The more engaging is your content, the more comments it will get. But imagine, if all is great with your content and people aren’t commenting on your blog post just because it has too many steps?
Quite a bummer, isn’t it.
Though the quality is the main factor that determines whether you get comments or not, the easiness of commenting is important too.
Generically, to comment on a WordPress blog post, the user has to his or her name, email, website and then the actual comment.
Our goal is to make the process as easy as possible. I’ll be sharing with you a WordPress plugin that lets your visitor comment using their social accounts.
Viewers will be able to comment by simply logging into their social profile on either Facebook, Twitter, Google or WordPress.
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WP Facebook Comments Plugin
Why I chose this plugin
Go to your WordPress Dashboard> Plugins> Add new and type ‘Facebook comments’.
At first, I installed and activated the plugin by the name of ‘Comments – wpDiscuz’ (shown in the picture above). The installation process was fine.
The sole reason why I installed it first was because it had the most number of installations.
But it created an error for my Yoast SEO plugin. I could no longer use the Yoast SEO plugin while drafting my blog posts.
It might have something to do with the new Gutenberg editor of WordPress. Instead of finding out the solution I chose to opt for another plugin.
So I uninstalled it and tried a few more until I landed on the one I liked the most: WP Facebook Comments.
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Installation of WP Facebook Comments plugin
You can either search for WP Facebook comments from your dashboard or click here to download the plugin.
Download WP Facebook Comments Plugin
After you’ve installed the plugin on your WordPress site/blog, you’ll see a Facebook Comments plugin added to your Dashboard menu. Looks something like in the picture below,
On clicking on this, you’ll be redirected to the settings page of this plugin on which you have to enter a Facebook App ID.
Creating your Facebook App ID
If you don’t have an App ID, you can create quite easily.
Click on the first highlighted text ‘Facebook App’ and login to your Facebook account.
Create a new app ID by entering a display name, it can be anything related to the purpose of this ID. For example, I have named it ‘comments on blogposts’
On the top of the page, you will see your app ID, copy and paste it in your plugin settings.
Customizing the plugin
There are many settings which you can edit according to your choice. You can set the number of comments should be shown with each blog post.
The theme of the comments can be set as either light or dark.
The final result will look like this,
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