How Do I Add FriendFeed Comments to My Blog

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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  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    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

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    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

  • http://blog.webmaster-homepage.de Thomas Fruetel

    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.

  • http://blog.webmaster-homepage.de Thomas Fruetel

    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.

  • http://benparr.com Benjamin Parr

    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).

  • http://benparr.com Benjamin Parr

    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).

  • http://adamhcohen.com adamcohen

    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

  • http://adamcohen.typepad.com Adam Cohen

    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

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    here’s the snippet from my single.php:

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    here’s the snippet from my single.php:

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

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

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    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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  • http://www.louisgray.com/live/ Louis Gray

    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

  • http://www.louisgray.com/live/ Louis Gray

    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

  • http://chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    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?

  • http://chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    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?

  • http://www.hownottowrite.com Jamie Grove – How Not To Write

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

  • http://www.hownottowrite.com Jamie Grove – How Not To Write

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

  • http://philbaumann.com Phil

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

    /* FF Comments */

  • http://philbaumann.com Phil

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

    /* FF Comments */

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    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.

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    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.

  • balebond

    Will that FriendFeed plugin work if your also using Disqus?

  • balebond

    Will that FriendFeed plugin work if your also using Disqus?

  • http://www.nielsbom.com Niels Bom

    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

  • http://www.nielsbom.com Niels Bom

    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

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    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.

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    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.

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    testing something… please ignore:
    test test
    test

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    testing something… please ignore:
    test test
    test

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    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(); ?<

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    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(); ?<

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    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

  • http://www.scribkin.com J. Phil

    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

  • http://www.jacobburke.com Jacob Burke

    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

  • http://www.jacobburke.com Jacob Burke

    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

  • http://chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    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. : )

  • http://chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    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. : )

  • http://blog.slaven.net.au/ Glenn Slaven

    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

  • http://blog.slaven.net.au/ Glenn Slaven

    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

  • http://blog.slaven.net.au/ Glenn Slaven

    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

  • http://blog.slaven.net.au/ Glenn Slaven

    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

  • http://chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    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.

  • http://chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    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.

  • http://chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    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!

  • http://chrisbrogan.com chrisbrogan

    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!

  • http://blog.slaven.net.au/ Glenn Slaven

    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

  • http://blog.slaven.net.au/ Glenn Slaven

    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

  • http://www.scribkin.com Phil Glockner

    *cheers*

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