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Jason
There was originally another plugin that I had tried before finding otto’s simple facebook connect. I just couldn’t get past the facebook set up side of it and it seemed like it perhaps wasn’t up to date – but really I just couldn’t seem to find good instructions on the facebook side – or else facebook might have been having issue or something – though doubtful.
It involved creating a facebook canvas app which would effectively embed the contents i.e. posts and comments of your blog direct within facebook and you would direct your follows at the canvas page rather than your wall. I am assuming it would still use peoples gravatars etc. This would have achieved your wishes but I just kept getting 404 errors trying to access the canvas page.
I suspect there would likely be other drawbacks limitations with that method though I couldn’t state any without investigating.
Hi Jason
Part of what you are wanting is already taken care of by Simple Facebook Connect i.e. comments do get pulled back from facebook to wordpress, its going the other that is the shortfall, i.e. from wordpress to facebook – your own comments will but not others.
Otto will correct me if I got the wrong end of the stick but it seems facebook provides apis effectively enabling wordpress posts and comments of the facebook authorized user to go to their own facebook page but not someone else’s even if that means your page and it is your blog. If I am logged into facebook and commenting on your blog then facebook allows that to go to my facebook but not yours. Logically I don’t understand why, maybe there is technical reason, or maybe it will be added in the future (I havn’t strained the brain too much trying to think of reasons why – just accepted the shortcoming).
The best way I could see around this was to send quoted comments. I don’t see a legal problem with you adding a comment into your facebook and stating that it is a quote and who and where it is from i.e. “Joe Bloggs, http://yourblogpost”. Since SFC can already send your comments then this is definitely possible but might look a bit messy and the gravatar would be your own.
I too would be interested in funding Otto to do this – he did say he would think about it and I guess if he gets enough requests then it might happen. The messiness of the comments in facebook would be Ottos issue – however if it were an option that was under settings then some like myself and yourself would choose to accept the messiness anyway as the best compromise.
Otto did mention that it might need authority from the user entering the comment, however I thought about that and since it would be me quoting someone else on my page, I think it would be me that would need to authorize and hence turning the switch on under the sfc settings should suffice.
If you decide to do something and require beer to get thru it let me know at admin at newzealandfishing dott comm – it would be worth a few dozen to me!
My vote would be checkbox (like you already have it for sharing comments to facebook) as opposed to popup – personally I find popups irritating. Perhaps an additional checkbox next to the existing one for sharing comments?
Have donated to your beer fund again.
Feel free to close this if you like.
Cheers
Another beer donated.
Using WordPress for feedback for my charter fishing business. My intention is for followers of my business/fan page to be able to see all recent feedback (and not have to know that they need to go to the blog if they are a Facebook user). It is surprising how many people love reading anything at all about fishing. These comments are fresh content that will interest fan page readers as the comments are about the business and that is the reason they are on the fan page.
Feel free to mark as resolved – or estimate how many beers I might be able to bribe you with to add this feature as definitely useful for my scenario – and I suspect others.
By the way, fantastic support and fantastic plugin – but I am sure you have been told that a few thousand times.
Cheers
Bought you another beer.
FYI, on http://ottopress.com/ their might be a z-index issue with the drop down menu in chrome. The like button etc appearing on top of the drop down menu.
OK.
How about posting the other persons comment from myself as a quote to my wall – hence achieving the desired affect – but in a muckier way?
E.g. my blog, my facebook, a friend (friend1) places comment into blog, comment goes to facebook as me containing text indicating quote from friend1?
Too messy perhaps?
Fantastic Ipstenu! You are correct!
Don’t know how I missed it before. Going to the sub site under network admin page and then clicking settings gives the admin email which is actually set as the super admins address for some reason – most likely when I created the subsites!
I hadn’t noticed this before despite scanning the settings for anything to do with moderation and comments.
Not sure how to put this as solved and closed on the forum here?
Many thanks.
Cheers
AndrewWordPress multisite, using subdirectories and not subdomains
e.g. http://booknowonline.net/blog is the main site and http://booknowonline.net/blog/SandspitFishingChartersLtd where blog is actually the wordpress directory on my server. SandspitFishingChartersLtd is what I was meaning by sub site – perhaps I should just say site?
Hi Ipstenu
Thanks for your interest.
Not by what I can see under the network admin page
> sites > sub site > users.There is only the one user/admin showing there and it is the admin for that sub site
The super user is the admin for the main site one level up which seemed to be how everything installed i.e. http://../blog/ as opposed to http://../blog/subsite1/. Is that the problem somehow perhaps? have I somehow setup wrong?
Apologies for using the term sub site etc – I don’t know the correct terminology.