[Plugin: Simple Facebook Connect] Unable to post to Fan Page

  • Hi,

    I have used SFC in the past with little issues other than getting the facebook app settings correct however I am experiencing an issue I have been unable to correct.

    I hit “grant SFC permission” the facebook window pops up and says I am granting it permissions to post to all my pages, profile, etc… I get the following after this:

    User ID and Access Token found! Automatic profile publishing is ready to go!

    Application Access Token not found. Cannot autopublish to Facebook Application. Try re-saving this page.

    Fan Page Access Token not found. Cannot autopublish to Facebook Page. Try re-saving this page.

    So I have tried uninstalling the App and re installing, same outcome after granting access again. For the record My Fan page has a username (facebook.com/myfanpage) I did manage to find the ID by clicking on edit page and coping the ID from the url there. I am very confused on the issue here so any help would be appreciated!

    I have also tried uninstalling SFC and re installing with no luck.

    I am wondering if it is a settings issue on the application side because Facebook seems to have totally changed the way they are setup up in the settings page. Luckily I already had a app setup previously and i mirrored its settings to this new pages app.

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  • Finally found the problem.

    In the “Advanced” options of the Facebook application, there’s a new feature called “deprecate offline_access”, which is enabled by default, and when selected, fan page acces token does not have “offline_accesss”, that is, permeanent access to post to the fan page. That’s why sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t.

    Hope it helps someone else.

    Excellent. Will try to confirm that this fixes the problem for me as well. Thanks Xavivars.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    That must be a new thing, because I’ve never seen it before. It was disabled on my already existing applications.

    Yes, that definitely has to be set to “disabled”, otherwise the whole thing will stop working when you logout of FB.

    offline_access is deprecated and will be completely removed soon. Instead, access tokens have to be exchanged for tokens with extended expiration time.

    Recommended reading: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/offline-access-deprecation/

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Yes, I know, however FB hasn’t really thought this through since having it just stop working when you don’t visit the site and re-confirm every 60 days is kinda a crap solution too.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.ads-software.com Admin

    Also, they don’t explain how to deal with logouts, since these “extended” access tokens seem to instantly become invalid when the user logs out of Facebook.

    Plus one here with:
    User ID and Access Token found!
    Application Access Token not found. Try re-saving this page.

    My setup:
    WP 3.3.1 + SFC 1.3
    OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007

    deprecate offline_access = disabled

    Any clues what might be going on here?

    Otherwise it is hard not to be just grateful for this plugin, it is an awesome piece of work, Otto!

    Thanks for the information about offline_access. I was trying very hard to figure out what was wrong. I hope whatever FB does, they don’t break how apps need this offline access to post to pages. The token for me is breaking within like a day or two, hardly anywhere near a week, let alone 60 days.

    Hello, I cant get this to work, get the: “Fan Page Access Token not found. Try re-saving this page.” error.

    Running all the new updates.

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