I’ve just installed WordPress for a travel blog. I want the visitors to be able to comment with their facebook account or sign up as a subscriber to the blog (my mom for example doesn’t have facebook).
I installed the “Facebook Comments for WordPress” plugin but the problem is that now the visitors can either comment at the Facebook comments or the original comments. I want them to merge so that you comment in one place but you can either login to the blog or login to facebook to comment.
Anyone know if this is possible without me needing to develop?
I’ve used these two plugins:
1) Disqus Commenting Plugin – the easiest way to add facebook functionality to your wordpress blog:
They allow a whole host of features including facebook, twitter, google login/commenting and some other cool stuff. It will probably be more than you need but you might like the extras and the easy setup.
2) Simple Facebook Connect Plugin:
This one is more targeted to facebook and allows a more piecemeal approach to adding functionality but is harder to integrate with your theme and setup.
Try the 1.0 version of Simple Facebook Connect. It handles things a lot better than the older version did. And the comments stay on your site, unlike Disqus or Facebook Comments.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect