Comments on: Import your WordPress blog into Facebook

By: the SEO guy

the SEO guy — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:09:22 +0000

Will be attempting this right now!
Thanks guys, great post.

By: handyland

handyland — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:19:35 +0000

i don’t know how to make this work with the new facebook layout. can anyone help me out??

By: Greyt Vegan Life

Greyt Vegan Life — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:53:56 +0000

I finally got it to work. A few posts were automatically imported and then…nothing. It just stopped. Eff this, I will just do it manually!

By: Lynnwood Real Estate Broker

Lynnwood Real Estate Broker — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:01:45 +0000

Took a couple of tries to get it rolling but we are finally getting my blog to import to my Facebook Fan Page. They don’t make it easy or straight forward that is for sure!

By: Divya

Divya — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:30:25 +0000

I keep getting the error:

Import Failed
We couldn’t find a feed using the URL you provided.

By: Greyt Vegan Life

Greyt Vegan Life — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:24:40 +0000

Not working for me; I changed every privacy setting that I could think of to ‘everyone’, too. FEED Validator says that my RSS URL is valid. I contacted FB, who knows if they will contact me back?

By: Zacchaeus Nifong

Zacchaeus Nifong — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:10:29 +0000

For all of you guys wondering what’s going on with this terribly broken Facebook feature, I’ll explain it to you… IT’S BROKEN.

Most of the time you have to stop importing notes, then reimport a blog, and on other occasions, Facebook Notes doesn’t even recognize the feed.

Check out this discussion forum on Facebook to witness the rant of angry users: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2347471856&topic=11280

Cheers guys,
Z

By: Mspacapan

Mspacapan — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:42:03 +0000

Is it possible to show the posts on a Facebook page-not account(e.g.: Fan page…)?
Thanks!

By: ronacrete

ronacrete — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:12:30 +0000

I keep getting the message Import Failed
We couldn’t find a feed using the URL you provided. I tried the message about the rss feed, but do I have to create and rss on wordpress first, if so, how? Sorry if I am missing the obvious.

By: Clint

Clint — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:45:17 +0000

Thank you; I was having trouble with importing WordPress to Facebook with Wordbooker, however this tutorial has solved my issues.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:01:04 +0000

I believe that’s correct; it will only trigger when you create new posts.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:45:20 +0000

Added this to my Facebook but doesn’t seem to be streaming in my recent posts. Only my ones prior to adding?

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:47:51 +0000

Oh thank you! This was very helpful.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:30:21 +0000

If this function isn’t working and your feed properly validates, please double-check the values you’ve entered. If they are correct, you should contact Facebook and ask them what’s up.

By: masahk

masahk — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:09:21 +0000

I keep getting an Failed error even though a url/rss validator approved that it was valid… Suggestions?

By: andreiphx

andreiphx — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:43:29 +0000

thanks Mike, very usefull.

By: David Gadarian

David Gadarian — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:38:22 +0000

very cool video post – I’ve been playing around and looking for a solution like this for a while…

also thanks for the heads up on the video – I have to second @chozenone with the compliments!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:10:52 +0000

The only way I could get the import to work was to specify the rss2 address. So for example my import address would be:

http://site.com/blog/wp-rss2.php

By: chasingmoonlight

chasingmoonlight — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:21:46 +0000

Thank you for easy and simple video. Very helpful.

By: abisocialmedia

abisocialmedia — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:42:46 +0000

Thank you! Very helpful!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:48:21 +0000

Thank you very much.

Very nice tutorial. Very useful.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:24:54 +0000

Have you looked into the new option for Publicize to post to your Facebook account? It might be a good alternative if the Notes feature isn't working for you.

By: DanFromOhio

DanFromOhio — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:49:36 +0000

I have the same problem as carol and dslevy, it never updates beyond the initial import. Help?

By: ProLire

ProLire — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:20:45 +0000

Exactly what I wanted to do.
Thank you for this tutorial.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:50:59 +0000

The new facebook doesn’t show the “import a blog” under notes..

Anyone know where its gone to?

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:19:27 +0000

We’ve seen a few people ask about this recently, which is a bit strange given that it’s just an RSS reader. Have you checked with Facebook since it’s their application?

By: ivankay

ivankay — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:35:46 +0000

I have the same problem. Is there a solution(s) already besides using external softwares/programs?

By: christygriner

christygriner — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:05:06 +0000

this is so helpful. thanks.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:36:15 +0000

This program http://nowsci.com/wordpress2facebook/ was able to automatically put my posts into Facebook page wall with images.

By: closertothefurthest

closertothefurthest — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:22:00 +0000

i have a problem with this.. it used to be working but when i tried to import my blog again it says :

Import Failed

We couldn’t find a feed using the URL you provided.

the url is definitely correct but it seems it can’t read the url or something..

i’ve also tried to import from blog/rss import, guess what.. failed again.

“The blog/rss url you entered is not valid. Please verify and try again.”

help anyone?

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:01:46 +0000

How do you do this for a page rather than a personal profile?

By: Dave Ference

Dave Ference — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:39:46 +0000

I will try it that way and see if it works out. Thanks.

By: ethicalbusinessbuilder

ethicalbusinessbuilder — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:52:36 +0000

Dave, The only other issue I had was that since I imported my blog into my personal page first, I had to remove that import from the Notes area. Then I deleted every blog that I imported one-by-one by going to each individual Note and clicking Remove.

That removed the blogs that I imported to my personal page and they haven’t shown up since however they are working perfectly with my business page.

Sorry if that doesn’t provide any more help. That’s just my experience.

By: Dave Ference

Dave Ference — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:01:37 +0000

I have done this several times and it keeps showing up in my personal FaceBook page, not the business page. I know the process, it just isn’t working. Everything looks correct, but it still shows up on the personal page.

By: w0manitka

w0manitka — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:25:40 +0000

Thanks guys. This alleviates a lot things and it really works

By: bocraw

bocraw — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:25:34 +0000

Really helpful piece. Similar to Hanna’s question, is there anyway to do the same thing for a FB FAN PAGE as opposed to an individual’s FB page?

By: ethicalbusinessbuilder

ethicalbusinessbuilder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:38:48 +0000

It doesn’t look like anyone has responded yet, but you can definitely just import it to your Business Fan page. This is what I did for my EthicalBusinessBuilder.com blog:

In FB, bring up your Fan Page (click on Ads and Pages in the bottom left)
On the Edit Page screen, scroll down to Notes and click Edit
This will bring up the Notes Tab JUST for your Fan Page.
Carry on from about 0:15 from there.

If you don’t have a Notes Tab on your Fan Page, view the Page and click on the big + sign where Wall, Info, Photos, Discussion, Etc. are located to add a Notes Tab.

Hope that helps.

By: İsmail YK Facebook

İsmail YK Facebook — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:29:43 +0000

super thanks

By: Dave Ference

Dave Ference — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:26:40 +0000

I haven’t found any answer for this. I’m thinking I will need a new FaceBook account just for the business to separate it from the personal page.

By: creaturesfromjessejr

creaturesfromjessejr — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:20 +0000

Has anyone answered imdave’s question about importing the wordpress blog into the business page and not the personal page? I’m trying to do the same thing.

By: Ehud

Ehud — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:09:27 +0000

Hey! Does anyone know how (did anyone try) to synchronize the comments in the blog with the one on Facebook? (specifically – export the comments from FB to the WP blog?) Thanks!

By: gaack

gaack — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:59:19 +0000

Same issue here. I haven’t been able to find anything to do this.

By: Hanna

Hanna — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:05:40 +0000

Hello! WordPress is excellent! I would like to import my blogg into a facebook group. Does anyone know how to do this?

By: aslı

aslı — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:14:59 +0000

Whether you’re using self-hosted WordPress or WordPress.com, the option to do so is in the same place.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:43:30 +0000

For your questions related to the Facebook Notes application, please keep in mind also that Facebook maintains a help page for that application here:

http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=818

By: carol

carol — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:02:56 +0000

@dslevy:

Nope, it doesn’t auto update for me either. And on the initial import, all my blog entries carry the date of the import, not the date of the post. ugh!!

By: dslevy

dslevy — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:35:49 +0000

Does anyone know if this will keep streaming new entries to FB notes or do you have to import each time you want to update this? I’ve never had much success getting each post to import automatically and it’s occurred to me that maybe this feature doesn’t do that. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

By: hipcat

hipcat — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:30:21 +0000

No good.It didn’t bring my audio files. I am not sure if Notes in faceboook could work with audio. copy and pase of a WP address doesn’t work in the posts on facebook. That is a WP problem, you got to get the shortlink

By: imdave

imdave — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:07:58 +0000

I’ve been trying to import my blog into my business page on Facebook, but it keeps showing up on my personal page. Anyone have any suggestions?

By: josepheulo

josepheulo — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:39:14 +0000

anyone know where I can get this theme?

By: Keyvan

Keyvan — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:42:36 +0000

I’ve released a WordPress plugin for doing just this: http://www.keyvan.net/code/feed-facebook-leave-facebook/

It leaves you main feed intact, but allows you to give Facebook another URL with excerpts only and a custom message with a link to your blog post (for people who miss the tiny link in the bottom).

By: S.K SHARMA

S.K SHARMA — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:51:37 +0000

This is awesome feature.I like it ,I’ll import my blog to facebook soon.

By: FacePress

FacePress — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:59:39 +0000

[...] Today, I discovered how to integrate my WordPress blog with Facebook. This is a very simple process, made all the more simple by Michael Pick’s excellent how-to video. [...]

By: Michael Pick

Michael Pick — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:16:24 +0000

Hi chozenone – I recorded the tutorial with ScreenFlow, edited in Final Cut Pro, recorded audio with Soundtrack Pro, and do titles etc. in After Effects. However, most of that could be done right from within ScreenFlow (on a mac) or Camtasia (on Windows). Hope that helps!

By: Yogesh Malik

Yogesh Malik — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:27:03 +0000

This would be good, let me try it.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:42:05 +0000

I haven't been able to test this myself, but have you tried setting your RSS feed from your site to summaries only? Whether you're using self-hosted WordPress or WordPress.com, the option to do so is in the same place. You can find instructions on the option here.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:36:10 +0000

If you follow the instructions in the video, when you get to the point where you would normally be adding the feed, you'll instead see a button that says "Stop Importing". That should do the trick.

By: chozenone

chozenone — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:58:10 +0000

michael, what application did you use to build that demo? i like it very much and want to use it myself.

thanks – CO

By: Arnav

Arnav — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:37:23 +0000

Is there an option to show only EXCERPTS on facebook, coz if ur using adsense on ur blog… this procedure will kill ur revenue… no one will visit the blog…..

By: Angelo

Angelo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:59:35 +0000

I have a blog imported using Facebook notes but I would like to remove it. Is this possible to do?

By: badakdua

badakdua — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:33:43 +0000

i’ve installed my blog into facebook with networkedblog app

By: Forrester McLeod

Forrester McLeod — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:01:09 +0000

Oh! Exciting! I will check it out tomorrow. Does anyone know if it’s okay to drop an ‘f’ bomb on facebook? Not that I do it very often…..:)

By: Jason Small

Jason Small — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:00:48 +0000

This is great! Thanks man!

Jason

By: mariano

mariano — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:32:03 +0000

and… since i started using it at my profile and sharing “with everyone” my traffic dropped by 25% :s

By: atmonadi

atmonadi — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:02:32 +0000

i already imported my wp blogs content to FB (see atmonadi.com). Using Wp-plurk plugin you can also ditribute the content link (just only title) into Plurk, and from here redistribute to FB, Twitter, MP, and Tumblr. My Blog also installed mobile wp plugins, with thi pludinso i can post from my handphone (this is simple hp nexian ng-800 model) to myblog for short message (120 chars) and can be view on FB also.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:16:16 +0000

I’m currently using the feature as well and it is pulling in my gallery thumbnails without any trouble and even preserving the links to the big versions. They don’t show in my profile view, but they show if I go to Notes or look at the individual Notes entries.

By: Brandy

Brandy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:15:59 +0000

It seemed to work fine for me. I use plugins called zemanta and amazon reloaded to add most of my images.

By: Ryan Markel

Ryan Markel — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:14:47 +0000

The Notes Import feature will work with the RSS feed of any blog, including self-hosted WordPress.

By: firepower76

firepower76 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:56:09 +0000

@reuben257: I have the same problem. No photos…

By: Toby Barnett

Toby Barnett — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:40:25 +0000

Reuben, I use the NetworkedBlogs app to import blog posts and it seems to pull pictures in “ok”.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:53:09 +0000

I haven’t tried this yet due to lack of time, but I have a question. Does anyone know if you can import ANY blog into facebook? I have wordpress installed on my hosting acct and was curious if this would work also, or if it had to be from an actual wordpress blog.

By: reuben257

reuben257 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:54:43 +0000

It seems to have trouble bringing the photos over. Anyone else have this problem?

By: mark

mark — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:47:53 +0000

Not that at 0:30 in this video you have to tick a tick box that states:-

“By entering a URL, you represent that you have the right to permit us to reproduce this content on the Facebook site and that the content is not obscene or illegal.”

Make sure you understand this FULLY before proceeding.