Facebook feed issues

I think this plugin is dead. I have the same issues, even after all the connections, tokens and green lights. It still won’t pull my facebook feed. I am personally marking this plugin as dead and abandoned and moving on.
?? you might want to do the same.

@redwolf13303 Maybe I should. Did you find a good alternative?

imo there is not a very good free alternative, that does not use a cloud service.

I try to contact the support about these topics mentionned there to get an answer from them. Perhaps you could do the same.

What’s interesting:

• If you run “Rebuild cache” from “Flow-Flow Lite > Feeds” all the images reappear immediately if they are broken
• If you manually run the cronjob “flow_flow_load_cache” (that runs every minute, the images are NOT reappearing if they are broken

I wonder if it is worth the effort to debug on my own and write a hotfix. Any thoughts?

I think the developer doesn’t care about their free version. They simply want to push everybody to the paid version.

That would be very sad.

This functionality should also be broken in the paid version (I’m not talking about their CDN solution, but if you use the paid version without a CDN, I suspect that it is also broken).

Could be, but considering the lack of any replies from them here I am not willing to pay to find out if it is just as bad.

Does anybody have a premium subscription and can contact the support? I am not able to do it at the moment. https://social-streams.com/contact/

I have the paid version and it’s not displaying the facebook feed and I can’t connect errorfree to instagram. I have contacted support and haven’t hear anything.
Paid or free – it doesn’t work. When it does work, it’s only for a while, then it stops working again.
Does anyone have an alternative plugin?

I’ve evaluated a bunch and never was satisfied (especially the few available free ones). Anybody?

The authors of this plugin are based in Ukraine, so that’s likely why we’re not hearing anything from them for a while now. I hope they are safe and that they will return to maintaining this EXCELLENT plugin. In the meantime, if there’s someone able to create a solution that solves the issues it’s having, I would be interested in seeing it. I’m sure the developers would be thankful for the assist in this very trying time for them.

If a fix of some kind is forthcoming, please keep me in the loop. My Flow Flow plugin stopped working a while ago, and I am not up to coding a fix myself.

Thanks @silverthread , that would indeed explain the lack of communication. How you know where they are based? Can’t find it anywhere.

I think that a developer who wants to help out still need to get in touch with the current developers to be able to release an update here.

I received an automated reply from them when I submitted a ticket. I am a paid user. I did just check again, and there was a reply. I will hopefully have some news soon. If there’s a solution found, I will share it here.

Does anyone know if it is possible to use WP Crontrol to set up a job to daily rebuild of cache?

I got it working.

Add the following new cronjob (that clears the cache):

// flow flow clear cache
add_action('init', function () {
    $task = 'flow_flow_load_cache_clear';
    $frequency = 'hourly';
    $scheduled = wp_next_scheduled($task);
    add_action($task, function () {
        global $wpdb;
        $wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare('DELETE FROM '.$wpdb->prefix.'ff_posts'));
        $wpdb->query($wpdb->prepare('DELETE FROM '.$wpdb->prefix.'ff_post_media'));
    });
    if (!wp_next_scheduled($task)) {
        wp_schedule_event(
            strtotime(date('Y-m-d H:00:00', strtotime('now + 1 hour'))),
            $frequency,
            $task
        );
    }
});

Then run the cronjobs flow_flow_load_cache_clear and (the already existing) flow_flow_load_cache via e.g. WP Crontol and everything should be working.