Title: Pull comments from status update? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Pull comments from status update? * [alackofcolor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alackofcolor/) * (@alackofcolor) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/) * If I post to WordPress and have the plugin post a status update to facebook ( not the Publish Post to facebook option), does the plugin pull the comments from the status update on facebook into the post on WordPress? Or does it just pull comments from facebook when the Publish Post to facebook option is used? * Also, are the comments pulled from facebook stored in the WordPress database? Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Plugin Author [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveatty/) * (@steveatty) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069636) * No – only comments from wall posts are handled – I’m not even sure status updates return a FBID. * Comments pulled from FB are stored in your DB as normal WP comments * Thread Starter [alackofcolor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alackofcolor/) * (@alackofcolor) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069667) * Thanks for your response. I’ve been looking for some way of posting small status updates from wordpress to facebook (as statuses) and having comments pulled from facebook into the wordpress database automatically (entering them in by hand is incredibly tedious) – that way I have a record of my statuses and comments in wordpress. I’m starting to think it can’t be done. * Plugin Author [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveatty/) * (@steveatty) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069669) * Wordbooker Status Updates are really designed for user who are doing the primary wall post on a Fan Page and just want to push out a little notification on their own wall about them making a new blog post. * I’ve just checked the documentation and the Status Update call returns no data which allows you to associate comments with it, and that’s the same with both the legacy REST API and the current GRAPH API. * Thread Starter [alackofcolor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alackofcolor/) * (@alackofcolor) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069670) * Is there any way I can get rid of the left-border that the plugin gives the excerpt: * [http://i54.tinypic.com/2qi75us.png](http://i54.tinypic.com/2qi75us.png) * Another plugin I’ve used in the past would post the link to my wall without putting the border to the left of the excerpt: * [http://i51.tinypic.com/kb93is.jpg](http://i51.tinypic.com/kb93is.jpg) * Seems like there would be a class or chunk of code I could modify in the plugin to achieve this. I ask this because it gets me close to what I described in my previous post. * Plugin Author [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveatty/) * (@steveatty) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069672) * That border is because there is no image for the post, or its failed to load properly across the FB CDN – its something FB does. * Thread Starter [alackofcolor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alackofcolor/) * (@alackofcolor) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069673) * Ahh, I see. To get around that, couldn’t I make a 1×1 px transparent .png and in the plugin set the picture for the link as static url for that image? If so, where would I set input the url in the plugin? Thanks again for your feedback on this. * Plugin Author [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveatty/) * (@steveatty) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069675) * You could do it by setting that image as either the featured image for the post or any of the following custom meta tags: image, thumb, Thumbnail * Thread Starter [alackofcolor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alackofcolor/) * (@alackofcolor) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069676) * Thanks for your help. What I ended up doing is replace the following bit of code in the plugin: * $matches_ct[]=get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘image’, TRUE); $matches_ct[]=get_post_meta( $post->ID, ‘thumb’, TRUE); $matches_ct[]=get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘Thumbnail’, TRUE); * with * $matches_ct[]=’blankimageurl’; * so I wouldn’t have to deal with meta tags or featured images and it did the trick. Now I essentially have what I wanted, except the text is gray and not black like a status update, but I think I can live with that. * Thread Starter [alackofcolor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alackofcolor/) * (@alackofcolor) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pull-comments-from-status-update/#post-2069677) * Actually, I found a better solution, which is setting the post attribute to the content in the plugin, that gives me something not unlike a typical status message: * [http://i54.tinypic.com/e8tyiw.png](http://i54.tinypic.com/e8tyiw.png) * A hack, but effective. 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