I've noticed an uptick in comments since I switched over to it. Before I was getting around 2-4 comments per post, and now it's more like 5-10. The real benefit to me is that when I had standard wordpress comments enabled most of my comments came from other photographers, now it seems that the majority come from my clients' friends.
Oh and I use only facebook comments. I don't like the jumble of having two separate comment boxes.
@Robin.
It links a users facebook account to your blog so that the comment they make immediately appears on their page. Its drawback is that there are no longer any comments on the blog itself. Especially if you disable the existing comment box like mike does. However, its likely that your comments will go a lot further and more people will comment because they don't have to go through the hassle of providing email address etc. Go have a look at my blog, access it through my website. Leave a comment :-)
@Mike, thanks
I am using a version called 'SEO facebook comments'. It basically takes the comment text and writes it back to the SEO database on your blog. This isn't as necessarily as cool as it sounds because my understanding is that unless the meta text matches the blog content, then it gets ignored by the crawlers and a facebook comment isn't actually part of your content. I originally paid for a product that came with zero documentation - it took so long to get them to even respond to a request with support that I ended up finding the 'SEO' one which was free and fully documented. Crazy world.
I'm sure a web developer could code it to display FB comments for any visitors currently logged into Facebook, and normal comments for those not logged in. I'm pretty sure my development collaborator could do that anyway.
Ugh...having difficulty disabling the standard comments boxes....any ideas?
mikethevilla wrote:
I'm assuming you mean on the blog.
I've noticed an uptick in comments since I switched over to it. Before I was getting around 2-4 comments per post, and now it's more like 5-10. The real benefit to me is that when I had standard wordpress comments enabled most of my comments came from other photographers, now it seems that the majority come from my clients' friends.
Oh and I use only facebook comments. I don't like the jumble of having two separate comment boxes.
Disabling the wordpress comments should be an option in the plugin admin.
You can also set the width of the comment box. I would do that to match the look of your blog. When people have the facebook comments and it is just a tiny box on the left of the post it does not look right.
There is also a style option in the admin for you to throw in an overflow command and height so that once you receive more than a few comments a scroll box appears rather than have a huge line of comments.
Maybe check out taggable plugin as well. Viewers can facebook tag their friends in your post and those friends will be notified on their wall with a link to that post.
Chris Fawkes wrote:
Disabling the wordpress comments should be an option in the plugin admin.
You can also set the width of the comment box. I would do that to match the look of your blog. When people have the facebook comments and it is just a tiny box on the left of the post it does not look right.
Maybe check out taggable plugin as well. Viewers can facebook tag their friends in your post and those friends will be notified on their wall with a link to that post.
Toward the top there is a box that says basic settings. One of the options there will be "Hide WordPress comments on posts/pages where Facebook commenting is enabled".
May be something with prophoto. Perhaps shoot them an email.
At a guess for the comments to appear on the front page they have added code in the index.php to call the comments so when fb comments are trying to switch them off it's not going to the index.php but i would not touch that code, just contact prophoto for some guidance.
In the container styles i had - margin: 25px 0;<div style=”border: ; overflow: auto; height: 290px; width: 850px; color: white;background-transparent;”></div> to give me the scroll box when multiple comments appeared and then under the comment box settings i set the width to 835 so that the comments had some padding rather than hitting the edge of the scroll box when it appeared.
I also changed number of post to appear to 500 as it did not matter how many there were now that they would be contained in a scroll box.
awesome topic, perfect timing. I saw on smugmugs blog a comments tool that gave you the option to leave comments with FB or other social sites or just standard comments by way of buttons above the comment box. Anyone seen this one? I can't seem to find it and think it might be a custom solution.
