heymrdj27:
This is not an error, this is normally what you would see when you try to connect WordPress to a Facebook page. Facebook requires that all posts made to your Facebook page be by way of a personal Facebook account. When you are on Facebook, they already know your personal account, but when you use a 3rd party web page that interfaces with Facebook, in an effort to protect your identity, only the Facebook page name is made available. But you are logged in as the page, Publicize is seeing the Facebook page and its ID as the account, not your personal account and its ID.
Because content that gets posted to your Facebook page, whether you post it using the Facebook page or through something else that is connected to the Facebook page, those posts actually gets passed through your personal account. This way, if content you post to the Facebook page gets reported due to breaking the Facebook law, then the FB police will know which admin on the page made the post, and take appropriate action against that person’s account, not every page admin. Things work differently though when you get a 3rd party web page involved. Facebook only provides the page name and it’s ID when you are signed in and acting as the Facebook page, instead of your personal page, or making both available to the 3rd party site. This is to protect your privacy as the admin of the page from 3rd party pages. So the process is opposite.
First, you switch back to your personal account, then create the link. Then the 3rd party site scrapes Facebook for available pages you’ve been granted permission to make posts to. You’ll be able to choose from your personal account or any Facebook page where you are at least the Editor. Once you select the page, then Publicize knows to publicize the posts you make to WordPress using your WP account through your personal name, then to the page. The post makes it to Facebook, and Facebook knows it was your personal Facebook account that posted it.
So you have your WordPress linked to Facebook now. Great! Now it’s to plan how posts created by others on your WordPress page will be handled. How you choose to do this is entirely up to you, but I’ll try to explain the best way I know how the advantages and disadvantages of each method. I recommend you give this thought, and make the choice that you feel will meet your needs down the road.
If you personally know and trust all the people that will be posting content to your WordPress page, and you are comfortable with the posts they make to your WordPress page, and you are not worried about your personal Facebook account being attached as the owner when they are publicized to the Facebook page, or you have people posting to the WordPress page and you want their posts publicized and you don’t want them to be an admin of the Facebook page, or you have people posting on the WordPress page that don’t have Facebook accounts, after you make the connection to the page, you’ll want to put a checkmark next to “Make this connection available to all users of this blog” and that’s it! You’re good to go! All posts made on the WordPress page from now on and forever until you break the connection, or you are removed from the Facebook page by another admin, will go to the Facebook page. Here’s the downside: If one of the people’s accounts gets compromised on your WordPress page, or one of your people gets angry, and their WordPress account makes a post that would violate Facebook’s Community Standards, and the publicized post gets reported to Facebook, YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT WILL BE SUBJECT TO FACEBOOK DISCIPLINE UP TO TERMINATION.
So if the thought of that worries you, then you will not want to check that box making your connection available to all users. Instead, you will need to ensure each person on your WordPress page is also an admin on the Facebook page, and each person will need to follow the steps of creating their own connections for their posts to be publicized through. That way, if someone gets hacked, or goes rogue on you, and something bad gets posted to your WordPress page, it won’t be so bad. Their bad posts get reported, their Facebook account is placed on the chopping block, and you can delete bad post on the WordPress page (and hopefully remove their access to your WordPress blog too), and life is good.
Of course, your mileage may vary!
