Comments on: FT FacePress plugin: Publish WordPress post info to Facebook by author

By: Alan Knox

Alan Knox — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:13:34 +0000

Within the next few days, we plan to release a completely redesigned version of the FacePress plugin. This will not be an upgrade, but a new plugin which we are calling FacePress II.

FacePress II will use a different and more robust method to update Facebook profiles / pages. Furthermore, the initial release of FacePress II will offer additional functionality.

When we release FacePress II, we will also update FacePress (I) which will include messages reminding our users to deactivate FacePress (I) and install and activate FacePress II.

FacePress II will use different options settings so you will need to set those again.

-Alan

By: Niko

Niko — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:28 +0000

Alan, this is truly an awesome plugin! I have a unique setup though. I have several smaller blogs, which I sort of aggregate posts from, into my “main” blog, using a Wordpress plugin.

The posts all come in as ‘Pending Review’ (not ‘Published’), so I usually bulk publish several new posts at a time. Any way I can tweak the plugin to pick those posts up and send them to Facebook like it would a regularly published post? I’m fairly well versed in PHP, just not sure where to begin with this one!

Thanks for your time, and a great plugin!

Take care,
-Niko

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:06:11 +0000

I am still having issues with it using the incorrect user’s face book settings. I have 3 users (one is the unused admin account) and posts from either of the 2 users always get posted to just one user’s facebook account.

I thought (being a programmer) that it might be related to not having any facebook settings filled in for the admin user (making the settings array shorter and off by one etc), but now I have remedied that and the problem continues. I am going to look through the code where it grabs user preferences and try to see what might be causing it.

By: Alan Knox

Alan Knox — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:54:04 +0000

Thanks for the comments. If you’re having problems with the Facepress plugin, please check the following:

1) With newer versions of WordPress, Facepress requires php 5.

2) Please check your Facebook Settings/Application Settings and ensure that “Mobile” is Authorized and Allowed to Post.

If these two steps do not correct the problem, please let me know.

-Alan

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:40:19 +0000

Can’t get this thing going. Installed, activated, gave it my FB user & pass, checked the box for post to profile & then published a new post.

No error messages or signs of life, and no update on my FB profile.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:09:33 +0000

hi,
great plugin. does the present version require php 5? we are using php 4 on http://www.forthree.com and are getting the following error after publishing a post:

Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/www/web280/html/basketballblog/wp-content/plugins/ft-facepress-7/Facepress-functions.php on line 24

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/www/web280/html/basketballblog/wp-content/plugins/ft-facepress-7/Facepress-functions.php:24) in /home/www/web280/html/basketballblog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865

of course your plugin works since we are getting the posts on our FB page.

another question: if we post a new link, is it also possible to publish it to a FB page?

thanks for your help!

By: BigB

BigB — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:08:27 +0000

Cant get this plugin to work for me at all. Tried all configurations a 100 times now but nothing happens at all.
Set up mail and password to the facebook page,and the page ID and im the admin of that page with the same login details.
Just cant figure this one out.
Have any idea whats wrong here ? I also read every single post above just to make sure I did not forget anything..

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:06:20 +0000

I have a WP site with 3 users (admin, jack (also an admin) and chrystal (an editor) ). jack and chrystal have their respective (seperate) facebook settings configured. But when I post from jack it is definitely posting to chrystals’s fackbook account. Is there a possible bug here?

By: transporter

transporter — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:34:56 +0000

really great plugin, but not quite usable without being able to insert a thumbnail into your facebook page post.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:20:55 +0000

Alan,

Great plugin, but haven’t yet been able to get it to work? I receive the following when publishing a post:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in /nfs/c03/h03/mnt/54078/domains/btglondon.com/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ft-facepress-7/Facepress-updater.php on line 91

Any ideas?

Thanks,
R