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Hi Kyle, this is a facebook issue. You can use the “new” setting which gives most of the features of v2 while maintaining v1 comments.

Another option would be to display both v1 and v2.

The alignment is because it’s an iframe. You can play with the css on the settings page to get it aligned better.

What are the “>>” supposed to be?

Everyone: You can download the beta version, which seems to have fixed most issues for those who have tested it, here.

I’m waiting for a bit more feedback before I release it. Please let me know how it works by posting here, on the plugin site, or by emailing me at [email protected]

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.

mil0tche: From the WordPress dashboard, please Deactivate, then Delete the plugin. Then click ‘Add New’ and search for ‘facebook comments’ and install version 3.0.2. If this doesn’t fix your problem, let me know.

Johm: Are you using facebook’s new system v2? If so, then unfortunatly, they have disabled anonamyous comments (see here).

If, however, you’re using v1 (that is, in the plugin settings you have the first two boxes unchecked), post a link to your site along with a list of the plugins you’re using and I’ll try to help you out.

Awesome!

Actually, it was a “just in case” option I added, since it didn’t change anything for me. But I’ll make sure to add a v2 only option in future releases, so you shouldn’t have to change anything. On the options page, I’ll put something like, “v2 Only (uses both href and xid, doesn’t load any comments from v1)”

Cheers!

I see, it needs the href='$postUrl' to load those comments.

To not display v1 comments, in facebook-comments-display.php beginning on line 189 there is this:

echo "\t<fb:comments xid='$xid' ",
				"numposts='{$options['numPosts']}' ",
				"width='{$options['width']}' ",
				"simple='{$options['noBox']}' ",
				"publish_feed='$publishToWall' ",
				"reverse='{$options['reverseOrder']}' ",
				"css='$customStylesheet' ",
				"title='$postTitle' ",
				"url='$postUrl' ",
				"notify='true'></fb:comments>";

Change it to this:

/*
				echo "\t<fb:comments xid='$xid' ",
				"numposts='{$options['numPosts']}' ",
				"width='{$options['width']}' ",
				"simple='{$options['noBox']}' ",
				"publish_feed='$publishToWall' ",
				"reverse='{$options['reverseOrder']}' ",
				"css='$customStylesheet' ",
				"title='$postTitle' ",
				"url='$postUrl' ",
				"notify='true'></fb:comments>";
*/

Hopefully this works for you. If not, let me know.

• Yeah, in the settings, check “Enable the just-released version of facebook’s comment plugin.”

  And make sure the second option, “Display both v1 and v2 comments”, is unchecked.

• One reason notifications may not be working is because they are only sent when another facebook user responds. It should be sending them, I checked your page and the admin meta is pointing to your profile and your app id is also there. Those two things should be all it needs.
• The comments won’t show up in the dashboard until facebook gives us a method to retrieve comments from their new comment system, which should be soon. See the first post in this thread for details.

  One workaround for this is to disable the new v2 comments, then comment on a post using v1, then renable v2. This will cause facebook to store the new comments in v1’s database. Although, it still won’t store threaded replies. But unnested comments will show up on the dashboard and in the widget.

Hi Aaron. When you coded it by hand, did you have something like this?

<fb:comments href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"></fb:comments>

If so, you can try enabling both v1 and v2 (under the plugin’s settings page) and see if the old comments show up.

I’m guessing before you had something like the above, or just left it blank so it would use the page as an xid? If so, then your guess about the URL is correct, and enabling v1 and v2 both should show the old comments.

Let me know how it works out.

shaun

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?

Chris: Sorry about that, I removed it so people didn’t update to it.

The new version is up now and should fix all the issues with settings.

Those who have issues with comment counts (and did in 2.1.2 as well), please post links to your sites so I can try to narrow down the cause. Although note that v2 comments won’t be counted until facebook updates fql to actually return those new comments.

Also, if anyone gets,

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type [insert some type here] as array in... on line X of .../facebook-comments-core.php

where the facebook comments box should be, it means that the http request to facebook failed (facebook didn’t respond, or did but with an error). Try again after a few moments and it should show up.

shaun

Sorry about the problems everyone. This new version uses options in a different way and I neglected to update them with the old options from the database. In the next couple hours I’ll be releasing a new version which fixes the problem.

Please don’t change the plugin until then.

shaun

Sorry about that, this new version uses options in a different way and I neglected to update them with the old options from the database. In the next couple hours I’ll be releasing a new version which fixes the problem. Please don’t change the plugin until then.

shaun

Sorry about that, this new version uses options in a different way and I neglected to update them with the old options from the database. In the next couple hours I’ll be releasing a new version which fixes the problem. Please don’t change the plugin until then.

shaun

You can always check https://github.com/shaund/Facebook-Comments-for-WordPress/ for the bleeding edge dev version. However I wouldn’t suggest using it unless you’re comfortable messing around with PHP.

There will be a list of the updates made on the plugin page as soon as the new version is released, which will be within the next day.

shaun