Facebook seriously need an API for this, and for groups.

Ok, another update to facebook’s html broke the plugin again, hopefully I’ll have a fix soon.

This is an example comment from facebook…

I tried installing verion 0.21 and I get a “fatal error” when I try to activate the plugin. I am changing the extention of the text file from .php.txt to .php Am I doing something wrong?

yep, should change from .php.txt to .php

What version of wordpress are you using?

I am using version 2.2.1.

I’ve tried on version 2.1.3 to 2.3.0

haha, ok, while i’ve tired on version 2.1.3 and 2.3.0, not on all version inbetween. hmmm. let me see if I can install that version on my test blog.

It seems that the facebook developers are trying to keep pace with us “hackers”. Since their revenue now depends on ads, FB is trying to keep all functionality WITHIN facebook pages (more ads displayed).

A bit short-sighted if you ask me.

yea, they’re missing tons of functionality from their API, and I think opensocial is a much better idea.

I’ve tried the plugin on 2.2.1 and it activates, I’m on php 5+, but I’m not sure its that. Have you tried the older versions of the plugin from Adam’s site? I haven’t changed much of the code, so activation should be the same, so if those work, this should work. I mainly changed some of the regular expressions and things.

I just upgraded to WordPress Version 2.3.1. And I just re-installed v.0.21 for the plugin. I used the “manually import” button and it detected the comments from facebook, it said that the comments were added to the WP database… BUT STILL, they do not show up in my page.

Yes, I tried the 0.1 version on both of my WP version. Hmmm…

I appreciate your help and time. Please find me in facebook, I could not find you. Thanks bro.

* is there a delay? Wordpress is saying that the comments found from FB are already in the database. Nothing shows up. Any ideas?

This is why it is not working. Because although WP detects and imports the comment, it does not associate it with the correct post, as it is shown in the “# 0″ at the end string.

“Nov 25, 10:48 PM — [ Edit | Delete | Unapprove | Approve | Spam ] — # 0″

ha, sorry this is such a hack, there shouldn’t be a delay, the output that say’s they’re in the database only occurs if they have been selected back from the DB, so if you go to your mysql database they should be in there.

yes, it does seem that maybe they’re not associated with the correct post. They did the last time I tested on mine. I’ll ad a comment from facebook, and try again.

hmmmmm… ok my test comment appears, but the date / time stamp is wrong because it doesn’t take into account the time difference between my blog and facebook.

I wonder why yours isn’t finding the correct post?

just been going through the code, the plugin detects which post to apply the comment to by using the guid from the database, and comparing with with the url extracted from the facebook “view original post” link.

if the url fed into facebook from your RSS feed is different from the one in the database, it would fail to find the correct post.

Thanks, James. The problem was that I was using a feedburner plugin to redirect the rss feed to a central location to keep track of subscribers.
“http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart”

I was using the rss feed to import posts into FB. That is the reason why the Notes in FB (original posts) and the WP posts were not matching.

I had other upgrading issues. Resolved them now.

Conclusion: Plug-in version 0.21 works like a charm. Thanks.

Dany

great, haha until facebook change something and I have to fix things all over again…

can u add support for characters like æøå?

THANK YOU! It’s nice to have this working again

Testing other characters æøå hehehe

Hi Patrick, I’ll try and see what I can do, no promises on time though

Hey patrick I just ran a test posting a comment from facebook and it does support the characters you mentioned.

Let me know if there’s anything you think isn’t working for you.

I just added the plug, and it looks fantastic. Thanks for the time you’ve put into it.

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I’m running on WP v2.1, and it’s not doing anything for me, not even wrong posts, moderation, nada.
Maybe I’m having the same prob as aforementioned, because I’m importing my FB from a feedburner feed of my WP site? If so, then.. well, I guess i’ll just have to do a CBA of what I prefer, is there no hope though/then? I think I only had a comment on one of my notes, which was sometime back…

Installed plugin, was working great, but now all comments are going to entry #0 and don’t display. Any ideas?

Neil

Yes, this seems to be a problem with some people’s setup. Its really hard for me to test and figure out why because it doesn’t do it for mine, and several others. I will keep thinking and working on this problem though.

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Hi again,

My issue appears to be ‘fixed’, so I thought I’d share some information with people who may have been having the same issue.

Hi James,
I installed version 0.22 of Facebook Comments onto Wordpress v2.3.3, and I can’t seem to get it to do anything.

When I click “Import Comments Manually,” I get the message “Manually importing comments… ” and then nothing else happens.

Do you have any suggestions?

Pete, not sure what happens, check that there are comments attached to post #0, that seems to be a reoccuring problem that happens.

If its not that, send me a screenshot of the wordpress admin screen when its doing that.

As i’ve said before, this is a bit of a hack, taken from someone else’s broken code, so it might take a while to figure out all the issues.

Thanks for the quick response! I really appreciate this.

I forgot to mention — I don’t have a post #0 on my blog. I deleted it. The earliest post I have is #3. I don’t know if this has any effect.

I’m not sure what happened, but this plugin magically started working today.

I didn’t change anything on my wordpress blog (I haven’t even logged in / posted in a week and a half). But somehow the comments started coming through.

Very odd, but I’m not complaining!

So is there still no certain fix for the #0 thing? I’ve tried all the above and still no go…

really hard to test as it hasn’t done it to my blog and i can’t seem to make it do it, but i think its just happened to one of my friends, so i may be able to get access to debug.

Cool. I’d love to hear a solution for this.

hahaha, good news everyone, my blog is now doing the #0 post thing, so i can really dig into this and figure out what on earth is happening, and hopefully have a solution for everyone!!!!!

hey everyone, so i gather that this plugin can only be used to get your comments from your own individual facebook account, not from groups that you started. is that right? when i set it up and give it my name, password, etc., it keeps telling me that i have to authorize the plugin access before i can continue…even though i fill in all the info. suggestions?

0.23 New version!
There’s a new version out, with a couple of changes. Firstly there’s a fix for comments appearing on Post #0. Firstly it won’t import the comments at all if that happens, so you shouldn’t get those appearing in your database. Secondly I’ve changed some of the code to better detect if post URL. Let me know if it works for you.

Kelly, yep, only from individual accounts, RSS feeds that are setup to import that way. As far as i know, groups don’t support importing feeds via RSS.

I’m also having the same issue (”Error, original comment post not found…)

But, i’m also having issues with Fotobook (which imports your photo albums from Facebook.)

the only thing Facebook related, which works for me, is Wordbook.

This is the plugin that I’ve been looking for, it’s a great one! Are you in the process of making it compatible with Wordpress 2.5?

At some point I will upgrade my blog to 2.5, so I’ll be doing some testing for that, will keep you posted.

Did the Feedburner issue ever get figured out? Feedburner rewrites all the post permalinks for stats keeping so the plugin looks up these URLs and doesn’t find anything. I’ll probably go in and figure this out later, but I wanted to check first and see if someone had fixed it. It’d be nice to fix this in the main release as many people use Feedburner for their feeds. Thanks for your work on this.

I’ll have a look at it sometime, probably won’t be for a while. I’ve got to upgrade a lot of blogs I maintain to wordress 2.5 first.

If you figure out something that works first though let me know, and I’ll include it in the official version of the plugin.

A great idea for a plugin — is there anything I’m supposed to do to modify the plugin so it’ll work? I’ve set up my FB to receive my WP posts and I’ve got comments over at FB that I’d love to have appear on my WP post… but I’ve installed the plugin and the posts aren’t showing up.
Any help would be appreciated - thanks!

Hi Aaron, thanks for doing that fix to make it work with feedburner. Its now in the main repository as version 0.25

Hi James, I’ve installed it on my wordpress 2.5, but its not working. The plugin page says its compatible up to 2.3, so, should I wait for your magic?

I’m getting an “original comment post not found” error when I try and get comments from Facebook.

Yep, that problem still occurs for some people. I’ll keep trying to figure out why.

I really appreciate the work you guys are doing. I had a look at the source there, and there’s enough regexes in there, I’m surprised even PHP can understand them.

I’m getting the “Error, original comment post not found…” error, and it’s driving me nuts. But there’s no way I’m going to hack around with that. It’s crazy.

yep, those were inherited from the orginal plugin that I edited when it stopped working, and no one else updated it. when they go wrong they can be a pain to figure out.

can’t wait till I finally crack where that error is coming from, or maybe if i’m lucky some else will do before me

James, I’m running wp 2.5, and the plugin does not seem to be working. Any tips? Or, plans to make it compatible? Thank you!

Hi!
I’m using WP 2.5, which I just realized you might not support yet, but my bug is still salient.
ALL my FB comments, NOT just on my imported posts, are being imported into the comments DB.
The part that might be WP 2.5-related is that its importing them all into post #1 (Hello World), but I’m not sure. I’m definitely a little complicated, I’m using a custom URL on WP (does that affect things?) and feedburner from there, to go to FB. Maybe that’s what is causing it problems with importing to the correct blog # and so it just defaults to 1 everytime?

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Hey everyone, my blog is now at the latest version of Wordpress, so I’ll be testing Facebook comments with that.

I have noticed that it is no longer importing comments at all for me, though this was caused by changes to the facebook HTML not upgrading my wordpress. Will let you know when its fixed.

Stopped working for me also. WP 2.5.1.

Ok, new version, works fo me, but its a mission to keep up with wordpress.

I meant a mission to keep up with facbeook.

Wordpress is normally ok, but with 2.5+ I’ve realised they’ve changed what the GUID means in the database, so it won’t always be the permalink, so I need to come up with another way to compare.

Ok new version 0.27

James - running wp 2.5 latest and 0.27.This is the error I’m getting:

Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in [EDITEDOUT/public_html/wp-content/plugins/facebooknotes.php on line 252]

Has this ever worked for you, or are you a first time you’ve tried? There was nothing changed with that part of the script, so I’m guessing this is the first time you tried to use it.

Its something to do with your curl setup on your server, though I’m not sure specifically whats wrong.

Ok everyone, I was in a good mood, so I’ve edited things again, and there’s now version 0.28 which will go through ever page of facebook notes, not just the first one.

First time - tried again with 0.28. Same problem, plus “cannot find original post”, etc. Thanks though.

Facebook Comments…

Facebook comments is a Wordpress plugin that will import comments from your facebook notes back into your wordpress blog….

Hey dude, just wanted to say thanks so much for updating your plugin. The latest updates have done the trick and it’s now fully compatible with the latest WP 2.5.1 engine (at least, as far as I can tell!)

Btw, I couldn’t help but notice on your blog that a) you’re from Hong Kong, and b) you’re a Christian. So am I, and I figured the English-speaking Christian community in HK can’t be all that huge.

Well anyhow, Facebook tells me we have mutual friends. I take it you go to The Vine? I’ve been there myself quite a few times, but when I’m in town I usually go to ECC.

Does this work in 2.6? I’m having troubles getting the comments to import at all! (Er, namely, they don’t, but don’t give me an error message?)

Hi, I haven’t tested it on 2.6 yet, but I don’t see why it should’t. I’ll upgrade my blog sometime and let you know.

I just ran it on 2.6 and it works fine, so there’s something else going wrong. Can you send me a screenshot of what happens when you click manually import comments?

hey i am using the facebook comment and was wondering whats the code so i can put it in the side bar?? the code? LOL!

Um, what exactly do you wan to put in your sidebar? What facebook comments does is import comments on notes from facebook to regular comments in wordpress.

Very nice plugin.

I have been looking for a way to intergrate my facebook comments, thanks!