Pulling all articles instead of just the set feed

I’ve had the same issue

I think that the plugin connects to Facebook via the API and then offers the RSS feed as well. So stuff not in the feed might be pulled by the API. And you can even removed the production RSS feed url – and the API still updates. So you don’t actually need it. (Wish the plugin documentation made that more clear.)

Another aha for me today is that even if a post is in the Instant Articles library – people will only see it if you actually publish a Facebook post containing that link. The documentation on this in Facebook is a bit round-a-bout, but the bottom line is that even if it is in the library, it won’t necessarily ever be seen if you don’t publish it!

And, with this new version, it doesn’t seem to be pulling pages anymore (yay!), only posts. And custom post types can be added as described here:

Hope that helps (and hope it is correct! I’m no expert here…)

Thanks for that – although in the settings panel on facebook you specify the URL of the RSS feed, which makes it seem odd that facebook would ignore that and use the API instead, or maybe it’s the plugin forcing it’s API on Facebook?

I’m not sure either! My guess is it gives precedence to the API. Which kinda sucks, since I just discovered the changes I’ve made painstakingly to get urls attached to my authors are not in the API version, even though they are in the feed. Argh.

I was so hopeful that this new update was really good news – now it seems it’s just kinda good news.