Facebook Status on your WordPress Blog with StatusPress
August 29, 2007
I’ve become quite a fan of Facebook and I update my status messages fairly often. I wanted some way to incorporate updates like that onto my blog. But couldn’t think of an easy way. Of course, I could go back to using Twitter and use one of the many Twitter-to-WordPress plugins that exist, but I really wanted to just stick with Facebook. So I wasn’t sure how to go about doing it - as there aren’t any plugins available for putting your Facebook status on a WordPress blog.
But then I found sideRSS, created by Chris Hatcher. It pulls in RSS feeds into your sidebar. Now if only there was an RSS feed for your Status Updates on Facebook…actually, there is. Here is how to find it:
- Go to your Facebook Profile.
- Click on the Mini-Feed bar so you can see all of your recent activity.
- Click “See All” on the top right of that box.
- Under “View” on the right, you’ll see a long list of “Stories” - click on “Status Stories.”
- Underneath the list, you will now see “Subscribe to these Stories - My Status.”
- Right click on “My Status” and Choose “Copy Link Location.” The URL of that link is what you will need to insert in to the URL of the plugin.
Once I had my Status Update RSS and sideRSS, I hacked sideRSS around a little bit and came up with StatusPress - my own plugin that takes your Facebook status updates and puts them onto your WordPress blog. Download it below and have fun. WordPress.com users check out this tutorial to add your Facebook status to your WordPress.com blog.
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UPDATE
C. Scott Andreas has added in the Timestamp to StatusPress (some of you asked about that) - so go and download his version here.
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 year old 
August 29th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
I thought I’d point out to you that might want to change your plugin’s name. Someone else recently developed a plugin that updates your Facebook mini-feed everytime you write a new entry on your WordPress blog. He called the plugin FacePress, but then the folks from Facebook requested he change the name of the plugin so as to keep the Facebook name uniquely separate. You have a pretty slick little plugin here; I just wanted to let you know that the Facebook folks might want you to change the plugin’s name.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Jim, thanks for the heads up. I’ve now changed the name from FacePress to StatusPress. I liked FacePress better, but…oh well.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Hi Adam
Thanks for the plugin. I’m not using it yet, but will just nip off and update my post about it to show the name change. :)
August 29th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Cool. I actually like that better because it’s a little more descriptive of what it does.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Jim
Do you know the name of the other plugin?
August 29th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Very nice, it is Dugg. Will you Digg out podcast, (search for The Nick and Josh Podcast).
Also, are you using twitter? tumblr?
August 29th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Yeah, it’s called WordBook. It’s another slick little WordPress/Facebook plugin.
And expect to see StatusPress in tomorrow’s plugin update on WLTC - and a sizable surge in traffic to your blog. :)
August 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Nicholas - I tried Twitter - but decided to stop. I am playing around with Tumblr - will post about it in the next few days. And your podcast is dugg as well.
August 29th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Stumbled too. :)
August 29th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Thanks Jim!
August 29th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Hey Adam, as I’ve said on Facebook, I love the plug-in. I will definitely be sending some money your way for it. One request I would have though, is, would it be possible to add the status time-stamp? As in “Joshua is… — Updated 4 seconds ago.”
August 29th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Josh - yah, I haven’t figured out how to do that. Since the plugin is just built to pull the RSS feed, I don’t know that there is a way to pull in the timestamp from Facebook. If anyone knows how to do that, they can totally take StatusPress and adapt it. Sorry man.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Adam, no worries at all. I knew that it was complicated. Thanks for what you’ve done to this point.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Thanks for the digging, I have played a little with the tumbler
nicholasfiedler.tumblr.com
August 30th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
As a Mac user, you might want to check out MoodSwing/MoodBlast to update all presence tools simultaneously: iChat, Adium, Skype, Twitter, Jaiku Facebook, etc.
Check it out here: http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/download/moodswing/
August 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Hey Adam,
Thanks for whipping up this plug-in. It’s on my site at http://www.paradoxica.net.
I made a couple changes to it - hope you don’t mind. Each of the tags that StatusPress generates is now classed as “statuspress” to make styling a little easier. I’ve also removed the troubleshooting code that you added.
But more importantly, I added the “Last updated…” info that Josh asked about earlier :-).
Feel free to take my mod and roll it back into your own - download it here. I’ve commented my changes.
Cheers!
Scott
September 22nd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
This is sweet; I’m using it at dipdewdog.com!
September 25th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Great plugin!
One question: Can it be coded to mashup the result a little? Specifically can the first two words be lopped off the start and replaced with “I am”…?
Gramatically that should still fit anything that gets entered, it’s just in the context I’d like to use it on my blog, referring to myself in the 3rd person would sound a little odd.
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November 9th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
I’ve installed the script on my blog but I’m having problems limiting the number of status’ its displaying!
How should I be formating the NUMOFITEMS tag?
I’ve tried:
But that doesn’t work!
Thanks,
Ben
November 9th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Apologies - its stripped out all that code….
I tried NUMOFITEMS=3) and simply using 3, but neither worked.
Thanks,
Ben
November 18th, 2007 at 3:12 am
I created a similar function, but it works w/o using Wordpress and also gives you a bit more customization. You can download it here:
http://www.blakebrannon.com/2007/11/18/stats2site-add-facebook-status-to-your-website/
November 27th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Hi! When I try to install this plugin, I get the following error: “statuspress Error: Something bad happened! Try again later.”
Do you have an idea of what might be causing this? Cheers!
November 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Hi Adam,
A follow-up to my own query, to hopefully help you if anyone else gets this issue:
“statuspress Error: Something bad happened! Try again later.”
My host (and therefore some others, probably) have a feed ‘whitelist” - if you want a feed on your site you need to request an addition to this list. I requested Facebook.com and it all works now.
Cheers,
Tracey
December 13th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Great plugin! Very clean and snazzy.
One minor glitch I found, though: Currently, it puts a tag at the end of each item, but doesn’t put an opening <li> anywhere. This can easily be fixed by adding the code
$disp .= "<li>";at the start of theforeachloop. Most browsers are able to figure it out, but adding that line makes the output XHTML-valid.March 5th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Hey!
There’s a fundamental error in your code.
60 * 60 * 24 = 86400, NOT 84600! =)
March 10th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Have you got this to work for WordpressMU, WPMU?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:04 am
Any chance you will widgetize this?
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 am
Laura - sorry - no plans to widgetize this.