jwFacebook Comments has undergone a rewrite to handle the full range of article displays.

First and foremost.... READ THE INSTRUCTIONS (OR AT LEAST THIS LINK) IF YOU ARE NEW TO THIS!

It will now be able to be implemented in the Blog Category, Frontpage, and Full Article view, and it has also been given some more connectivity options through the implementation of a 'onReady' Javascript statement which executes when the jwFacebook Comments has renders.

There is also support for the Full CSS and Compact CSS (Compact CSS is used when the FB Comment block is rendered on a Blog Layout or Frontpage component). Likewise there is also support for a Compact JS file to be run, which can be loaded with jQuery (or Mootools) to better manipulate the output.

Sections and Category Whitelisting has been given a revamp as well, and the article exclusion tag has been implemented more effectively.

There is however one issue with this implementation. This version gives each article an identifier against which a comment is logged against and stored in FQL on the Facebook servers. The identifiers in previous versions resembled the encoded version of the current URL, this one uses the 'article_' prefix followed by the article ID within Joomla. This means that comments are bound to an article and not to a URL which could change if the alias of the content is modified in the instance of SEF implementations.

UPDATES:

2.0.1 - Added Compact Mode Off switch to turn off the comments on the frontpage component and in blog view (basically when this is set to Yes it will restrict the FB Comments output to the full article view only - as per the original code)

2.0.2 - COMING SOON. Will allow a measure of backwards compatibility for people wanting to incorporate their existing FB Messages archive into their content. Should have been something I added from the beginning to be honest.

This version has been upgraded. There is a new logic block added to make it easier for allowing specific categories and sections. This is the more robust build available for the 1.5 platform.

With the Facebook Connect API there comes a new and more viral method to let users comment on your Joomla website. Enter the Facebook Comments system!

This is a simple Plugin written to append to the end of the article view in Joomla. All you need to supply is the API Key for your app, the path to xd_receiver (which I have supplied), and the location of the CSS file you would like to use to style it up a little!

Installs in a few minutes, and can save you a ton of bandwidth, SQL processing power and give your site the ability to go viral so much easily!

Updates:

5th March 2008 - An update for IE7 compatibility relating to the object has been added. This fix will append the required Facebook doctype into your existing template at runtime. No modifications are required to install the plugin.

If you are upgrading, please overwrite your jwfbcomment.php in /plugins/content/ with the one in the install_plugin.zip file.

20th March 2008 - Updated to take into account allowed Categories and Sections (this is a little flaky). And also added support for turning off jwFacebook Comments on a page by page basis.

 

Turn off Facebook Comments = {jwfbcomments-off}

Turn on Facebook Comments = {jwfbcomments-on}