I have tried for a month to set up Facebook comments on my site. I want the comment box on my post pages. Also, I want the social buttons which seem to be there sometimes. What file do I place the JavaScript SDK code on, in my PHP or CSS (or is it pasted into each post page)? Then do I cut and past the plugin code into each page I want it to be available, or just in one theme file? I'm lost in this sense and no one seems to be able to give me an answer.
All of the information you will need is on the Facebook developer page! If you are using Wordpress you may easily implement Facebook comments by installing the official Facebook plugin.
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I'm using a plugin called FooBox for wordpress that puts share buttons on top of images within a Pop-Over.
Within the settings of this plugin is an option to:
Enable Facebook's new feed dialog way of sharing, rather than their old (and deprecated!) sharer.
Please note that this method requires a Facebook App Id in order to function!
I'm not exactly a developer... so I cannot determine what this means, if its better, how so..
Could someone explain in laymen terms what this is?
Thank you
The old sharer method is no longer deprecated, as Facebook have recently updated it (and removed the deprecated notice that was on their site for ages). Both methods have pros and cons. This is my understanding:
FaceBook Sharer
Easy to implement and no facebook app id needed in order to setup
Can share to personal timeline as well as other facebook pages you are admin for
Sharer recently was updated (Feb/Mar 2014) and no longer accepts custom images and overrides anything you pass it with the image opengraph tags used on the page you are linking to. This is a major problem when used with lightbox solutions like FooBox, because the specific image that is shared no longer gets recognized by facebook.
Feed Dialog
More involved to setup and get working. An app ID is required and the app ID cannot be shared across domains.
It only allows you to share to your personal timeline. No support for sharing to pages that you are an admin for.
It accepts custom images, so FooBox works and the specific image that is shared is the image that is shown in the user's timeline.
I am the developer of FooBox and will be updating the plugin soon with an updated explanation to help users on learning what the difference is.
And since Facebook have removed support for custom images since Mar 2014, we will no longer recommend the sharer, but rather push the feed dialog.
More Info
Facebook documentation page on the sharer. (further down the page under the FAQ section and hardly mentioned)
Facebook documentation page on the feed dialog.
Response from facebook about no longer supporting the custom image for the sharer.
Which Facebook plugin do i need to use for my website,that would let visitors make comments/reviews and those comments are shown on my Facebook Business page.
I have already tried the Comments Plugin but that is showing the comment to the person profile that has left the review.
well if you are using Wordpress,you may use Wordpress plugin provided by Facebook itself.Another chance is you are not using Wordpress ,then you either need to develop your own application for this,or you can use a third party app.You may find a nice app here:
link
I know there is a plugin to put facebook comment app into Wordpress, which automatically merge the comments. The problem is that I installed the plugin hard-code style, so I don't have any plugin page on Wordpress, I just check the comments with the moderator tool at facebook. Now I don't want it anymore, and I'm not finding a way to export the comments to wordpress. Tried this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-import-comments/ but doens't work, doesn't event my App ID. Any ideas?
Try Facebook for SEO - it should import them into your database (just noticed that it won't import the user pic with the comment, but it worked on mine). I was using the social media plugin for Facebook comments using the FB developers app.
I've been asked to code a Facebook page, and I have no idea where to start. A bit of googling around has lead me FBML (Facebook markup language) but I can't find anything definitive in the help or any good tutorials on how to code a custom facebook page.
Anyone have any great links on how to create a Facebook page? Beyond actually just making the page on Facebook. Things such as embedding video, adding backgrounds, forms, animation and fully featured web page type functionality.
The design we have has all these elements, along with pulling RSS feeds and such.
Any help, or direction would be great!
Thanks,
You should not use FBML anymore!
We are in the process of deprecating FBML. If you are building a new
application on Facebook.com, please implement your application using
HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
A facebook app/page is a simple html site where you connect to facebook via the Facebook API. In the meantime the facebook documentation has become quite readable. Have a look at:
SDK tools (JS and PHP)
Authentication (how to know who the user is)
Permissions (the user has to approve that you may gather information)
The Graph API (how to get informations)
Dialogs (how to interact on the clientside)
Okay since I have little experience with this stuff and the Facebook documentation is very scattered, I figured I would ask StackOverflow.
I am making an iFrame Canvas Facebook application using FBJS and some PHP. I would like to make a Dialog box that displays a form for the user to enter some information to then be sent on to a database. I know how to program a good chunk of it but the main problem arises in just getting the dialog WITH the form up on the page. What would be the best way of doing so?
Thanks in advance!
I've been developing Facebook apps since almost the beginning, and yes, the current documentation is very scattered! First, you should be using FBJS in an iframe app. FBJS was designed for use in FBML apps (non-iframe based). The only place you have to use it is in a Page tab. Unless you mean the Facebook javascript API.
You didn't mention what dialog you were trying to create. Here is a link to Facebook's "dialogs". http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/dialogs/
But I don't think that is what you are looking for. If you are trying to post to someone's wall, then this is the link you want. Scroll down to the "Dialog" section. http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/
But if you are just trying to prompt for information and save it, you can use plain javascript and html. You can even use libs like jquery, prototype, etc.