Fotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account and import all of your photo albums into a page on your WordPress installation. It makes use of Facebook’s API so importing your photos is a breeze.

Features

• Interfaces with Facebook’s API
• Displays photo albums on a WordPress page
• Import photos from mulitple Facebook accounts
• Sidebar widgets for displaying random or recent photos & albums
• Insert individual photos into posts/pages
• Easy-to-use AJAX album management panel
• Frontend validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict
• Works with PHP5 & PHP4

Download

• Fotobook v3.0.6

Demo

Check out my photo gallery.

Help Out!

To be honest, this takes up a lot of time. I enjoy doing it, but some money for it here and there would be nice.
Here are a few ways you can help out (and encourage me to work on it more =) ):

First, you could sign up for a Dreamhost account and use the promo code Fotobook. This not only helps me out but also waives the $50 setup fee when you pay monthly (only $10.95/month). If you choose one of the other payment periods you’ll get $25.00 off. I’ve hosted with them for a couple years and I’ve had no problems. They have all sorts of features (500gb storage, unlimited domains, PHP4&5) and, best of all, they have one-click WordPress installs and upgrades.

If you are satisfied with your hosting and want to help out, you can send some cash over PayPal.

Installation

1. Download and unzip the most recent version of Fotobook
2. Upload the entire fotobook folder to /your-wordpress-install-dir/wp-content/plugins/
3. Login to your WP Admin panel, click Plugins, and activate Fotobook
4. Go to Options and then click the Fotobook link. Follow the two steps for linking the plugin to your Facebook account.
5. Now import your albums on the Manage / Fotobook page.
6. That’s it!

To upgrade simply replace the old Fotobook directory with the newest version.  Re-import all of your albums to complete the upgrade.

FAQ

• How do I create a new style for Fotobook?
  To create a new style, simply duplicate and rename one of the existing styles and modify the files.
• I have the Lightbox style selected but the images pop up in another window.
  The Lightbox plugin must be installed and activated.
• Can this plugin import photos from Facebook groups or pages?
  No. Facebook’s API doesn’t currently allow for this.

Support

Submit any problems, questions, suggestions, or compliments on the Facebook Discussion Board.  Become a fan of the Fotobook Application to be notified when updates are available.

Change History

2008.04.29 - v3.0.6

• Fixed fatal error on activation with some setups.

2008.04.12 - v3.0.5

• Modified feature for inserting photos into posts to work with WP 2.5’s new media library.
• Really fixed fatal error bug when upgrading to version 3.
• Photo gallery can now be a sub-page.
• Improved error reporting.
• Cleaned up the code.

2008.04.06 - v3.0.3

• Disabled Wordbook actions when adding and deleting album pages to prevent Wordbook from re-instantiating the Facebook API class.
• Fixed fatal ‘Session key invalid or no longer valid’ error when upgrading to version 3.

2008.03.20 - v3.0.2

• Updated to the latest versions of the PHP4 & 5 Facebook API clients. Huge speed boost for photo imports with PHP5.

2008.03.20 - v3.0.1

• Fixed bug where albums would be imported but it would still say “There are no albums.”
• Fixed issue with local scope of $table_prefix during plugin activation in WP2.5.

2008.03.15 - v3.0

• Added support for linking to multiple Facebook accounts
• Major improvements on the photos widget display.  Thumbnails are now squares for clean display.
• Photo widget links go to the actual photo.
• Added module in the post/page upload iframe for inserting individual photos.
• Ajaxified the management panel so that the user is more aware of what’s going on.  There is a progress bar while albums are being imported.
• Streamlined the way that the albums are requested from Facebook resulting in far fewer requests.
• Added “Embedded Width” option to fix overlapping problems with the embedded style on narrower themes.
• Added stylesheet editor to options panel.
• Removed the popup style because it’s kinda old school.
• Cleaned up the code a bit.

2007.09.03 - v2.1

• Photos from hidden albums are no longer shown in sidebars. And hidden albums are no longer accessible by their permalink.
• Hopefully fixed the escaped quotes problem.
• It detects changed albums/photos a little better now.
• Lightbox will go through all photos in an album, not just the current page.
• Fixed the fatal error if the isterLogger class is already present on the server.
• Sidebar thumbnails can be larger than 130px (uses full image instead of thumbnail).
• Added “Remove All” button in the manage page to get rid of all albums and photos and start over (some people have had problems with partial imports).

2007.07.10 - v2.0.1

• Fixed an array_slice backwards compatibility issue with pre PHP 5.0.2 servers

2007.07.09 - v2.0

• Revamped to work with Facebook’s API
• Multiple display styles are now supported
• Added widgets for displaying photos or albums in the sidebar
• Got rid of all the messy cURL and regex stuff.

For version 1 info click here.