Display Facebook updates in your wordpress dashboard

I’m currently on Facebook mood, so you might see Facebook related posts for the next couple of days in a row.

Luckily I now can open Facebook in my office. Otherwise this Facebook Dashboard Widget plugin would come in handy to view what your Facebook’s friends are doing

Basically it display the RSS feed of your friend’s notification, status update and posted items and display it on your WordPress’s dashboard.

You can copy and paste the feed links to your RSS reader as well to view the similar items, but this plugin is intended so you can view everything in one places (especially if you spend most of your time in your blog)

Installation

1. Download the plugin
2. Unzip facebook-dashboard-widget.zip
3. Upload the entire facebook-dashboard-widget folder to your plugins directory
4. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click to ‘Activate’ the Facebook Dashboard Widget.
5. Setup your plugin accordingly by following steps provided on the setup menu

Open you dashboard, and you should be able to view it such as on the screen shot below

Your facebook in dashboard

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Control panel

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Do you facebook?

I know, Facebook is old story, but it is evergreen. It is so popular, and even Maxis has it in its ads (hehe, hope my sister won’t ask me what Facebook or Flickr is) . Ever since the ban of Facebook on our office’s internet network, my interest in Facebook has grown up but not to the level that I’m addicted to it. Actually, it’s not me alone, but some of my colleagues who has never used Facebook tried it out and seems like they’re more addicted than me. Haha

Why I Facebook
Why I think Facebook is good? I work remotely in KL while most of my team-mates and friends are located somewhere else. And not all of them has internet at home. So the only time we can communicate through Facebook and Twitter FOC is during and slightly after office hours (but we are still working ok) AND most importantly, when everyone is online. Is it fun when you get online but nobody is around?

Facebook at home?
I seldom sign in into my Facebook when I’m at home. And if I sign in, I won’t be there for so long. Unless you’re still single, when you’re at home, you’ll have plenty of things to do right? Your kids, your spouse and etc, all need attention from you. This blog needs my attention too,hehe.

Balance
As long as you can divide your time between your work and Facebook, I don’t see much problem here. In fact, Facebook has become a media or bridge that can get foreigners closer to each other. Not everyone of us is outspoken, but still, they can communicate through Facebook. Amazing isn’t it.

I know you’re addicted when you just join. You want to add as many friends as you want, and try out as many apps as you can. You’ll be under control within a week of using it.

More friends more fun?
I try to minimize as little as friends that I don’t recognize in real or offline world. For me, it’s not the number of friends that matters, but the ‘WHO IS HIM/HER’ matters most. But I do accept new friends that do not blatantly do promotions here and there. And 1 more thing, I don’t accept all ‘Facebook request’. It’s a lot!! But this shouldn’t be a big problem since Facebook now has Ignore All function built.

As usual, be friends with me. You’ll find some fellow bloggers in there. See you in facebook!!

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