Comments pulled from facebook show as admin, not facebook user

Steve, also,

the setting: Only Pretend to Publish on Facebook – TEST MODE

How does this work? What happens?

Secondly, does this (or is there a way to) have the facebook post default to posting as showing up for only me, rather than public (or to set it to any of facebook’s other audience options? It occurred to me…for testing purposes this would be great. I mean, I can manually change it once it posts…but anyone on facebook in that split second might see it…so if it could be a pre-post setting that would be awesome. Is that an option I’m overlooking?

Ok…i just read the bit int he user guide that explains how the ‘Pretend to publish’ option works. I’ll keep chewing through the guide to see if I can answer my other questions…

“2.2.5.10
Use Image from Custom Meta instead of Featured Image ….
Facebook only supports a single image on it’s wall posts. Wordbooker supports the WordPress
“Featured Image” function and you can set it to use that option for the image for the wall. This
option allows you to basically tell Wordbooker to use the image in the Custom Meta field as the
image to be posted to Facebook instead of the Featured Image.”

so, it sounds like it’s simply using the featured image with this option, is that correct? I avoided the featured image and used that other open graph plugin, because the featured image option–for whatever reason–actually posts that image above my post and throws everything out of whack. Not sure if that’s an issue with wordpress, the theme, or some other factor.

If there’s a way to utilize featured image without having it do that, that would simplify things.

Sorry to be throwing so much at you all at once.

Custom meta is entered through the WordPress custom meta box on the add/edit post screen. Some plugins automatically create their own custom meta as well.

Privacy settings for posts is scheduled in for 2.3 .. Which may arrive sooner rather than later if people don’t report many bugs.

That’s why I have a test page so I can post tests to it….

oh–i get how to make it private now–i see how to set that in the wordbooker ap settings in facebook.

You can do that but don’t forget to change it back again afterwards

ah–and i see what you mean abouth the open graph custom fields, now–that’s awesome. Thanks!

Steve, this is not a big deal, but even though I have selected “Delete Post from Facebook when Post is deleted from Blog,” the test post i just made and deleted is still showing on my facebook page.

Steve,

So, I’ve been testing the difference between posting as a wall post vs as a status update. I’ve read the user guide references on this, but it’s not all clear to me the difference…and searches about how facebook treats these differently haven’t cleared things up, either.

I’ve done two test posts (one of each), and the two main things I see is:

1) that the status update option (using update text [have not tried excerpt] does not include the thumbnail/direct link to the post like the wall post option does.

2)the status update has one thing the wall post does not–the promote option. I’ve yet to use this at all, but I surmise that it could be useful.

So, I’m wondering why the status update doesn’t show the thumbnail/post link…because if it did, given that it has the promote feature (while the wall post does not), that seems like it would be the way to go…

…unless there’s a way to have the promote feature part of a wall post. Again, I just don’t understand how facebook treats these two things differently…

———-btw, would you prefer if I opened these unique questions as separate posts, so they show as more focused/searchable/resolved subjects? My sense of etiquette for this sort of thing is somewhat lacking…

Delete Post isn’t working … OK I might need to look at the code – are there any relevant messages in the diagnostic logs (or in your PHP error logs on the server).

Status Update is like simply putting a simple line of text onto your wall.. Believe it or not Status Update and wall post are the same call yo Facebook – the only difference being the inclusion of the image.

I might pull some of the stuff from here and build it into the FAQs on the Wordbooker website – a feature that I’ve been neglecting.

there are no error codes in the log…but that’s another weird thing…because I only have the log set to show ‘fatal errors’…but it’s showing me everything. Not a big deal…

Thanks for clarifying on the status vs. Wall post.

I did another test with interesting results: I used the link option instead…

(and since I seem to have decent open graph tags, at present, it conforms with your user guide suggestions [i do have “Disable in-line production of OpenGraph Tags” selected, incidentally, given the issue from earlier], and the F.B. object debugger is happy)

…and that looks like the best of both worlds; it has the thumbnail/post info, uses the “Facebook Post Attribute line,” and has the promote option!

I’ll check the fatal errors setting – it could just be a simple glitch in the values I set for the cut offs.

btw…this could be due to any number of things…but i noticed one other benefit of using the link option rather than wall post–the thumbnail image shows up with a noticeably higher resolution.

Incidentally, as an fyi, i noticed that the promote feature only shows up as an option from the home page, not the newsfeed…in case you ever opt to incorporate a message about that to users in your user guide or elsewhere. obviously, it could change…but…for now…

Yes it will do – its bigger (no don’t ask me why – its another FB “feature” )

huh…i just noticed, though, that the link option has other presentation differences that are less than ideal…

…it puts the web address in front of the post title…

..it uses the web address a second time, in place of the website tagline…

and the ‘excerpt’ it uses (next to the thumbnail) starts from the middle of the post’s text, rather than the beginning.

Hm…to link…or to wall post…
…decisions…decisions…