Would "is_plugin_active" function be right for this purpose?

[lvvvvvl]

Hello,

I recently installed a test plugin on my blog. I thought that a good way of making the tests popular might be by allowing facebook comments. The problem is I use the tests shortcode on Pages instead of Posts and I have comments disabled for all of my pages.

I want to add facebook comments manually ONLY if this test plugin is active on that page. Would this be possible with the "is_plugin_active" function?

Something like:

remove_action( 'genesis_list_comments', 'genesis_default_list_comments' );
remove_action( 'genesis_comment_form', 'genesis_do_comment_form' );
add_action('genesis_comments', 'wpa_disqus_comments' );
function wpa_disqus_comments() {
if ( is_plugin_active( 'plugin-directory/plugin-file.php' ) ) {
?>
<p><div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" data-width="100%" data-numposts="5" data-order-by="social" data-colorscheme="light"></div></p>
<?php }
}

Thank you.

[Victor Font]

Is_plugin_active only tests for whether a plugin has been activated or not. Plugins are activated on a site wide basis, not per page even though you may be using a plugin shortcode on one page. You should probably test for page ID with the is_page() function.

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[lvvvvvl]

Thanks Victor for your response.

The reason I wanted to use something like this rather than is_page is because I already have over 50 tests so adding the ID manually everytime would be really time consuming. Since there's no Category option for pages, I'm not sure exactly how I could group all these tests so as to load FB comments solely on these pages.

Would there be some custom function or plugin (preferably function, to avoid extra plugin load baggage) I could use to do something like this?

[Victor Font]

You could add a custom field to the page and test for that field to activate your Facebook comments. You would only have to write the code once. You would only have to remember to add the field to the page when you create a new page.

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[Brad Dalton]

You could check using has_shortcode https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/has_shortcode

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[lvvvvvl]

Thanks guys for the suggestions, I'll try Brad's idea as it will involve less editing of existing pages. 🙂

[lvvvvvl]

I've added this as my function:

remove_action( 'genesis_list_comments', 'genesis_default_list_comments' );
remove_action( 'genesis_comment_form', 'genesis_do_comment_form' );
add_action('genesis_comments', 'wpa_fb_comments' );
function wpa_fb_comments() {
if (has_shortcode('viralQuiz')) {
?>
<h3>Comments</h3>
<p><div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" data-width="100%" data-numposts="5" data-order-by="social" data-colorscheme="light"></div></p>
<?php }
}

It doesn't seem to appear for some reason though. Is it because I didn't add the $content parameter?

[Brad Dalton]

Try this:

if( has_shortcode( $content, 'viralQuiz' ) ) {

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[lvvvvvl]

I tried adding $content but it didn't work either. I thought maybe since I disabled comments in pages the genesis_comments hook wasn't working so I decided to add it to an existing manually implemented shortcode that is working at the bottom of pages (my advertisement and share buttons), I ended up with:

add_action('genesis_entry_footer', 'tests_bottom', 1 );
function tests_bottom() {
if (is_page()) {
echo do_shortcode('[the_ad id="xxx"]<br />');
echo do_shortcode('<div class="sharer">Enjoyed This? Share It!</div>[easy-social-share buttons="facebook,twitter,stumbleupon,mail" counters=1 counter_pos="hidden" total_counter_pos="rightbig" style="button" twitter_user=""]');
if( has_shortcode( $content, 'viralQuiz' ) ) {
?>
<h3>Comments</h3>
<p><div class="fb-comments" data-href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" data-width="100%" data-numposts="5" data-order-by="social" data-colorscheme="light"></div></p>
<?php }
if ( function_exists( 'get_yuzo_related_posts' ) ) {
get_yuzo_related_posts();
}
}
}

They FB comments still don't appear, though neither does the Yuzo Related posts work on pages for some reason, yet the exact same code when applied to is_single does.

[Brad Dalton]

Not sure how you have installed Facebook comments but you might find this helpful http://wpsites.net/tools/how-to-manually-install-facebook-comments-in-any-theme/

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[lvvvvvl]

I wrote a script that loads the facebook library on a 3 second delay using javascript on every page. But it can't be that as even if the FB comment loading was failing, it would at least display the H3 Comments title which it doesn't. It only loads the Advertisement and Social Buttons and nothing under that.

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