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1. OC2PS
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Otto, can you please explain what this feature really does?

   My guess was that if I post a link to a page on Facebook, then any comments made on Facebook in response to that link would also appear as comments on the page. Am I miles off?

   Also, to activate this, there seems to be a requirement to turn auto-publish on. What is auto publish? Will autopublish automatically post a link to my page/post on Facebook as soon as I publish the page/post? If so then it seems a bit odd to make comments dependent on auto publication of links...

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 months ago #

   You nailed it as to what the feature does.

   And yes, the auto-publish has to be enabled. This is because the auto-publish mechanism receives the ID of the resulting post to Facebook, and that ID is needed to check Facebook for the comments on that post.

   In other words, if you're manually publishing links and things, then there's no way for the plugin to know that you did so and no way for it to ask Facebook to get the comments back. But with auto-publish, it's making the post to FB, so it knows the ID of the post, and thus it can go get the comments for that post.

3. OC2PS
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I see, that makes sense.

   But don't you receive the ID even if I manually publish a link via the plugin (i.e. instead of copy pasting the link in Facebook, I hit the Post on Facebook button that your plugin adds to pages)?

4. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 months ago #

   No, the manual button is entirely javascript based. It's going from your browser directly to FB. Never hits the server.

5. pablo88
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hey,

   I spend all day searching solution and I can't find anything useful...
   My problem is with comments. Here is the site:
   http://asadorrioja.com/

   Well, I set all necessary options + "Automatically Publish to Facebook Fan Page". I get:
   User ID and Access Token found!
   Application Access Token found!
   Fan Page Access Token found!

   Then I publish post - automatically it goes on my fun page. Then I try to comment using button "connect to facebook" - everything go right. Then I put some comment and I submit it. It appears on my web (with my facebook avatar) but at facebook fun page where is automatically published this post it doesn't appear.
   What's more, it also doesn't work in the other direction. When I try to comment automatically published post it appear on the fb but not at my web page. It's look like I doesn't cooperate...

   Any solution? I will be grateful.

6. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Comments aren't shared like that between the two posts. That's not a feature of the plugin.

7. pablo88
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   But what "Integrate comments made on Facebook back into your own site" means? For example if someone put comment on my automatically published post in fb, the comment should be send back to my website?? But it's not working...

8. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 months ago #

   That will work, but it has a delay built in for caching reasons. So it may take 12 hours or more for the comments to show up on your site.

   Even then, they won't show up like normal comments do. They will show up on the single-post-page for that post only.

9. pablo88
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Thank you ;)

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