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Question for the Wordpress Gurus

by ZhaoAnXin
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Hi,

I have a fairly large and responsive list, and I want to get them to comment on something I'm releasing.

Here's my problem:

I want to have the page be the front page, or index of the wordpress site. However, wordpress doesn't do this out of the box, and while there are lots of pieces of php code floating around for this, nothing seems to work.

To compound things, I'm using a facebook comments plugin, which I would like to keep (for the traffic benefits).

Can anyone suggest a plugin, or something simple to get comments to load on the frontpage/index of wordpress? If I can get the facebook comments to load that would be the most ideal.

At this point I am ready to pay for a commercial plugin to solve the problem, but while there are tons of threads about this problem, I can't find any plugin that's been developed to handle it.

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Meaney
    This might help you out, I sometimes do the same thing.

    You don't need a plugin, just set which page you'd like to become the homepage:

    Creating a Static Front Page « WordPress Codex
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  • Profile picture of the author mrenaud
    Can't you just move the php comments code to the index.php (main page) and have them show up?
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  • Profile picture of the author ZhaoAnXin
    Thanks,

    Got it figured out.

    Instead of trying to mess with php and since I was already using a facebook commenting plugin but just wanted to comments to be available on the front page/index I just went ahead and embedded the comments directly into the html body of the page itself, from:

    developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/

    If anyone else is trying to set up a sales page or something that can be commented with the wordpress index, maybe that will help. It's quick and dirty but pretty simple.
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