What happens is user does not do JFBConnect & makes an FB comment

Vlad,
JFBConnect, like every other extension, is not perfect for every site. It's possible that maybe you don't need the features of JFBConnect.

To answer your questions though, yes, a user does not have to login to your site to post a comment using Facebook. You can use ShareThis, or other tools, to add social buttons. However, JFBConnect does a lot more than just the things you mention that other tools or manually adding the tags do not.

When a comment is posted to the user's Facebook wall, Facebook uses the Open Graph tags from your site to describe the page to the user's friends. JFBConnect lets you set these tags easily. ShareThis also doesn't know or understand the structure of Joomla's URLs. So, if you use their addon, your Like counts will be spread across multiple different URLs.. non-SEF, SEF, ones with a ItemId (from a menu) and other URLs that are generated for the same content. JFBConnect, again, knows how Joomla URLs are created and creates a canonical URL for most content so that even if 2 user's visit the same page through 2 different URLs, the Like button is the same for both.

As for the actions you're talking about, that was discussed in the post below. The next release *will* have actions that can be automatically inserted into the user's Facebook timeline. We will have support for jReviews, so different types of actions on your site can be posted to your user's Timeline, which is great for promotion. Our system is going to be very flexible so that you can easily create new action types like you're looking for:
www.sourcecoast.com/forums/jfbconnect/jf...book-wall?p=1#p27479

Finally, there are a huge amount of other features in JFBConnect like Friend Invitations (Requests) that user's can send their friends, Facebook Page Tab integration, profile import ability, 1-click registration, and many, many more things. While you may not want or need all of those features, they are things you may grow into with time as your site grows and you need to enhance your social promotions.

Again, it may not be for you, but putting together a lot of separate tools to do everything JFBConnect does is very difficult (if not impossible) and much more prone to mistakes or errors.

Hope that helps,
Alex

I also forgot to mention that tools, like Sharethis, load their own Javascript from another site. That Javascript then loads the Facebook and other Javascript onto the page. The extra overhead of fetching other files, executing them, and then moving on to the actual Facebook Like or other social buttons you want adds anywhere from about 1-1.5s per page load. It may not sound like a lot, but it can be a huge hit to your performance, search engine ranking, and a lot of other factors.

JFBConnect loads the Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter Javascript files directly, eliminating the middle-man for the highest performance for your users.

Alex

1) JFBConnect works fine with 3rd party SEF tools, including AceSEF. We've had some users have some issues in the past, but we've always been able to help them fix things. If you run into issues, I'm sure we'll be able to help you as well, but hopefully, that won't be necessary.

2) The social buttons JFBConnect supports are: Facebook Like, LinkedIn Share, Google +1 and Twitter Share. Each can be enabled or disabled individually for showing on your articles. In articles, you have the choice of placing the buttons at the top or bottom of the article contents. The buttons can be configured in a few different styles: Standard, button-count or box-count which have different looks to each.

You can also include those buttons using a tag like {JFBCLike} anywhere on your site so they aren't just on articles.

3) See #2

4) JFBConnect doesn't track this automatically. However, we do have an option to integrate the Facebook Like button with Google Analytics. With that, you can see how often the Like button is clicked and other data that Google Analytics tracks. We also have an option to send you an email anytime anyone Like's or Comment's on your site.

5) Correct. A user does not need to be logged into your site to comment using Facebook. JFBConnect lets you set the Open Graph tags on any page of your site which is then used for wall posts that reference that page (title, description, and image).

Hope that all helps,
Alex

Vlad,
We haven't tested with ShareThis, but I know some other sites do use the 2 together. If you run into issues, we can try to help but a recommendation we may have to make is to disable the FB integration of ShareThis to prevent conflicts. All other buttons/features shouldn't cause a problem.

No, we don't have a Wordpress version, we are a Joomla development company.

Thanks,
Alex