Arrow Publisher for Business Pages

Description

Arrow Publisher for Business Pages connects WordPress to a Facebook Page and can automatically publish a new standard WordPress Post when that Post is first published.

The Free edition is intentionally focused on the core publishing workflow:

• Connect a Facebook Page.
• Automatically publish newly published standard WordPress Posts.
• Send the WordPress Post title, cleaned excerpt/content and original Post URL.
• Use a background queue with retries so Facebook publishing does not hold up the WordPress editor.
• See simple publishing status totals in WordPress.
• Choose from multiple Facebook Pages returned during connection.

The Free edition publishes text and a link. Direct featured-image publishing, Pages, Products, custom post types, manual publishing, scheduling, custom captions and advanced queue/history tools are available separately in Arrow Publisher for Business Pages Pro.

Free Facebook messages include a small Arrow Publisher for Business Pages attribution and a link to the Arrow Publisher for Business Pages Pro product page.

Arrow Publisher for Business Pages Pro is a separate plugin available directly from Arrow Design and includes a 7-day trial. The Free version does not expire and remains fully functional within its listed feature set.

Pro product page:
https://arrowdesign.ie/product/arrow-fb-publisher-pro/

External services

This plugin depends on external services to connect a Facebook Page and to publish content to Facebook.

Arrow Design connection service

Arrow Publisher for Business Pages uses the Arrow Design connection service at:

https://arrowdesign.ie/social-broker/

This service is required because the Meta application credentials used for the Facebook OAuth connection are held centrally rather than being distributed inside every WordPress installation.

When an administrator clicks Connect Facebook, the plugin sends the following information to the Arrow Design connection service:

• The WordPress site’s public URL.
• The WordPress site name.
• The WordPress callback URL used to return the administrator to the site.
• A cryptographically random connection state value.

The Arrow Design connection service then sends the administrator to Meta/Facebook for authorisation. During this connection process, the service receives the Meta OAuth response and temporarily handles the Facebook account/Page information and Page access tokens needed to complete the connection.

The service returns the authorised Facebook Pages and Page access tokens to the originating WordPress site through a short-lived, single-use handoff. The selected Page access token is then stored on the WordPress site in encrypted form.

The Arrow Design connection service is used during connection/reconnection. Normal Facebook publishing is sent from the WordPress site to Meta’s Graph API.

Arrow Design Privacy Policy:
https://arrowdesign.ie/policy-page/

Arrow Design Terms and Conditions:
https://arrowdesign.ie/terms-and-conditions/

Meta / Facebook Graph API

After a Facebook Page has been connected, Arrow Publisher for Business Pages communicates with Meta’s Graph API at:

https://graph.facebook.com/

For connection testing, the plugin sends the selected Facebook Page ID and its access token.

When publishing a WordPress Post, the plugin sends:

• The selected Facebook Page ID.
• The Page access token.
• The generated Facebook message, containing the WordPress Post title and excerpt/content.
• The original WordPress Post URL.
• In the Free edition, the Arrow Publisher for Business Pages attribution text and product-page URL.

This information is required to create the requested post on the connected Facebook Page.

Meta Privacy Policy:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Meta Terms:
https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Privacy

Arrow Publisher for Business Pages does not ask visitors to the WordPress site for personal information.

The plugin stores Facebook connection information in the WordPress database so the site can publish to the selected Facebook Page. The Page access token returned during authorisation is encrypted before it is stored in WordPress.

See the External services section for information about data sent to Arrow Design and Meta/Facebook.