Notice: Livefyre plugin deprecated

This notice relates to the following platforms: WordPress.com, VIP Go

The Livefyre service was acquired by Adobe in March 2016. Since then, they’ve modified their product lineup.

The Livefyre WordPress plugin hasn’t been updated or maintained since version 1.3 was released in 2016, and support has ended for the plugin. Adobe no longer makes reference to the plugin in their documentation and is, instead, encouraging clients to use their Enterprise Livefyre service with an alternative implementation process.

Additionally, on November 30, Adobe plans to block calls made via HTTP, which the plugin uses.

We plan to proactively patch the shared plugin on the WordPress.com VIP platform, and have provided patches via pull request for sites on VIP Go, so that calls are made via HTTPS. This should allow the plugin to continue to function in the short term.

Long-term, this plugin has been deprecated and we recommend finding an alternative. The Livefyre plugin can be used in a number of ways – If you are looking for a recommendation, please open a support ticket, and let us know how you are currently using the plugin.

If you have any questions, please let us know, and we’ll be happy to help.

Demo: Cultivating Your Community with Livefyre and WordPress.com VIP

When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST
Where: Register here

In this session you’ll learn from WordPress.com VIP partner Livefyre why community on your site is so critical and how to effectively engage your audience — all dramatically increasing time spent on your site and return visits.

Led by Livefyre’s VP of Customer Experience Jenna Langer, this demo will cover how Livefyre can work with your site using simple out of the box tools such as Live Comments and Live Chats, all built to get people talking about your content.

She’ll also demonstrate how you can integrate external social content onto your site, including tweets, images and more, and easily customize and control the experience for your readers.

Join us to find out how making your site social has never been so easy — Register now!

Plugin Update: Livefyre Comments 3

We’ve worked with the Livefyre team to bring you the newest version of their real-time commenting platform.

Livefyre Comments 3 brings tons of new features to comments:

  • Users can now leave rich text comments with bold, italic, and underline text as well as formatted lists.
  • Users can now edit their comments to fix typos or elaborate on their initial opinion.
  • Users can now leave an explanation when they flag comments to better inform moderators about problematic content.
  • The real-time new comment notifier now shows a preview of each comment.
  • Twitter and Facebook content imported via SocialSync are now displayed unified in chronological order with the rest of the comments about your content.
  • Images and videos that users link to are now displayed beautifully and full-width in the comment stream.
  • StreamHub: Curate customers can fuel the conversation by streaming in tweets by author, hashtag, keyword, and location.

Learn more about the new version of Livefyre.

Note that this plugin requires a manual upgrade. If you’re interested in using the latest version, please get in touch so we can help get you upgraded.