I’m trying to install Facebook comments onto a word press blog, but I do not want to loose all the previous comments. I’m curious if anyone has any ideas how to do this. I’ve looked at a lot of the various plugins, and haven’t been able to find a good solution.
I would like to find a way for the Facebook comment system to be the default comment system, and if someone doesn’t have Facebook (or doesn’t want to use it) they can use the default wordpress comment system (unless something different exists.) Another option is to use the default wordpress plug in on all previous posts, and moving forward use just the Facebook plug in. I just don’t want it to look like all previous posts have no comments when they actually do, if that makes sense.
I’m open to any ideas that you have. Thanks!
From all I could research on this, there’s just no way to “merge” existing WP comments onto the Facebook Plugin. So my solution for this problem with a client was to style wordpress comments exactly like fb comments, except that they always appear below all other fb comments.
Then, by default, i leave the fb comment form loaded on the single page, and at the bottom of everything i have this “don’t use facebook? comment here” button, calling WordPress’ default popup comments window.
This way you can still have both functionalities and still privilege fb comments.
EDIT:
I didn’t realize you were talking about plugins in general, and not about the actual FB Comments App. My solution was to install it by hand, on the actual comments.php instead of looking for a plugin. It turned out to be easier than to find a plugin that would do it exactly as i wanted.
