Title: Photo limits and sync button
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Photo limits and sync button

 *  [kred99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kred99/)
 * (@kred99)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/)
 * Mike.
    Your plugin is great and working nicely on client website however I have
   some questions.
 * The Facebook album has 180 photos however the app refuses to go beyond 130.
    
   Q. Any help on this ?
 * I am unsure about the sync function within admin.
    Q. Can you tell me what this
   button does AND Q. Do I need to manually click this to update the WP website 
   page with newly uploaded Facebook images ?
 * Thanks for your help and apologises if this is covered elsewhere and I missed
   it.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/fb-photo-sync/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/fb-photo-sync/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mike Auteri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauteri/)
 * (@mauteri)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396440)
 * Hi kred99,
 * Can you send me the Facebook page and the album you are trying to import? I can
   look and see if there’s a bug there and fix it.
 * The “sync” button will update the album with new images or meta data that may
   be there. Currently, the plugin doesn’t autosync, though that is planned for 
   the future, at least to some capacity. So yes, you can manually click that and
   the album will sync with any new data that may be available. Let me know if you
   notice any other issues, I just quickly pushed out an update to fix a huge issue,
   so there may be some unexpected bugs.
 * Take care,
    Mike
 *  Thread Starter [kred99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kred99/)
 * (@kred99)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396493)
 * Hi Mike,
    Thanks. Ah the sync is going to be an issue as the client will not 
   be anywhere near the WP page to manually sync.
 * Q. Can this be done quite crudely by a php script. What does it call programming
   wise ?
 * I know PHP but WordPress not so much .
 * Regards
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Auteri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauteri/)
 * (@mauteri)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396501)
 * Not really, currently I’m only using the JavaScript SDK for ease. I will need
   to switch over to the PHP SDK for this sort of functionality and have it run 
   a pseudo cron (WordPress has a function called wp_schedule_event) that would 
   need to make the call out to Facebook over a certain interval.
 * If you want to hack or extend the plugin you can probably do what you need to
   with a cron and using the PHP SDK, and then hooking into the function I use to
   save the data. All data is saved as a serialized object in the options table.
 *  Thread Starter [kred99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kred99/)
 * (@kred99)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396503)
 * Mike.
    Thanks for quick reply.
 * I will check out the SDK.
 * Back to the photo count the page with the album is Facebook.com/happyhoundshouse
   and the album is called mobile uploads. As mentioned it shows 180+ images but
   the WP site shows 130. When the WP plugin sync is clicked it says importing 186
   images but the album tab only shows 130.
 * PS The site page is [http://www.thehappyhoundshouse.com/face-photos/](http://www.thehappyhoundshouse.com/face-photos/)
 * I will check if it is a setting on the template but any help is appreciated.
   
   Regards
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Auteri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauteri/)
 * (@mauteri)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396506)
 * Hi kred99,
 * I didn’t have a problem importing the whole album. First I would try to sync 
   it. If that doesn’t work, try to delete and re-add it (the shortcode will stay
   the same), if that doesn’t work, try unchecking the box “Import images to WordPress
   media library?” before you import it. The images will then just use the images
   provided by Facebook rather than save the images to WordPress. Maybe you have
   a space limit on your server? I have no idea. You can also check the Network 
   tab (if you use Chrome) and see if there is anything weird in the request. In
   order to prevent time outs, the object is first created, then it sends images
   over one at a time.
 * Mike
 *  Thread Starter [kred99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kred99/)
 * (@kred99)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396510)
 * So I have deleted the albums.
    Tick the Mobile album to import UnTick so as NOT
   copying images to WP library Shows importing 189 images and imports them Go to
   Album tab and it shows 130
 * The WP site spookily never gets the latest image but the 2nd latest is always
   there.
    I will check this end of things as you say, see if problem is our side.
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Auteri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauteri/)
 * (@mauteri)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396512)
 * Ok, let me know what you find out. Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [kred99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kred99/)
 * (@kred99)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396515)
 * Mike.
 * 1. I can’t see any limits on template or server.
    2. Database is 4MB size out
   of 150MB. 3. Using Safari not Chrome. 4. wp_options table shows entry for ‘fbps_album_311522535674470’
   with partial data =
 * `a:4:{s:5:"items";a:130:{i:0;a:6:{s:2:"id";s:15:"479852585508130";s:6:"photos";
   a:9:{i:0;a:3:{s:6:"height";i:1955;s:6:"source";s:101:"https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.
   net/hphotos-`
 * The only place I can see 130 mentioned ?
    I may be completely off but does this
   give any clues. ?
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Auteri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauteri/)
 * (@mauteri)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396518)
 * Sorry, that doesn’t tell me anything. If you use Chrome and checkout the Network
   tab in the dev tools, you can see all the communication between the client and
   the server via admin-ajax.php or the Facebook API and see where it’s failing 
   to grab all the images. I tried importing your album both in Chrome and Safari
   and have had no issues.
 *  Thread Starter [kred99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kred99/)
 * (@kred99)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396532)
 * Mike.
 * I shall carry on investigating photo import, however unless I can get automatic
   sync working that would be a show stopper.
 * Once again great plugin and I shall monitor for any updates in near future.
 * Thanks for all your help with this.
    Good luck 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Auteri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauteri/)
 * (@mauteri)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/photo-limits-and-sync-button/#post-6396536)
 * Thanks, I’ll update this ticket when the feature is available. Take care.

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