Facebook Publishing Module
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Facebook Publishing Module
BlogSenseWp provides the ability to remotely publish status updates to Facebook. When users create a campaign they will have the option to push updates to their facebook page. A template system is provided to help design how the content is delivered. Publishing is controlled at the campaign level, helping the user to leverage all of BlogSenseWP’s quality control measures to deliver targeted curated content to your Facebook page.
Facebook Auto-publishing Features
Automatically publish content to facebook page. (business, fan, *groups and personal pages coming soon!*)
Publish to multiple accounts at once.
Optional: publish to accounts randomly.
Control status format with templating options
Template options includes:
Message Formatting (Use the title of imported content or the postbody of imported content).
Link Attachment (Direct facebook readers to the original source of the content or to the re-syndicated version of the content imported onto your website)
Picture (Have facebook auto detect images by reading the attached link, or custom define an image to use by inputting the image URL manually or inserting a %image_1% or %image_2% token that would attempt to use the first or second image found in the imported content.
Control auto-publishing on the campaign level. BlogSense helps users create content importing campaigns on remote sources. Certain campaigns can publish to certain pages. This tool is excellent for helping a user curate content to his facebook account(s).
Facebook’s oAuth system requires users to refresh access to their accounts by logging in. In order to remote publish to user accounts the user must re-authenticate their permissions ever 60 days. It’s unclear whether users will have to do this with Facebook page accounts. It’s believed that this is not the case. If this is the case then BlogSense WP will design and provide a notification system reminding users that they need to refresh their tokens. For now, though, we’re not worrying about it until we’ve evidence that this is required.
Although we can post to user created pages (business pages, fan pages, etc.), we do not have the ability to post to normal user profile accounts or group accounts. We will have this in soon.
How to connect a Facebook Account
Step I: Head to https://developers.facebook.com/ apps and create a new application.
Step II: Create a new application.
Step III: Name your application.
Step IV: Associate your application with your WordPress site’s domain.
Step V: Authorizing BlogSenseWP to use your newly created Facebook application.
Publishing campaign content to Facebook