FaceBook widget

[Otto]

For the simple commenting (with "share this post" capabilities after you leave a comment), I've been thinking about making a simple plugin to do it all in one step, more or less. You'd still need to create the app on FB, but a plugin could insert all the code and even create the xd_receiver file. Make it much simpler.

[Otto]

And here's the plugin to do it:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...cebook-connect

Basically this plugin does all the grunt work that I was discussing before for you.

Simple modular design, to allow for all sorts of add-ons to it. I've got two right now, one to add a share button, and one to add comments. Adding widgets to display, say, status would be quite simple.

Just added a User Status widget to it as well. :)

[samh]

sorry to drag this one up again!

has anyone ever found a plugin that allows a WP blog to display a feed from a facebook fan page?

it's not my fan page - but it's the fan page of someone who would like to publish their updates and content to our wpmu network (in their own blog)

[andrea_r]

So they;re pulling in a feed to posts? Why not just use FeedWordPress?

[Otto]

Facebook doesn't export their streams as feeds easily.

It would be possible to write an SFC plugin that would do this using the Streams.get method. You'd need it to poll at intervals, using wp-cron probably, to import new entries.

[samh]

So they;re pulling in a feed to posts? Why not just use FeedWordPress?

That was my first thought to do - but as otto also mentions it's not unfortunately that easy!

Facebook doesn't export their streams as feeds easily.

It would be possible to write an SFC plugin that would do this using the Streams.get method. You'd need it to poll at intervals, using wp-cron probably, to import new entries.

I will ask the dev guys I work with to have a look at this option - we've played around with FB connect before, not done much modifying of it ourselves though.

I'll let you know how we get on - cheers!

[andrea_r]

I've been noticing on the very few times I'm forced to interact with Facebook, that is has been exceedingly hard to work with.

[Otto]

I take it back. Facebook does have feeds of page streams. They're just not obviously exposed.

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=116002660893 will give you a feed of my Application's wall, for example.

Just change the ID to the ID of the page you want to get as a feed.

Andrea: Facebook's actually not that difficult to use, it's just that there's a lot there and a lot of legacy behind it. Keeping up with the changes is the tricky part.

[andrea_r]

Otto: I'm an old fart. :D

Also, there's the questions of whether or not to friend my kids on FB. Some stuff I do not want to know. Can't unsee and all. ;P

(actually you probably knew this but just clarifying I meant working with their API)

[samh]

I take it back. Facebook does have feeds of page streams. They're just not obviously exposed.

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/page.php?id=116002660893 will give you a feed of my Application's wall, for example.

Just change the ID to the ID of the page you want to get as a feed.

Andrea: Facebook's actually not that difficult to use, it's just that there's a lot there and a lot of legacy behind it. Keeping up with the changes is the tricky part.

This is really weird - I manage to get to that point yesterday (using FF instead of Chrome made it obvious!) but the atom feed was just showing as blank

OK hopefully I'll have a blog up in the next few days that's pulling in the feed - thanks!