# FB Social Reader version 1.6.0.6 Transform your Wordpress into a social reading experience. With Social Reader, your readers automatically share articles on your site they read to Facebook, and can see what their friends read too. ## Setup 1. Download and install the plugin from the Wordpress plugins directory 2. Activate it 3. Follow the setup steps in the plugin admin section ## Implementation Social Reader uses a widget-based implementation, using JavaScript to request data from Facebook using their SDK, communicate with the server, and populate divs with the appropriate views. ### Libraries used 1. jQuery - set as a dependency within WordPress 2. Underscore.js - compiled within the minified file 3. Require.js - used to modularize and compile code 4. JSON2 - used to allow JSON.stringify and JSON.parse to run on older browsers 5. Facebook SDK - to communicate with Facebook ## Example usage ### Sidebar Can be added using a WordPress widget in Appearance > Widgets, or by adding the following code to the `sidebar.php` template: `

` Note that all the widget does is add this div. ### Friends who read this Can be added to post pages by visiting the widgets page within the plugin settings, and set to automatically be inserted before/after `the_content()`. Alternatively, the following code can be added to `single.php`: `

` ### Friends' activity This widget is automatically added after the opening `` tag by the plugin, and is opened when 'activity' is clicked on the sidebar widget. ## Changelog ### 1.6.0.6 Added fix so setup guide works again. ### 1.6.0.5 Removed support for asynchronous file loading, as it breaks W3 Total Cache ### 1.6.0.4 Now loading jQuery and JSON2 from a CDN, also fixed caching syntax errors which resulted in the widgets not loading ### 1.6.0.3 Fixed a bug where the /cache file didn't exist, breaking the plugin ### 1.6.0.2 Fixed bugs, sped up plugin significantly, now using global window._sr