The "Wednesday 16:33" issue is appearing because PHP is treating the time as a 0 value. Dates come in GMT format, like this: "2008-10-29T08:05:38Z" but not all PHP installs understand it. I just knocked out a quick fix for those that will be interested.
Change the following line (it's around line 380 in /wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/widget.php): echo date($date_format, $event['published']); to: echo date($date_format, strtotime(preg_replace('/[^\d:-]/', ' ', $event['published']))) . ' ';
If you want to account for your time zone, you could change that line to look like: echo date($date_format, strtotime(preg_replace('/[^\d:-]/', ' ', $event['published'])) + (1 * 3600)) . ' '; where the + (1 * 3600) is the offset. This example is +1hr GMT. If you wanted +12 you'd put " + (12 * 3600) " and for -4 GMT " - (4 * 3600)".
The time zone setting is actually stored in the Wordpress database so it's really a quick hack of a fix until Evan finishes his "version 2".
Araceli
· 1 year ago
I just installed the plugin yesterday and I can't get that repeating icon issue to go away. I downloaded the newest version from the WP site. You can see it here: http://www.mysticalmagick.com/index.php?p=15
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Araceli,
The theme you're using appears to be missing the wp_head() call in the <head></head> tag. This is also why you may have noticed limited functionality in other areas, like missing rss feeds, the inability of third party tools to login to your site, and so forth. Adding that tag will fix it.
Thank you so much. That fixed it. I've been building the theme from scratch and didn't realize that was missing.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
No problem!
Anthony Citrano
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan - Just tried this on my blog and got this doozy:
[Warning: assert() [function.assert]: Assertion failed in /home/ctap/public_html/wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/friendfeed.php on line 18; fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/ctap/public_html/wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/friendfeed.php on line 258]
Then realized cURL needed to be activated.
Now that curl is on, the widget works well, except that long images from my FF stream were breaking out of the widget frame and look super-ugly. So I added your suggested CSS:
to my style.css and all seems great. (Just left this for the sake of future user issues)..
imaginal
· 1 year ago
How often does this plugin grab the current FriendFeed data? Is there anyway to change the interval or force an update?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
It refreshes it a maximum of every 10 minutes. Due to FriendFeed API limitations, I haven't allowed this setting to be configurable. Update too often and the API will ban your web server's IP. The next version of the plugin uses a different means of aggregating your data, which is exempt from this limitation, so I may make this configurable in the future.
Rob Bluey
· 1 year ago
Evan,
This is great. Thanks for creating it. I'm working with a new theme, and while everything works fine, the font size is huge. Do you know how I go about fixing this? See the middle column.
Thanks! Your theme is looking quite nice. A quick glance with FireBug looks like you've got a CSS rule defined for .title with a font size of 28px. You're probably using that for your post headings or something. Unfortunately that's the same class the widget uses. The easiest way to fix that would to be more specific with your .title rule; for example, div.post .title. I'm not sure where exactly you're using that .title attribute, but that's one example.
Let me know if that solves the problem for you. Thanks.
Rob Bluey
· 1 year ago
Thanks, Evan. That did the trick. Appreciate your quick response.
I have one additional question: It appears every item is showing up with the same timestamp -- Wednesday 17:33. Do you know why this might be happening?
Really looking forward to having this on the new blog. It's a great addition.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Glad that worked. Yeah, a couple of people have reported the date error. It appears to be something specific to a certain server configuration, and the issue lies somewhere in the Friendfeed API wrapper that I use. The next release uses a completely different method of acquiring data, so that bug will be resolved in that update. If you can, hold tight until I can get that out the door.
Rob Bluey
· 1 year ago
No problem, Evan. I can wait. Keep up the good work! Thanks again for your help.
Noel
· 1 year ago
That''s great to hear, I'm experiencing the same issue and came here looking for a solution. Other than that, the widget works great., thanks for the hard work.
John Craft
· 1 year ago
Looking great Evan. One feature suggestion: the FF javascript embed including likes to items I post (ff comments, YouTube, etc.), and items I liked. That would be a great addition (especially if it's configurable).
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey John; I'll definitely look into this and see what I can do. Thanks for the suggestion!
Erika Jurney
· 1 year ago
Hey Evan, I love it! Any hope of including the 'comments' from a link added via the friendfeed bookmarklet?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Erika, and thanks! That's definitely on my to do list, and I'm going to try and have it implemented in v1.2 in a couple weeks.
Erika Jurney
· 1 year ago
Excellent -- I can't wait. That will make it perfect for what I'm doing. Thanks!
Kevin Lim
· 1 year ago
Holy Macaroons Evan, that was FAST! Not only did it fix my mesmerizing favico problem, it also re-positioned it correctly unlike in version 1 where it bled off the edge! Bravo, I'm tellin' twitter!
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Thanks, Kevin!
Kevin Lim
· 1 year ago
Evan, this is funny... I upgraded to the latest version of your FriendFeed Activity widget and it spewed out something rather creative (see right sidebar): http://www.flickr.com/photos/inju/2583765141/
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Haha, sorry about that. It appears WordPress' Extend distributed the archive oddly. Just pushed v1.1.1 which should fix that for you. ;)
wolkanca
· 1 year ago
nice plugin. thanks.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
haha- thanks!
Nathan Chase
· 1 year ago
I tried installing the FriendFeed Activity Widget, but as soon as I activate it, the site returns blank pages, even in the Admin Dashboard. The only way I can get it back is to deactivate the plugin in SQL. I'm using WP 2.5, and K2 Theme. Help!
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Nathan, it sounds like it might be some kind of incompatibility with another plugin you have installed. Could you email me (link in the footer) with a list of plugins you've got installed so I can troubleshoot? Thanks for the report!
Renaud
· 1 year ago
Hello,
Your widget seems to be great!! But I've got the issue : "%BEG_OF_TITLE%My friendfeed entries%END_OF_TITLE%" when I activate it on widget menu. I'm on Worpress 2.5, new installation from scratch.
Regards
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Renaud; thanks! Are you using PHP5? I've gotten a couple of reports of this issue, but I have not been able to reproduce it myself... one individual solved the issue after realizing they were running PHP4, but that doesn't appear to be the solution for everyone.
Renaud
· 1 year ago
Hello Evan,
Yes I'm using PHP5 on my server. I'll check the log to see if there is a specific problem. Best Regards,
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Just to update everyone: This appears to be an issue that is, reportedly, resolved in WordPress 2.5.1. Let me know if you encounter it still. Thanks!
Kevin
· 1 year ago
This is an awesome proper FriendFeed Wordpress widget. I just need to get my sidebar fixed so it the service favicons show up right. Got any advice?
neofreko
· 1 year ago
Okay, just soved it. It needs to have the friendfeed-activity dir writable. Any security concerns? what about cahcing it in db?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
@Akhmad Nah, shouldn't be any security issues with leaving the directory with write permissions. I don't cache it to the database to reduce the number of MySQL calls; local file cache is much faster than storing to the DB.
@Kevin Thanks! You might need to add a line of CSS like this: #friendfeed-activity li { display: list-item; }; it appears your theme changes the traditional behavior of lists in your sidebar.
Jordan
· 1 year ago
Hello, I'd like to add your marvelous widget in a page of my wordpress blog, not in my sidebar. Would it be possible to get the code to insert the stream, not using widgets ? Thanks :)
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Jordan,
Thanks for your comment. You should be able to add the same output the widget produces anywhere in your templates by using the friendfeed_activity() function. I added the function in 1.0 but have not had a chance to test it thoroughly, so please let me know if you have any problems with it.
Jan Kampling
· 1 year ago
Hi, I use the widget in my new theme. Works great. Today I added a game to my amazone wishlist. Is it possible to show the cover art in the widget like friedfeed does on there page?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
@Jan Amazon thumbnails should make it into the next version.
Jordan
· 1 year ago
Thanks, I'm gonna try that and give you the feedback !
Jandy
· 1 year ago
Evan, this looks amazing. A few questions, though, on getting it to work on my blog. I need to use it not as a widget; my theme isn't widget-aware, and I hate widgets anyway. Is this possible? I tried throwing in "friendfeed_activity()" where I want it to appear in my sidebar, but as you can see if you look, it doesn't work. Do I need to change something in the friendfeed.php file? I'm not very good at php, so I'm not sure just by looking at it. Also, how do I set how many entries to show? Thanks!
Lee
· 1 year ago
My methods may be incorrect, but I was able to get the standalone version working by declaring variables into an array and then passing the array as the only variable in "friendfeed_activity();"... so:
Well nevermind... I thought that worked but apparently so long as I just include one option (doesn't matter which one), it uses the settings from when I configured the widget (when I first installed, I loaded it up as a widget first and then removed it since I plan to use the standalone version). However, it won't work unless I declare and include that one option... eg:
(The code above will show the standalone friendfeed with the settings from when I had it configured as a widget to show 5 items, and ignores the new request to show 10 items.)
I'm confused. I know I could just hack the settings I want into widget.php, but that makes upgrades cumbersome, and I know there's a better, "right" way to do this... isn't there? Then again, it's late, and my brain isn't exactly in PHP mode right now.
John Craft
· 1 year ago
Evan, great plugin. I'm using version 1.0.1 on WP 2.5.1, and getting something unusual in the "published" field - every entry is marked "Wednesday at 18:33," on three different domains, using two different FriendFeed accounts. The only common point is the hosting server.
Any thoughts on where the breakdown might be?
JAC
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
@John - Thanks! It sounds like something has gone wrong with the dating system, either in the FriendFeed API class or in my own plugin. If you would, pop your cache file (form your friendfeed-activity) folder to me so I can debug that further and let you know where the problem lies. My email address is in the footer of this page.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
@Lee Thanks for the great report. I believe I know where the problem lies now, and will see about getting it fixed for the new release.
@Jandy It appears Lee has identified the problem; I'll try and get this resolved in the next release for you both. Thanks
Shannon
· 1 year ago
What is the CSS for this? The display is too wide for my sidebar and I can't figure out where to adjust the width.
Josh
· 1 year ago
An interesting widget code, Evan. Though I think Friendfeed already has a widget. I do wish that WordPress.com will add this.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
@Josh Thanks. You're quite right, FriendFeed does have a JavaScript widget. The problem with widgets that aren't hosted on your site is they rely on the hosting site to be up and working for that widget to work, otherwise your site will hang or break for visitors. Twitter taught me this quite some time ago; if you use their JavaScript embed and use, for example, other JavaScript that relies on an OnLoad event, your whole site will hang with they go down. Which seems to happen every other hour these days. Widgets like mine resolve this issue by removing the dependency on external services. :)
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
@Shannon The CSS is currently embedded in the output of the Widget. You can override it in your own stylesheet by using !important tags. For example, #friendfeed-activity { list-style: none !important; } will turn off the list appearance of the widget. That said, there is nothing in the embedded CSS that defines the width of the widget, so my guess is your theme has something strange going on with it. You could try surrounding the widget with <div></div> tags to better encapsulate the content, or specify a widget value in the CSS.
Mack D. Male
· 1 year ago
I'm using WordPress 2.5.1, with PHP5, and I still get "%BEG_OF_TITLE%Recent Activity%END_OF_TITLE%" in the Admin. On the site itself, the page just stops executing after spitting out the title "Recent Activity".
Any ideas?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Mack,
Strange... could you check if your /friendfeed-activity/ folder is CHMOD 777? It's possibly a permissions issue.
Mack D. Male
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan...running on Windows, so I gave "Everyone" full control access to the folder, same issue unfortunately.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hmmm... is there a cache.dat file in your /friendfeed-activity/ folder? If so, is the file larger than 0KB? Also, can you tell me what other plugins you have installed? Perhaps there is an incompatibility with something else.
Mack D. Male
· 1 year ago
Nope, there is no cache.dat, only: friendfeed.php, JSON.php, readme.txt, screenshot-1.jpg, and widget.php. I tried deactivating all plugins except for the FriendFeed Activity one, to no avail. Tried sticking an empty cache.dat in the folder, still didn't work. Thanks for helping to track this down.
Mack D. Male
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan, I have found the problem. There are two issues. Number one, I didn't have php_curl.dll enabled in my PHP configuration. Secondly, line 62 of "widget.php" is wrong for Windows I guess. You have:
Makes it work. I'm not a PHP expert...so I am not sure how to change this into something that will work on all platforms.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Ahhh, good finds there Mack. I'll see if I can integrate some OS checks into the next version, and I've added CURL to the requirements listed here on the page. Thanks!
Mack D. Male
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan...on line 212 of widget.php, there is a check to see if the Twitter update contains @username...I found this wasn't working with "strpos" so I changed it to "stristr" and now it seems to work. Oddly, hashtags work fine with "strpos".
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Mack: The check works with strpos() in that it only checks if @ is the first character, which is common if you are replying to a tweet. stristr() would check the entire message for words beginning with @, which isn't the intention of the feature. :)
Mack D. Male
· 1 year ago
Actually the @ was the first character. The tweet was: "@rex Sucks doesn't it? I almost don't know how to use Twitter without the IM interface!" Also didn't work with: "@pcnovels Saw that, replied, thanks for commenting!"
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Mack: Not sure why that would happen. It works properly on all the installations I've tried it in. Perhaps it's another IIS issue.
Leandro
· 1 year ago
Evan, great plugin!! Is there a way to use this plugin with a non-widgets theme?
Thank you!
Travell Perkins
· 1 year ago
Awesome plugin!
I spent the day hacking together a generic PHP widget that can add the functionality anywhere with a single line of code and passing in an options array (user, apikey). Pretty much just stripped all the WP out of the plugin. Also changed the caching logic so it can support multiple users. I don't particularly like the approach to the render method. Wondering if there is some way to clean that up a little and modularize it. So many contextual switches and regex expressions. It tooke me a while to figure things out. I fixes a bug for covering the case where links are embedded in a Twitter post. There are some cases that aren't covered by the current code base:
function makeClickable($text){ return ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","\", $text); }
Very Cool!
-Travell
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
@Leandro - Thanks; friendfeed_activity() achieves this, but is a bit buggy at the moment. The next release should fix that functionality.
@Travell - Thanks, but I'm not sure I follow what you mean. You hacked my widget to ... eh? Or are you saying you built your own? The next version of the widget has a different rendering method, though it follows the same fundamental approach. It offers a lot of customization on a per-service basis, which is what I wanted.
Leandro
· 1 year ago
Evan, great! Also keep in mind that now without widgets there's no way to configure the plugin, so I think you should move the settings outside Widgets.
Thank you.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Leandro, you can configure the friendfeed_activity() method by passing an array of options. I don't intend on exposing the options through the WordPress UI other than the Widgets interface.
Travell Perkins
· 1 year ago
@Evan Yeah, I stripped it down and built it back up fixing bugs and tailoring it for my needs (multiuser, enhanced caching strategy (subdirs, first two letters of the username). I'll be accessing FF in a multiuser environment. The only original code that is left is the rendering method that I feel needs to be modularized in some way. I was originally looking for a solid example in PHP. As for the styles I pulled everything out and have a seperate CSS to go with everything.
Just sharing some ideas. I think you should definitely try to spend some time making a generic library. My needs are very specific so I won't be investing the time that it takes to support a community, but I did want you to know that there is an opportunity here to make a useful set of widget libraries.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Gotcha, Travell. That's cool, I'm glad my widget could serve as a basis for your project. Just remember to follow the rules of the GPL! ;) The next version my widget will also have the stylesheets removed in favor of a CSS, thanks to some work by Nathan Chase.
Honestly I'm not sure what I could provide in terms of building a library that the FriendFeed wrapper doesn't do on it's own. It's very easy to adapt it to whatever situation you need. They did a great job with it.
Thanks for the comments, Travell!
Erika Jurney
· 1 year ago
I use friendfeed to share links and I love how you can attach an image to what you've shared. Is there a way to get those images to show in the lifestream using this plugin? Thanks, Erika.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
FYI: All past comments have been cleared out to make way for v1.1 discussions.
[BLT]FQX
· 1 year ago
Icon is messed up in 1.1, maybe you had a typo. Timezone issue is not solved
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi! Yeah, the icons appear that way because you have installed the plugin to a directory other than /friendfeed-activity/. I have not had time to look at the timezone issue as of yet.
Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)
Jan
· 1 year ago
Nice plugin! Thanks for the work.
PS: You should fix a minor bug. The folder decompressed from the zip is named: "friendfeed-activity-widget" The CSS link in the header links to "/friendfeed-activity/"
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Thanks!
This is unfortunately a problem with the way the WordPress Extend site archives and distributes things. I'll try and find a workaround in the next release that allows for the plugin to be hosted in directories other than /friendfeed-activity/ though.
Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)
Éric Senterre
· 1 year ago
Hi, I installed your widget which look awesome on your blog. But when I try to install it on mine, there's a problem with the CSS. The code on the page looks for the CSS in [...]/friendfeed-activity/widget.css while the zip archive use the diretcory name /friendfeed-activity-widget/
So I tried to simply rename the directory, but it still doesn't work well on my blog. I'll investigate a bit more, but if you can look into that it'll be nice.
Ok forget my last comment, looks like the rename of the directory and a Hard Refresh works fine. But to be more standard with other widgets, you should probably rename directly the folder name in the ZIP file with the correct folder name. Oy maybe I'm missing a thing... Anyway, real nice widget! :-)
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Eric, glad you figured it out. Like I mentioned to Jan, the problem with the folder name is sadly an issue with the way the WordPress Extend distributes archives. I'll try and get this resolved in a hotfix release in the coming days. Thanks!
Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
FYI everyone, I just committed v1.1.1 which should fix the problems you were having with the CSS path. It'll appear on the WordPress site here in a few minutes. Grab the latest version from the Download link on this page, or upgrade from your WordPress dashboard. Thanks!
Chris
· 1 year ago
I'm not sure if I'm the only one having this issue or not, but the feed icons are not showing up in IE7. They show up on FF3 just fine and normally I wouldn't care but my friends use IE.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Chris, the icons render alright in IE7 for me; do you see them here on my site, or is this occurring on another site you're using the plugin on?
Chris
· 1 year ago
Whatever you did in the upgrade today fixed it. Thanks, I'm really enjoying the plugin.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Glad to hear it!
Chris
· 1 year ago
But now that I updated hashed tags are coming out like so:
bye bye baby. don' t be long. i' ll worry about you while you' re gone.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Chris, I was alerted to this problem earlier today and will be pushing a patch yet tonight or tomorrow afternoon to resolve it. Thanks for the heads up.
Chris
· 1 year ago
Ok, I know I'm on the verge of becoming annoying, I apologize, but my favorite flickr photos are being shown in the widget as photos I posted to flickr.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Unfortunately this is a limitation in the way the FriendFeed API serves information about your Flickr events; sadly I don't have any way of determining if one event is an upload or a favorite. There are several other issues with the way FriendFeed's API deals with Flickr events, and I have reported all of them to their team. Hopefully we'll see a fix for it soon.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Pushed v1.1.2 to WordPress.org. Should fix the Twitter hash tag bug. Grab it from the Download Link here on the page or through your Wordpress dashboard.
totalpardo
· 1 year ago
Evan - have you ever had any issues with the date coding? My installation shows the same date (December 31, 1969) for all posts.
TIA.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Howdy! A 12/31/1969 error usually means there is some kind of configuration issue throwing things off. I might be able to help troubleshoot the cause, but can you first confirm you're running PHP5, with CURL enabled on Apache?
totalpardo
· 1 year ago
CURL is not enabled. The other two are running latest and greatest. That makes the troubleshooting easy - I should have seen that before I asked, sorry.
Since the feed part works ok, can you recommend where to comment out that part of the code to not pull the date string at all?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Well, the easiest way to hide that would be to just add a line to your theme's CSS file: #ff-activity p.ff-meta { display: none; }.
If you'd prefer to truly remove the output, you can edit widget.php and do a search for "ff-meta". Comment out from that line down to the closing small and p tag.
Of course, the problem with editing the widget directly is that those changes will be overwritten next time there's an update.
Hope this helps!
totalpardo
· 1 year ago
didn't work out. commenting out those lines sets the rest of the feeds into a nested configuration, indenting to the right - the code makes sense, but remming that class out screws up the alignment. nbd - thanks for the advice anyway. the code is tight otherwise - love the idea. good luck with it...
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hm, they shouldn't become nested- there are no floats in the CSS that comes with the widget that would cause that behavior. It's likely something in your theme's CSS overriding the widget's behavior. Sorry that didn't work for you. :(
shokk
· 1 year ago
I'm running PHP4 with CURL and the dates don't work for me in the Wordpress FriendFeed Activity Widget. Any idea what date functions have changed between PHP4 and PHP5? Anything else I do that handles feed dates in PHP4 works correctly.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Sorry shokk, I've never tried the widget in a PHP4 environment. I honestly have no idea what would need to be changed to make it work. I know the PHP team did some major reworking of the timezone support in PHP5, which is probably the problem you're seeing. Not sure specifically what they changed though.
baron
· 1 year ago
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Hazman Aziz
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan,
I would like to put the friendfeed widget on my page. Is it possible for you to share with us the script to call out the widget?
Thanks
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Hazman, I'm not quite sure I follow you. If your theme supports widgets, all you have to do is add the widget to your page from the WordPress Dashboard.
Dan
· 1 year ago
I think what Hazman means,is it possible to place a php tag anywhere in a site to to call the fuction. I for one never use widgets and hard code and stle accordingly. Is it poss to have a non widget version. Cheers. It is exactly what I am looking for :-)
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Dan,
Ah, I gotcha! Yup, there is a non-widgetized interface you can use to output anywhere in your theme. Just call friendfeed_activity(). I've heard a few reports that this method is buggy though, so don't be surprised if it doesn't work for you. I'll try to go through it and fix any issues in the next patch.
Hazman Aziz
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan et Dans,
Thanks for both your reply. Yups, that what I meant.
I will tried on my weblog tonight.
BTW, I like the comment rating up and down. It is fun, including the point allocated.
If you guys don't mind, where can I download that plugin.
Cools, thanks for the great work guys. Been lately, very busy with some conference.
I'm using Wordpress 2.5.1 and version 1.1.3 of your widget. Regardless of the wordpress theme I choose, the service's favicon tiles behind the status update (ie multilple tiny favicons as the background to the post). I would expect it, like shown on your site, to have one favicon per update. Any thoughts on what could be causing that?
IE7 and FF3.
Thanks pete
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Pete,
Sounds like there's a configuration issue somewhere that's causing the wrong path to get reported for the CSS file. That tiling issue occurs if the CSS file isn't get loaded. Can you tell me the URL you're using the plugin at? Maybe I can help track down the cause.
idcontent
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the cool widget.
>Unable to write to cache file. Please ensure the cache.dat has proper write-access permissions.
Please, where is that file (cash.dat)??
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
The cache.dat file is located within your FriendFeed widget folder, i .e. /wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/. To fix this error you can either set /friendfeed-activity-widget to be writable or create /friendfeed-activity-widget/cache.dat and set that to be writable.
Jon Mountjoy
· 1 year ago
The plugin died for me - I think because I have other plugins installed that use JSON. I fixed it by changing your require_once("JSON.php"); to if (!class_exists('Services_JSON')) require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/JSON.php');
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Jon,
Good call on that. I'll be sure to get your fix added into the next version. Thanks!
thon
· 1 year ago
Kudos to you! Thanks for the fix.
idcontent
· 1 year ago
Lot of thanks, Evan Everyhings fine now, i create cash.dat and chmod it to 444 Once more, thank You for cool soft.
However, with Picassa whether the plug-in works improperly or these are the problems of Friend Feed. URL that is formed leads to the page 404. You can see it at idcontent.com
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
That's odd, the Picasa web album links on your blog work just fine for me. Not sure why you'd be getting 404 errors.
idcontent
· 1 year ago
Amazingly ! It works fine now. Sorry and thanx againe ;-)
BetoGonza
· 1 year ago
I only seem to get "Your feed could not be retrieved at this time. Try again later." pissing me off. Should I just wait?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Sounds like FriendFeed is having API issues, or you may have a typo in your remote key.
thon
· 1 year ago
Thanks for a great widget...and to JON MOUNTJOY for the fix to my issue as well.
Is there a way to remove the MY FRIENDFEED PROFILE section from the bottom?
Thanks!
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Thon,
I don't currently have an option in there to disable the Profile link, but I'll add that to the to-do list. Thanks.
Anthony Citrano
· 1 year ago
Would be cool to be able to move it to the top, too.
Melle Gloerich
· 1 year ago
How about showing comments posted on FF discussions? I mean, twitter is supported but I'm leaning towards FF comments more and more. Or is this already possible and am I overlooking it? BTW, great plugin, really :)
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Thanks Melle! This is a priority on my list, and I should have it ready in the next couple builds.
John
· 1 year ago
Any way to embed this into a page? I tried the call <? friendfeed_activity(); ?> in a page, as suggested above - but am not sure I missed something... can you offer some advice?
By default Wordpress doesn't allow you to execute PHP within a page. The tag you're trying to use is meant to be ran from the template/themes files.
You can use a plugin like ExecPHP to do what you're trying, but I'm a bit weary of recommending that. Permitting arbitrary code execution in your Wordpress output opens your blog up to potential hacks and exploits- though I imagine the risk is minimal. If you're willing to take the risk, that's an option. Otherwise, I'd stick with editing your theme files or just using the Widget.
Garry Conn
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan,
Awesome plugin any updates on manually adding the code for folks that don't like to use sidebar widgets. I added the proper friendfeed_activity() tag but in the sidebar it says: "Please configure your FriendFeed widget."
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Garry,
Still working on it; will hopefully have a fixed build next week. Thanks!
Glenn Slaven
· 1 year ago
Very awesome plugin, I just installed it. One question, would it be possible in the future to add an option to exclude certain services from the feed? (ie blog, I don't really need to show that on my blog :)
Great work
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Yo Glenn,
Your wish is my command. I'll have a "Hide Blog Events" option in the next build. Stay tuned.
Glenn Slaven
· 1 year ago
Awesome
journeyguy
· 1 year ago
Looking forward to the manual configuration! Thanks!
Anand
· 1 year ago
Hi, it shows me the following message in the sidebar:
"Your feed could not be retrieved at this time. Try again later."
Please let me know what I might be doing wrong.
Thanks
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
This error occurs when either the FriendFeed API is down, or if you've misconfigured your username or remote key. Check your credentials, and if all is well there, give it a little while and the API should come back up.
Steve Blamey
· 1 year ago
Strange links in the widget from a Google Reader shared item. I shared a blog post and get three links in the widget to a flickr photo in the post instead of a link to the article. Let me know if you'd like the XML.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Steve,
I haven't experienced any strange results from my Google Reader output; if you would, pop your cache file to me: hello at evansims. I'll try and track down the issue. Thanks!
rsgranne
· 1 year ago
For Amazon, you have "wishlis" instead of "wishlist".
Also, you have "their", which is plural; it'd be nice if we could indicate if we were a "he" or "she" or "they".
Still, great plugin!
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi Scott, and thanks for your comment. I'll fix the typo in the next version, and will consider adding a sex selector to the widget options. That said, "their" can be used in a singular context, though not everyone agrees. :)
Philix
· 1 year ago
This is a great plug in :)
Daniel W.
· 1 year ago
I had a bit of trouble getting this working in its non-widget-ized flavour. I tried the "friendfeed_activity()" call, but had the same problem as Garry above. Any news on that new version? Sounds like a great plugin, looking forward to being able to use it.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
I have a fixed build running here on my blog, but I need to do a bit more testing before I push it to the Wordpress servers. I've unfortunately been really busy with school this last week so I just haven't had a chance yet. I will hopefully have it ready for everyone early next week.
Erik M Jacobs
· 1 year ago
ok well, it just doesn't work on my private server. Got it working on my public blog. Is there a way to more easily control some things? Pandora album covers are HUGE!
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Thoraxe,
You can control image sizes by adding rules to your theme's CSS. My site, for example, locks image sizes to a maximum width of 55px. Modern browsers will scale images proportionally if you define one dimension and not the other, so it works out well. Here's the CSS I use:
Feel free to try that on your site, and let me know how it works out.
Anon
· 1 year ago
The plugin works beautifully, except the icons don't show up, except FriendFeed's at the bottom. Not sure what to do to fix this.
Erik M Jacobs
· 1 year ago
Evan, I ended up modifying the php code because for some reason I had a mental moment and forgot you could force image sizes through CSS. I'll go back and change that now.
Thanks for this great widget.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Glad you got it working, Erik! Let me know if I can be of any further help.
Anon
· 1 year ago
Yea. I spent hours working on this, but still can't get the icons to show up. YouTube shows up waaaay on top, FriendFeed at the bottom, and the rest just disappear. Any tips on what to do? I'll keep trying.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Anon, can you give me the URI of the blog you're trying this on? It sounds like your theme is interfering with the Widget output somehow.
Roam2Rome
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan,
Wohoo! Got the icons to show up.
Yes, it's my theme. I don't use sidebar widgets. Instead, I enter the PHP code directly to make each one unique.
Since I pulled the first post outside the loop to style the latest post differently from the old posts, then I added a call for a dynamic sidebar after the first post, and this is where I added your plugin.
It's up and running though the date is stuck... even though it does update the feed, the date is stuck on last week. Any ideas what I did wrong?
Like others here, I also look forward to the "friendfeed_activity()" call. This is my favorite plugin. Thanks!
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Are you using PHP5?
onkelandy
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan! Thanks for the cool plugin. It has some issues though with combined activities. On friendfeed it says: "posted two messages on twitter" but your plugin splits the two entries. Interesting enough your plugin combines other activities like google-reader-additions correctly.. Can you take a look into that?
By the way.. the twitter-icon sucks so big because of that white halo-stuff.. Would be cool if you could integrate an own clean one.. i an provide you a fine png.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Andy, the plugin doesn't group twitter postings on purpose, actually. It was a design decision I made early on in building the plugin. I might add an option to group those later on.
The icons are actually provided by and pulled from FriendFeed. You could override them using CSS. For example, div.ff-twitter { background-image: url(path/to/your/icon'); }
Thanks!
onkelandy
· 1 year ago
Thanks for your fast response. As I said the grouping sometimes works and that's brilliant. I was just wondering why the twitter-messages got posted seperately although they already were combined by Friendfeed (which is also nice.. ;)) So a 1:1 update from friendfeed would be enough for that...
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Grouping should always work, except for Twitter, unless i haven't added formatting for that service yet. if you have any other services that aren't getting grouped or formatted properly let me know and I'll be sure to get those in.
FriendFeed unfortunately does not output it's grouped format from the API, so much of the work the widget does it formatting things and making them look more or less along the lines of what you'd see on FriendFeed. It's unfortunate they don't offer an API hook for fetching things just as you'd see them on their site.
Yup, I have considered building something like that, but it's probably a bit outside the scope of this particular plugin. Even so, it's an idea I plan on toying with as a separate plugin in the near future. Keep an eye on my blog for updates on that.
islandcastaway
· 1 year ago
excellent plugin, BUT i really really need it to actually "make a blog post" with the info, not just stream an rss.
the main thing im after is to get the "just added youtube fav" and " just dugg a story on digg " from friendfeed to make a blog post in wordpress.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Thanks, castaway. Unfortunately that functionality beyond is the scope of this plugin.
El Vista
· 1 year ago
you can do so without the plugin. Just use the feed for wordpress plugin to import the your feed. :)
I am working on a friendfeed page template which displays all the activities in a separate page using the same core of the widget. It's pretty sweet too. Shouldn't take much more time to work the kinks out.
Cheers ^^
Saphrym
· 1 year ago
Evan,
I am creating a blog for some friends and would like to be able to use more than one FriendFeed widget. How could I do that? Basically it's a dual author blog and they want both sets of feeds. The current plugin only allows for one. Could you make it do multiple? Or is there a way I can make it do more than one widget?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Sephrym, the next version of the plugin should do precisely what you're looking for. I'm trying out some new techniques in my latest plugins that I'll be applying to the next FriendFeed Activity version, and one of those is multi-user support. Stay stuned to the blog for an announcement when that goes live. Thanks!
imaginal
· 1 year ago
I appear to be having the same issues with Picasa showing up properly in the Friend Feed Widget that idcontent was having about a month ago. I waited the night to see if if would just go away before posting, but no dice. ;) The preview just shows the image name, imgp0477.jpg or IMGP0458.JPG, for example. Clicking on the link takes you to a google 404. What do you think is going on here?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hi imaginal,
Yeah, I haven't had a chance to get Picasa formatting in there yet, which is why you're seeing odd things like that. I'll make that a priority for the next version. Thanks!
imaginal
· 1 year ago
I also noticed that the WordPress plugin site says that this is only compatible up to 2.5.1, and I'm now running 2.6. I don't know if this is an issue or not, but I apologize for supposedly submitting a bug when I'm not even in the right version. :P http://www.geckoz.com if you need to see the formatting issues.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
No worries; it does and is intended to work with 2.6, I just haven't had a chance to update the Wordpress SVN with that info yet. Thanks!
springnet
· 1 year ago
I tried adding it to http://austinblogger.com/blog but I'm still struggling to get it to work, could it be that since Wordpress 2.6.1 just was released today and I upgraded that there's now an incompatibility. Did you get my email Evan about the project?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Paul,
I haven't got any emails from you; could you try sending it again? hello at evansims dot com. In regards to the 2.6.1 upgrade, let me upgrade my blog real quick and see if I encounter that problem. Will update shortly.
EDIT: Nevermind Paul, I did get your email. It got sorted into Spam for some reason. I'll get back to you soon on that.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Paul, I just upgraded to 2.6.1 and everything appears to be working fine here. Can you confirm you're running PHP5 with CURL enabled? Do you know if your web host is running in safe mode?
springnet
· 1 year ago
PHP Version 5.1.6 CURL support enabled CURL Information libcurl/7.10.6 OpenSSL/0.9.7a ipv6 zlib/1.1.4
Error – Unable to write to cache file. Please ensure the cache.dat has proper write-access permissions.
I didn't see a file called cache.dat anywhere in my wordpress directory though.
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Hey Paul,
Still working on troubleshooting your problem with the other blog, but you can resolve this particular issue by manually creating the cache.dat file and setting it to the proper write permissions.
springnet
· 1 year ago
Alright, I touched up a cache.dat file in the plugins directory and in the directory which contained Evan's awesome app and that did the trick on http://austincast.com/blog/ ... Now if I can figure out how to embed a friendfeed widget on the main page of http://austinlifestyles.com I'll be a hapy camper for today.
astorg
· 1 year ago
It would be nice if the plugin could be used to display on a page as well as in a widget. Having said that, it does look quite cool in my sidebar too.
Mark S. Meritt
· 1 year ago
Very nice! Much more attractive than FriendFeed's own widget -- great how it plays nice with the theme style.
I'd like to second (or third, or fourth, or whatever) the notion of having this work on a normal page as well. I wouldn't need any different functionality, just the opportunity to have it do the same things it does in the sidebar, but giving the additional space available in the many body area of a WP page. Perhaps the same items from inside the widget specs could be added to an Options screen, and then a <!-- --> tag could just call it on the page you want it on? Just a thought.
Anyway, nice work!
jamesspratt
· 1 year ago
Nice one Evan. Much neater and no CSS messing compared to the FF's own js incarnation.
Hey everyone, just a quick heads up: I am working on v2.0 of the plugin. The new version is a total rewrite, and will resolves all of the known bugs and satisfy the most requested features I've received. Give me a little time and I'll get this out the door as soon as possible.
Great plugin. Can't wait for version 2.0. I've also translated it for my website in Bulgarian. Will it be possible to use .mo, .po files in future version, Evan? I could contribute with Bulgarian and French version.
thepete
· 1 year ago
How close are you finishing it? Don't mean to nag--just curious. Thanks!
Joe Perrin
· 1 year ago
This is a great widget, thanks for creating it.
One problem I've having is that all the date/time stamps are stuck on "Wednesday 16:33"
Any suggestions?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
This problem occurs when you attempt to run the plugin in a PHP4 environment.
Mark S. Meritt
· 1 year ago
Hey, there, looking forward to your new version. Had another idea, thought I'd share it, whether or not you'll do it at all or in time for the new version:
FriendFeed's own badges including not only the Feed Widget which is like your Activity Widget, but they also have a badge which lets you show, with icons and links, all the different services you've got on your FriendFeed.
How *awesome* it would be if your widget provided the option of adding this sort of thing below the activity items, right below the link to "My FriendFeed profile..." I've got ideas on a few bells and whistles to flesh this out, and I'd be happy to share them with you if you ever decide you'd want to pursue adding this to the widget!
FYI, this was inspired by two things. First, Twitter has so many more users than FriendFeed (so I believe, at least), and even though the dates below each Twitter update are linked to the Twitter account, it seemed to me this might not be obvious enough, that an explicitly link like "View my Twitter" or "Follow me on Twitter" might better encourage people to actually follow. This actually had me considering abandoning your FriendFeed widget, but I'd hate to do that because I like that it includes all the other non-Twitter stuff, too.
The other things was, even aside from Twitter/FriendFeed, I've looked for a quick and easy way to provide a list of links with icons to the various sites at which I have accounts. Then I realized, duh, FriendFeed might be totally complete, but most of it's there, and boom, their Badge sort of does it.
Anyway, food for thought!
Anthony Citrano
· 1 year ago
Evan - my widget seems to have stopped updating at some point early this week. Any ideas? (http://www.cosmictap.com)
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Try deleting the cache file in your FFAW folder; this usually happens when the API is down, the API is actively blocking requests (due to maintenance, or to reduce overhead to the site) or when the cache file is having write problems.
Anthony Citrano
· 1 year ago
Thanks - that seems to have worked great.
Davide Di Cillo
· 1 year ago
thanks for the plugin, it works perfectly. I have only one question tho, is there any way i can setup the expiration of the cache file? i'd like to have the plugin updating more often
Gaurav Mishra
· 1 year ago
Hi Evan,
I'm using Wordpress 2.5 and PHP 5, but I'm getting the following error message on my widgets page:
%BEG_OF_TITLE%Friendfeed Activity Stream%END_OF_TITLE% Error – Unable to write to cache file. Please ensure the cache.dat has proper write-access permissions.
I'm using no other plug-ins apart from Akismet on this Wordpress install.
How can I resolve this issue?
Evan Sims
· 1 year ago
Have you given the FFAW directory and/or cache file write permissions? Does your web host support CURL?
James Dean
· 1 year ago
Thankyou, this is exactly what i was looking for :)
igorthetroll
· 12 months ago
Hi Evan. Is there anyway to add the widget to my Home Page not my blog?
I program PHP so I can probably figure it out, but do not want to waste time right now. If you have an easy hack let me know and I will grease monkey it.
Thanks, Igor
Zane Selvans
· 11 months ago
Possibly this is related to the @replies problem listed above... On my blog (http://amateurearthling.org/) the tweets which begin with @username are not linking the @username to that user's twitter page, while @usernames which are embedded within the tweet are. Actually, this sounds like the opposite of what you're suggesting the situation is in the comments above. Which is weird. I'm running WP 2.7 on Debian (etch) with PHP 5.2.0.
And thanks for the awesome plugin. Other than this minor issue, it works fabulously out of the box. I love it!
Anthony Citrano
· 11 months ago
Hi Evan - I noticed the widget is wallpapering entries with the service icon. Is this new? Is it by design? I think it's hideously busy and would love a way to fix it. I noted that yours is doing the same... thanks.
Evan Sims
· 11 months ago
What browser are you using, Anthony? I haven't seen that happen on any of the browsers I've tried.
hmm ... clearing my browser cache fixed it. like i said it wasn't just on my site, it was on any site using your widget...
Evan Sims
· 11 months ago
Hmm, so odd. That happens when the widget's stylesheet fails to load for whatever reason... I'd normally say it's an installation problem with a setup, but since you're seeing it on mine I can only figure there is something stopping it from loading properly for you. Are you behind a firewall or anything?
Anthony Citrano
· 11 months ago
No, no firewall.. I mean, I'm behind my Airport Extreme router, as always, but ... that can't be the issue...
Evan Sims
· 11 months ago
Hmm, very weird. Try loading it up in Safari and see if you get the same result.
All Comments
The "Wednesday 16:33" issue is appearing because PHP is treating the time as a 0 value. Dates come in GMT format, like this: "2008-10-29T08:05:38Z" but not all PHP installs understand it. I just knocked out a quick fix for those that will be interested.
Change the following line (it's around line 380 in /wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/widget.php):
echo date($date_format, $event['published']);
to:
echo date($date_format, strtotime(preg_replace('/[^\d:-]/', ' ', $event['published']))) . '
';
If you want to account for your time zone, you could change that line to look like:
echo date($date_format, strtotime(preg_replace('/[^\d:-]/', ' ', $event['published'])) + (1 * 3600)) . '
';
where the + (1 * 3600) is the offset. This example is +1hr GMT. If you wanted +12 you'd put " + (12 * 3600) " and for -4 GMT " - (4 * 3600)".
The time zone setting is actually stored in the Wordpress database so it's really a quick hack of a fix until Evan finishes his "version 2".
The theme you're using appears to be missing the wp_head() call in the <head></head> tag. This is also why you may have noticed limited functionality in other areas, like missing rss feeds, the inability of third party tools to login to your site, and so forth. Adding that tag will fix it.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Hook_Reference/wp_head
[Warning: assert() [function.assert]: Assertion failed in /home/ctap/public_html/wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/friendfeed.php on line 18; fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/ctap/public_html/wp-content/plugins/friendfeed-activity-widget/friendfeed.php on line 258]
Then realized cURL needed to be activated.
Now that curl is on, the widget works well, except that long images from my FF stream were breaking out of the widget frame and look super-ugly. So I added your suggested CSS:
#ff-activity img { width: 55px; margin: 0 5px 5px 0; }
to my style.css and all seems great. (Just left this for the sake of future user issues)..
This is great. Thanks for creating it. I'm working with a new theme, and while everything works fine, the font size is huge. Do you know how I go about fixing this? See the middle column.
http://robertbluey.com/beta/
Thanks,
Rob
Thanks! Your theme is looking quite nice. A quick glance with FireBug looks like you've got a CSS rule defined for .title with a font size of 28px. You're probably using that for your post headings or something. Unfortunately that's the same class the widget uses. The easiest way to fix that would to be more specific with your .title rule; for example, div.post .title. I'm not sure where exactly you're using that .title attribute, but that's one example.
Let me know if that solves the problem for you. Thanks.
I have one additional question: It appears every item is showing up with the same timestamp -- Wednesday 17:33. Do you know why this might be happening?
Really looking forward to having this on the new blog. It's a great addition.
Your widget seems to be great!! But I've got the issue : "%BEG_OF_TITLE%My friendfeed entries%END_OF_TITLE%" when I activate it on widget menu.
I'm on Worpress 2.5, new installation from scratch.
Regards
Yes I'm using PHP5 on my server. I'll check the log to see if there is a specific problem.
Best Regards,
@Kevin Thanks! You might need to add a line of CSS like this: #friendfeed-activity li { display: list-item; }; it appears your theme changes the traditional behavior of lists in your sidebar.
Would it be possible to get the code to insert the stream, not using widgets ?
Thanks :)
Thanks for your comment. You should be able to add the same output the widget produces anywhere in your templates by using the friendfeed_activity() function. I added the function in 1.0 but have not had a chance to test it thoroughly, so please let me know if you have any problems with it.
$options['username'] = "yourUsername";
$options['apikey'] = "yourAPIkey";
$options['limit_events'] = 10;
...etc, etc...
friendfeed_activity( $options );
Thanks for this awesome plugin Evan!
$options['limit_events'] = "10";
friendfeed_activity( $options );
(The code above will show the standalone friendfeed with the settings from when I had it configured as a widget to show 5 items, and ignores the new request to show 10 items.)
I'm confused. I know I could just hack the settings I want into widget.php, but that makes upgrades cumbersome, and I know there's a better, "right" way to do this... isn't there? Then again, it's late, and my brain isn't exactly in PHP mode right now.
Any thoughts on where the breakdown might be?
JAC
@Jandy It appears Lee has identified the problem; I'll try and get this resolved in the next release for you both. Thanks
Any ideas?
Strange... could you check if your /friendfeed-activity/ folder is CHMOD 777? It's possibly a permissions issue.
$path = substr($path, 0, strrpos($path, '/') + 1);
Changing that to:
$path = substr($path, 0, strrpos($path, '\\') + 1);
Makes it work. I'm not a PHP expert...so I am not sure how to change this into something that will work on all platforms.
Is there a way to use this plugin with a non-widgets theme?
Thank you!
I spent the day hacking together a generic PHP widget that can add the functionality anywhere with a single line of code and passing in an options array (user, apikey). Pretty much just stripped all the WP out of the plugin. Also changed the caching logic so it can support multiple users. I don't particularly like the approach to the render method. Wondering if there is some way to clean that up a little and modularize it. So many contextual switches and regex expressions. It tooke me a while to figure things out. I fixes a bug for covering the case where links are embedded in a Twitter post. There are some cases that aren't covered by the current code base:
function makeClickable($text){
return ereg_replace("[[:alpha:]]+://[^[:space:]]+[[:alnum:]/]","\", $text);
}
Very Cool!
-Travell
@Travell - Thanks, but I'm not sure I follow what you mean. You hacked my widget to ... eh? Or are you saying you built your own? The next version of the widget has a different rendering method, though it follows the same fundamental approach. It offers a lot of customization on a per-service basis, which is what I wanted.
Also keep in mind that now without widgets there's no way to configure the plugin, so I think you should move the settings outside Widgets.
Thank you.
Just sharing some ideas. I think you should definitely try to spend some time making a generic library. My needs are very specific so I won't be investing the time that it takes to support a community, but I did want you to know that there is an opportunity here to make a useful set of widget libraries.
Honestly I'm not sure what I could provide in terms of building a library that the FriendFeed wrapper doesn't do on it's own. It's very easy to adapt it to whatever situation you need. They did a great job with it.
Thanks for the comments, Travell!
Timezone issue is not solved
Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)
PS: You should fix a minor bug. The folder decompressed from the zip is named: "friendfeed-activity-widget"
The CSS link in the header links to "/friendfeed-activity/"
This is unfortunately a problem with the way the WordPress Extend site archives and distributes things. I'll try and find a workaround in the next release that allows for the plugin to be hosted in directories other than /friendfeed-activity/ though.
Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)
So I tried to simply rename the directory, but it still doesn't work well on my blog. I'll investigate a bit more, but if you can look into that it'll be nice.
My widget looks like that on my blog : http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=friend...
Thanks! :-)
Edit: Go ahead and update to the latest version to fix the icons bug. :)
bye bye baby. don' t be long. i' ll worry about you while you' re gone.TIA.
Since the feed part works ok, can you recommend where to comment out that part of the code to not pull the date string at all?
If you'd prefer to truly remove the output, you can edit widget.php and do a search for "ff-meta". Comment out from that line down to the closing small and p tag.
Of course, the problem with editing the widget directly is that those changes will be overwritten next time there's an update.
Hope this helps!
nbd - thanks for the advice anyway. the code is tight otherwise - love the idea. good luck with it...
perfect.
Regards
I would like to put the friendfeed widget on my page. Is it possible for you to share with us the script to call out the widget?
Thanks
Cheers. It is exactly what I am looking for :-)
Ah, I gotcha! Yup, there is a non-widgetized interface you can use to output anywhere in your theme. Just call friendfeed_activity(). I've heard a few reports that this method is buggy though, so don't be surprised if it doesn't work for you. I'll try to go through it and fix any issues in the next patch.
Thanks for both your reply. Yups, that what I meant.
I will tried on my weblog tonight.
BTW, I like the comment rating up and down. It is fun, including the point allocated.
If you guys don't mind, where can I download that plugin.
Cools, thanks for the great work guys. Been lately, very busy with some conference.
Regards,
Hazman Aziz
http://hazmanaziz.com
gosh , i am disoriented today morning, since my other's half left me...
IE7 and FF3.
Thanks
pete
Sounds like there's a configuration issue somewhere that's causing the wrong path to get reported for the CSS file. That tiling issue occurs if the CSS file isn't get loaded. Can you tell me the URL you're using the plugin at? Maybe I can help track down the cause.
>Unable to write to cache file. Please ensure the cache.dat has proper write-access permissions.
Please, where is that file (cash.dat)??
require_once("JSON.php");
to
if (!class_exists('Services_JSON')) require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/JSON.php');
Good call on that. I'll be sure to get your fix added into the next version. Thanks!
Everyhings fine now, i create cash.dat and chmod it to 444
Once more, thank You for cool soft.
However, with Picassa whether the plug-in works improperly or these are the problems of Friend Feed. URL that is formed leads to the page 404.
You can see it at idcontent.com
Is there a way to remove the MY FRIENDFEED PROFILE section from the bottom?
Thanks!
I don't currently have an option in there to disable the Profile link, but I'll add that to the to-do list. Thanks.
BTW, great plugin, really :)
Site: http://thedailyjoe.net/?page_id=71
(I'm testing several plugins - yours in on page Social3!)
Thanks in advance for your help.
John
By default Wordpress doesn't allow you to execute PHP within a page. The tag you're trying to use is meant to be ran from the template/themes files.
You can use a plugin like ExecPHP to do what you're trying, but I'm a bit weary of recommending that. Permitting arbitrary code execution in your Wordpress output opens your blog up to potential hacks and exploits- though I imagine the risk is minimal. If you're willing to take the risk, that's an option. Otherwise, I'd stick with editing your theme files or just using the Widget.
Awesome plugin any updates on manually adding the code for folks that don't like to use sidebar widgets. I added the proper friendfeed_activity() tag but in the sidebar it says: "Please configure your FriendFeed widget."
Still working on it; will hopefully have a fixed build next week. Thanks!
Great work
Your wish is my command. I'll have a "Hide Blog Events" option in the next build. Stay tuned.
"Your feed could not be retrieved at this time. Try again later."
Please let me know what I might be doing wrong.
Thanks
I haven't experienced any strange results from my Google Reader output; if you would, pop your cache file to me: hello at evansims. I'll try and track down the issue. Thanks!
Also, you have "their", which is plural; it'd be nice if we could indicate if we were a "he" or "she" or "they".
Still, great plugin!
Sounds like a great plugin, looking forward to being able to use it.
Is there a way to more easily control some things? Pandora album covers are HUGE!
You can control image sizes by adding rules to your theme's CSS. My site, for example, locks image sizes to a maximum width of 55px. Modern browsers will scale images proportionally if you define one dimension and not the other, so it works out well. Here's the CSS I use:
#ff-activity img { width: 55px; margin: 0 5px 5px 0; }
Feel free to try that on your site, and let me know how it works out.
I ended up modifying the php code because for some reason I had a mental moment and forgot you could force image sizes through CSS. I'll go back and change that now.
Thanks for this great widget.
Wohoo! Got the icons to show up.
Yes, it's my theme. I don't use sidebar widgets. Instead, I enter the PHP code directly to make each one unique.
Since I pulled the first post outside the loop to style the latest post differently from the old posts, then I added a call for a dynamic sidebar after the first post, and this is where I added your plugin.
It's up and running though the date is stuck... even though it does update the feed, the date is stuck on last week. Any ideas what I did wrong?
Like others here, I also look forward to the "friendfeed_activity()" call. This is my favorite plugin. Thanks!
By the way.. the twitter-icon sucks so big because of that white halo-stuff.. Would be cool if you could integrate an own clean one.. i an provide you a fine png.
The icons are actually provided by and pulled from FriendFeed. You could override them using CSS. For example, div.ff-twitter { background-image: url(path/to/your/icon'); }
Thanks!
FriendFeed unfortunately does not output it's grouped format from the API, so much of the work the widget does it formatting things and making them look more or less along the lines of what you'd see on FriendFeed. It's unfortunate they don't offer an API hook for fetching things just as you'd see them on their site.
the main thing im after is to get the "just added youtube fav" and " just dugg a story on digg " from friendfeed to make a blog post in wordpress.
I am working on a friendfeed page template which displays all the activities in a separate page using the same core of the widget. It's pretty sweet too. Shouldn't take much more time to work the kinks out.
Cheers ^^
I am creating a blog for some friends and would like to be able to use more than one FriendFeed widget. How could I do that? Basically it's a dual author blog and they want both sets of feeds. The current plugin only allows for one. Could you make it do multiple? Or is there a way I can make it do more than one widget?
Yeah, I haven't had a chance to get Picasa formatting in there yet, which is why you're seeing odd things like that. I'll make that a priority for the next version. Thanks!
I haven't got any emails from you; could you try sending it again? hello at evansims dot com. In regards to the 2.6.1 upgrade, let me upgrade my blog real quick and see if I encounter that problem. Will update shortly.
EDIT: Nevermind Paul, I did get your email. It got sorted into Spam for some reason. I'll get back to you soon on that.
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Error – Unable to write to cache file. Please ensure the cache.dat has proper write-access permissions.
I didn't see a file called cache.dat anywhere in my wordpress directory though.
Still working on troubleshooting your problem with the other blog, but you can resolve this particular issue by manually creating the cache.dat file and setting it to the proper write permissions.
I'd like to second (or third, or fourth, or whatever) the notion of having this work on a normal page as well. I wouldn't need any different functionality, just the opportunity to have it do the same things it does in the sidebar, but giving the additional space available in the many body area of a WP page. Perhaps the same items from inside the widget specs could be added to an Options screen, and then a <!-- --> tag could just call it on the page you want it on? Just a thought.
Anyway, nice work!
Thank you - see your widget in use on my blog here: http://jamesspratt.org/blog/
Remember to follow my blog updates via RSS or Email (at http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmi... ) to get the latest news on v2.0. Thanks!
One problem I've having is that all the date/time stamps are stuck on "Wednesday 16:33"
Any suggestions?
FriendFeed's own badges including not only the Feed Widget which is like your Activity Widget, but they also have a badge which lets you show, with icons and links, all the different services you've got on your FriendFeed.
How *awesome* it would be if your widget provided the option of adding this sort of thing below the activity items, right below the link to "My FriendFeed profile..." I've got ideas on a few bells and whistles to flesh this out, and I'd be happy to share them with you if you ever decide you'd want to pursue adding this to the widget!
FYI, this was inspired by two things. First, Twitter has so many more users than FriendFeed (so I believe, at least), and even though the dates below each Twitter update are linked to the Twitter account, it seemed to me this might not be obvious enough, that an explicitly link like "View my Twitter" or "Follow me on Twitter" might better encourage people to actually follow. This actually had me considering abandoning your FriendFeed widget, but I'd hate to do that because I like that it includes all the other non-Twitter stuff, too.
The other things was, even aside from Twitter/FriendFeed, I've looked for a quick and easy way to provide a list of links with icons to the various sites at which I have accounts. Then I realized, duh, FriendFeed might be totally complete, but most of it's there, and boom, their Badge sort of does it.
Anyway, food for thought!
I'm using Wordpress 2.5 and PHP 5, but I'm getting the following error message on my widgets page:
%BEG_OF_TITLE%Friendfeed Activity Stream%END_OF_TITLE%
Error – Unable to write to cache file. Please ensure the cache.dat has proper write-access permissions.
I'm using no other plug-ins apart from Akismet on this Wordpress install.
How can I resolve this issue?
http://www.igorthetroll.com
I program PHP so I can probably figure it out, but do not want to waste time right now. If you have an easy hack let me know and I will grease monkey it.
Thanks,
Igor
And thanks for the awesome plugin. Other than this minor issue, it works fabulously out of the box. I love it!
of the browsers I've tried.
Screenshot here: http://www.citrano.com/pix/friendfeed-wallpaper...
for whatever reason... I'd normally say it's an installation problem
with a setup, but since you're seeing it on mine I can only figure
there is something stopping it from loading properly for you. Are you
behind a firewall or anything?
always, but ... that can't be the issue...