How to get my Facebook status to say when I’ve posted on my WordPress blog?

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  liquidoxology · Member · Nov 28, 2008 at 2:53 pm

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  I’d like my Facebook status to automatically show when I’ve posted on my WordPress blog. How do I get that application going?
  Thanks, Anette
  http://liquidoxology.wordpress.com/

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 28, 2008 at 3:15 pm

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  Wouldn’t that be a Facebook question?

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  imranamajeed · Member · Dec 4, 2008 at 4:25 pm

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  Do you use Facebook? I have done for about a month now and am rather enjoying it. It’s like MySpace without the Emos! My profile is here. If you’re using FB then feel free to add me. Let me know who you are by commenting here so I can tell who’s who though!

  One of the facilities is the “Status Update” where you can tell your friends what you are doing/feeling/pondering/whatever you like. Think of it as a Twitter for Facebook. It’s not much use unless you want to let your friends know what you’re doing.

  Well, thanks to Adam at Pomomusings there is a way to share your Facebook Status Updates on your blog. He has actually created a small plugin called Facepress Statuspress which, when used with the hosted version of WordPress will allow the blogger to display their Status Updates in the sidebar.

  Knowing what WordPress.com bloggers are like for Gucci widgets, I thought I would explore the possibility of displaying Status Updates on wp.com blogs. And it’s easy! It uses the RSS feed for your Status Updates. You can find the RSS feed like this:

  1. Go to your Facebook Profile.
  2. Click on the Mini-Feed bar so you can see all of your recent activity.
  3. Click “See All” on the top right of that box.
  4. Under “View” on the right, you’ll see a long list of “Stories” – click on “Status Stories.”
  5. Underneath the list, you will now see “Subscribe to these Stories – My Status.”
  6. Right click on “My Status” and Choose “Copy Link Location.”

  Come back to your wordpress.com blog and follow these steps:
  7. Go to Presentation -> Widgets.
  8. Scroll down the page and find RSS 1 or RSS 2. If you have already used both of those then scroll down a little further and increase the number of “RSS Feed Widgets” appropriately, save and re-load the page.
  9. Drag the selected RSS widget to an appropriate location on the sidebar.
  10. Click the configure button on the widget and paste in the URL that you copied in step 6.
  11. Click away from the widget and then press “Save Changes”.

  When you view your site you should now see your Facebook Status updates in all its glory on your sidebar. You can see mine on the right. I changed the number of items to display to “1″, otherwise it was taking up half the sidebar.