How to Add Comments to a Facebook Fan Page
Last week I was playing around with some FBML and discovered that it’s really easy to add comments to a custom tab on your Facebook fan page. All you need is the page id and a little block of code.
The most difficult part of this is finding the page ID. It used to be in the page URL but ever since custom names for pages became available it’s a little harder to find. Of course, if you don’t have 25 fans yet or haven’t made a custom URL for your fan page, it will be easier to find the page ID.
The code to add comments to a custom tab on your fan page is the following:
<fb:comments xid=”84300445447″></fb:comments>
Please note that the ID number is the one for my fan page. You will want that to change that to the ID for your own page.
The best way to find the ID number is to:
- Go to your fan page and click on the logo
- Once in the album for the profile pictures the ID should be at the end of the page URL. If not, click on one of the images or logos and the ID number will be there. &id=84300445447 is at the end of mine so 84300445447 is the number I need to set up comments on my custom tab.
You can see a working example of this on the demo tab on my (Anti) Social Development fan page.
photo credit: violscraper
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June 17, 2010 at 7:50 am
This IS easy! Thanks Kim.
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June 18, 2010 at 7:01 am
Hi Vered – I know, right? I thought it would be much more complicated.
June 17, 2010 at 9:21 am
Ooooh, nice little tip here, Kim. Now you have me wondering how best to utilize something like this – is it a “generic” comments area, or could it tie into something else on your page too? Maybe a post question, or something like that?
Cheers for the great stuff as always!
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June 18, 2010 at 7:02 am
Hi Danny – It’s generic. Sort of like the discussions tab but you can put it on a custom tab. To tie comments to an event or video the Live Stream application would probably be the one to use.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/live-stream
June 25, 2010 at 10:38 am
The wall area is not sufficient for you? I don’t grasp why you’d use it.
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June 26, 2010 at 7:57 am
Hi Ari – It could be used with content that you wanted people to comment on – perhaps photos, videos, etc … I haven’t found a use for it either.
June 17, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Kim, seriously, FB blog; wus up?? ;) lol
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June 18, 2010 at 7:03 am
Hi Dennis – I know ;-) I just can’t seem to get ahead with the everyday things I need to do.
June 23, 2010 at 10:58 am
I’m trying to add a comments stream to the “Chain Stories” tab on the following facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CharlotteViewPoint. I put the code in but nothing is showing up. Is there something else I need to know?
thanks!
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June 24, 2010 at 7:31 am
Hi Casey – Are you using the correct ID number? Something else in the code could be interfering or Facebook is having a bad day.