Post to FriendFeed is a WordPress Plugin which will allow you to post excerpts from your blog posts as a message in FriendFeed with images. By default FriendFeed posts them without images and this Plugin overcomes this issue.
I created this Plugin after seeing a discussion at FriendFeed where Thomas Hawk was tossing around the idea of dropping his blog feed from his FriendFeed profile.
In addition to the Pluign, I have also created a simple online interface for people who don’t use WordPress.
Download
You can download the Plugin as a zip file. from the official WordPress Plugin repository.
Installation
Extract the zip file and just drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation and then activate the Plugin from Plugins page. You have to enter the FriendFeed nickname and API key in the settings page.
Also note that this Plugin needs FriendFeed API Core Plugin to be installed.
Translation
- Belorussian (Thanks FatCow)
The pot file is available with the Plugin. If you are willing to do translation for the Plugin, use the pot file to create the .po files for your language and let me know. I will add it to the Plugin after giving credit to you.
Feedback
If you have any comments or if you want to report any bugs, please leave a comment below or contact me.
Credits
Thanks to Thomas Hawk, FriendFeed and also for the people behind the FriendFeed API Library.
History
- 2008-08-03 – v0.1 – First version.
- 2008-08-03 – v0.2 – Fixed compatibility problem with FriendFeed Comments Plugin.
- 2008-08-03 – v0.3 – Removed smilies from the list of images.
- 2008-08-09 – v0.4 – Added option to specify the number of images to be posted.
- 2008-08-13 – v0.5 – Added support for Scheduled posts.
- 2008-10-12 – v0.6 – Added support for FriendFeed API Core Plugin
- 2009-05-16 – v0.7 – Added support for rooms
- 2009-06-11 – v0.8 – Added support for url shortening services
- 2009-08-10 – v0.9 – Fixed an issue in applying filters for images and excerpts.
- 2009-08-15 – v1.0 – Added support for internalization.
- 2009-10-18 – v1.0.1 – Added translation support for Belorussian (Thanks FatCow).
Great~~~It‘ll allow me more easily to be found,try it later~~~thanks
I’m getting the following error whenever I publish a post. I’m currently using Wordpress 2.7 and am hosted on MediaTemple.:
Fatal error: Class ‘SM_FriendFeed’ not found in /nfs/c01/h03/mnt/32603/domains/theosmblog.com/html/wp-content/plugins/post2ff/post2ff.php on line 32
@Jason,
I guess the Plugin is not yet compatiable with WordPress 2.7. I will have a look at it and will let you know.
Is it possibly to have the friendfeed message posts use a short url service like bit.ly or tr.im so I can track clicks per message?
@Jacob,
Right now it is not possible. But I am working on making the permalink pluggable, so that you can use any short url service, before it is posted to FriendFeed. Should be able to release it in a couple of days.
Hi,
I’m installed post2ff at my blog, obtained my key and nickname but my blog posts aren’t posting. Any tips?
Works great, thank you
This still isn’t working for me. I am running WordPress version 2.8.4, FriendFeed Api Core version 0.1, and Post to FriendFeed version 1.0. My post shows up in FriendFeed but there are is no photo and no comment. Any ideas how to fix this?
Can I have the url of your blog?
http://www.skylercall.com (or click on my name above)
hey dude.. great post..thanks
Great work! I’m putting this to use immediately. I’m looking forward to future versions!