Question

From what I can read om Facebook Dev Docs this is how I add the comment box on my web site:

//In HTML Header
<script>
  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
    FB.init({
      appId      : 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', // App ID
      status     : true, // check login status
      cookie     : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
      xfbml      : true  // parse XFBML
    });

    // Additional initialization code here
  };

  // Load the SDK Asynchronously
  (function(d){
     var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
     js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
     js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/sv_SE/all.js";
     d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
   }(document));
</script>

//Where I want my comments to show
<div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?=curPageURL()?>" data-num-posts="5" data-width="944"></div>

And… If I want to add admins to the comments I can add this to my meta-data:

<meta property="fb:admins" content="jamie.telin"/>
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>

But am I correct as to this being the only way, or atleast that I must have created an Facebook App to use Facebook Comments? If I am not misstaken, this wasn’t required before.

Answer 1

Yes, you need an App ID. In order to have an App ID, you have to create a Facebook App.