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Asked: 2020-01-30 12:16:41 +0800 CST 2020-01-30 12:16:41 +0800 CST

Change Page URL Without Losing Facebook Comments?

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I am forced to change the URL of some pages of my site, but the problem I have is that if I do, I will lose the comments from comment boxFacebook.

Is there a way to change the URL so that the comments comment boxpoint to the new URL?

This is the code of comment box:

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>(function(d, s, id) {
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/es_ES/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=93773124298xxxx";
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>


<div class="fb-comments" data-href="https://www.example.com/" data-numposts="5"></div>
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    According to the Facebook documentation , the value of href/ data-hrefindicates:

    The absolute URL that comments posted to the plugin will be permanently associated with. All stories shared on Facebook over comments that were posted using the comments plugin will link to this URL.

    The default value (if you leave it empty) is the URL you are at, but if you specify a URL then it will be that URL. So what you would have to do is save the old URL and associate it somehow with the new one (eg in a database). And when you generate the Facebook code for the comments, put the value of the old URL.

    For example, let's take the original page as this http://misitio.com/blog.php?id=1234and change it to look like this: http://misitio.com/blog/1234. Then in the value of data-hrefyou will put the value of the original page instead of the new one:

    <div class="fb-comments" data-href="http://misitio.com/blog.php?id=1234" data-numposts="5"></div>
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