Facebook Comments can bring better interactivity into your Blog.
These comments will work like a Facebook Wall.This tutorial will help
you to easily setup Facebook Commenting on your Blogger Blog.
Features:
- Threaded Comments
- Comment Permalinks
- Likability
- Can Subscribe or unsubscribe to comments
- Can Moderate Comments at one place
Drawbacks:
1. Won’t Sync with your Existing Blogger Comments
Adding Facebook Comments to Blogger:
1.
Hide Existing Comments – The best way to start off is by hiding the comments made from the Blogger System. To do that, go to
Settings >
Posts and Comments and set the
Show Comments option to
Hide and Save the Settings
2.
Create a Facebook App To display Facebook
Comments on your Blog you should have a Facebook Application. Don’t get
worried by the name. You can do that with a few clicks.
Go to this URL
https://developers.facebook.com/apps and click on the Create New App button
Enter Some name for your App Agree to the Terms and click on the continue button
If it issues a Captcha verification, type the Captcha and click on the Submit Button
Now you will be taken to a Settings Screen
In the App Domain Field give
blogspot.com (If you
are using a custom domain give that) Give your Blog Address in the Site
URL field under “Website” and Save The Changes. Copy the Application ID
from the screen
3.
Add Application and Moderator Meta Tags
Modify the below code with the application id copied in step 2.
<meta content='YOUR_FACEBOOK_APPLICATION_ID' property='fb:app_id'/>
Go to
Template/
Design >
Edit HTML and paste the above code just below
<head>
and Save the Template
You should create the Facebook Application and the above fb:app_id
meta tag should be added to your Blog. Otherwise you won’t be able to
manage/moderate your Comments from a single Place(you will have to go to
posts one my one and moderate and that too is possible only if you have
added the fb:admins open graph meta tag).
4.
Add FB Comments – Now you have to add the Facebook Comment Form to your Blog Template. To do that Go to
Template/
Design >
Edit HTML and click on the “Expand Widget Templates” checkbox
Find the following code in your template(Use the keyboard shortcut
Ctrl + F), and immediately below that paste the following code:
<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
If you can’t find this, then find
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>
If you cant find that as well, then find
<data:post.body/>
Paste the following code just below the line that you just found out
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d){
var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
}(document));</script>
<fb:comments width='450' colorscheme='light' expr:title='data:post.title' expr:href='data:post.canonicalUrl' expr:xid='data:post.id'/>
</b:if>
If you want to alter the width, then you can change
450 to the width that you want. If you want the dark version of Facebook comments, then change
light to
dark in the above code.
5.
FB Namespace Declaration – Next you have to add the fb namespace to your template tag.Your template should have the specification for the
fb tag that you have used. The following XML namespace declaration will take care of that. To declare the namespace, find
<html
and change it to
<html xmlns:fb="https://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"
(there is a space after the 2008/fbml” )The following screenshot will help you out.
Save the Template. This namespace declaration is necessary for all FBML widgets using the
fb tag. So if you have already added the namespace declaration while adding some other FB plugin, then you can skip this.
6. Hey! You are done.. Now you should see the Comment box on your Blog
If you can’t see it, then it would probably be because you have added
some Non-FBML Facebook Plugin. If that is the case, then remove it and
add the FBML versions of those widgets. All Facebook Plugins Provided
here use the FBML markup(at the time of writing).
Managing Your Comments
When you are logged in to your Facebook account, the Facebook comment
plugin will detect that you are the admin(it will detect you if you
have added the fb:app_id or fb:admins meta tags). You will be able to
manage the Settings and moderate the comments from there:
Check the “Other Login Providers” (Yahoo AOL and Hotmail)option and
Save the settings if you want non-Facebook users to leave comments.
You can moderate your comments from this URL
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments
Displaying Facebook Comment Count
Use the following code in the post loop to get a Comment Count
Display with a link to the comment form. This code should be added
within the post loop. For example, this can be added below
<data:post.body/>
<b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost'>
<script>(function(d){
var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";
d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
}(document));</script>
</b:if>
<a expr:href='data:post.url + "#fb-root"'><fb:comments-count expr:href='data:post.canonicalUrl'></fb:comments-count> comments</a>
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