SixJumps developed a plugin for Wordpress that allows direct integration of blogs developed with Wordpress and facebook using Facebook Connect. A first test you can see in this blog. This is an easy and quick way to generate a user community around our personal brand/blog integrating the powerful tools and functionalities facebook is offering today.

This plugin allows:

1. Access the blog (login) with your Facebook credentials where facebook validates the username without asking for the password necessary to access the blog/website.

2. The user does not need to register in the blog because thanks to the plugin the user can utilize his complete profile information he already edited in Facebook. This is tremendously useful as the user does not have to register and create profiles over and over again! The blog can now utilize the shared user profile information for customization and statistics in our Wordpress Blog. The plugin creates a Wordpress Blog user with the exact same facebook profile information which then could be edited by the user if he likes so.

3. It is possible to obtain your friends/contacts from facebook and to generate invitations to join our Blog/Site. One way of promoting the site using the so powerful and marvellous word-of-mouth.

4. You additionally can access to a list of existing members of the blog/site.

5. The users activity in the blog/site such as posts can be sent to Facebooks mini-feed of the users profile and is then visible in facebook in his lifestream.

6. You can show your last visits to the blog including the users photo that have accessed the page.

There are rumours that facebook itself is working on a similar plugin for Wordpress with the objective to extend the use of Facebook Connect and make it finally a success between the huge blogger community out there on the Internet. Others have already started with their own developments such as sixjumps did.

Tags: customization, facebook, facebook connect, profiles, statistics, wordpress blog, wordpress plugin