FriendFeed Activity Widget Released

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FriendFeed Activity Widget Released

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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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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 25, 2008 at 9:58 pm

I have a fixed build running here on my blog, but I need to do a bit more testing before I push it to the WordPress servers. I've unfortunately been really busy with school this last week so I just haven't had a chance yet. I will hopefully have it ready for everyone early next week.

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Erik M Jacobs
erikjacobs.com
July 25, 2008 at 9:29 pm

ok well, it just doesn't work on my private server. Got it working on my public blog.
Is there a way to more easily control some things? Pandora album covers are HUGE!

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Daniel W.
istherefood.com
July 24, 2008 at 11:52 am

I had a bit of trouble getting this working in its non-widget-ized flavour. I tried the “friendfeed_activity()” call, but had the same problem as Garry above. Any news on that new version?
Sounds like a great plugin, looking forward to being able to use it.

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Philix
philix.co.uk
July 24, 2008 at 4:56 am

This is a great plug in :)

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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 19, 2008 at 3:57 pm

Hi Scott, and thanks for your comment. I'll fix the typo in the next version, and will consider adding a sex selector to the widget options. That said, “their” can be used in a singular context, though not everyone agrees. :)

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rsgranne
July 18, 2008 at 11:21 pm

For Amazon, you have “wishlis” instead of “wishlist”.

Also, you have “their”, which is plural; it'd be nice if we could indicate if we were a “he” or “she” or “they”.

Still, great plugin!

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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 17, 2008 at 4:56 pm

Hi Steve,

I haven't experienced any strange results from my Google Reader output; if you would, pop your cache file to me: hello at evansims. I'll try and track down the issue. Thanks!

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Steve Blamey
adbury.net
July 17, 2008 at 5:50 am

Strange links in the widget from a Google Reader shared item. I shared a blog post and get three links in the widget to a flickr photo in the post instead of a link to the article. Let me know if you'd like the XML.

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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 16, 2008 at 1:24 pm

This error occurs when either the FriendFeed API is down, or if you've misconfigured your username or remote key. Check your credentials, and if all is well there, give it a little while and the API should come back up.

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Anand
July 16, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Hi, it shows me the following message in the sidebar:

“Your feed could not be retrieved at this time. Try again later.”

Please let me know what I might be doing wrong.

Thanks

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journeyguy
journeyguy.com
July 14, 2008 at 11:37 am

Looking forward to the manual configuration! Thanks!

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Glenn Slaven
blog.slaven.net.au
July 14, 2008 at 1:18 am

Awesome

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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 14, 2008 at 1:11 am

Yo Glenn,

Your wish is my command. I'll have a “Hide Blog Events” option in the next build. Stay tuned.

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Glenn Slaven
blog.slaven.net.au
July 13, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Very awesome plugin, I just installed it. One question, would it be possible in the future to add an option to exclude certain services from the feed? (ie blog, I don't really need to show that on my blog :)

Great work

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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 13, 2008 at 10:26 am

Hi Garry,

Still working on it; will hopefully have a fixed build next week. Thanks!

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Garry Conn
garryconn.com
July 13, 2008 at 4:08 am

Hi Evan,

Awesome plugin any updates on manually adding the code for folks that don't like to use sidebar widgets. I added the proper friendfeed_activity() tag but in the sidebar it says: “Please configure your FriendFeed widget.”

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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 13, 2008 at 12:34 am

Hey John,

By default WordPress doesn't allow you to execute PHP within a page. The tag you're trying to use is meant to be ran from the template/themes files.

You can use a plugin like ExecPHP to do what you're trying, but I'm a bit weary of recommending that. Permitting arbitrary code execution in your WordPress output opens your blog up to potential hacks and exploits- though I imagine the risk is minimal. If you're willing to take the risk, that's an option. Otherwise, I'd stick with editing your theme files or just using the Widget.

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John
thedailyjoe.net
July 13, 2008 at 12:23 am

Any way to embed this into a page? I tried the call <? friendfeed_activity(); ?> in a page, as suggested above – but am not sure I missed something… can you offer some advice?

Site: http://thedailyjoe.net/?page_id=71
(I'm testing several plugins – yours in on page Social3!)

Thanks in advance for your help.
John

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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 10, 2008 at 10:41 am

Hi Thon,

I don't currently have an option in there to disable the Profile link, but I'll add that to the to-do list. Thanks.

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Evan Sims
evansims.com
July 10, 2008 at 10:40 am

Thanks Melle! This is a priority on my list, and I should have it ready in the next couple builds.

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