hdepiano

Appreciate your reply. I added the code to my CSS and it’s still not working.

Just an update that I uninstalled Zemanta entirely and while RSS Digest would post manually… it still wouldn’t post when scheduled, though at least this time it knew it hadn’t posted. So, sadly, the issue seems to lie with RSS Digest and not Zemanta.

I’m hoping someone from RSS Digest will have a theory.

PS: I tried the browser version of Zemanta again, Rok, on your suggestion and I still prefer the plugin. The biggest issue is the inability to turn it off for pages I don’t want it on. When it loads for email and other blogs I don’t use it for, it just slows everything down instead of being useful. I would like that browser app so much better if it let you specify which sites to use it on or at least gave you the option to manually turn it on and off for certain domains.

I’d be happy to try it out. I will email shortly.

I’ll update this thread if we find a solution.

https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/01/pros-cons-facebook-comments/

The techcrunch article from March says they are writing an API for it. Was that idea scrapped or just a rumor to start with?

Maybe I should clarify. I don’t mean importing comments left on my links on Facebook into WordPress (though, hey, that’d be nice too!). I just mean the comments left on the blog post using the Facebook Comments plugin. I’d like to be able to export them for future use on the blog if possible.

Just wanted to add that, with the pingfm posting as posts, then it’s a simple matter of telling them to post to the designated aside category and use the post template for asides.

Robbie,

I added it to the index file and it mostly worked though you’ll tweak it a bit to get it to look right with your theme.

It works best with the default theme but I believe, with enough work, it could work with any of them.

To find a theme that is aside enabled, just search the theme section for “asides.” Twenty Ten is one of the most basic.

If you figure out how to do this, please post here… been looking for the same thing myself…

I was never able to get this to work quite right though I will say that it worked much closer to right with the default template then with any other. That said, it was close enough to working that I’m confident the method Matt prescribed would eventually work with enough tweaking.

I am very thankful to Matt for both his wonderful plugin and his help in pointing me towards a solution.

In the meantime, as there is more then one way to skin a cat as they say, I figured out a better way to do what I was trying to do in the first place. Namely to use a theme that was “aside” ready and import all of the pings in as aside posts. This way, moving forward, I actually don’t need to rely on pingfm at all (because I’m always a bit wary about trusting a 3rd party) and I can just micro-blog directly from within WordPress. I just wanted to mention this in case someone was in the same situation.

I’m going to try this over the weekend, Matt and see what happens. I’ll update with how it works.

Appreciate your response!

One more thought, sorry: If there is a theme that is already optimized to do this, point me at it! I’m not overly attached to my current theme. ??

That works with only one small problem, it seems to override the # of posts preference to 5 instead of 7 which is weird but, you know, at this point, I’ll take it!

I really appreciate all your help.

For anyone else who is having a similar issue, I was also able to do a sort of “work around” using a hacked up very of Feedburners BuzzBoost. But I’ve switched that now to the code above esmi so kindly provided.

That gives me

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’

(I tried killing the } in the code just for fun but I get the same error.)

I think I may temporarily try to find a plugin to fix this. But seriously, WTH?

I appreciate the help esmi!

Is there a way I could incorporate the ‘post_status’ => ‘published’ from get_posts as esmi suggested into the code I’m using above?

This is what makes me think something more is wrong.

I tried both ‘<?php get_posts( $args ); ?>’ and ‘<?php wp_get_recent_posts( $num ) ?>’ and both yield no results, though clearly there are posts to be found.

The code I pasted above was the only thing I could get to work at all, if it worked wonky.

So, I still don’t have a way to make it stop pulling posts from the future, though I appreciate your help.