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Re: FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog

Preston — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:41:26 -0000

I'd love to find a way to bring this integration into Typepad ... it's how I came to your blog, actually. I've been searching for a solution for 30 minutes. A supported solution would be nice ...

Re: FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog

Andy DeSoto — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:48:39 -0000

Hey, no problem! Thanks for your comment, though, I'll see if I can bang it out myself.

Hope you and the lady are well!

Re: FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog

Glenn Slaven — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:46:48 -0000

Sorry Andy, got totally sidetracked with other stuff (work + pregnant wife = no spare time :)

It looks like the gallery plugin is using Jquery which conflicts with the $ function in prototype. There's some doco here: http://docs.jquery.com/Usin... on how to get around that, but it would require changes to the gallery javascript.

Other than that I'd have to write up a version of the plugin that uses jquery instead, which I'd like to do, but I don't really have time for unfortunately. IMHO it's kind of dodgy that the jquery library used the same function for the element getter, but oh well.

Sorry I can't be more helpful mate

Re: FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog

Andy DeSoto — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:49:05 -0000

Any luck with this, Glenn? Just wanted to check in.

Re: FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog

Andy DeSoto — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:04:50 -0000

Sure thing! My site is at www.andydesoto.com; I'm currently using Justin Tadlock's Options theme which is set up with a great implementation of Smooth Gallery (smoothdesign.jondesign.net). When I switched over to the theme, I noticed that I couldn't get the gallery working like it is right now-- all it showed was a black screen, no photos or text. Justin's FAQs suggested disabling plugins that use Javascript to see what the conflict might be, so I went through all of my plugins and found that FriendFeed Comments was the culprit.

I tried all sorts of things in my newbie toolbox: activating the theme without making the ffcomments function call, moving around the <script> lines in my template, even putting the script files in different folders. Nothing seemed to work. I'd love to get it up and running on my blog again.

Re: FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog

slippylane — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:37:26 -0000

Can't seem to get it working on mine, but when I do, I will probably wonder if there's some way of adding a text box and a "Post comment to friendfeed" button, so I can do away with discuss AND blogger comments and have all my comments hosted by friendfeed.

Re: FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog

Glenn Slaven — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 04:29:09 -0000

Hey Andy, can you tell me what was happening? I might be able to help you out there.

Re: FriendFeed Friday Tips #5: Bringing Comments Back to Your Blog

Andy DeSoto — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:33:51 -0000

I wish I could use Glenn's plugin on my blog, but for some reason the Javascript seems to interfere with the other scripts I have running on my page, and I'm not technically adept enough to be able to solve the conflict. It's an extremely solid option, though, and I enjoyed it a lot when I ran it previously (even though the site doesn't get a lot of FriendFeed love)!

The sooner Disqus is able to implement comment importation, though, the better. Who knows-- maybe they're even holding off just to get the discussion centralized.