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  • Hello WP gurus! Hoping someone else has had this problem and can help me out….

    I’m setting up a community site that will rely heavily on facebook comments for discussion – it’s an ask and answer type site and I will be cross posting Blog posts (questions), etc., to the associated fan page and pulling comments from FB back into WP.

    At first I thought I could use Simple Facebook Connect to accomplish this but

    a) I can’t manage imported FB comments once they are in WP (what if I need to delete a comment? There’s no way to do that on demand) and

    b) I really want to add incentive for discussion by using disqus or intense debate (I particularly like disqus)

    SFC is really slick, but not being able to moderate comments is huge so I opted to just use a simple plugin called Facebook Comments Importer to import FB commetns into WP. That works great!!

    And then I installed Disqus – problem is, in order for FB comments that have been imported into WP to show up in disqus, one has to manually export the WP comments – and there is no auto sync feature, so one has to do that manually several times a day. Obviously not something I want to do.

    I then deleted disqus and installed Intense Debate – their site actually says:

    “IntenseDebate runs parallel to your WordPress comments so if one of your readers has JavaScript disabled in their browser then they will have access to all comments. Any comments posted in WordPress will be imported into ID”

    – SO I set up ID but no, alas, it only imports WP comments when it’s first set up – no regular auto sync feature for it either.

    I can’t imagine I am the only person with this issue – surely other Disqus and/or Intense Debate users have had need for automated, regular export of WP comments (originally imported regularly from youtube, FB, etc….!) SO, if anyone has any suggestions on how to make this work, I would be very grateful!! I did think about possibly creating a chron job to run the export but I’m using 1and1 beginning hosting package and have no SSH access – blah!!

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