[Plugin: Facebook] [bug] Problems when publishing to a page

  • Resolved Tareq Hasan

    (@tareq1988)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    I was trying to publish a post to a facebook page. But it was not publishing the content correctly.

    Problems:
    The post link was ok, title is being “Auto Draft” and description is blank.

    Cause:
    in fb-social-publisher.php, fb_post_to_fb_page function is sending the status to facebook. But it has some problems. It’s using get_permalink(), get_the_excerpt(), but it’s not getting the global $post variable to setup those data and it was causing the problem.

    Fix:

    global $post;
$post = get_post( $post_id );
setup_postdata( $post );

    We are adding the global $post object and setting the $post variable so that get_permalink(), get_the_excerpt() functions can work without any problem.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/

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  • Thread Starter Tareq Hasan

    (@tareq1988)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    We also need to strip the excerpt as it was printing a <p></p> block

    'description' => strip_tags( apply_filters( 'the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() ) ),

    patv

    (@patv)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    I can confirm that this worked for me (on WP 3.4). Thanks Tareq.

    Plugin Contributor Matt Kelly (Facebook)

    (@mattwkelly)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the fix.

    This is how we’ve updated it (we’ll release it in 1.0.2):
    function fb_post_to_fb_page($post_id) {
    global $facebook;
    global $post;

    if ( isset ( $post_id ) ) {
    $post = get_post( $post_id );
    setup_postdata( $post );
    }

    $options = get_option(‘fb_options’);

    Look good? Thanks

    Thread Starter Tareq Hasan

    (@tareq1988)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    Cool 🙂

    dariopad

    (@dariopad)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Tareq, I’m using this pluging but for some reason it does not work correctly at all, in fact for some post it works and for others not.
    Moreover, if I use the iframe tag to include the Like button to a single post, it works for some article but it don’t for others and I can’t really understand why sometimes it works and sometimes not.
    the site is http://www.eaprilia.it and as you may see, some article do not have any like button.

    Hope you could help because I really don’t know how to fix, I’ve tried lots of tricks and fix but nothing has worked till now.

    many thanks in advance.
    Kind Regards.

    crowdesign

    (@crowdesign)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    I recently installed this plugin on a client’s website. It posts a notice to her page but the paragraph tags (<p>) from the blogpost snippet show up in the Facebook post. They are not visible on the blog post.

    Any solutions?

    Plugin Contributor Niall Kennedy

    (@niallkennedy)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    crowdesign: Could you please post a link to the post on the client’s Facebook page? Please also specify which version of the Facebook plugin and which version of WordPress is installed on your site.

    crowdesign

    (@crowdesign)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    The wordpress site is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Law-Office-Of-Denise-J-Lukins-PLLC/397911300266020.

    Also a link to a post is going to he wrong URL as well. (the radio Interview post)

    WordPress version 3.4.2
    Facebook Version 1.0.2

    crowdesign

    (@crowdesign)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Actually I figured out the bad URL. That was a page the client had started but then later deleted. I just upgraded Facebook plugin to 1.1.1 and will have the client attempt another post tomorrow.

    Plugin Contributor Niall Kennedy

    (@niallkennedy)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    crowdesign: The URL you provided includes Open Graph protocol markup from the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin above the Facebook plugin definitions. These two blocks of markup cause conflicts when parsing for a single representation of the page such as og:url.

    crowdesign

    (@crowdesign)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks. Since I am not willing to give up Yoast is there a workaround?

    Plugin Contributor Niall Kennedy

    (@niallkennedy)

    13 years, 4 months ago

    I believe the Yoast plugin has an option to disable Open Graph protocol output. Check their forums for compatibility with the Facebook plugin added in 1.2.8.5.

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