Comments Missing After SSL Upgrade

Hi silgringo,

This is what I did in the end.

I added the facebook comments without a plugin, like mentioned here: http://ryanbradley.com/blog/how-to-install-facebook-comments-on-wordpress-site

That does not solve the issue, but now we are ready to fix it.

This code places the facebook comments box:

<div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" data-width="100%" data-numposts="10" data-order-by="social" data-colorscheme="light"></div>

The <?php the_permalink(); ?> prints current URL including the https (once you migrated to https).

I have replaced that part by echo-ing the http URL and the current slug. That fixed it, at least if thought. I had all my all comments back, but when people started to comment to new posts it went wrong. I did not see those comments appear in my Facebook Moderation Tool. They seemed to be hanging out there in space. So I altered the code in such a way that it uses the https URL for new posts.

<div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php
$postid = get_the_ID();

if ($postid < 8047) {
    echo "http://supersnelgezond.nl/" . $post->post_name;
}else{
    the_permalink();
}
?>/" data-width="100%" data-numposts="10" data-order-by="social" data-colorscheme="light"></div>

If you implement this option please adjust the post id number. This should match the post id of your first new post using https.

Also change the http URL to your own URL.

You can place the code on the first line of your comments.php file of your theme or (even better) create a comments.php in your child theme with the following code:

<div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php
$postid = get_the_ID();

if ($postid < 8047) {
    echo "http://supersnelgezond.nl/" . $post->post_name;
}else{
    the_permalink();
}
?>/" data-width="100%" data-numposts="10" data-order-by="social" data-colorscheme="light"></div>

<?php include '/wp-content/themes/Avada/comments.php'?>

Please make sure to update the last line to point to your Parrent Theme comments.php

PS It works as far as I can tell. If somebody knows of a reason why you should not to solve it like this, please let me know. Hopefully you will have the better solution as well 😉

My apologies, I was missing one slash for the “old” posts

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<div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php
$postid = get_the_ID();

if ($postid < 8000) {
    echo "http://supersnelgezond.nl/" . $post->post_name . "/";
}else{
    the_permalink();
}
?>" data-width="100%" data-numposts="10" data-order-by="social" data-colorscheme="light"></div>

I know this is a old topic but i want to share working solution of it,
Using the approach used by @jazzmofo i found that why it is not working for others , problem is in this line
echo “http://supersnelgezond.nl/” . $post->post_name . “/”;
as this site is using permalink structure of site.com/postname so it will only work if any one is using same permalink structure, so i alter the code as:-

<?php
$permalink = get_permalink();
$find = array( 'https://' );
$replace = 'http://';
$output = str_replace( $find, $replace, $permalink );
?>
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php
$postid = get_the_ID();

if ($postid < 44133) {
    echo $output;
}else{
    the_permalink();
}

?>" data-width="100%" data-numposts="10" data-order-by="social" data-colorscheme="light"></div>

No need to add your site link as this code will get permalink , it will replace https with http and yahooooooo.
check it and see the magic 🙂

Note:- Do change post ID number to yours. it will be id of first post you published after changing your site to https.

Just trying to save others day 🙂

Maybe it helps to check the date of the SSL certificate and use that to find the related post?

Pages have post-dates too and they use the post ID as well. I would find the date of the switch to SSL using the certificate, sort the pages by date in the WP dashboard and find the first page posted after that date of the switch. Click edit page and you’ll find the post ID in the URL.