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Re: New release for the FriendFeed Comments WordPress plugin - remembering your details

adapar — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:19:24 -0000

This looks great! I am in the middle of a redesign and I was looking for something like this... I will test it this weekend and let you know how it goes. Thanks!

Re: New release for the FriendFeed Comments WordPress plugin - remembering your details

Scobleizer — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:24:23 -0000

I can't wait to use this on my wordpress.com blog. Thanks!

Re: The UpdatePanel is evil

Janko — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:27:31 -0000

Very good point. However, I have to disagree that UpdatePanel is evil. It just have to be used carefully, like you mentioned. The tool that can really help you with ASP.NET Ajax is Web Development Helper. It really rocks! Check the description here http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/post/2008/04/21...

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

eng1ne — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:13:00 -0000

I like this plugin so much I added it to the big loop in WP.. I <3 FriendFeed stats!

Re: The UpdatePanel is evil

Paul Houle — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:54:54 -0000

I've recently started working in C# and ASP.NET after years of using PHP, Perl, Java and Python on mostly UNIX platforms.

Honestly, I like ASP.NET a lot. The basic templating system, that lets you manipulate the ASP.NET document at the DOM level is fantastic.

The Web Controls, however, are retarded. They make ASP.NET seem like an advanced incarnation of 1990's web construction rather than the kind of modern framework application that good programmers are building in Ruby, PHP, Java and other languages -- it's like they're trying to compete with Cold Fusion, not the living languages that people are using now.

I 'd love to have something that works like Web Controls, but the viewstate concept just isn't compatible with the modern approach that people call MVC: real internet applications need the ability to display different 'views' based on form input and database results -- to carry information through a series of related forms. Viewstate is completely incompatible with that, not to mind the browser back button. Reliable applications keep ~most~ form state in hidden variables, or implement something that has the same semantics: there's a very limited amount of stuff that you can keep in session scope if you want to make apps that really work.

Perhaps Microsoft's MVC framework for ASP.NET will improve the situation, or perhaps somebody will make something that looks a lot like the web controls but that actually works.

Re: The UpdatePanel is evil

Wallace — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:51:18 -0000

I totally agree with you. They are great tools, but you should invest some time to understand how these tools work behind the scenes.

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

dalziel — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:27:02 -0000

that would be helpful, thanks - gdalziel at gmail dot com

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

colinwalker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:43:27 -0000

Thanks, I appreciate it. Do you want me to send the debug info?

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

dalziel — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:40:02 -0000

It's failing in matching the posts with their FF entries. I'll try a few
tests here & get back to you, sorry for the hassle

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

colinwalker — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:06:24 -0000

Thanks Glenn but still no dice I'm afraid. Checking the debug info it definitely pulls the info from FF for those posts but will still not display the DIV so is it an issue when it checks what it should be displaying rather than the check on FF?

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

dalziel — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:29:58 -0000

Hi Colin, there seems to be a problem with posts with single quote marks in the title. FF is representing them as a different character to what is on your blog, so the plugin isn't matching them. I've updated the development version of the plugin to try & fix this, you can get it here: http://svn.wp-plugins.org/friendfeed-comments/t... . Just replace friendfeed-comments.php file in the plugin folder with that, then go to the plugin's settings page & click the "Reset comments/likes" button to force it to reload the comments.

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

colinwalker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:01:00 -0000

Hi Glenn,

I've got this installed on a WP2.5 blog (http://colinwalker.me.uk) but for some reason it doesn't look like the template tag is being triggered on every post. Some of them have the FF section but others don't, even when there are likes and comments.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

pinksy — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:35:40 -0000

Thanks dalziel. I got it to work in the end, but I'm not sure how. Could the FF nickname be case sensitive? I originally had it as "Pinksy", but then changed it to "pinksy", and now it works.

Does it link on the URL of the post? I was just wondering what should happen if you wanted to test it locally. I'm running my site locally via xampp, but the plugin doesn't seem to find the post on FF when I do it that way, as if it links on the real URL.

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

dalziel — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:49:56 -0000

If you put the comment on the post after you setup the plugin you'll need to wait an hour. It polls FriendFeed every hour for new comments/likes. If you want it to update now, go back into the admin page & click save. That forces an update.

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

pinksy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:36:39 -0000

I've added it to my plugins, activated it, changed my FF nickname to Pinksy, kept the other thingy as "blog", and added <?php wp_ffcomments(); ?> inside the loop on my single.php template file, added a test comment (http://friendfeed.com/e/15c7da39-d9ed-33b5-2787...), but nothing comes up (http://www.pinksy.co.uk/index.php/2008/04/18/5h...). Am I doing something wrong?

Brilliant work though...

Cheers

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

nathanrdotca — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:08:32 -0000

I don't know why it's not working for me, though.

Here's a post where a FriendFeed comment should show:
http://nathanr.ca/news/torontos-cn-tower-wows-v...

>:(

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

dalziel — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:20:19 -0000

1. Yes, this site is running 2.5
2. Yep, see this post for a post with a large number of comments: http://blog.slaven.net.au/archives/2008/03/27/f...
3. Not really. It won't interfere with it, as you can see on this site, but it doesn't integrate. I was thinking about doing that, with the disqus API, but I thought it would get really confusing because there would be 2 locations the comments would come from, and there would be con context for a comment

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

tonyhung — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:06:20 -0000

1. Does it work with WP2.5?
2. Do we have any examples yet?
3. Will it work with Disqus?

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

dalziel — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:04:35 -0000

That would be a bit more difficult, it would need to be done as a widget, but the actual content would have to be hosted somewhere else. A neat little javascript solution by the FF guys would be awesome here

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

louismg — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:01:44 -0000

How much do I need to pay to get a plug-in for Blogger as well? :-)

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

dalziel — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:00:02 -0000

Thanks Patrick, I've added that into the latest version, I've got a few
things to put but, so version 1.4 should be out in the next few days

Re: Keeping the conversation civil

dalziel — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:20:47 -0000

Hi Rob, thanks for your comment & suggestions. Both of those things are actually on my todo list, people have been asking for them :)

I've got a beta that's neally ready to go up, I'll post when it's good to go

Re: Keeping the conversation civil

Robert Felty — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:05:48 -0000

Glenn,

Thanks for a great plugin. I was thinking of writing one myself after I saw that friendfeed had an API, but you have saved me the trouble. I do have two immediate feature requests:
1. Make the text before the friendfeed comments start editable in the options
2. Add an option to show the friendfeed comments by default, instead of having to click on them

Thanks again.

Rob
p.s. Might I recommend my collapsing archives plugin for your impressively long archives listing?

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

Patrick Chanezon — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:04:29 -0000

Thanks for the plugin, very cool!
A patch for line 136: for differences when the blog has no path but a / declared in friendfeed (that was my case:-)

if (
($post->comments || $post->likes)
&& ($blog_url['host'] == $post_url['host'])
&& (
($blog_url['path'] == $post_url['path'])
|| (!$blog_url['path'] && ($post_url['path'] == '/'))
|| (!$post_url['path'] && ($blog_url['path'] == '/'))
)
)

Re: FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin

urbansheep — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:30:43 -0000

I sent debug data your way via contact form.

Just in case the letter doesn't get through, here goes part with my 0.02 about what might be going wrong:

I found out that when feed is requested, it contains no reference of posts from the blog in question — they have been pushed down by newer posts. After looking at the API, I dare to suppose that polling last 60 items might be not enough to keep up with some feeds (especially for users with twitter hyperactivity disorder). Other possible choices are using search (checking for title and then filtering results by link/domain name) or asking friendfeed to implement domain filter (so that we can request not just all "blog" service stuff, but rather "blog.slaven.net.au" stuff only).