Export your posts to Facebook and import back comments on Facebook to your blog

fahrulazmi — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:37:13 +0000

This short tutorial will show you how to:

Export all you post to your Facebook profile
Import comments from Facebook back into your blog.

It’s easy, really.

Step 1

Login into Facebook and go to your profile. Below the status update bar (precisely, below the blue Share button), click Options. Then click Settings. You will see something like below. Well not exactly same since I’ve configured mine.

Step 2

Click on Blog / RSS. In the Public URL, fill in your blog RSS feed. What? RSS Feed? If you are using WordPress and your blog URL is http://fahrulazmi.terbaek.com, The your RSS Feed URL is http://fahrulazmi.terbaek.com/feed/ .

Then click Import.

Now you have successfully import all your blog posts into Facebook. Easy?

Step 3

Now login into your terbaek.com wordpress admin area. Navigate to Plugins -> Installed. You will see a list of plugins available. Find “Facebook Comments TNG” and click activate.

Step 4

Navigate to Settings -> Facebook CommentsTNG. Fill in all details just like I do, below. After filling up everything, click Save options.

Step 5

Now we have to test whether our blog is connected to Facebook. Click Test. You will see something like below. If the note of Facebook has any comment, the page will show you the comment details but does not import the comments, yet.

Step 6

To update (if there’s any comment), click on Manual update. Voila!