Setting up WPBook for comments (what am I doing wrong?)

Creating a new app wouldn’t help – if they’ve stopped allowing new apps to use the “older” method WPBook relies on, you’d have to create an old app. (Unless you can go back in time, I don’t know how to do that).

One option – set the “Canvas Session Paramater” back to “disabled” and give it 10 minutes.

I’m worried that the FB Roadmap says that Oauth 2.0 will be required for new apps as of “the end of 2010” – maybe they’ve started down that path early, by no longer sending the “fb_sig_in_iframe” parameter for new apps?

If that’s the case, all new WPBook apps will be borked.

i don’t think so…. I created this app for something else about 6 months ago. But never utilized it so I changed the name and started using it for this. Could that be a problem? <— I hadn’t considered that.

I think other would have complained if that was it. Your application gets a lot of use.

So I wonder… Are we out of ideas?

lol… I understand if you gave it your best shot. This one is a bit extreme.

Did you try setting the “Canvas Session Parameter” back to disabled?

Otherwise next step would be to try creating yet another new FB application with a new API key and secret, and trying again.

In theory it should be loading the app into an iframe and passing the fb_sig_in_iframe parameter, which is what WPBook uses to know it is being called from inside Facebook.

If you set up another app and it has the same problem, I don’t know what we’ll have proven but I guess we’ll have demonstrated it isn’t just one app having the problem.

OK with the canvas url security disabled I get something that looks kinda like a site map. looks cool but I know thats not what we’re shooting for.

Application page:
https://apps.facebook.com/hairwego_comments/?ref=bookmarks&count=0

On the facebook wall tab it only shows one tab.

https://www.facebook.com/HairWeGo?v=app_222823313810

Also… I added the permissions for my user and for the page. Its strange that I see only pages and no posts.

lastly… Here’s a screenshot of the permissions I was finally able to add.
https://hairwegoproducts.com/images/permissions.jpg

No support today?

Sorry – working the day job.

Did you publish new posts?

Did you use the “check permissions” link inside WPBook?

Does it show the fanpage you are trying to target?

Do you list posts on your blog homepage?

NP I work too. I really appreciate your help. I’m willing to ‘pay’ for perpetual support. I’m probably going to use this product a lot ??

Did you publish new posts?

News posts publish to the walls but the tab on the fanpage doesn’t display correctly.
https://www.facebook.com/HairWeGo?v=app_222823313810

Did you use the “check permissions” link inside WPBook?

Yes! It worked perfectly!

Does it show the fanpage you are trying to target?

No it doesn’t show the fanpage. The tab only shows one link from the blog.

Also on the application profile only shows the ‘pages’ in the blog and the menu. No posts are listed.

https://apps.facebook.com/hairwego_comments/?ref=ts

The tab on the fan page looks good to me now (just looked at it – 10pm ET).

Did you change something?

The application profile just shows the blog’s home page – you may have to edit the provided theme to get it to work as you’d like if your home page isn’t your blog post listing page. Right now it looks like it is listing pages – maybe you’ve been fiddling with your settings?

Hey there… yes I’ve been playing with my settings…

I ended up setting the canvas url to https://hairwegoproducts.com/updates/ instead up https://hairwegoproducts.com.

For some reason if set to the root it did not show all the posts in the beautiful order it now does…

That seems to have caused some problems because now the pages no longer open correctly….

Thoughts on how to fix this?

Just one more issue after this:
Importing comments…. how to make that work? I believe I have it setup correctly but and tried commenting on a few posts on my page. Never saw the comment imported.

Hey there… Hope you saw my last reply. I think we’re almost licked it.

Not as simple as you might think.

Easy answer = make your blog homepage a list of blog posts. Then it will all just work.

But I know that itsn’t a good enough answer.

WPBook creates links by taking the canvas callback url base (hairwegoproducts/updates/) and replacing that with apps.facebook.com/, then adding onto apps.facebook.com/ the rest of the permalink string.

if one of the links has to point outside /updates/ there’s no way for WPBook to go “above” that url – think of it as having set hairwegoproducts.com/updates/ as your document root on a webserver.

One fix others have used is to add an .htaccess rewrite rule which, whenever /updates/ is called on pages, redirects to the same url without /updates/.

WordPress is smart enough to find the posts even without the /updates/ in the string.

But basically it is a conflict caused having a “home page” which doesn’t list blog posts – WPBook is basically pulling your home page into Facebook and doesn’t know how to handle the difference between /updates/ and pages which don’t live on that path.

Does that make any sense?

Makes total sense… But totally breaks the reason I wanted to use this. lol…

So close yet so far.

I wanted to add the page navigation to the site. Of course making the index page a list of blog posts is out of the question. That would harm our current theme.

Is it possible to enter could that would have it look for blog posts on https://hairwegoproducts.com/updates/ while keeping the canvas url set to https://hairwegorproducts.com?

That would make this product an enterprise solution out of the box… I’m not asking for a new release but if you know what I might need to modify that would be awesome… I’d respond with a thankful donation (next week of course).

Also… one last question in addition to the one above.

Can’t seem to get the comments to sync. I posted a few comments to the links on my facebook & fanpage walls but they weren’t imported into wordpress.