davidfcarr

I won’t criticize WPBook because honestly I haven’t tried it. But my understanding is that it uses an integration technology Facebook says it is phasing out, FBML, for content in page tabs. The documentations says WPBook supports either FBML or iframes for independent FB apps. FB’s support for iframes in page tabs just came out last week, so probably WPBook will have an update shortly to support that. You’ll have to make your own judgement about whether that’s the more full featured plugin for your purposes.

Facebook Tab Manager was specifically designed to capitalize on this new iframe capability. I wanted to make it relatively simple to create/edit content in WordPress and publish it to a Facebook page tab. You can see a couple of examples (tabs labeled Tab Manager and WP Tab) at https://www.facebook.com/carrcomm.

I just put out an update that makes it relatively easy to integrate a blog post or page or category, or list of headlines from a category. Also provided some tricks for taking advantage of Facebook social plugins, such as the like button and comment box. I’m providing running commentary on my blog as it evolves.

I’d be interested in feedback on this plugin, which just went live on the WordPress repository.

The Facebook Tab Manager for WordPress allows you to create landing pages and other types of content to be displayed within Facebook, particularly within the tabs that appear on Facebook business pages and pages for other types of organizations. This provides a way of putting more interesting layouts and functionality into your Facebook pages, without the need to get too deep into fancy programming.

The Facebook Tab Manager was specifically designed to take advantage of a recent Facebook page redesign that added support for iframe tabs on Facebook pages.

Tab content can include any WordPress content, including output from Shortcodes and other plugin functions.

I cooked up a Facebook Tab Manager plugin for WordPress that exploits their switch to allowing iframes in tabs (in fact that’s now the preferred way, with FBML being phased out).

I’ve set up a custom post type for Facebook tabs, and the plugin guides you through what to enter in the Facebook Developer form fields to register your WordPress content post as a Facebook app. You can use this approach to place marketing content on Facebook. Using shortcodes, you can also integrate interactive content such as contact forms.

I’ve seen other advice that the with_front rewrite argument should be set to true or it won’t work with some setups. Could you please explain your theory and/or experience with that?

And this is the rewrite rules object data dump I mentioned, which shows that the rules are being created correctly:

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/GYxUssXj

This is the plugin code I wanted to post:

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/XesqTBLT

I’m looking for help on a related problem here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/need-help-diagnosing-permalink-problem-reports?replies=1

I saw the post about not letting the same term occur elsewhere in your permalink structure. But when I tried changing my ‘event’ post type to ‘rsvp-event’ it made no difference on the system of a user who was having trouble with 404 errors. Yet it works fine on my site and those of some other happy users of the plugin.

BTW, I had one of the people who was reporting problems do the same data dump of the rewrite object, and it looked essentially identical. So it’s not that flush rewrite hasn’t run, apparently.