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I am modifying the facebook comments plugin to my purposes. What I'd like to do is have it remove Wordpress native comments automatically if it is enabled- in fact what I'd really like it to do is use the Wordpress comments settings in the item itself and/or general settings to decide whether it should show or not.

Disqus works like this and its just how you would expect a comments replacement system to work by default- I think this plugin should work like that unless you tell it to do otherwise.

Does anyone have any ideas how disqus achieves this?

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Most themes used comments_template to include their comment areas. It's completely full of filters, one of which is the include file (usually comments.php) that you can hijack to include a file from your plugin that contains all the stuff for facebook comments (or nothing if you just want to disable comments.

Example:

<?php
add_filter( 'comments_template', 'wpse35363_comments_template' );
function wpse35363_comments_template( $file )
{
    return plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) . 'path/to/your/file.php';
}

As far as general settings and per post settings, those are stored in wp_options and wp_postmeta respectively. Take a look at how the default comments compat file looks and you should get an idea about how you can do this in your plugin.

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  • Actually thats not quite what I am after, as it is reliant on the template, I want it to be completely controlled by the plugin- like disqus. With the disqus plugin, it doesn't matter what template you are using, if disqus is enabled then wordpress native comments dont show up. This is what I want to know how to do... – David O'Sullivan Dec 2 '11 at 16:18
  • I promise you that this is the way to do it. In fact, it's the way Disqus does it. plugins.svn.wordpress.org/disqus-comment-system/trunk/… – chrisguitarguy Dec 2 '11 at 16:27
  • Ok got that sussed now, thanks very much! A couple of interesting observations. All I ended up doing was taking the content of the function fbcommentbox and added it into a seperate 'comments.php' file and changed the original function so it just had the line return dirname(FILE) . '/comments.php'; in it and added the line add_filter( 'comments_template', 'fbcommentbox'); after that. Intresting to note is that comments.php seems to get the variables- which I didn't expect, and also that you need to go via comments.php or it doesn't work... – David O'Sullivan Dec 3 '11 at 12:46

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