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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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  January 18, 2009 at 6:01 pm
  

  

  Hmm, very weird. Try loading it up in Safari and see if you get the same result.

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• Anthony Citrano
  cosmictap.com
  January 18, 2009 at 5:16 pm
  

  

  Hi Evan – I noticed the widget is wallpapering entries with the service icon. Is this new? Is it by design? I think it's hideously busy and would love a way to fix it. I noted that yours is doing the same… thanks.

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• Anthony Citrano
  cosmictap.com
  January 18, 2009 at 4:54 pm
  

  

  No, no firewall.. I mean, I'm behind my Airport Extreme router, as
  always, but … that can't be the issue…

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  January 18, 2009 at 4:45 pm
  

  

  Hmm, so odd. That happens when the widget's stylesheet fails to load
  for whatever reason… I'd normally say it's an installation problem
  with a setup, but since you're seeing it on mine I can only figure
  there is something stopping it from loading properly for you. Are you
  behind a firewall or anything?

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• Anthony Citrano
  cosmictap.com
  January 18, 2009 at 4:39 pm
  

  

  hmm … clearing my browser cache fixed it. like i said it wasn't just on my site, it was on any site using your widget…

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• Anthony Citrano
  cosmictap.com
  January 18, 2009 at 4:36 pm
  

  

  Firefox 3.0.5 on Mac.

  Screenshot here: http://www.citrano.com/pix/friendfeed-wallpaper...

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  January 18, 2009 at 4:28 pm
  

  

  What browser are you using, Anthony? I haven't seen that happen on any
  of the browsers I've tried.

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• Zane Selvans
  amateurearthling.org
  January 14, 2009 at 12:55 am
  

  

  Possibly this is related to the @replies problem listed above… On my blog (http://amateurearthling.org/) the tweets which begin with @username are not linking the @username to that user's twitter page, while @usernames which are embedded within the tweet are. Actually, this sounds like the opposite of what you're suggesting the situation is in the comments above. Which is weird. I'm running WP 2.7 on Debian (etch) with PHP 5.2.0.

  And thanks for the awesome plugin. Other than this minor issue, it works fabulously out of the box. I love it!

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• igorthetroll
  igorthetroll.com
  December 23, 2008 at 10:50 pm
  

  

  Hi Evan. Is there anyway to add the widget to my Home Page not my blog?

  http://www.igorthetroll.com

  I program PHP so I can probably figure it out, but do not want to waste time right now. If you have an easy hack let me know and I will grease monkey it.

  Thanks,
  Igor

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• SomePerson
  October 29, 2008 at 3:56 am
  

  

  Hi Evan,

  The “Wednesday 16:33″ issue is appearing because PHP is treating the time as a 0 value. Dates come in GMT format, like this: “2008-10-29T08:05:38Z” but not all PHP installs understand it. I just knocked out a quick fix for those that will be interested.

  Change the following line (it's around line 380 in /wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/widget.php):
  echo date($date_format, $event['published']);
  to:
  echo date($date_format, strtotime(preg_replace('/[^d:-]/', ' ', $event['published']))) . '
  ';

  If you want to account for your time zone, you could change that line to look like:
  echo date($date_format, strtotime(preg_replace('/[^d:-]/', ' ', $event['published'])) + (1 * 3600)) . '
  ';
  where the + (1 * 3600) is the offset. This example is +1hr GMT. If you wanted +12 you'd put ” + (12 * 3600) ” and for -4 GMT ” – (4 * 3600)”.

  The time zone setting is actually stored in the Wordpress database so it's really a quick hack of a fix until Evan finishes his “version 2″.

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• El Vista
  hmelius.com
  October 27, 2008 at 11:11 am
  

  

  you can do so without the plugin. Just use the feed for wordpress plugin to import the your feed. :)

  I am working on a friendfeed page template which displays all the activities in a separate page using the same core of the widget. It's pretty sweet too. Shouldn't take much more time to work the kinks out.

  Cheers ^^

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• James Dean
  time-synchronisation.co.uk
  October 17, 2008 at 2:10 pm
  

  

  Thankyou, this is exactly what i was looking for :)

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• Evan Sims
  evansims.com
  October 14, 2008 at 2:09 pm
  

  

  This problem occurs when you attempt to run the plugin in a PHP4 environment.

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