Alex King’s Twitter Tools is a great little WordPress plugin for integrating your Twitter presence with your blog. It can show your latest tweets in a sidebar widget, create a “digest” post daily / weekly with a list of your tweets, and announce your blog posts to your twitter account.
In this post I’ll show you what changes are necessary to make it work with identi.ca instead of Twitter.
Why would you want to do that?
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UPDATE 2 (1-28-09): Seems that the WPBook plugin conflicts with the BadBehavior plugin – I’m looking into options to see if the conflict can be eliminated, but if your WPBook install is not working try disabling BadBehavior.
UPDATE (1-26-09): As noted in the comments below, there is a bug in the copy of the Facebook library included with the Sociable Facebook Connect plugin. If you’re using that plugin, you’ll need to patch their copy of the Facebook client library as follows.
Change line 170 of /wp-content/plugins/fbconnect/facebook-client/facebook.php from:
http_header('Location', $url);
To:
header('Location', $url);
This will eliminate the conflict between these two plugins.
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Today I’m releasing version 1.0 of WPBook, the WordPress plugin for embedding your blog in Facebook.
If you have earlier versions installed, you should see an auto-update notification on the plugins page of your WordPress dashboard. (Note that WordPress checks for updates only every 12 hours).
This version includes the following new features:
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Earlier this week, I was happy to have the chance for Optaros to host a BostonPHP meeting again – we used to do so in the old Canal St. offices but hadn’t done so in a while – certainly not since moving to Milk St.
The topic was MediaWiki in production, with presentations by Greg Rundlett of Harvard’s Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) and Daniel Barrett, who wrote the (O’Reilly) book on MediaWiki, and uses it in production at VistaPrint.
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I’ve just released version 0.9.7 of WPBook (a WordPress plugin to bring blog posts into Facebook and enable comments from Facebook users) here and at the WordPress site.
A few changes since 0.9.3, the last version I blogged about (the most recent version can always be found on this page or at the WordPress site):
Share Button. This version adds a Facebook style “Share this post” button next to each blog post in Facebook, which allows the user to send the posts to Facebook friends or post and individual blog entry to their profile.
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Updated for 0.9.3 (Jan 13 2009)
Updated for 0.9.2. (Jan 7 2009)
Updated for 0.9.1 (Jan 2 2009)
I’ve been working on an update to WPBook, the WordPress to Facebook plugin I co-developed.
I haven’t yet released this version on the WordPress plugin site, but I do think it’s stable enough for use – try it out and let me know what you think.
I’m using it here: http://apps.facebook.com/openparenthesis/.
This version allows an “add to profile” button inside the app, which presents the five most recent posts in a profile box – can be on the user’s main profile or inside the “boxes” tab.
It also enables – if the “application settings” inside Facebook are set – for the blog app to be added to FaceBook “pages.”
Download: WPBook 0.9.3
Open Parenthesis is a blog about free and open source software, next generation internet strategy, and the assembled web, written by John Eckman (me).
I'm a Sr. Director at Optaros, a professional services firm offering strategy, design, development, and consulting services to enterprises interested in leveraging free and open source software.
