[Plugin: Facebook Comments for WordPress] Just Released, Version 3.0

  • Plugin Author we8u

    (@we8u)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    Version 3.0 of the fbcwp plugin is a fairly substantial update, partially because facebook themselves have released version 2 (v2) of their comment system.

    In light of this, I’m going to provide a brief rundown of what’s changed, and some useful info.

    = New options =
    * You can now be notified via facebook notifications of any comments (multiple user IDs can be specified in the settings page).

    * You can switch between v1 and v2 on the settings page of this plugin. By default, v1 is used since v2 is somewhat buggy / lacks features that are in v1.
    Note: While using v1, threaded replies likely won’t show. Also, facebook seems to be constantly updating v2, and sometimes some comments disappear. Though, they’ve always come back on my test site.

    * You can enable both v1 and v2 at the same time, though I don’t recommend it. But, it’s there in the settings for anyone who wants to. Also note that this setting uses both the page/post url (v2 method) and xid, whereas using just v2 fetches via the transitional ‘migrate’ flag.

    Here is a brief summary of what changed in facebook’s v2 of their comment system. These changes were made by facebook and so can’t be undone (you can still use v1 though) see here for more.

    * No more built in like button

    * No more custom CSS: “We want to make the Comments plugin consistent with the others, so we will most likely have a dark styled version, ability to specify font, etc., but unfortunately, not have custom css.” – Cat Lee, Program Manager, Developer Relations at Facebook

    * No anonymous comments, but can login with other sites (currently Yahoo!, but they say more are to come). Note that anon comments don’t really work right in v1 either (see: https://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=14126).

    * No more sorting chronologically. v2 uses a system somewhat like digg’s, where the comments it thinks are best are displayed first.

    * Comments made in v2–on posts which have no comments from v1–won’t show up on the dashboard, the recent comments widgets nor will they be included in a post’s comment count. This is because the method by which this data is retrieved (FQL) is currently returning empty queries when using the new v2 query. Note that if a post has comments on it before switching, everything will report correctly for that post.

    = v2 issues/bugs =
    * can’t reply to v1 comments. This seems to be a facebook bug
    * replies are sometimes also displayed as single, unnested posts if the page is refreshed (see: https://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=15583)
    * currently no “dark” options to style the comments. facebook devs say it’s coming soon
    * posting using alternate facebook identity not working

    I’ll be keeping up with v2 dev and updating this plugin as necessary to accommodate any changes they make. I expect facebook will fix the v2 FQL soon, since it’s the only way to get comments from the new system, and many people have complained. Once that’s fixed, I’ll update the plugin so it displays/counts comments on the dashboard and in widgets for posts with only v2 comments.

    If you find any bugs/issues, please either post them here, email them to me or add them here: https://github.com/shaund/Facebook-Comments-for-WordPress/issues

    Updates coming in the near future
    * Option to automatically include like button with v2 (only reason it wasn’t in this version was because I want to be sure there are no conflicts)
    * Storing facebook comments in the WordPress database

    shaun

    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/

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  • Still getting the application ID and secret error with the new update.

    https://techology.org/

    I just updated and I’m getting the application ID / secret error as well. I also tried re-entering my appID / secret and I still get:

    Your Facebook comments would normally appear here, but you haven’t set a valid application ID or application secret yet. Go set them now.

    https://www.digitalsingularity.com/blog/

    btw, i don’t get the Like button, i have to insert my own <fb:like>, is this normal?

    imrobert, digitalsingularity:

    Disable all other Facebook related plugins and remove any manual Facebook Graph tags at this stage.

    Plugin Author we8u

    (@we8u)

    Yeah, the like button was removed by facebook in v2. I’m working on adding an option to put it back.

    If settings still aren’t loading, try deactivating and then reactivating the plugin. I’m not sure what’s happening, but it seems the settings are loading for some people, and not for others.

    Are those who are having problems using WordPress’s bulit in update, or some other method?

    @haythamelkhoja: I Don’t have any other facebook plugins installed. I have an app that looks like it does this, Share And Follow, but it simply provides a link to my facebook account, it doesn’t interact with facebook at all.

    I’m also seeing this behavior on my other blog site. https://11thlddems.org/blog

    I didn’t realize that the plugin was actually broken before I installed it on both of my blogs. Ugh. ??

    @we8u: both update methods.

    https://11thlddems.org/blog used the update process built into the wordpress dashboard.

    https://www.digitalsingularity.com/blog/ I updated manually because the server wasn’t configured to extract zip files.

    Both servers are running wordpress 3.1.

    Wow I got it to work on one of my sites with 3.0 version – can I get that version somehow – NOW I cant get it to work on any others of my identical sites.

    The only other plugin that has to do with Facebook on my site is the Sharebar plugin. I tried deactivating it but the problem with this plugin persisted.

    Good news I put 3.0 on all 4 of my small sites and it works have to click all the advanced options buttons and make sure on fb page to fill in website info in settings

    Bad news my big site I got it on and wouldnt work, deleted file and when trying it craps out a 500 error when trying to activate it. It has over 300 posts where the other 4 are new smalls.

    I don’t see any difference between version 3.0 and version 3.02. I still get exactly the same problem when upgrading to 3.02

    Just to add that I have the “Your comments would normally appear here…” error on a blog I just installed last night. The only changes I made to is was to add a feedburner plugin so I don’t think errors can possibly be due to a conflict with another plugin

    Also getting the same problem from the 3.0.2 update.

    “Your Facebook comments would normally appear here, but you haven’t set a valid application ID or application secret yet. Go set them now.”

    Plugin Author we8u

    (@we8u)

    From the WP dashboard, deactivate and then delete the plugin. Search for facebook-comments and install version 3.0.2. For some as yet unknown reason, the plugin is unable to load settings from some people’s databases. So doing a fresh install should allow the initialization to run and load all the settings.

    Your XID should be saved, but as a safety precaution, write down your XID somewhere safe before doing this.

    what’s the status of the combined comments count?

    Still no dice we8u. I deleted the plugin and reinstalled, all of my settings were still there but the plugin had the same problem.

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