Dave Daniel Photography

Here’s something that should prove to be a timesaver for my blogging habit. As you may know, I recently updated my photo site from its homebrew codebase to one that uses WordPress as the site engine. Couple that with the pervasive use of Facebook by my friends and family, I thought it would be fun to use one to create posts in other. So, rather than post in my weblog, then post in Facebook, and then post in _____, I want to post once and push the info to the other systems.

Integrating systems isn’t a new exercise for me. For example, I am hosting my own instance(s) of WordPress on servers located at the house. This gives me the option to use my NAS drives as the site repository for images posted to the weblog. Why do this? It saves disk space, it saves time uploading files to site folders, it takes adavantage of the backup capabilities inherent to the NAS software. And, it seemed like a “fun exercise.” (recall, I am an uberGeek).

I had attempted a solution using Wordbook, available at the WordPress site.. The solution didn’t perform as expected, as the entries only appeared on the notes page. Not what I wanted, so onward to another solution.

With Brett’s help, who had been down the same path, we configured Facebook to subscribe to my weblog’s RSS feed. And, it works great! The only problem was that it imported all the entries at the same time, tagging them with the current date. It should behave as expected going forward.

So, for those of you that tried your best to stay away from my weblog…..I gotcha either way!