post-to-facebook-plugin

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A wordpress plugin that provides the ability to post your blog pages and posts directly to facebook.

Installation

Extract the contents of post-to-facebook.zip and upload to the wp-content/plugins folder.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
???
Profit.

Change Log
15/07/2009 – Added inital source code
15/07/2009 – added fix for IE
15/07/2009 – enabled session start, sorted out version numbers
15/07/2009 – change including of scripts so that js file does not appear on public side of site
16/07/2009 – changed from using session to options

If you have found this plugin useful or have any comments let me know so I can make it better.

Source Code
The main development branch of the source code is held in a bazaar repository listed below. The changes are then pushed the the subversion repository hosted by wordpress.

bzr branch http://bzr.yeticode.co.uk/post-to-facebook

Kevin 9:51 pm on July 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Can you add the ability to post to a facebook group? I think this may be limited by facebook….
Thanks.
- John 10:01 pm on July 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  
  I’ll take a look into it, there are a couple of bug in the plugin that need to be sorted out first.
baron 11:20 pm on July 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Works great, thank you
- John 12:05 am on July 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  
  Good to hear, can I ask what version of wordpress you are using as some people have been having problems.
  
  Thanks
Rolando 3:10 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Does this work with facebook fan pages also?
- jeromerobins 10:50 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  
  ya id like to know about the fab page as well…thanks.
  - Jai Stone 11:34 pm on August 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    
    Yeah, I wanna know about fan pages too.
    - John 12:24 am on August 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply
      
      see http://blog.yeticode.co.uk/post-to-facebook-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-219
jeromerobins 12:27 am on July 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

sorry, fan page.
Extreme John 6:14 pm on July 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply

I have been looking for a plugin that would do this function to take some of the leg work out of getting things shared, thank you.
Ramona 7:19 pm on July 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Hi,
Thanks for the great plugin. Everything seems to work fine, but I don’t understand how the thumbnail option is working. I’ve tested several posts, with and without images inserted into the wp post. I keep getting the same 3 thumbnail images for Choose a Thumbnail. It appears they’ve just been randomly chosen, and have nothing to do with the present post. I’d like to see the image that I insert into the post as an option for the FB thumbnail. What am I missing? Thanks.
Ramona 7:22 pm on July 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Oh, I’m running wp 2.8.1 on michekboutique.com and 2.8.2 on a test site.
Alex 9:10 pm on July 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Any chance of adding support for facebook pages instead of just regular facebook profiles? Would love to use it for my band’s facebook page!
jerome robins 3:13 pm on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

why are none of us getting any answers b the writer of this plugin?
- John 5:47 pm on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  
  I’m sorry I have been extremely busy with work, moving flat and my graduation. I have some other projects I have made prior commitments to, I should have some more spare time in about two weeks to investigate how to post to fan pages and groups, as well as provide a better integration with Facebook.
jon davis 10:45 pm on July 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Where do you config the plug in to tell it where your facebook page is?
- Babs 6:51 pm on July 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  
  I’d like to know this, too.
  - mehedi 10:33 am on August 4, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    
    test comment
jamie 12:52 am on August 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply

yeah i like to know how to config the plug in to tell it where your facebook page is? i keep pressing ADD TO FACEBOOK button but dunno where it is going as I have not added my FB account details?
- John 9:46 am on August 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  
  There currently isn’t the option to configure which page it gets posted to as the plugin only allows you to post items to your own mini feed. There are plans to add the ability to post items to pages/groups, just not at the moment.
  - sam 12:41 am on November 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    
    how about now? jk.
    i’d love to post our stuff to our fan page and you have the best plugin so far…
    
    just curious,
    sam
fabio 10:29 am on September 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Hi! I run wp 2.8.4
is this amazing plugin ready for this version?
THnaks in advance!

FABIO
Jussi Solja 6:53 pm on September 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Would reaaaaally appreciate the ability to post to a fan page on Facebook Hope you find the time sometime soon to work on that one!

Thanks!
Schwabby 2:28 am on October 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply

This is my sandbox site, so don’t expect anything too great!

First I want to say how easy your plug in has been to use. No config, just install and use, it found my Facebook page on it’s own!

Now for my request! Can you have it post the first few lines of the blog post? Right now it only posts the header, and I want it to be used as a teaser for my clients to pull people to their websites. Any chance of adding that?

Thanks for the great plugin!
Marty 8:41 am on November 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Worked fine for me. I’m running 2.8.5. It would be cool if it could posted to Facebook pages as well as the profile…
Tim 11:39 pm on November 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Great plugin. Works great but I wanted like others to find out how it works to maybe get it to post to a fan page.
After a little trial and error, its not magic. It relies on you being logged into your facebook account to ‘know’ what account to post it to.
If you are not logged in, for me at least it bounces me back to the summary page, hitting edit on theblog post then gets the window to pop. You can then log in then post the blog update.
Thanks for all the effort. Now to tease it apart further to see if I can get it to post to our fan page.
Tim
Ramona 7:22 pm on November 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Tim, are you saying you got it work with a fan page? Since my logins are the same for both personal profile and fan page, it only hooks to the personal profile. It you had success, can you elaborate a bit? Thanks.
Brian 4:34 am on November 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

Here’s a simple work around that I use that allows me to post to Facebook Fan Pages by using the “Selective Twitter Status” app on Facebook.

http://brianwong.com/blog/how-to-post-to-facebook-pages-instead-of-profile-pages/

Hope that helps.