StatusPress - Facebook Status on your Blog
August 30
Adam Walker Cleaveland (Pomomusings.com) wrote a simple WordPress plugin to display your Facebook status (or any of several other items) on your blog. It’s called StatusPress and is available here. There’s a tip jar, too - drop a buck thirty-five in if you dig it.
I’m a bit of a Facebook junkie, too - notice I’ve added it to the bottom of my header. However, I’ve also taken it a tiny bit further:
- The plugin now retrieves the date/time information from your Facebook status and shows how long it’s been since you’ve told the world what you’re up to.
- StatusPress’ tags are now classed as “statuspress” to allow easy styling via CSS.
Ideally, I’d like to turn it into a sidebar widget. That way, adding it to your site would be as simple as dragging and dropping it onto your sidebar in the Sidebar Widgets panel and setting the options - no editing your template or even seeing PHP code. It’d probably take about half an hour, but that’s a little more than I can handle right now.
If you like, you can download Adam’s plugin with my humble modifications here.
Enjoy!
August 30th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
dude - someone asked me to do that and i wasn’t sure where to get that info from facebook. and you did it.
great!
i think i’ll use your version now
August 30th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Haha, cool, go for it!
If you look at the XML source of the RSS feed, there’s a field called “pubdate” that shows when the status update was added.
I uploaded a new revision a few minutes ago - download it again if you don’t mind. Before, updates with singular day/time info would display as “1 days, 1 hours, 1 minutes ago.” Just fixed it so they’ll show up as “1 day, 1 hour, 1 minute.”
August 30th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
[…] UPDATE C. Scott Andreas has added in the Timestamp to StatusPress (some of you asked about that) - so go and download his version here. […]
August 31st, 2007 at 12:24 am
HI, I installed your plugin, that is sooo cool. I juts have a question, I see in your the title links to your facebook, on mine there is no link. How do I make it link?
Thanks
September 7th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
[…] the time stamp modified version of which I downloaded from a blogger and web designer called Scott Andreas. It’s really a very simple plug-in which takes the Facebook status RSS feed and inserts it […]
November 18th, 2007 at 2:16 am
I created a similar function that does not require Wordpress to use. It also allows for a bit more customization. You can download it here:
http://www.blakebrannon.com/2007/11/18/stats2site-add-facebook-status-to-your-website/
March 5th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Hey!
There’s a fundamental error in your code (from Adam Walker Cleveland actually.)
60 * 60 * 24 = 86400, NOT 84600! =)