Title: Publicize facebook issues
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Publicize facebook issues

 *  Resolved [heymrdj27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heymrdj27/)
 * (@heymrdj27)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-facebook-issues/)
 * Hi,
 * Just installed Jetpack 3.5.3 on a client site to use publicize, can connect up
   Twitter and Google+ fine, when I come to connect up FB it gives the historic 
   error “to continue you’ll have to switch from using facebook at “company Name”
   to using Facebook as “personal page” which isnt what I want….
 * Help appreciated
 * DJ
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 *  [babydynamyt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/babydynamyt/)
 * (@babydynamyt)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-facebook-issues/#post-6168343)
 * Hey, maybe you can change your facebook.com over the your personal. Connect it
   to Jetpack and it will tell you which page do you want to use it for.
 *  Thread Starter [heymrdj27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heymrdj27/)
 * (@heymrdj27)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-facebook-issues/#post-6168401)
 * Hi, I have tried all the obvious stuff, I see this was a recognised issue last
   year and is said to be resolved but doesnt appear to be, are there anymore suggestions?
 *  [mitchellalerts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mitchellalerts/)
 * (@mitchellalerts)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-facebook-issues/#post-6168405)
 * heymrdj27:
 * This is not an error, this is normally what you would see when you try to connect
   WordPress to a Facebook page. Facebook requires that all posts made to your Facebook
   page be by way of a personal Facebook account. When you are on Facebook, they
   already know your personal account, but when you use a 3rd party web page that
   interfaces with Facebook, in an effort to protect your identity, only the Facebook
   page name is made available. But you are logged in as the page, Publicize is 
   seeing the Facebook page and its ID as the account, not your personal account
   and its ID.
 * Because content that gets posted to your Facebook page, whether you post it using
   the Facebook page or through something else that is connected to the Facebook
   page, those posts actually gets passed through your personal account. This way,
   if content you post to the Facebook page gets reported due to breaking the Facebook
   law, then the FB police will know which admin on the page made the post, and 
   take appropriate action against that person’s account, not every page admin. 
   Things work differently though when you get a 3rd party web page involved. Facebook
   only provides the page name and it’s ID when you are signed in and acting as 
   the Facebook page, instead of your personal page, or making both available to
   the 3rd party site. This is to protect your privacy as the admin of the page 
   from 3rd party pages. So the process is opposite.
 * First, you switch back to your personal account, then create the link. Then the
   3rd party site scrapes Facebook for available pages you’ve been granted permission
   to make posts to. You’ll be able to choose from your personal account or any 
   Facebook page where you are at least the Editor. Once you select the page, then
   Publicize knows to publicize the posts you make to WordPress using your WP account
   through your personal name, then to the page. The post makes it to Facebook, 
   and Facebook knows it was your personal Facebook account that posted it.
 * So you have your WordPress linked to Facebook now. Great! Now it’s to plan how
   posts created by others on your WordPress page will be handled. How you choose
   to do this is entirely up to you, but I’ll try to explain the best way I know
   how the advantages and disadvantages of each method. I recommend you give this
   thought, and make the choice that you feel will meet your needs down the road.
 * If you personally know and trust all the people that will be posting content 
   to your WordPress page, and you are comfortable with the posts they make to your
   WordPress page, and you are not worried about your personal Facebook account 
   being attached as the owner when they are publicized to the Facebook page, or
   you have people posting to the WordPress page and you want their posts publicized
   and you don’t want them to be an admin of the Facebook page, or you have people
   posting on the WordPress page that don’t have Facebook accounts, after you make
   the connection to the page, you’ll want to put a checkmark next to “Make this
   connection available to all users of this blog” and that’s it! You’re good to
   go! All posts made on the WordPress page from now on and forever until you break
   the connection, or you are removed from the Facebook page by another admin, will
   go to the Facebook page. Here’s the downside: If one of the people’s accounts
   gets compromised on your WordPress page, or one of your people gets angry, and
   their WordPress account makes a post that would violate Facebook’s Community 
   Standards, and the publicized post gets reported to Facebook, YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT
   WILL BE SUBJECT TO FACEBOOK DISCIPLINE UP TO TERMINATION.
 * So if the thought of that worries you, then you will not want to check that box
   making your connection available to all users. Instead, you will need to ensure
   each person on your WordPress page is also an admin on the Facebook page, and
   each person will need to follow the steps of creating their own connections for
   their posts to be publicized through. That way, if someone gets hacked, or goes
   rogue on you, and something bad gets posted to your WordPress page, it won’t 
   be so bad. Their bad posts get reported, their Facebook account is placed on 
   the chopping block, and you can delete bad post on the WordPress page (and hopefully
   remove their access to your WordPress blog too), and life is good.
 * Of course, your mileage may vary!
 *  Thread Starter [heymrdj27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heymrdj27/)
 * (@heymrdj27)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-facebook-issues/#post-6168409)
 * Ok so now my brains hurting…. a little bit, I get all the legal stuff and hear
   you re third parties etc…
 * **I just want to hook up Publicize** to work with the business page connected
   to my clients personal FB account, he and I are both admins on the business page,
   I want him through publicize to be able to distribute his posts to Twitter, Google
   + and FB. the first are working fine 🙂 Its not for anyone else to post to, no
   risk of third parties or Rogue, (ps does anyone remember rogue trooper) just 
   him posting to his own page.
 * Just FYI my client is a sea fisherman who sells his owns fish to retail, wholesale
   and direct to restaurants, as he comes into port he wants to be able to post “
   hey today Im bringing in, 1 kraken, 2 moby dicks and 4 lobster”
 * I just cant seem to get it to connect to said page!!!???
 *  Thread Starter [heymrdj27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heymrdj27/)
 * (@heymrdj27)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-facebook-issues/#post-6168410)
 * Ok, ok, ok, (to be said in Danny Glover style ala lethal weapon voice)
 * I’ve sussed this, I didn’t let it go far enough through the setup to see the “
   post to which pages” option, I didnt remember it being quite so long winded last
   time, I’ll go boil my head….
 * Rogue Trooper was a 2000AD character, great storylines, probably never used FB
   in his life…

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publicize-facebook-issues/#post-6168410)
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