IMPORTANT: Facebook comments isn’t working right now, I’m looking for someone to take over this to make it work. Leave a comment.
Basically a new version can start using the facebook comments API for notes, but will still have to match note ids to wordpress URLs by screen scraping facebook like the original plugin.
Old Info:
For a while I’ve been using Adam Hill’s facebook comment importer, to get comments from facebook back in to my blog. I recently realised it wasn’t working, so I tried Thomas Albright’s edit, no joy there either. Did some debugging and got it working my self. You can download it here: facebooknotes.php.
All new changes have been commented incase they need to be moved back, though I think my version is the only one being actively maintained at the moment.
Change Log:
0.36
Latest fixes for facebook with changes from Benjamin Trice
0.33
Option to not import comments for posts whose comment status is closed.
0.32
Should work for pages and situations where there facebook user specified in wordpress isn’t friends with the commenter on the note.
0.31
Removed debug statement
0.30
Fix for the latest version of facebook!
0.29
Option not to notify (email) of new comments from facebook
0.28
Option to import from every page of notes from facebook, not just the first one.
0.27
Version 2.5.1 introduced that the GUID might not be the permalink (http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6492). The plugin now uses a different method for converting the URL to a post ID. Should also fix some earlier problems with the “Original Comment Post Not Found” error.
0.26
Version 0.26 with fix for latest facebook HTML mark up
0.25
Fix added by Aaron Harp to allow thie plugin to work with feedburner
I think facebook have probable changed something and its stopped working again. I’ll have a look sometime.
Hey – I have the same problem as chris, Simon and Misty…
When I click manually import, it just says “Manually importing comments…†– but nothing happens.
I look forward to hearing from you about a fix for this problem.
thanks,
Amna
I also have this issue, “Manually importing comments…” but nothing happens. Will there be a fix or not?
Please let me know,
Best-
I have the same issue, Manually importing comments… and nothing happens. Will there be a fix?
Thanks Best-
This plugin does not work at all. Should be fixed or deleted.
I have the same issue, Manually importing comments… and nothing happens. Will there be a fix?
I think this plugin is really useful, I hope you make a fix. Good work.
Thanks
Is it possible to import the comments from a group instead of from a profile?
Yea, Facebook has seen some huge changes, I’m just a little too busy to fix things tight now.
Hi, I’m Michele from Italy.
I find your plugin very useful, i would like to know when you’ll get time …
I think that your commenters will understand an incentive via paypal…
Here is another voice encouraging you to update the plugin when you can. In passing, nice on the biblegateway one.
Thank you for this great plugin- I hope you get the chance soon to update it so it will work !
Maybe now using new Api or Facebook Connect the game is more easy?
Keep this plugin alive, please!!
Hi, I don’t know if I did something wrong, but it doesn’t seem to work for me.
Not sure what I’ve got wrong, but my FB comments are not appearing on my original web site. The WordPress plug-in appears to be working (“getting next page …”), but nothing shows up. Any insight?
Thanks!
Thank you again for your work on this plugin. A lot of us still use it. :)
I seem to have the same problem as Melissa – it appears to work, but none of my comments are coming over. Sadly I have not found anything else that even claims to offer this functionality.
I hope you can get it fixed James.
Someone else has been working on this as well – trying their best to contribute since it’s a big undertaking, FB keeps changing and their API isn’t well suited for the task. You can get the latest @ http://heroinc.org/2009/07/29/0-38d-facebook-comments/
Thanks, James, for starting this!
Thank you for this plugin!
I was able to successfully install this plugin, but none of my comments are coming in. I am on WordPress version 2.7.1. Is this plugin only available for version 2.3?
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. Please help! I’d be more than happy to pay for such a feature.
Hello James!
Is the plug-in working? Everytime i click import it goes blank. I am running the latest version of WP.
Thanks!
nothing happens…
need to fix wordpress code to appear??
I will try and get a fix soon.
I think I’m doing everything correctly, but it seems to be stuck at:
Manually importing comments…
Interesting points on screen scrapers, I use python for simple html screen scrapers, but for larger projects i used screen scrape which worked great, they build quick custom screen scraper and web scraper programs
A working alternative: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-commentstng/
High there!
I like the idea, integrating Facebook comments on my Blog. I found your nice piece of code and thought to install it on WP Version 2.8.6…
Everything went fine and I wanted to fine tune the plugin.
Now I am stucked!
How do I find the “Notes URL” in my Facebook profile?!
Might be a silly question, but for me it is not clear… Thanks for any help and feedback!
Huh… any suggestion on my post above? As I see, my question is still in “moderation” mode…
Thanks for any feedback!
This site site is lame!
I have a post, dated 7th of November in the pipline and it wasn´t approved until today…
Thats what I really hate!
The plugin isn´t working and I was happy to find another one.
I tried to install this today but it didn’t seem to do anything.
I entered my username and pass (which I didn’t like doing for an app! I like my password to be secret) and ran the test, which it said worked.
I then posted a comment on one of my recent notes, ran the manual import and I did not see the comment get imported. Any ideas?
Yep the plugin isn’t really working at the moment. It works by screen scraping facebook which is why it needs the username and password. I’ll try fix things sometime but super busy with other things at the moment.
thanks for the plugin.. is this working now? nweiz thanks for coding this plugin.. I’ll be waiting for the updates :)
hey, plz fix the plugin. :( its amazing and i’ll love it. great work. i’ll have a look every day for a update. :)
I haven’t seen this plugin before, but I think this is will be nice plugin …. :)
We used to use this plugin on our main website before and actually like to introduce it to our clients but suddenly its not working anymore, ope the developer update this plugin or will ask to adopt it and redevelop.
thanks
James,
I would be happy to take over maintaining and working on this plugin if you like. I have already built a couple custom Facebook plugins for various clients and figure I could probably manage getting this to work with new API’s easily enough.
Let me know.
Ryan
Dude, that would be great, I was almost about to post this request for most of my plugins.
What’s your wordpress.org id so I can add you to the SVN.
James,
My ID is serenitysoft. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.
Ryan
James,
Let me know when you get this done, I should have updates on this code today that will get it working again here.
Thanks in advance,
Ryan
0.37 posted everyone.