Facebook Status Widget for Wordpress
Recently I’ve been using Facebook more and more and I thought; hey, it would be cool if you could feed your Facebook status into your blog. I was using Twitter to log my random thoughts and actions which were then aggregated on my blog’s sidebar but it would be a lot easier if I could do it through Facebook since I’m on there more often. A one stop shop of sorts. So after some searching I came across the Status Press plugin by Adam Walker Cleaveland. It worked great but had some room for improvement, mainly ease of usage. Then after more searching I found that Brian D. Goad took the plugin and widgetized it, dude so much easier (still mad props to Adam for his ingenuity). Here’s what you do:
- Download the Status Press Widget.
- Log in to Facebook and go to this url: http://www.new.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11
- Scroll down and find the “My Status” link, right click and copy it’s location. This is your Facebook status RSS feed.
- Then just paste that feed into the “Status URL Feed” field of the widget setup.
Works like a charm.
There are some instructions floating around on how to find your status feed which involve locating the mini feed in your Facebook profile, but it seems with the arrival of the “new” Facebook those instructions no longer work. The link above, however, does still work so you can easily get it there.
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I see this is posted the same exact day I was thinking the same exact thing for the same exact reason!
Thanks for sharing! I’ve felt it unfortunate that the rest of the world who isn’t on Facebook is unable to see my witty and clever status updates.
What a coincidence! I know what you mean. Witty status updates are prime. Glad I could point you in the right direction.
Glad my integration of the Status Press plugin to a widget has been helpful to you all!
Ive been looking for this for a wile, i hope it works. thank you.
Arron Davies