Some time ago I built this:
http://www.littlebray.co.uk/photos.aspx
This is a kind of incomplete copy of the Facebook photo album photo gallery, the photos in the gallery section are pulled from Facebook albums on the page for Little Bray (fb.com/littlebray), enlarging them gives you a curious full-screen view of them with comments on the right edge, like Facebook.
You will notice that although this comment section is a bit like the Facebook plugin, it is not, and the reason for this is that if I used Facebooks Plugin when a user comments on a photo on a website, or comments on one photo (remembering photos comes from one source), it will create two different comment threads, one of which is shown on FB and one is shown on the website.
In my method, any comments posted either on the website or in the FB will appear in both places, since they are directly inserted into the FB schedule, which refers to the identifier of the photo object.
A little later I created another similar image gallery, but used the Facebook Social Scion "Comments" on the right side of the box to comment on the photos. The difference here was that these photos were posted on the website and were not already objects of the Facebook album, so this other site is the only source of these images and thus creates FB objects when the comments on the URL are ok.
BUT ... it made me think, my first example is just a lot of work, is it possible to use Facebooks own social plugin to post comments on an object that already exists on Facebook in this way?
I tried to insert the https://graph.facebook.com/FB_OBJECT_ID graph URL into the example comments on the Facebooks social plugins page from my status update, but showed nothing.
Any ideas?
EDIT ---
I found that I am not alone in asking this question:
Using social plugins for pre-existing Facebook posts
Upload comments from the public graph object on Facebook. Social plugin
None of them have satisfactory answers. Maybe I just need to improve my own code and create my own plugin.
facebook facebook-graph-api facebook-social-plugins facebook-comments
Jamie hartnoll
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