Title: Making threaded WP comments readable in FB
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Making threaded WP comments readable in FB

 *  [KillerWhale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killerwhale/)
 * (@killerwhale)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-threaded-wp-comments-readable-in-fb/)
 * This is an issue I have raised before, a requested feature you said you weren’t
   going to implement, with good reason, but I am afraid I wasn’t clear at all when
   making my initial request. Please allow me to rephrase:
 * FB comments are single-threaded, meaning if you want to answer to someone, you
   need to tag them, and it’s quite clear, like:
 * Commenter 1: Some remark
    Commenter 2: Another remark Commenter 3: [@commenter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/commenter/)
   1: A reply
 * However, WP allows (at least if the theme supports it) for threaded comments:
 * Commenter 1: Some remark
    Commenter 3: A reply (timestamped later that commenter
   2) Commenter 2: Another remark
 * Notice that Commenter 3 does not cite the name of the guy he’s responding to:
   he doesn’t need to do it as it’s obvious as per the WP layout.
 * So my request would be, so that WP replies may appear more clearly in the FB 
   comments instead of being lost and confusing as to who answers to whom, to have
   the plugin add in the comment text something like “IN REPLY TO: name”, if applies,
   when WP comments are being exported to FB. In the above example, that would translated
   on FB:
 * Commenter 1: Some remark
    Commenter 2: Another remark Commenter 3: REPLYING TO
   Commenter 1: A reply
 * Is that clearer and does that make more sense? That way we wouldn’t be losing
   track.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Thread Starter [KillerWhale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killerwhale/)
 * (@killerwhale)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-threaded-wp-comments-readable-in-fb/#post-2185410)
 * Hum, my layout didn’t show. I meant
 * “However, WP allows (at least if the theme supports it) for threaded comments:
 * Commenter 1: Some remark
    —- Commenter 3: A reply (timestamped later that commenter
   2) Commenter 2: Another remark”
 * If exported “as is” to FB, the comment by Commenter 3 seems weird and out of 
   place if there is no mention of who he’s responding to.
 *  [M66B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m66b/)
 * (@m66b)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-threaded-wp-comments-readable-in-fb/#post-2185593)
 * I will add some more filters to the plugin in the next release and help you with
   the filter implementations so that it will display as you want.
 *  Thread Starter [KillerWhale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killerwhale/)
 * (@killerwhale)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-threaded-wp-comments-readable-in-fb/#post-2185599)
 * Amazing, thanks!
 *  [M66B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m66b/)
 * (@m66b)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-threaded-wp-comments-readable-in-fb/#post-2185635)
 * It made it really simple for you:
    1. Upgrade to version 1.92
    2. Remove // from line of 208 of `add-link-to-facebook.php`
    3. Check if you like what you see 😉
 * You should move line 189-209 to [functions.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Functions_File)(
   if your theme is not using it), so that it keeps working when updating to the
   next version. An alternate solution is to write a mini plugin for this, see [here](http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin)
   for documentation.
 *  Thread Starter [KillerWhale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killerwhale/)
 * (@killerwhale)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-threaded-wp-comments-readable-in-fb/#post-2185650)
 * Wow man! That’s efficient support. I am installing that as we speak and will 
   be testing it in the next few days. Thank you so much again!

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 * Last reply from: [KillerWhale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/killerwhale/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-threaded-wp-comments-readable-in-fb/#post-2185650)
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