JS registration and hello me for login, so they are seperate?

That's not really what I said. You can use the SCLogin for guests to be able to login or register with a social network and then have the hello me module set to only show to registered users. The other option is to simply let JomSocial show the JFBConnect login buttons on it's home and registration pages. That way, users can login with social networks on those pages whenever.

trying to use the FB login with the hello me module still does not work. I deleted all open graph from JFB, autotune showed all ok, but still the error "Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. To use this URL you must enable Web OAuth Login in your App's settings."

I'm glad to hear you got this going. I'm not sure what was wrong, but glad creating a new app fixed it.

I had to change the site name space, which is this 'not recommended', will this cause problems?

Changing the namespace of your app is fine. It's not recommended to change it frequently as some Facebook features are keyed off the namespace. However, since you're just getting setup, set it to whatever you'd prefer.

Before i move on to the jomsocial integration, ...when a current member tries to login through facebook, they get 'the email address is already in use'. I can see this causing lots of member issues, is there a setting for this?

Enable the "Automatically Link Users by Email" setting in JFBConnect to link users that login through social networks to existing accounts with the same email address.

I hope that helps,
Alex

Colin,
The theme file should always be loaded. I'm not sure off the bat why it wouldn't be. Can you let us know:
* Is your server Windows based or Linux based? It's possible there's a path issue with how we load that file.
* Are you using any sort of multi-site extensions to run more than one website from the same Joomla installation?
* Is there anything else on your site/server that may alter how the filesystem may look to the SCLogin module?

I hope those make sense, if not, or you have any other feedback, please let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

I'm glad you figured out the SCLogin theme issue.

As for Likes (and all sharing), each social network tracks the count by the URL the Like is for. Did your URL scheme change at all? For instance, going from www to non-www, http to https, or enabling SEF URLs can all reset the Like count for an article since the URL will be for the 'new' page. The Like count itself for the 'old' URL is still intact, but will not be shown when you're on the 'new' URL for the page.

I hope that helps explain, but if not, let us know.

Thanks,
Alex