Is it possible to pull comments from facebook into your blog?

I just added this feature to the beta branch of Simple Facebook Connect. It pulls comments back from auto-published stories and integrates them into the normal comments stream.

Features:

  • Integrated with Auto-Publish. When you post, and it’s auto-published to your Page or Profile, SFC notices and saves the resulting story IDs for later polling.
  • Fast. Every 6 hours (maximum), comments are pulled from Facebook and cached locally. Comments are only pulled when needed, if nobody’s looking at old posts, then FB comments are not pulled for it.
  • The comments are added to the normal comments listing.
  • FB Avatars are displayed for them.
  • A “facebook” class is added to these comments for separate styling.
  • Works with user comments or “Page” comments.

TODO List for this:

  • Add a link back to the FB comment so people can reply there instead

You can get the current (mostly working) beta of SFC here: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-facebook-connect/branches/new-sfc/

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