Evan Sims

The FriendFeed Activity Widget is a simple WordPress widget plugin that pulls your FriendFeed stream, pretties it up a bit and shares it with visitors to your blog. It’s essentially a lifestream plugin that requires just a few steps to set up.

Give it a look.

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• Erika Jurney
  plainjanemom.com
  June 16, 2008 at 2:03 pm
  

  

  Excellent — I can't wait. That will make it perfect for what I'm doing. Thanks!

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 1:58 pm
  

  

  Hi Erika, and thanks! That's definitely on my to do list, and I'm going to try and have it implemented in v1.2 in a couple weeks.

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 1:48 pm
  

  

  Thanks, Kevin!

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• Erika Jurney
  plainjanemom.com
  June 16, 2008 at 12:58 pm
  

  

  Hey Evan, I love it! Any hope of including the 'comments' from a link added via the friendfeed bookmarklet?

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• Kevin Lim
  theory.isthereason.com
  June 16, 2008 at 12:06 pm
  

  

  Holy Macaroons Evan, that was FAST! Not only did it fix my mesmerizing favico problem, it also re-positioned it correctly unlike in version 1 where it bled off the edge! Bravo, I'm tellin' twitter!

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 11:52 am
  

  

  FYI everyone, I just committed v1.1.1 which should fix the problems you were having with the CSS path. It'll appear on the WordPress site here in a few minutes. Grab the latest version from the Download link on this page, or upgrade from your WordPress dashboard. Thanks!

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 11:50 am
  

  

  Haha, sorry about that. It appears WordPress' Extend distributed the archive oddly. Just pushed v1.1.1 which should fix that for you. ;)

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• Kevin Lim
  theory.isthereason.com
  June 16, 2008 at 11:28 am
  

  

  Evan, this is funny… I upgraded to the latest version of your FriendFeed Activity widget and it spewed out something rather creative (see right sidebar): http://www.flickr.com/photos/inju/2583765141/

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 10:15 am
  

  

  haha- thanks!

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 10:14 am
  

  

  Hi Eric, glad you figured it out. Like I mentioned to Jan, the problem with the folder name is sadly an issue with the way the WordPress Extend distributes archives. I'll try and get this resolved in a hotfix release in the coming days. Thanks!

  Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 10:11 am
  

  

  Thanks!

  This is unfortunately a problem with the way the WordPress Extend site archives and distributes things. I'll try and find a workaround in the next release that allows for the plugin to be hosted in directories other than /friendfeed-activity/ though.

  Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 10:10 am
  

  

  Hi! Yeah, the icons appear that way because you have installed the plugin to a directory other than /friendfeed-activity/. I have not had time to look at the timezone issue as of yet.

  Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)

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• Éric Senterre
  senterre.com
  June 16, 2008 at 9:44 am
  

  

  Ok forget my last comment, looks like the rename of the directory and a Hard Refresh works fine. But to be more standard with other widgets, you should probably rename directly the folder name in the ZIP file with the correct folder name. Oy maybe I'm missing a thing… Anyway, real nice widget! :-)

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• Éric Senterre
  senterre.com
  June 16, 2008 at 9:26 am
  

  

  Hi, I installed your widget which look awesome on your blog. But when I try to install it on mine, there's a problem with the CSS. The code on the page looks for the CSS in [...]/friendfeed-activity/widget.css while the zip archive use the diretcory name /friendfeed-activity-widget/

  So I tried to simply rename the directory, but it still doesn't work well on my blog. I'll investigate a bit more, but if you can look into that it'll be nice.

  My widget looks like that on my blog : http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=friend...

  Thanks! :-)

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• Jan
  blogadresse.de
  June 16, 2008 at 6:49 am
  

  

  Nice plugin! Thanks for the work.

  PS: You should fix a minor bug. The folder decompressed from the zip is named: “friendfeed-activity-widget”
  The CSS link in the header links to “/friendfeed-activity/”

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• wolkanca
  wolkanca.com
  June 16, 2008 at 2:38 am
  

  

  nice plugin. thanks.

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• [BLT]FQX
  zhongguotese.net
  June 16, 2008 at 2:11 am
  

  

  Icon is messed up in 1.1, maybe you had a typo.
  Timezone issue is not solved

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  June 16, 2008 at 1:32 am
  

  

  FYI: All past comments have been cleared out to make way for v1.1 discussions.

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• Evan
  evansims.com
  April 9, 2008 at 7:31 pm
  

  

  Hi Nathan, it sounds like it might be some kind of incompatibility with another plugin you have installed. Could you email me (link in the footer) with a list of plugins you’ve got installed so I can troubleshoot? Thanks for the report!

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• Nathan Chase
  nathanchase.com
  April 9, 2008 at 3:20 pm
  

  

  I tried installing the FriendFeed Activity Widget, but as soon as I activate it, the site returns blank pages, even in the Admin Dashboard. The only way I can get it back is to deactivate the plugin in SQL. I’m using WP 2.5, and K2 Theme. Help!

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