After a little bit of research, I finally figured out how to create a facebook page that automatically populates articles from a blog. Hence I'm happy to announce the Warpstone Flux Facebook Page. Please like! :)
For those of you with blogs of your own, here's the run down of how to connect your blog to facebook in a similar manner. It all revolves around an RSS application call Graffiti.
(1) On facebook, you will need to set up a facebook page -- use the create fan page link.
For page categories, I selected "brand or product" since there didn't seem to be anything else appropriate. Once the page is set up, edit the user pictures (and so forth).
(2) Visit http://apps.facebook.com/rssgraffiti/ and authorize RSS Graffiti. You will need to select your page to complete the authorization.
(3) Add the feed -- this will be of the format http://warpstoneflux.blogspot.com/rss.xml
(4) You can then head to the filter tab and say how many back posts you want there, and how frequently you want to update. I just went from the start of this year, and twice a day (as I rarely post more frequently than that).
Finally, I will add that you don't have to use your real identity. You can have a screen name in order to manage your blog should you choose. Enjoy!
5 comments:
Great! this is handy, thanks for sharing man!
Great article. I just made my page. How did you get to select the date it would start from, I only have the option to pick posts or choode "from now on".
When I selected a post, it didn't post it on the fan page either. Does it take time?
Hi Old School Terminator,
You can get up to the past 25 posts, or just "from now on". Since I had <25 posts at the time I set it up since New Year, I went for that.
It does indeed take a little time to update. I waited at least a couple of hrs for everything to sync correctly.
Cheers
Addendum:
Just found this really good site that says all of what I do in the article, but also gives some neat pictures:
http://www.bloggerplugins.org/2009/10/facebook-fan-page-for-blogger-blogs.html
It worked itself out, it just needed a little time to kick start. Thanks again Jabber!
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