Use Facebook Comments on Your WordPress Site

WordPress does provide a default comments system. However, many people find the default comments to be limited and hard to manage.

I’ve seen a lot of WordPress sites move to Facebook comments so that they can provide a better alternative.

In this post, I’m going to show you how to run Facebook comments on your WordPress site.

Step #1. Install the Facebook Comments plugin

• Login to your WordPress site.
• Go to Plugins > Add new and search for “Facebook Comments”.
• Click “Install Now” and activate the plugin

Step #2. Create a Facebook App ID

• Go to the Facebook Developers page.
• Click “Add a new app”.
• Choose “Website”.

• Type in a custom name for the app.
• Click “Create new Facebook app ID”.

• Choose a Category, which in my case is “Apps for pages”.
• Click “Create App ID”.

Your app ID is almost ready!

In the next page, you will see a bunch of code. Look for the “appId” reference and copy its value without the quotation marks. This will be the ID to use in the next step.

• Scroll down and type the URL of your WordPress site.
• Then, click “Next” to finish this part.

Step #3. Add Facebook App ID to your WordPress site

Go back to your site’s dashboard.

1. Settings
2. Facebook comments
3. Type in the App ID from the previous step.

• Scroll down to click the “Save changes” button.

Step #4. End result

Visit one of your posts to confirm the Facebook comments plugin is indeed working:

With this current setup, your site now allows you to post Facebook comments, but also the regular WordPress comments below. In order to disable the default comment, take a look at this tutorial.

If you want more features, check out how to reply to WordPress comments by email.