Crafty WordPress bloggers, however, can take back their blog and keep it fresh with their activity from Twitter or FriendFeed with the new Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter plugin. The plugin uses a "magical" formula to pull recent content from Twitter or FriendFeed, enhances it with relevant video or images, and creates a nice looking - no effort required - blog post.
It's simple to get started, but once you install the add-on, you'll want to tweak the features to work for you. On setup, select whether or not you want to show fresh content for FriendFeed or Twitter, enter your username (no passwords needed), select total number of posts, determine how fresh the content needs to be, and definitely select to show images from Twitpic and videos from YouTube.
Next, you'll want to adjust a few more settings. For example, when dealing with FriendFeed, you can tell the plugin to pull content from the specific feeds you have configured, have it ignore certain services completely, and set maximum limits.
The add-on is not immediately self-explanatory, so we'll spell a few key things you need to know. The total posts is not on a per day basis, it's the maximum posts the plugin will add to your blog. We advise you to start slow to see what you think by including only 1 total post. If you do nothing else, "Fresh From" will automatically refresh the same post when there's new activity.
If you want to keep a particular item you will need to edit the post within the WordPress dashboard and delete the custom Fresh From field (see image). Still have questions? Check out the FriendFeed FAQ room for help.
We really like the idea of keeping our personal blogs fresh with little to no effort, and we love that the final result includes video, images, and links back to the original entries. We hope to see a few more options included in the future, like the ability to have new items saved as drafts, but for now we're fans and we'd love to know what you think. Will you be installing the plugin for your blog? Tell us in the comments.
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