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!
fb:app_id
tag to any page using the Facebook Comments Plugin. Also if you're using the data-href
attribute in your fb-comments
div, the url referenced by the data-href
attribute must also have the fb:app_id
meta tag. For most people these two pages are one in the same (and the comments are referenced to the current page), but if you've had to move sites/urls and keep your comments, they may be different.<meta property="fb:app_id" content="REPLACE_WITH_YOUR_APP_ID" />
fb:admins tag
along with the fb:app_id
tag will work as well.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!
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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