Sync WordPress and Facebook Comments

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August 11, 2010

Let’s face it, nobody comments on blog posts any more. There’s just too many ways to consume information. With Refresh Columbia in particular, meetup announcements start as blog posts, get automatically syndicated as a MailChimp email campaign, posted as a note on the Facebook fan page wall, read in a bunch of other RSS readers and announced on Twitter. Many of those steps (Specifically Facebook and Twitter) provide people external channels to communicate about the content here. I was trying to figure out a way to tie some of those conversations together and decided to give the WPBook WordPress plugin a try.

According to WPBook, any post made here (assuming *cough* you’re reading this on the blog) will still appear in Facebook, but (and this is really cool) comments made on Facebook will be syndicated to the blog and vice versa. It doesn’t completely glue together the fractured world of social media, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

Setup was very straightforward:

  1. From the WordPress Plugins Page in Admin, click “Add New”
  2. Search for WPBook and click “Install”
  3. Click “WPBook” in the Settings Sidebar
  4. Click the “Detailed Instructions” link near the top of the page
  5. Follow this page word-for-word…

Yea, I know, that was pretty sad for a tutorial. There are a quite a few steps involved with setting up the Facebook application, adding the app to your fan page and configuring WPBook, but the directions are pretty straightforward. You can check out the Refresh Blog’s evil Facebook twin at http://apps.facebook.com/refreshcolumbia.

I’m not sure why this post didn’t get pulled in as a wall post on the Refresh Columbia fan page but as you can see below, comments from the blog and from the post on Facebook show up in both places.

Great, but what about Twitter?

I also just added the Twitoaster plugin which promises to pull any tweet that links to this post as a comment as well. Time to tweet it from the Refresh Columbia account to see if it shows up!

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Comments
Comment by Jason Beaird on August 11, 2010 @ 12:39 pm

I don't see this blog post on the Refresh Columbia Facebook wall yet, but this comment should get listed on the evil twin page. Success?

Comment by Jason Beaird on August 11, 2010 @ 12:40 pm

Haha! Success! Does this comment show up back in the blog?

Comment by refreshcolumbia on August 11, 2010 @ 8:43 pm

Sync WordPress and Facebook Comments …and Twitter too? – http://www.refreshcolumbia.org/tutorials...

Comment by Jason Beaird on August 12, 2010 @ 8:40 am

WOO! Twitter comment! Double Rainbow, OMG!

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