Night Dreaming (by Sudar)

I have updated my Post to FriendFeed WordPress Plugin to v1.0

New Features

The following are the new features that I have added to the Plugin

Pluggable Filters

I have added the following filters to the Plugin which can be hooked by your own code.

• post2ff_blog_url – The link which will be posted to Friendfeed
• post2ff_blog_excerpt – The excerpt that will be posted as the first comment to Friendfeed
• post2ff_blog_images – The images that will be posted to Friendfeed

The following code example explains how you can use bit.ly (or any url shortening service) to shorten the link that will be posted to Friendfeed.

add_filter(‘post2ff_blog_url’,’your_plugin_short_url’);

function your_plugin_short_url($url) {
	$shorten_url = get_short_url($url);
	return $shorten_url;
}

You can place the above code either in your own Plugin or in the functions.php file of your theme. If you want to shorten the url using bit.ly then you can use the code from my other post.

You can use the similar technique to change the excerpt or images, which will be posted to Friendfeed.

Translation

I have added the ability to translate the Plugin. 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.

Update

You can download the latest version of the Plugin form its home page. It is an optional update and doesn’t change anything in the front-end.

Feedback

As usual, if you have any feedback, queries or questions, feel free and leave a comment.

I have updated my Post to FriendFeed WordPress Plugin to add support for rooms. Now you can choose, in which room the post should be posted.

Screenshot

Here is the screenshot of the new feature.

Dependency

Please note that this Plugin now requires my FriendFeed API Core Plugin to be installed to work. You can download my FriendFeed API Core Plugin from my Plugins page.

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 the Rob, Ken and to all others who commented in this FriendFeed discussion. It’s only your comments which made me to dust off the code and update it. 🙂

Yet another update to my Post2FF WordPress Plugin. Now the latest version (v0.5) supports scheduled posts too. You can download the latest version from my Plugin page.

Special thanks to Cmiper and Phill Price for reporting the bug. FriendFeed community really rocks! 🙂

Just a quick note to let you know that I have updated my Post2FF WordPress Plugin to v0.4, which I released last week.

Now there is a new option to specify the number of images that needs to be posted to FriendFeed. Earlier, it was taking all the images, but now you can control the number of images that needs to be posted by specifying it in the options page.

post2ff WordPress Plugin Options page

You can download the new version from the Plugin page. Don’t forget to reactivate the Plugin after uploading.

As always let me know if you have any feedback/issues.

Yesterday Thomas Hawk posted a message in FriendFeed saying that he is going to drop his blog from FriendFeed account and then going to manually share items, since FriendFeed posts blog posts without images.

There were lot of comments for that message and some felt that removing the blog from FriendFeed profile could result in identity loss.

I looked into FriendFeed API and found it to be very powerful and easy to use. So, using it I have created a WordPress Plugin, which will automatically post a message to your FriendFeed account with all the images in the post, every time you publish a new post in WordPress.

You can download the Plugin file from my Plugin page and then upload it to your wp-contents directory. Once activated, you have to enter your nickname and remote key in the settings page. You can get the remote key from FriendFeed API page.

Please note that currently it is only in the beta stage right now. I am planning to add more features to this Plugin, so if you have a nice feature in mind, let me know and I will try to implement it. Also let me know if you are facing any issues/bugs with the Plugin.