Facebook Force Log in – gather data – get liked!
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010It seems that everyone is having an easy time installing the Sociable Facebook Plugin, but are having a horrible difficult time getting their WordPress installations to hide content unless they have liked your page and logged into facebook.
I spent several hours pouring over all I could find about the facebook API, the new open graph stuff, etc… and trying to hide stuff on my site unless the viewer was logged into facebook just wasn’t working well. I could hide content but I sure couldn’t show a lot of content and it broke the moment I added any html code.
I did figure things out and I’ll show you below………. but you are going to have to leave a comment by logging into facebook for me to tell you about it 
Do this:
Login with facebook below.
Give this website access to some of your facebook public info (normal all apps do it).
Control+Refresh the page… or click on any other post and then come back to this one
Do all that and you will see the content (and how it’s done) for this post.
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How to hide content unless visitor is logged into facebook and likes you! | Black Hat Techniques says:
May 7th, 2010
5:21 am
[...] Force Facebook Login To Hide Content [...]
admin says:
May 7th, 2010
4:22 pm
I should note that you can’t force people to “like” your page this way. But you could ask them to login with facebook and like it – then refresh the page.
90 percent of the people would do it.
I’ll try out the api again in a couple weeks – seems to be a problem stopping it from working properly at the moment.
Michael Thomson says:
May 7th, 2010
4:56 pm
Interesting, I click “Login with Facebook” and it refreshes the page, but still shows “Login” and requires that I enter my name and email to leave a comment. Weird.
Michael Thomson says:
May 7th, 2010
4:57 pm
Oh, but after I left the comment, it shows me logged in through FB. Might want to check into that Ed.
admin says:
May 7th, 2010
5:26 pm
It sure isn’t perfect. That’s for sure. This is the best way you have of doing it with WP for now though.
The best bet is to make a real application that uses the oauth system and totally ignore WP altogther.
This is a lot faster if it does have a few hiccups.
Ilamai Station says:
May 8th, 2010
6:37 pm
good stuff
More WP Facebook Hacks. | Black Hat SEO Digest says:
May 11th, 2010
3:29 pm
[...] with facebook</p></li> </ul> Of course you do need the plugin we talked about here or to have them register with your blog through WP’s normal log in [...]
Lee Sr says:
June 2nd, 2010
4:02 am
Nice.
Won’t work with regular readers though, if they’re already registered and logged in.
Smith Fuller says:
June 3rd, 2010
5:37 am
Not working for me
Sean Naquin says:
June 14th, 2010
7:29 pm
not working for me either
Dane Belarmino says:
June 18th, 2010
5:55 pm
i dont get it. i’ve already logged in with facebook but the login button is still there
Peter Johnston says:
June 29th, 2010
2:05 pm
Doesn’T work for me…where’s the info???