Did you turn the comments for WP off?
To turn off WordPress comments, go to your discussion settings and untick the option saying “Allow people to post comments on new articles”
I just double-checked to make sure and yeah I had already unticked that checkbox before installing the FB comments.
For the record, I just ticked that box back and saved it, then when I went to an article on my website, there was no comment box (not even the default one that comes with the site).
I’m thinking that’s because the FB comments plugin is blocking it at the moment.
Anyways,
Any other ideas?
Not sure if this helps, but adding facebook comments is super simple. In my opinion, sometimes its easier not to use a plugin and edit a theme.
For example my comments.php file looks like this, and ignore the theme specific containers, you have the permalink and then the facebook container.
Then I just turn off comments in wp completely.
<?php $link = get_permalink();?>
<div id="respond">
<div class="widget-title">
<h3 id="reply-title"><?php comment_form_title(); ?></h3>
</div>
<div style="float:left;">
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
<fb:comments href="<?php echo $link;?>" num_posts="2" width="620">
</fb:comments>
</div>
</div>
Thanks for the reply!
That does look easy.
I’m not very good with php editing though…
What I did was paste what you wrote at the bottom of my comments.php file and it didn’t work.
Do I need to change the script at all?
Do I need to delete anything to make this work?
-Mark
I made some progress with this!
Now the plugin is at least present on all my pages, but there is no box to type in.
Example:
http://www.endalldisease.com/sunscreen-causes-skin-cancer/
Here are the two issues I’d like to address:
1. On that page, at least when I go to it, there is no box for anybody to type a comment. Why?
2. When I typed my FB Application ID and Application Secret into the plugin settings, it says “ERROR! Invalid application ID.”
I know I type it in correctly, yet it says invalid. Why is that?
Hmm .. shouldn’t need any of that.
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script>
Is all that is needed to load facebook comments.
The other stuff is theme specific divs.
Try making a copy of your comments file (back up) then with the comments.php just delete everything and only put in the above and see if you see facebook comments?
