chippper03

Cristorb –

Sorry for taking forever to respond – but a coworker of mine found the fix. You have to hack the plugin, though, so be careful about updating the plugin in the future (your hack will be overwritten).

In the plugin folder, open fbtab.php. Search for this line:

‘supports’ => array(‘title’,’editor’)

In the version I checked out, it’s on line 418. It may be different in other versions, though. Anyway, simply change it to this:

‘supports’ => array(‘title’,’editor’,’comments’)

That will allow comments to be enabled. I would suggest that this be modified so it’s the default in the plugin, but that is up to the plugin author.

David,

I’m afraid I wasn’t very clear. I’m talking about the built-in WordPress comments function. Specifically, access to the comments function. To enable comments on individual posts, from within WordPress, you open the “screen options” drop down (top right of the WP screen), and you are presented with a set of check boxes. One of those is labeled “Discussion”. Once that is checked, you get a box below your post body field that gives you the “allow comments” option.

I should have included a screenshot – you can see what I’m talking about here:

https://chipcullen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/fbtm_discussion.png

So it’s not something that the plugin ever “included”, but as of FBTM 2.9.8, that “Discussion” screen option is gone. Therefore, you can’t enable comments on a Facebook Tab. In my case, this was exactly what my client was after – they wanted to embed a FBTM tab into a Facebook page, and have a comment form that they could moderate.

Does that make any more sense? This is strictly within WordPress that I’m talking about.

Okay, a quick follow up with some more information, and a clue:

The WP version I’m working on is 3.2.1 – it’s an environment that hasn’t gotten around to updating yet.

When I first started this project, the plugin was version 2.9.6, and the “Discussion” option was still available. I had updated to version 2.9.8 – and that is when this issue presented itself. Until I had reverted to the state of the project when I had started, I did not realize that it was the update to the plugin that caused my issue.

I had tried FTM (2.9.8) on a separate install of WP that *was* up to date (3.3.1 as I write this), but it still has this issue.

So that is the clue: something was introduced in version 2.9.8 that took away the Screen Option for “Discussion”. I don’t think it’s down to the version of WP.

Any thoughts? For the time being, I’m just staying with version 2.9.6 until this gets sorted. I hope this helps!