StatusPress – Facebook status on WordPress

IT & web, Webdev & -design ‌ Posted on February 14th, 2009

StatusPress widget options

I recently found this nice little plugin called StatusPress that shows your Facebook status on Wordpress. It’s been developed by Adam Walker Cleaveland (pomomusings.com) and serves a simple solution to bloggers who would like to easily integrate their Facebook status to Wordpress.

The initial release lacked a timestamp feature, which C. Scott Andreas (paradoxica) added. The only problem was that the plugin was not available as a widget – which is why I chose to continue where they laid off..

For this release, I have made some enhancements:

  • NEW! Added the option to remove first name in the beginning of messages
  • Available as a widget with options (controls)
  • Option to enable/disable the timestamp
  • Option to have the status item on your Wordpress page link to the facebook message
  • A minor mathmatical calculation error fixed
  • Tested to work with WordPress v. 2.7.1

Download the Plugin here!

Just after I finished the development and started writing this post, I found that Brian D. Goad (briandgoad.com) actually widgetized the plugin just as I. I have chosen to release it anyway :)

Quick setup instructions.

  1. Login to Facebook and go to this link: http://www.facebook.com/minifeed.php?filter=11
  2. Right click on My Status in the right column and copy the link
  3. Download the Plugin, install it and activate the widget
  4. Paste in the Facebook feed URL to the widget option and enjoy!

You can see a working demo on my sidebar to the right. Let me know i you have any questions or new feature requests!

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17 comments to “StatusPress – Facebook status on WordPress”

  1. jeff (February 18th, 2009 at 2:44 am)

    Works fabulously well. Nice job!

  2. Laander (February 23rd, 2009 at 5:07 pm)

    Thanks for the comment jeff, glad you like it!

    I have added the feature to remove the name in the beginning of the feed item, as per request on other sites – see a preview of the widget control in the post!

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  4. aliank (March 1st, 2009 at 1:49 pm)

    Hi, great plugin. Just started to use it. So simple yet interesting. Well done.

  5. Vilkku (March 5th, 2009 at 10:40 pm)

    Hello, I’m having a problem with your plugin. Check my website, StatusPress is activated on my sidebar. You can see the title is not formatted properly. I can most likely fix this myself, but I thought you might be interested in this problem.

  6. Vilkku (March 5th, 2009 at 10:47 pm)

    Nevermind, I had a look at the source and saw that you already had assigned a class to the title, so it was very easy to change it. Still, I think it would be nice if it automatically looked like the other widget titles ;)

  7. Laander (March 7th, 2009 at 4:59 pm)

    Thanks for the comment aliank!
    Vilkku, you’re right, the widget title/header doesn’t have the standard Wordpress widget-title class. Thanks for the notification, I will add it to the next release :)

  8. Peter Filias (March 11th, 2009 at 4:04 pm)

    I get this error:

    StatusPress Error: An error occured with the plugin.

  9. Peter Filias (March 11th, 2009 at 4:05 pm)

    OOps, had a type on my e-mail address on the last comment. Sorry about that. I’d like to know what I overlooked. I grabbed my feed URL as explained.

  10. Peter Filias (March 11th, 2009 at 4:06 pm)

    So sorry. Scratch that. I was using http://www.new.facebook.com….. Removed new and it works fine. Thanks for great widget!

  11. Laander (March 11th, 2009 at 8:45 pm)

    No worries Peter, just glad to see people use the plugin! :)
    Do let me know if you have any ideas for new features or alike.

  12. Nurlea (April 3rd, 2009 at 1:50 pm)

    Hey there Laander! Thanks for the great widget plugin thingy! I gotta tell you, it made life much easier! Anyways, aside from saying thanks to you, i was wondering, if by any chance, you know a way, any ways, I could import my facebook notes and make it as an blog post in my Wordpress? We know that you could include blog posts into FaceBook as Notes. But is it possible to do the other way round, aside from copy/paste thingy? Just curious and if you know a way, please do let me know via email ya. TQ so very much in advance.

  13. Laander (May 10th, 2009 at 9:45 am)

    Hi Nurlea – you’re welcome, glad you like it!
    I did a little searching around and my best shot is probably this little plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-comments/ – I haven’t tried myself and I am not sure if it even meets your wishes, but I guess it’s worth a shot :)
    Good luck! (sent to you via e-mail also)

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  15. Rick (June 30th, 2009 at 9:07 pm)

    Hi- i dont see the “my status’ link on the right side of my facebook feed … could it be anywhere else?

    Thanks

    Rick

  16. Laander (July 1st, 2009 at 5:17 am)

    Hi Rick – unfortunately, Facebook seem to have changed the way it works (again). My best advise is to stay tuned on what happens on this guys’ blog: http://www.briandgoad.com/blog/downloads/status-press-widget/ as he seems to be aware of the problem. For some reason, the feed i pulled earlier before the change still works, so it should definately be possible to sort out! Good luck

  17. Rod (August 21st, 2009 at 9:57 am)

    Have you tried this?

    http://www.addictionsponge.com/?page_id=72

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