Title: [Plugin: Facebook Comments for WordPress] Error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Facebook Comments for WordPress] Error

 *  [herace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herace/)
 * (@herace)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-facebook-comments-for-wordpress-error/)
 * What is the problem?
 * Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘Facebook needs the 
   CURL PHP extension.’ in xxx/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/
   scripts/facebook.php:4 Stack trace: #0 xxx/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/facebook-
   comments-for-wordpress/facebook-comments.php(34): require_once() #1 xxx/htdocs/
   wp-admin/plugins.php(149): include(‘/xxx…’) #2 /xxx/htdocs/wp-admin/plugins.php(
   151): plugin_sandbox_scrape(‘facebook-commen…’) #3 {main} thrown in /xxx/htdocs/
   wp-content/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/scripts/facebook.php on line
   4

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 *  Plugin Author [we8u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/we8u/)
 * (@we8u)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-facebook-comments-for-wordpress-error/#post-2039513)
 * You need to have CURL installed. Are you developing locally?

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 * [Facebook Comments for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/)
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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [we8u](https://wordpress.org/support/users/we8u/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-facebook-comments-for-wordpress-error/#post-2039513)
 * Status: not resolved