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Linking WordPress to Facebook – My non-ideal solution
By Brian | June 21, 2009 | Share on Facebook
Warning: This is one of those technical posts that won’t make much sense to many people, but will be a goldmine to those who have exactly the same problem I was just working on. OK, now that that’s out of the way, let’s begin:
A few weeks ago, I became both a Blogger and a Facebook user. One of my first tasks on Facebook was to find a way to link my blog posts to my Facebook Wall & News Feed, so that my Facebook friends could read my posts without me needing to cross-post them.
The first step was Facebook’s built-in RSS reader. Unlike a lot of things in Facebook, this works as advertised. Trouble is, it doesn’t provide a link to the blog post. Rather, it copies the blog post into a Facebook “Note,” and provides a link to the note. This is OK (everyone still gets to read the post), but it divides any discussion about the post into two groups – the Facebook group (who comments using Facebook’s built-in comment feature) and the blog readers (who comment using the blog’s comment box).
Step two was to find a WordPress
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