Comments pulled from facebook show as admin, not facebook user

Thanks–i guess i forgot to let you know, that problem sorted itself out–turns out my host service started encountering disk failure on the server they had my site on…so they loaded the last saved versions of people’s sites, till they could get everything fully restored…and that error evaporated once they got the final restore all set.

Hey Steve–

I’m working on getting wordbooker integrated with a facebook professional ‘Page’ for dual posting to it and my personal facebook page. It works, but there is one thing I can’t figure out–

–as I’d mentioned a while back, when I’m doing a test for a new post, I set the wordbooker app in facebook to only be visible to myself and one other facebook account I use for testing purposes…and that works perfectly when I simply post to my own page…but now, when I instruct wordbooker to also post to the professional facebook page, it shows up there as a public post; also, facebook doesn’t allow me to make that post private, afterwards.

So, I’m trying to ascertain how to get things set so it’ll stay private on the professional page until I’ve run my tests and am ready to go public.

Also, in my efforts to figure this out on my own, I was messing with the app settings in facebook and tried removing the option to let wordbooker manage my pages…but I can’t see how to re-allow that.

so, if you have a moment, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

right now Wordbooker doesn’t support privacy options when posting to Facebook – its not a huge change as it simply involved passing additional parameters to the FB calls.

Thanks for the rapid response. Not sure I understand–can you elaborate?

Also is there a way to reinstate workdbooker’s authorization to handle posts to my unique pages? I can’t figure out how to do that…

…would I have to remove app from facebook, then reinstate it via the wordbooker settings in wordpress?

The Facebook API supports privacy settings – I just don’t handle them at Wordbooker’s end.

What I do to test a post is I have an unpublished page on FB and I post to that and if I’m happy then I publish to the main pages.

Wordbooker might pick up that its missing manage pages on the next cache refresh, or you might have to re-authorise Wordbooker by resetting your user session in Wordbooker. If neither of those work then you might need to remove Wordbooker from your list of apps and then do a re-authentication.

Ok–I just noticed the option that appeared on the wordbooker settings page in wordpress, to allow permissions; followed the instructions, and all is back to normal.

So, if you can simply explain what you meant by,

right now Wordbooker doesn’t support privacy options when posting to Facebook – its not a huge change as it simply involved passing additional parameters to the FB calls.

…that would be awesome. thanks!

oops, i guess we were posting at about the same time. Sorry about that.

So, there’s no setting to make a post private if I post it to the professional page. I can dig it. I’ll adjust my testing accordingly.

One other odd phenomenon, though…I’m hoping you can shed some light on…

so, using my secondary (dummy) facebook account, I left a comment on the ‘professonal’ page’s wordbooker post…then instructed wordbooker to run comment hadling. Naturally, the comment showed up on my wordpress post…and not surprisingly, the comment was pushed to my main facebook page’s wordbooker post, showing as it normally would…using the ‘Facebook Comment Structure’ from the ‘Comment Handling Options’…only, following that, it also included a ‘link’ to my previous, publicly published wordpress post–which is definitely not part of the plan.

Now that my settings are back to normal, and I know I’ll have to live with public posts my ‘professional’ page for the time being, i’ll retest this to see if it happens again, but do you have any idea why that would happen? is there a setting that would do that, or is this some kind of bug?

Ok…i didn’t do any more testing yet, because while I was typing the lst message, the comment handling did another pass, and I’d already tested some other comments while the ‘page management’ option was off…so now, any comment that is pushed from the website (though it may have originated from the ‘professional’ page’s wordbooker post) is showing the same ‘link’ to my previous wordpress post.

I’m assuming this has something to do with dual-posting to my facebook personal page as well as the ‘professional’ page, as I never saw this happen before…

…any ideas?

hang on…i have a theory why this is happening. I’m testing; will let you know in a minute…

Ok–figured it out.

In the ‘Comment Handling Options’ Comment Tag, I had:
“[Comment auto imported from https://www.archetypalimages.com via Wordbooker plugin]”

It wasn’t pulling my previous post…it was seeing my website url as a ‘link,’ and was therefore generating the info and thumbnail from the top post. Soon as I yanked the url from the comment tag, and tested with a fresh comment, it stopped.

BTW, I just sent you a small donation via paypal, since I’d not gotten around to that last month, with all the help you gave me. Wish I could give more.

Thanks for your ongoing support!

Thanks Eric

I’ll probably be adding the privacy option in the next release. Sort of semi coded out at the moment as I’ve been working on some complex stuff at work.

Right on.

On another note, do you ever imagine that there will be a way to have the comments that are pushed to facebook actually show up as the facebook user who commented (assuming they were using their facebook profile when commenting?

In the same vein, whether posts that are dually-replicated on a personal and professional facebook page may be able to be reflections of each other…rather than showing as pushed comments from wordpress?

I don’t have a clue what technical hurdles it would take to accomplish such a feat…just that it would be so much more ideal, than having pushed comments show up under a user’s facebook account, since, at a glance, it would appear to most people like yer’ simply re-commenting on your own post…

I know I can turn that off, and am thinking that for now I may…Just wondering what if any consideration you’ve invested into such ideas?

No its not possible for comments to show up as the FB person who originally made it as the comments are made by Wordbooker which is using a session you created.

All interactions made by Wordbooker against Facebook have to use a session which has been created once the person has authorised Wordbooker as an app.