Title: Old Comments
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Old Comments

 *  Resolved [spicytee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spicytee/)
 * (@spicytee)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-comments/)
 * Hello
    I’ve been using facebook comment for wordress plugin but seems to be generating
   errors lately. A friend just told me about this and I just installed this plugin.
   So I’m loving it aready because of other features on it. But I can’t see my old
   facebook comments. How can I fix this please?
 * Thank you
    Regards Spicytee
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Niall Kennedy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niallkennedy/)
 * (@niallkennedy)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-comments/#post-4114654)
 * Were your “old Facebook comments” submitted through the [Facebook Comments Box social plugin](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/)
   using the same Facebook application?
 * Is there a sample URL to demonstrate your current comments setup?
 *  Thread Starter [spicytee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spicytee/)
 * (@spicytee)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-comments/#post-4114793)
 * Thanks so much for your response Niall.
    Yes, they were submitted through the
   facebook comment social plugin using this ([http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/))
   And when I installed Facebook pluginyesterday, I used the same facebook application
   have been using. And sure you can view the current setup here [http://t.co/2LPCsONCTO](http://t.co/2LPCsONCTO).
   I removed the one I just installed until I can fix it, so it is the old one that
   I still have there.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Niall Kennedy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niallkennedy/)
 * (@niallkennedy)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-comments/#post-4114825)
 * The [Facebook Comments for WordPress plugin](http://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/)
   was last updated in April 2011. It includes [Facebook Comments Box social plugin](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/)
   markup that has not been the proper way of integrating the Facebook Comments 
   Box social plugin since March 1, 2011.
 * [Facebook Developers blog post from March 1, 2011 announcing the changes to Comments Box](https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/472/).
 * The Facebook plugin for WordPress includes the post-2011 version of the Facebook
   Comments Box social plugin and related markup. Your site and its currently installed
   plugin uses an `xid` parameter generated by the plugin to uniquely identify your
   WordPress post on Facebook and group comments by that generated identifier; it
   also specifies a `migrated` parameter to try to live in the world of February
   2011. The modern version of the Facebook Comments Box uses your post’s permalink
   URL as the unique identifier and includes extra features such as moderation.
 * The bad news: compatibility wrappers are tricky to maintain for a platforms such
   as Facebook but are typically included to give sites some breathing room to transition
   to a new system. Facebook has maintained the compatibility for 2 1/2 years so
   far but it would not surprise me if the compatibility wrapper and the newer system
   introduced on March 1, 2011 became the only supported way of displaying the Facebook
   Comments Box social plugin.
 * The (maybe) good news: a quick search for terms such as `facebook comments xid
   migrated` shows some attempts by other sites to migrate comments from the old
   xid system to the new post permalink system. There may be some tools out there
   to help automate your transition.
 * Getting onto the modern Facebook Comments Box is the best path forward for conversations
   on your site.
 *  Thread Starter [spicytee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spicytee/)
 * (@spicytee)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-comments/#post-4114844)
 * Wow! I so knew that is the XID ish.
    So what do I do now please? Can you help
   me out?

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