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Face It! Commenting

Facebook's Comments plugin allows your site's visitors to comment on your pages.

Visitors who are Facebook users have the option of having their comments appear on their timeline, which then spreads the comment, and links to your site, to their friends.

You can have comments on any pages you want, except Content 2.0 pages, by simply dragging a Social Block to those pages (or to a Sitewide Dot if you want to allow comments on every page).

Creating Your Comments Box Code

To make the Commenting work, you need to create and obtain code. Click here...

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments

You can customize your FB code, depending on the options you select (view the changes as you make them, below the options)...

• Enter your site's full domain name into URL to comment on, starting with https://www. and ending with a /.

  Solo Build It! will then convert the URL to the full page URL for that page if it has Commenting enabled.

• Select the Width. Enter 100% on computer screens. The width setting is ignored on phones.

• Enter the Number of posts (comments) you want to display at one time. Start with 5.

  You may want to change that later, increasing it or decreasing it to suit your circumstances. Remember, however, that this is a global change that will affect every page that has Commenting on it.

When you're done, scroll down past the comments preview (if any) and click on Get Code. A small overlay will appear.

Click in the Step 2 box and highlight the number string that follows appId=. It's 15 characters and looks like this: 184484178273557. Note that part of it may be on the next line. Paste the AppID into a text file and save it.

Click in the Step 3 box and highlight all the code there. Copy it and paste it into the text document.

Building Your Comments Box

Now that you have your Commenting code, it's time to build that feature for your site's pages in Face It!.

1. In the Facebook Commenting section, click on Yes. That will open the rest of the tool.

2. In the first box, customize the default introductory headline and/or the text to entice your visitors to leave a comment. This text box accepts simple HTML.

   The default is a bit of HTML for...

   New! Comments
   
   Have your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below.

   Remember that this text appears on every page with Commenting, at the start of the Commenting section of the page. So make it general enough so that it works on every page.

   Your goal is to "get the comment."

   Once your pages start receiving comments, you can send folks directly to the comments section of a page by adding "#COMMENTING" to the end of that page's URL. For example...

   https://www.anguilla-beaches.com/air-travel-to-anguilla.html#COMMENTING

3. Copy the Commenting code (not the 15 digit character string) from your text document and paste it into the Facebook Comments code text box in the Face It! Commenting tool.

4. Select where you want Commenting to appear -- Home Page Only or All Pages. Note that this will not affect where you can place the Commenting box using the Social Block in BB2.

5. Copy your appId from the text file, being sure not to pick up any spaces before or after the character string. Paste it into the text box for the Facebook AppID.

6. Optional: Paste your Facebook ID, either your long character string or your username (if you created one after you received 25 friends to your profile page), into the last text box. You'll find one or the other as part of your profile's URL in your browser's address bar.

   For example, https://www.facebook.com/nori.evoy, or https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=861025267

   Or use this method to find your profile's ID: right-click on your photo in your profile. Copy the URL and paste it into a text document. It will look something like this...

   https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.440593644254.216743.599854211

   The last set of numbers (in bold above, after the last period) is your personal profile's ID number.

   Also add the ID for any other Facebook user whom you want to have help you moderate comments (separate the IDs with commas). Use the above profile photo tip to find the ID for anyone else who will be a moderator.

   Be sure not to pick up any spaces before or after the character string(s).

Don't have a username? The URL for your Facebook personal account is still that long URL that's impossible to remember? Once you have 25 friends, go to this page and choose a memorable username.

Note: This refers to your personal number or username, not that of your business page.

7. Once done, click on the Face It! button at the bottom of the page to save your settings.

Set a Facebook App ID for Your Site

Both moderation of Facebook Commenting and having Messenger as a Socialize It! option require that you set an App ID. The same one will work for either or both commenting and Messenger.

Facebook created an App ID for you when you created your app (see the Facebook Likes help for details). Simply copy the 15 character number string and paste it into the text box.

If you don't want commenting or Likes, you'll need to create a new Facebook app for Messenger, then copy the app ID string and paste it into the text box.

Click here to read the TNT HQ article that outlines the steps to do that.

When you're done, click on the Face It! button to save your settings.

Managing Comments

You manage comments by clicking on the Moderation Tool link at the top of the Commenting box on a page. This lets you moderate only the comments on that page.

You can also go to the moderation tool directly to moderate all the comments left on your site by bookmarking this URL...

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments

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