[Plugin: Facebook Comments for WordPress] strange and broken post/comment/permalink URLS?

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, 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.

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.

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!