LifeStream – Social Feed For WordPress
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 13:49 | 797 views
I found this nice little plug-in called LifeStream for WordPress.
If you are a user of several social sites like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and the hundreds of others you can find on the Internet these days, you just might want to slap this little plug-in on your WordPress Blog.
It has more than one feature where you can display all your updates on a full page, or add a widget to your sidebar. I’ve chosen the latter as you can see on the left sidebar.
What it does is shows my updates and status from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. So when I update any of them, it will show in the widget.
The settings are very customizable and easy to use, although I had to tweak my Facebook feed to show both my status and subscriptions. I’ll add that to the bottom of the post for those who want to know how I did it as I’m sure a lot of people who try this out will probably want to know.
You can add almost any feed you want to this nice little plug-in. Below is a list of feeds you can add (Click image to view larger one)
I’ll probably add my Digg and other social networking feeds later on.
So if your looking to get your Facebook feeds to work like mine where it shows both status and subscriptions just follow the following steps.
1. Log on to Facebook and go to you Notifications page: LOG IN HERE
2. On the right-hand side you should notice the ‘Subscribe to Notifications’ area. Click the ‘Your Notifications’ link.
The link will open a page and the URL address will change to something like this:
This is your subscriptions feed URL. It will display all your friends and other things you're subscribed to, but not your status. Click to see full size.
3.To add the feed that updates your status, go to the URL in your browser and replace the word ‘notifications’ with ’status’ like in the example below.
This will update your status.
4. To add your modified feed just click the facebook icon in the LifeStream/Feeds setup screen as seen in the following screenshot.
Click the Facebook icon
5. Then add your modified feed to the form on the screen that follows after you have clicked the Facebook icon, as seen in the following image.
Enter in teh modified feed in here.
That’s it. You’re done. Just add the two or whatever one you want to show up in the plug-in settings.
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May 7th, 2009 at 7:29 am
I am a paid spammer.
lol
May 7th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
@Daniel McMullan – HA! Funny. And Shameful Plug for your plug-in.
If you include my suggestion that I e-mailed you, I will probably use it. As you can see below the Submit button a 400×60px graphic would fit nicely, but not that huge ad looking square you have.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I tried swapping status.php for notiifications.php but it did not work. Anyone know why?
May 27th, 2009 at 10:53 am
@Twisted Finster – are you adding the link to the plugin’s feed? Those images examples are only examples. You don’t actually change them in your browser, but add them to your plugin’s feed in the setup.
You can have both notification.php and status.php as feeds btw.
Update. I’ve added a few more steps with screen shots for ya’
June 20th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Excellent Tip. Thanks!
June 21st, 2009 at 8:34 pm
@Navjot Singh – No problem
July 13th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
i tried it, but unsuccessful, after i add my status url feed, lifestream show this : There were errors with your request:
* Error fetching feed from ……
i dont understand why,please help me dude.thanks
July 14th, 2009 at 4:54 am
@nezta: Go to the plugin’s web site and ask the author.