Facebook Comments Widget

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Facebook Comments Widget In Action.png

Using facebook comments to let use enter facebook comments and display them.

The Facebook comments widget gives users the ability to add facebook comments to your page. To post a comment that user must have a valid Facebook account. When commenting, if the user checks "Post to Facebook" the comment will also be posted to the user's facebook account, their friends will be able to see their comments and the site url for which the posted the comment.

Moderating

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Adding the Facebook application id to a channel layout.

Comments displayed through this widget can be moderated if setup appropriately. To add moderation to this widget follow the steps below:

  1. Create a new Facebook application.
  2. Add the Facebook Comment widget to a layout within the cms
  3. Add the MetaTag Widget to the same page or channel layout
  4. Edit the meta tag widget and add in the Facebook application id provided when you created the Facebook application.
    • <meta property="fb:app_id" content="{YOUR_APPLICATION_ID}"/>
  5. Manage your comments in Facebook here.

Properties

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Property panel for Facebook Comment Widget

In the Layout Editor, facebook comments widget have these properties:

Name Description
Number of Posts Enter the number of posts to display. Leave blank to use default which is 2.
Data Width Enter the width for the widget, default is to fill the entire box width. Note that after save, you have to preview the page in order to see the change. You will not see changes in the Layout Editor.

For global widget properties see Widgets