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Topic-icon Facebook Social Plugins to Be Discontinued February 2026

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4 months 3 weeks ago #69289 by alechu
two Facebook Social Plugins - the Facebook Like button and the Facebook Comment button - will be discontinued on February 10, 2026.
  1. FB Like Button - Allows users to like external website content
  2. FB Comment Button - Enables Facebook commenting on external sites
Source: developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2025/1...inued-february-2026/

1) Will you add these changes to the next version of your component?

2) I also wanted to ask if your component will include a plugin for social buttons like AddToAny, Shareaholic, ShareThis  and others (instead of the removed Facebook buttons)?

 
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4 months 3 weeks ago #69293 by mel
We will remove the Like, Comment and Comment Count widgets in the next release. However, they will be rendered as a 0x0 pixel element so it will not be a breaking change requiring an upgrade.

We have it on our list to investigate, but it would not be done immediately.

-Melissa
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4 months 2 weeks ago #69294 by alechu
Could you create a page on your website with a list of all the removed widgets from JFB?
I remember you previously removed other social media widgets that are no longer supported

I want to check my website for widgets that are no longer supported and don't work.
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3 months 4 weeks ago #69301 by mel
The latest version of JFBConnect has updated widgets listed in the Providers > Example tabs. If the provider has an updated version available for this release, look there to see its' widgets (the list is the easytags, but the corresponding widgets will be available).

The latest release also added AddToAny and web share buttons to the JFBConnect > Sharing section and simplified some of the setup options. It's only integrated into the content plugin right now.

-Melissa
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