I am one of those procrastinators when it comes to integrating Facebook to my blog. Hopefully I have it installed and running here and I am going to share with you what I did.

First I took down all up links to other services in my WordPress setup. I had a link going to Ping.fm and that published my blog posts to a myriad of locations including Facebook. The problem with this was the poor visual on the Facebook page with a lack of information for the readers.

I took the opportunity while planning this to open a Facebook fan page. This is a good idea and will allow you to post things to a page where you don’t necessarily have all your personal stuff with your buddies. Mine is located at

and I have also made a http://facebook.thesleepygeek.com sub-domain that I can publish.

To integrate my blog posts with my new fan page and my main Facebook account I installed a Facebook app called NetworkedBlogs. This will take your blog posts and put them up on your Facebook page or Facebook fan page (both if you like).  So now Facebook through NetworkedBlogs is pulling the information from my site and they do a very good job of formatting the post.

Having the publication of the posts working was a great step but I also wanted some way for people to share my posts with their friends directly from the page. I installed the FaceBook Share (New) plugin. This puts the link on the each post allowing you as readers to share my post with your friends. This is a new plugin that works with the Facebook Share feature that Facebook built into their own system. Using the plugin simplifies the installation process… and I mean really simple.

I use a theme in WordPress called WicketPixie made by Chris Pirillo. The them has a lot of added features in it one of which is notifier that can link to ping.fm or twitter.com. I decided to stick with ping.fm still as they will update to a log of social media sites including Twitter. Easier to manage one account here than many. I made sure to remove my Facebook account from the ping.fm setup to avoid duplicate posts.

Now for a real test! I didn’t want to post garbage in here to see what would show up on Facebook, I would hate to see that in my RSS reader. After posting this I am going to see how everything looks. I have tested as much as I can without an actual post so this is the real deal.

Geek on!