For anyone who’s game, and especially for anyone who’s been having problems with the FriendFeed Comments plugin, I’ve just checked in a new beta release that you can download. It’s not available through the WordPress auto-updater yet because it’s not been tested sufficiently. So if you’d like to help out you can grab it here: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/friendfeed-comments.1.6.0beta.zip
There aren’t any major visible changes. There’s a couple of tidy up changes eg. I removed some inline styles that I should have moved into the default stylesheet, but the major changes are behind the scenes. Some people were having issues with the plugin not retrieving the information correctly and it seemed to be an issue for people with a large number of posts & comments. So this new version now stores the data in a custom table on your WordPress database. This should make things much more efficient and hopefully less error-prone.
If you do install the new update you must deactivate & re-activate the plugin, then go to the settings page & click ‘Save Changes’ before it will work. If you don’t the table won’t be created and it won’t work.
If you can help out with the beta testing it would be much appreciated.
Great stuff. Really strange thing for me: it didn’t work until I ran the debug option in the admin screen (well maybe it was just saving the options there again). Appearing now where it wasn’t before…mostly and with thx
D’oh good point, I’ve updated the instructions above. You do need to click save before it will reload (or you have to wait until the normal refresh happens (once every hour)
Cool. The plug in is finally working on my blog (http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress). However, the FF section doesn’t show up on Safari (I’m on a Mac). It does on Firefox, though. Any suggestions?
Odd. Does is show up in the page source or not display at all? I don’t have access to a mac so I really can’t test that unfortunately.
Never mind. I just cleared the Safari cache, it’s working. Thanks for writing a great plugin!
Working beautifully on http://leoville.com/blog – thanks a bunch. I was really resenting the idea of FriendFeed stealing comments from my blog!
Really good job. Fits right in with a little bit of stylesheet modification.
This is my first run w/ the plugin. Installed added the tag to the single post template and I can see the stylesheet stuff in the header. No display on the posts though. Debug looks like it’s correctly pulling the data from ff. Any suggestions?
can you send me the debug information that it outputs please? gdalziel at gmail dot com