How to Get Facebook Notifications from the Facebook Comments Plugin on your Site

By: Kelly Heffner Wilkerson
November 11, 2017 at 12:10 PM


We use the Facebook Comment Plugin for our software reviews, because we like the validity that real people's profiles lend to their reviews. But, I was irritated with it because I wasn't getting any kind of notification when someone left a new review. I finally fixed it so our moderators get notifications in Facebook when someone leaves a new comment in the Comment plugin. Here's my notes in case they help you!

<meta property="fb:app_id" content="REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_APP_ID" />

That's all we needed to do! Definitely leave a comment if you notice additional steps needed to get notifications working on your site, or if you have questions!

Update November 11, 2017:

Our Facebook comment notifications, moderation tool link, and some moderation functionality broke a few days ago. The underlying cause was that we had a fb:admin meta tag and a fb:app_id tag. Digging through some Facebook Comment Plugin bug reports we learned that deep in the documentation, it says use one of these tags, but not both (sigh). We removed all traces of our fb:admin tags, and left only the fb:app_id tag in place, purged cached Facebook data for the comment url we were having difficulty with, and within a few minutes the moderation tool link and moderation functionality was back.

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