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How Do I Add FriendFeed Comments to My Blog

June 28, 2008

Hey, smarter people: how do I add a FriendFeed comments module under my blog comments? I want to see all these great comments. Just found these several days later:

FriendFeed

Man, so many great people saying great things, and I didn’t engage at all. : (

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Comment by J. Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 9:27 am

You can use Glenn Slaven’s excellent FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin.

You can see an example on any post on my site, http://www.scribkin.com

Comment by Thomas Fruetel on June 28, 2008 @ 9:31 am

Since you are using wordpress, you should try the Friend Feed Comments Plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/friendfeed-comments/

Just implemented that on my own blog today, seems to work nicely.

Comment by Benjamin Parr on June 28, 2008 @ 9:46 am

As Thomas and J. Phil stated, Slaven made the incredible plug-in. Two things to note - It takes a little time for comments to appear and if you change the title of your post, you will need to manually link your FriendFeed comments to the blog post (it’s really easy actually).

Comment by Adam Cohen on June 28, 2008 @ 9:57 am

Hi Chris - Louis Gray wrote about this a couple of weeks ago, with instructions on the same mentioned here for WP, but also a method for blogger. I’m interested in one for Typepad if anyone finds one. Thanks!

http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/friendfeed-friday-tips-5-bringing.html

Comment by J. Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 10:01 am

here’s the snippet from my single.php:

Comment by J. Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 10:03 am

Err.. so much for that attempt. Apparently the code tag did not work. I sent it to you in a tweet, however.

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Comment by Louis Gray on June 28, 2008 @ 12:51 pm

Chris, others above made the comments around WordPress. There are great solutions for WordPress and Blogger. I covered this a few weeks ago:

FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/friendfeed-friday-tips-5-bringing.html

Comment by chrisbrogan on June 28, 2008 @ 1:26 pm

Still stuck. I’ve got the plugin activated. I’m using my nickname. I’ve got the blog called out as “Blog,” which is how the service is listed. on my singlepost.php, I’ve got it here(note: I used . so this will show up):

.!–include comments template–.
.?php wp_ffcomments(); ?.
.?php comments_template(); ?.

Is that right?

Comment by Jamie Grove - How Not To Write on June 28, 2008 @ 1:37 pm

@Chris did you make sure to put the wp_ffcomments inside the post loop?

Comment by Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 2:02 pm

This is a paste of what’s on mine. do you have all the elements (parens, etc)?

/* FF Comments */

Comment by J. Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 2:14 pm

Chris — it most likely is correct. Keep in mind that the FF comments plugin won’t appear unless it can find the relevant article in FriendFeed to attach to.

Try this: Edit a post that you know has some friendfeed comments on it, and scroll down below the post text. You should have a new field called “FriendFeed Comments Post”.. make sure the correct article is listed in the pull-down men, or click “refresh list” to have it grab your blog entries from friendfeed.

If it isn’t listing any blog entries, you will have to go to the plugin configuration page and make sure your friendfeed name and access code are typed in correctly.

Comment by balebond on June 28, 2008 @ 2:22 pm

Will that FriendFeed plugin work if your also using Disqus?

Comment by Niels Bom on June 28, 2008 @ 2:43 pm

Hello Chris,

Maybe conversing via IM is a good idea. I know PHP.

AIM:
You’re cbrogandotcom, I use my emailaddress.

And I prefer Gtalk, if that’s possible for you.

With kind regards,
Niels Bom

Comment by J. Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 10:29 pm

balebond - yes. My blog is evidence of this.
Chris - agreed with Niels, I’m not the plugin author, but if you like feel free to email me and I’ll be happy to help you.

Comment by J. Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 10:32 pm

testing something… please ignore:
test test
test

Comment by J. Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 10:37 pm

Ok, Chris, suggestion:

In your single page template, make sure there is a greater-than (>) before ?php on both lines:

>php wp_ffcomments(); ?<
>php comments_template(); ?<

Comment by J. Phil on June 28, 2008 @ 10:38 pm

well, ok, close. Sorry, I’m not used to putting code in the wordpress comment box.

try this:
<php wp_ffcomments(); ?>
<php comments_template(); ?>

Email me if you have any more problems.. phil@scribkin.com

Comment by Jacob Burke on June 29, 2008 @ 3:39 am

Chris, I have been using this plugin for a while now. Glenn Slaven is the author and he was very helpful in assisting me with getting this setup on my blog (I was having issues with lightbox). You can find Glenn on Twitter @dalziel

I am happy to help you out if you are having issues.

Cheers,
Jake

Comment by chrisbrogan on June 29, 2008 @ 8:01 am

Thanks, guys. Yeah, so far, I’ve done what everyone’s said. Now I just have to figure out why it’s not working. I’ll ping Glenn. : )

Comment by Glenn Slaven on June 29, 2008 @ 8:21 am

Hi Chris

There may be an issue with your site being at http://www.chrisbrogan.com and on FriendFeed it being listed as chrisbrogan.com (ie sans ‘www’). Another person was having a problem like this. I think if you add the www to the url on friendfeed & then go into the settings of the plugin & click ‘reset comments/likes’ if *should* work.

If it doesn’t tick the ‘Display debug information’ box and then click the reset button again. This will dump a whole lot of text to the screen. If you email that to me (gdalziel at gmail) I should be able to see what’s going on

cheers
Glenn

PS Thanks to everyone else here for the helpful suggestions, the community around FriendFeed never ceases to amaze me

Comment by Glenn Slaven on June 29, 2008 @ 8:46 am

Actually Chris, I’ve just checked in a test release that should fix this if the ‘www’ thing is the problem : http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/friendfeed-comments.zip This will now consider http://www.foo.com/ & http://foo.com/ to be the same domain.

Please let me know how this goes with fixing the problem

cheers

Comment by chrisbrogan on June 29, 2008 @ 8:47 am

How cool is that? Glenn just drops by to help out! That’s so damned cool. I wish ALL life was like this.

Thanks, Glenn. I’ll go take a look-see.

Comment by chrisbrogan on June 29, 2008 @ 8:52 am

It worked! It worked! Um.. Wait.. What if I want my blog’s comments to show up first, and then FriendFeed? Where do I stick it for that?

Neato!

Comment by Glenn Slaven on June 29, 2008 @ 8:55 am

WooHoo! Great to see. To swap them around you just need to put the wp_ffcomments(); tag after the comments_template(); tag on your template

Comment by J. Phil on June 29, 2008 @ 11:10 am

*cheers*

Comment by paisano on June 30, 2008 @ 10:25 am

I love this example of how the online community can help one another! Fantastic. Wish there was a service that did this type of thing for all kinds of issues in real-time.
Click keyword with a problem or to help others and jump into the stream. Nice.

What about us wordpress.com bloggers? Can we do something like this too? Tired of all the restrictions from this version of wordpress. Need to get a domain and host my blog myself. I know!

Comment by Niels Bom on June 30, 2008 @ 10:46 am

Yeah, cool indeed, although I think it helps that Chris is somewhat of an e-lebrity.

Check out http://www.crossloop.com/, looks like a great product for that although I haven’t used it yet.

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Can we do something like this too? Tired of all the restrictions from this version of wordpress. Need to get a domain and host my blog myself.

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  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm J. Phil
    Commented on the blog.
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Moksh Juneja
    interesting post!! :-) ...
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm J. Phil
    Good luck!
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Daltonsbriefs
    I appreciated the post, and used the thought in a post on engagement being much tougher to handle with all these new tools http://twurl.nl/expho0
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Chris Brogan
    I'm almost there, but still nothing showing up. Will it be for "going forward" posts?
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Louis Gray
    Solutions for both WordPress and Blogger are listed here: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/friendfeed-friday-tips-5-bringing.html
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Louis Gray
    Chris, the Blogger versions grabs your last 90 entries. I assume WordPress is very much the same. Just wait a little for it to populate.
  • December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Aldon Hynes
    When I set up something like this in Drupal there was about an hour lag between the comment in FriendFeed and showing up on my site. Prorogation delay for RSS feeds, or something like that.

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