How To Set Up Facebook Comments on Wordpress?

How To Set Up Facebook Comments on WordPress?

June 3, 2011

There’s many reasons you’d want to set up Facebook Comments on your WordPress site. Here’s some…

Traffic generation. When people leave a Facebook comment on your WordPress site, by default they also share that comment on their Facebook profile. This means that all their friends see the comment, and the link to your site! This can make your site go viral.
More interaction. I believe that website visitors are more likely to leave a Facebook comment rather than fill in the traditional WordPress comments section.
SEO. When ranking websites, Google is placing a greater emphasis on social networking activity. If your site is getting lots of links from different Facebook users, it will rank higher in the search engines.

There’s two steps to setting up Facebook Comments on WordPress. First you need to install the plugin and then you need to configure all the settings.

Installing the Facebook Comments for WordPress plugin

Login to your WordPress Dashboard
Select ‘Add new‘ under the Plugins section
In the Search field, type in ‘Facebook Comments for WordPress‘ and click on the ‘Search Plugins‘ button
In the list of results, find the ‘Facebook Comments for WordPress‘ plugin and click on ‘Install Now‘
After the plugin has installed, click on ‘Activate Plugin‘

Configuring the Facebook Comments for WordPress plugin

After the plugin has activated, you should see a message (in red) saying that you need to “set a valid application ID and application secret”. Click on the link provided within the message to go to the plugin’s Options page
Once in the Options page of Facebook Comments for WordPress, look for the link that reads “Create a Facebook app“. Here’s the url: https://www.facebook.com/developers/createapp.php
Once at Facebook’s ‘Create Application’ page, give your application a name (in the field provided). Any name will do; I like to name it after my blog.
Select ‘Agree‘ to Facebook’s terms and conditions (unless you don’t!) and then click on ‘Create Application‘
You’ll then see a Basic Information page about your new app. Fill in all the necessary fields and click ‘Save Changes‘
A page should appear with all the IDs, keys and secrets for your newly created app. Copy the Application ID. Go back to the Options page of Facebook Comments for WordPress on your blog and paste in the Application ID into the appropriate field
Next, copy the App Secret and paste it into the appropriate field in the Options page on your blog
Check the rest of the settings to see if you’re happy with them and when you’re ready, click on the ‘Update Options‘ button

Congratulations! Facebook Comments are now active on your WordPress site!

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