FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin
Author: Glenn Slaven27 Mar
Well, FriendFeed released their API yesterday, along with pre-written php & python libraries. It’s a really good API, got access to all the data you see on the site. So I’ve written up a WordPress plugin that will pull back comments from FriendFeed & show them on your site. This plugin will allow you to display on your own site the comments that people make on FriendFeed about your post.
I keep trying to think of a more succinct way of writing that but I can’t. I always sounds more confusing than it is. See the plugin page for more details, this is an early beta I can’t stress that enough. It will have bugs, it may very well break.
Anyone who is willing to help beta test would be very welcome, you can download the zip file here. Unzip that into your plugins folder & activate it. You’ll then need to go into the options (or settings if you’re running WP2.5) and click on FriendFeed. Put your FriendFeed nickname in & save. You’ll then need to drop the new template tag <?php wp_ffcomments(); ?> on to your single post template somewhere inside ‘the loop’. I put mine just above the <?php comments_template(); ?> call.
Much thanks to Corvida for being my first guinea pig tester. It seems to be working on her site, and she gets a lot of comments!
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giving it a tryout on WinExtra
Getting
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of method_exists(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. in /home/.cambridge/braytek/bwana.org/wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-comments/friendfeed-comments.php on line 35
in wordpress 2.3.3. I believe I’m using PHP 5.x.
Keep up the good work!
That’s a new one! Unfortunately my host is still running in PHP4, so I
can’t debug PHP5, but I’ve updated the plugin in the zip file, so if you
download it again it *should* have that problem fixed.
I’ve really got to get my linux box setup locally again
Very cool! Working great, but you’ll want to change your README – you have the tag as wp_friendfeed() instead of wp_ffcomments();
I installed the newest one and it got rid of the error, but now nothing shows in the loop. I have mine right above the comments_template call as well. I supplied the username “bwana” in the configuration and left the feed name “blog”. I tried changing the feed name just for kicks and it didn’t do anything. Any ideas?
Ah, thanks Diane, I’ve updated that now.
I installed the latest latest and i actually commented on my blog post and it works. It probably was working all along :}
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As I was reading, I was wondering to myself how this might interact with disqus, since those also go into FriendFeed. And here it is, Disqus.
Now I realize that it’s just the comments on the blog posts that are made in FF that are integrated here. cool. I’ll drop this in my blog and see how it goes.
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what do you think so far, jangro?
I had to move my blog over to another one of my servers that had PHP 5 on it to get it working, but it works. I don’t get any comments on Friend Feed (yet) so it’s a big noop at this point.
If I was Scoble, i’d love it. (well, what doesn’t he love, besides the kindle?)
gotcha… i’ve gotten a few comments, but not enough to need it just yet. can’t wait to see what all people are going to do with the API, though. it’s a good start!
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Very cool idea. However, I tried to install and ran into problems. Only about half of my FF comments are showing up. Any ideas why?
Thanks
Different point of view from that post. Interesting to say the least.
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Good read. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.
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giving it a tryout on WinExtra, thanks for sharing
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