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How to Integrate Facebook Comments with WordPress?

Integrating social plugins to your website is the most effective way of marketing these days. Facebook Comments is one of those most sought out social plugin. It’s very easy to integrate it with your WordPress website.

Login to the admin panel of your website and navigate to Plugins > Add New page from left sidebar.Facebook Comments - Add New Plugin

Type “Fancy Facebook Comments” in the “Search plugins…” textbox. Install and activate Fancy Facebook Comments plugin from the search results.Facebook Comments - Fancy Facebook Comments

Click Fancy Facebook Comments menu in the left sidebarFacebook Comments - Menu

Facebook Comments is already integrated at the default posts and pages of your website. But you can customize the features of the plugin if you like.Facebook Comments - Options

There is detailed description available for each option that you can see by clicking the (?) icon before each option.

You can change the title displayed above the comment box using Comment box title option.

Font-color of the title text can be changed using Title text color option.

Font-family of the title text can be changed using Font family of the Title option.

You can change the HTML tag of title text using HTML tag for Title option.

Font-size of the title text can be changed using Title-font size option.

You can enable, disable Facebook Comments at the page groups of your choice from Enable Social Commenting at option. Here you can choose to integrate Facebook Comments with WooCommerce products, BuddyPress activity and group pages, BBPress topics and forums and other custom page groups.

Position of comment box can be adjusted using the Position of Comment Box option.

Comments can be loaded for a different url than the webpage where comment box is positioned from Load comments for option.

You can specify the number of comments to display below the comment box using  Number of comments option.

Other parameters like width, language, color scheme etc. can be adjusted using the remaining options.

Fancy Facebook Comments Shortcode

If you are using Fancy Facebook Comments plugin, follow the steps mentioned below to enable Facebook Comments in the content of individual page/post.

You would like to read this post to use the shortcode without causing any problems at your site.

Fancy Facebook Comments Shortcode

You can use [Fancy_Facebook_Comments] Shortcode in the content of required page/post where you want to display Facebook Comments interface.

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments]


You can use following attributes in the Shortcode

style

Use style attribute to style the rendered interface

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments style="background-color:#000;"]


title

Use title attribute to specify title above commenting interface.

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments title="Comment Time!"]


url

Use url attribute to specify the target url for comments. This defaults to the page where shortcode is used.

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments url="http://mywebsite.com/page2"]


heading_tag

Use heading_tag attribute to specify the HTML tag for the title text. This defaults to “div”.

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments title="Fancy Facebook Comments" heading_tag="h3"]


num_comments

Use num_comments attribute to specify the number of comments to display.

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments num_comments="5"]


order_by

Use order_by attribute to control the order of comments being displayed in the Facebook Comments interface.

Possible values:

  • social: Default. Top comments first.
  • reverse_time: Latest comments first
  • time: Oldest comments first

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments order_by="reverse_time"]


width

Use width attribute to specify the width of commenting interface. Omit it for fluid (auto-adjustable) width

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments width="200"]


language

Use language attribute to specify the language code for commenting interface. Value should be the code of the desired language. You can find the language codes at this link. Leave it empty for default language(English)

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments language="es_ES"]


dont_load_sdk

Use dont_load_sdk=”1″ attribute if Facebook SDK is already being loaded at your webpages. This will stop the Fancy Facebook Comments plugin from loading another Facebook SDK.

Example
[Fancy_Facebook_Comments language="es_ES"]


You can use shortcode in PHP file as following

<?php echo do_shortcode(‘SHORTCODE’) ?>

Replace SHORTCODE in above code with the required shortcode like [Fancy_Facebook_Comments style=”background-color:#000;”], so the final code looks like following
<?php echo do_shortcode('[Fancy_Facebook_Comments style="background-color:#000;"]') ?>

How to Recover Facebook Comments Lost After Moving to Https/SSL?

If you had recently moved your WordPress website to Https/SSL, all your Facebook Comments would have been lost. Don’t worry, you can recover Facebook Comments by installing Fancy Facebook Comments plugin.

After installing the Fancy Facebook Comments plugin or Fancy Facebook Comments Pro plugin, enable “Recover lost comments after moving to ‘https’” option in the Basic section at plugin options page in adminRecover Facebook Comments

Social Comments Shortcode

If you are using Heateor Social Comments plugin, you can use [Heateor-SC] Shortcode in the content of required page/post where you want to display Social Comments.

You would like to read this post to use the shortcode without causing any problems at your site.

Example
[Heateor-SC]


You can use following attributes in the Shortcode

Style

Use style attribute to style the comments interface

Example
[Heateor-SC style="background-color:#000;"]

Enable Social Comments without default comment form?

If you are using Super Socializer plugin to enable Social Comments, follow the steps mentioned below to disable default comment form from Social Comments.

Change the Order of tabs in commenting interface in Social Commenting section at Super Socializer > Social Commenting page to facebook,wordpress,disqus (keep WordPress at second place, arrange others according to your needs) and save changes.

Add following CSS in Custom CSS option at Super Socializer > General Options page in admin panel
li#theChampTabs-1-li{display:none;}

Social Comments Shortcode

If you are using Super Socializer plugin for Social Comments, follow the steps mentioned below to enable Social Comments interface in the content of individual page/post.

You would like to read this post to use the shortcode without causing any problems at your site.

Social Comments Shortcodes

Facebook Commenting

You can use [TheChamp-FB-Comments] Shortcode in the content of required page/post where you want to display Facebook Commenting interface.

Example
[TheChamp-FB-Comments]


You can use following attributes in the Shortcode

Style

Use style attribute to style the rendered commenting interface

Example
[TheChamp-FB-Comments style="background-color:#000;"]


title

Use title attribute to specify title above commenting interface.

Example
[TheChamp-FB-Comments title="Comment Time!"]


url

Use url attribute to specify the target url for comments. This defaults to the page where shortcode is used.

Example
[TheChamp-FB-Comments url="http://mywebsite.com/page2"]


num_posts

Use num_posts attribute to specify the number of comments to display.

Example
[TheChamp-FB-Comments num_posts="5"]


width

Use width attribute to specify the width of commenting interface. Omit it for fluid width

Example
[TheChamp-FB-Comments width="200"]


language

Use language attribute to specify the language code for commenting interface. Leave it empty for default language(English)

Example
[TheChamp-FB-Comments language="es_ES"]


You can use shortcode in PHP file as following

<?php echo do_shortcode(‘SHORTCODE’) ?>

Replace SHORTCODE in above code with the required shortcode like [TheChamp-FB-Comments style=”background-color:#000;”], so the final code looks like following
<?php echo do_shortcode('[TheChamp-FB-Comments style="background-color:#000;"]') ?>


GooglePlus Commenting

You can use [TheChamp-GP-Comments] Shortcode in the content of required page/post where you want to display GooglePlus Commenting interface.

You can use title, style, url and width attributes in this shortcode as explained for Facebook Commenting above.

Facebook comments are visible only when logged into the website?

If you are using Super Socializer plugin for Social Comments, follow the steps mentioned below to enable Facebook Comments for the users not logged in at your WordPress website.

Navigate to Settings > Discussion from the left sidebar in the admin panel of your website, disable the option “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” and save changes.Facebook Comments - User must be registered and logged in to comment