Chad Coleman

Embed Facebook Fan Page Photo Albums In WordPress

It is a great idea to have a Facebook fan page for your company, club or organization.

This is a minor hack of the Fotobook plugin (Version 3.1.8) for WordPress by Aaron Harp. Fotobook is originally meant to apply your personal photo albums into WordPress, but we’re going to make one small code tweak to instead pull the albums from the fan page that we administer.

After installing the plugin, go ahead and activate it and grant the permissions to your Facebook account.

Next, visit your Facebook fan page, and click into an album so you’re viewing all photos in one particular album. In the address bar you’ll see a &id=123123123. Copy that ID number.

In the plugin directory open the fotobook.php file and head down to line 243 and look for this code.

$uid = $session['uid'];

Swap that code for this

//$uid = $session['uid'];
$uid = 123123123;

With the 123123123 being the ID code for your fan page.

If you have a custom URL set for your fan page you might notice that the album photos are not showing. To correct that move down around line 809 in fotobook.php and look for:

if(!is_numeric($id)) return false;

And code it out of use by adding // in front so that it now looks like

//if(!is_numeric($id)) return false;

Back in the plugin administration page, go ahead and import your albums. And you should be good to go!

With a thanks to B. Thibault in the forums at the Fotobook Application Page.

Motorcycle Website Design

This local motorcycle chop shop was in need of a website that could not only catalog their products, but a design that would be representative of the company’s long standing and professional reputation. I drew on industrial settings for inspiration, while placing a major spotlight on the company brand. To make up for the over-sized branding, I implemented some AJAX jQuery calls to slide specific page content in which also adds an interactive or “Web 2.0″ look and feel.

This site and catalog is powered by a Content Management System, which allows for the client to log in and add new bikes and parts as well as update product information at any time from any computer.

This web project was created by FT11 Business Systems.

The Mercy of God

From the standpoint of the redeemed, the punishment of the wicked is an act of unspeakable mercy. How dreadful would it be if the present order of things should continue forever, when the children of God are obliged to live in the midst of the children of the Devil. Heaven would at once cease to be Heaven if the ears of the saints still heard the blasphemous, filthy language of the reprobate. What a mercy that in the New Jerusalem “there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination” (Rev 21:27) ~ A.W. Pink 1886 – 1952

Gourmet Candy Shoppe Website

This classic gourmet candy shoppe had it’s humble beginnings in Spokane, Washington at the turn of the century. They were in need of an up-to-date look of their website in order to compete with the big name competition. With a professional product photo bundle and a polished new website design they were able to give their online branding a complete makeover. We expect big things for the company’s future online sales. I was responsible for designing, coding and implementing the new design into their current shopping cart software.

This web project was created by FT11 Business Systems.