[Plugin: Facebook Page Publish] Avoid publishing old posts when updating tags

Hi mimiburned,

One way to avoid publishing these old posts is to select “Publish by default” -> “nothing”.

A better solution might be to not automatically publish/update posts on Facebook if they have already been pulished on your blog but not on Facebook. Would that be usefull? Or do you have another idea?

I’m not sure if I understood you correctly ?? It would be nice to prevent publishing *any* old post automatically – unless you specifically edit that post and click on “republish to facebook”.

My blog has more than 4000 posts. It is a news blog – and whan I updated certain things (technical stuff like add tags, deleted some things) that post gets published to facebook… and it’s very old news lol…little bit embarrasing for me.

As I started using the plugin just recently, I would like that Facebook Publish just published new content from now on and to not care about post updates unless I say so a republish then from the edit post dashboard.

OMG, I am a MESS trying to explain technical stuff ??

Oh by the way, “Publish by default” -> nothing – means that for every post I make, I will have to mark the “publish to facebook” button?

I use Windows Live Writer to write my posts, and rarely use the WordPress Dashboard – unless I have to edit something.
So I guess that wouldn’t be practical and not automatic.

thanks a lot for your help and patience

It would be nice to prevent publishing *any* old post automatically

What is your definition of “old post” ?

1. post that has already been published on wordpress?
2. post that has already been published on wordpress but NOT on Facebook?
3. post that was written prior to the installation of the plugin?

I think the first or second definition might be usefull here.

Oh by the way, “Publish by default” -> nothing – means that for every post I make, I will have to mark the “publish to facebook” button?

Yes (and if there is no such checkbox (quick edit etc.), the post will not be published

It would be:
* post that was written prior to the installation of the plugin

??

In my opinion, it is also usefull to prevent newer posts from being published to FB (when modifying them) if they have already been published on your WP blog.

Why do you think it should (only) be “post that was written prior to the installation of the plugin” ?

“usefull to prevent newer posts from being published to FB (when modifying them) if they have already been published on your WP blog. “

I agree with that too. That and posts that were written prior to the installation of the plugin.

Ok, I agree. I will implement this in the next version / update. Thank you very much for your time and the proposal!

Thanks to you, you’re awesome ??

Sorry to bother you again with this, but any update on fixing this issue?
I have a huge blog that constantly needs editing, and everytime I forget to disable your plugin to edit, ALL edited post from 2 years (or more) ago get published to FB ??

This is very frustrating. If I disable to edit, sometimes I forget to enable it again.

I really like the simplicity of your plugin vs others, and that’s why I keep using it, but I can’t bear deleting more posts on my FB fan page ??

Hi mimiburned,

I thought I had fixed this problem, but it seems that my fix was not working when the post was not sent from the wordpress default post editor. Sorry!

Anyways, here is a fixed version:
https://pastebin.com/vtZC8Teq

To install this version, just go to your WP admin interface, click on Plugins -> Facebook Page Publish -> edit and replace the code in fpp_index.php with this new version.

It would be nice of you if you could give it a try and report back whether it works for you or not.

I am still working on a major update, so I wont make this a regular update but integrate this fix into the upcoming version 0.4.

It seems to fix the problem! But, now I get an error everytime I post with Windows Live Writer xmlrpc.php
So i have to disable it for now ??