CB Connect Question

Hi everyone,
I have what I guess is a pretty stupid question, I have installed CB Connect, I looked in the CB Plugins List, and I noticed that besides CB Connect there is also CB Facebook Connect & CB Twitter, is this how it's supposed to be, because I was under the impression that CB Connect handles all the Social Media API's.

I noticed another thing on my Wamp/Localhost Server to get the Twitter Login to display I had to Publish the CB Twitter plugin, yet on my Live Server I didn't.

1 additional question could you give me quick & simple example or suggest a Tutiorial on how to implement a FB or Twitter App in a Users Profile.

Thx in advance Pete.

I thought that I would add a additional question, on my site I am using a different template for CB to better fit the CB Bootstrap template my problem is that if I put index.php?option=com_comprofiler as redirect & index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userDetails as first redirect when the page opens it is using my sites default template, however if I use the pages actual url it then uses the correct template, which is fine but I am trying to setup CB for use on multiple websites, is there a way I can make index.php?option=com_comprofiler use the non default template ?

thx in advance Pete.

I noticed that besides CB Connect there is also CB Facebook Connect & CB Twitter, is this how it's supposed to be, because I was under the impression that CB Connect handles all the Social Media API's.

Uninstall Facebook Connect and Twitter Connect as you don't need them CB Connect. You can have all 3 install at once safely though.

I noticed another thing on my Wamp/Localhost Server to get the Twitter Login to display I had to Publish the CB Twitter plugin, yet on my Live Server I didn't.

Your localhost probably doesn't have Twitter configured for CB Connect and is instead configured in CB Twitter. Just transfer your keys over from CB Twitter to CB Connect.

1 additional question could you give me quick & simple example or suggest a Tutiorial on how to implement a FB or Twitter App in a Users Profile.

You can't. You can add the social site widgets and plugins that the social sites provide, but you can't add an actual application from said sites. To add social plugins and widgets navigate to CB > Field Management and add a new field of the various social plugin and widget types.

I thought that I would add a additional question, on my site I am using a different template for CB to better fit the CB Bootstrap template my problem is that if I put index.php?option=com_comprofiler as redirect & index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userDetails as first redirect when the page opens it is using my sites default template, however if I use the pages actual url it then uses the correct template, which is fine but I am trying to setup CB for use on multiple websites, is there a way I can make index.php?option=com_comprofiler use the non default template ?

Your redirect is missing the Itemid. Joomla template assignment is entirely based off Itemid. You can find a menu links Itemid within Joomlas menu manager. Once found simply append to your URL (e.g. index.php?option=com_comprofiler&Itemid=123).

Thx krileon great support as usual,

I have another silly question, I have worked out most of how the Social Media Plugin works, it's a great plugin by the way, but I see in the Facebook Social Plugin there is a Metadata field, it mentions in particular about div_id, I was wondering if this adds a custom div id to the rendered output, which may allow me to customize the font color ie (Sign Up to see what your friends like.) which is impossible to see on a dark template like mine. I have searched the forum & the net but can't find out anything about it.

Could you please give me a quick heads-up if I'm on the right track and if so what code I should put in the metadata fields, other examples much appreciated also.

thx in advance Pete.

I was wondering if this adds a custom div id to the rendered output, which may allow me to customize the font color ie (Sign Up to see what your friends like.) which is impossible to see on a dark template like mine.

No, it adds Facebook header metadata. Facebook calls this "Open Graph". If you want to customize the colors you can either use a custom social plugin and supply the HTML for it your self or you can right click and inspect with Firebug for Firefox or Chrome and try to use CSS to style it.