Unable to Associate User with Facebook

@jessepearson I just used screen shots from wordpress (the publishing process), but if I recall, I found the steps on a web site somewhere… Sorry but I can’t find the URL.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

Remember: version numbers, list of other plug-ins, can all be very helpful to the developers (if they ever read this).

Ted

At this point I am lucky I posted without profanity ??

I have WP 3.9.1 and FB plugin 1.5.5.

Did you manage to associate your page to wordpress? How did you got passed that?
*Associate my WordPress account with my Facebook account and allow new posts to my Facebook Timeline*

On the first try, and only the first try, it will pop up and ask you to verify. After that, it begins to pop up, then the page refreshes.

You can try it again by going into Roles > Test Users under your app, create a new test user or use the existing one, then go back into WP. Make sure you log out of Facebook before clicking on the link in your WP User Profile, then click either link and it will ask you to log in. You input the test user info, it accepts it, but it doesn’t link on the WP side.

@jessepearson, I am having the exact same experience.

You lost me somewhere ??
I’ll just wait for my app to get approved and try again.
It’s true what u’re saying that if u are logged out the pop-up will stay (will not just disappear) and you can log in. But i end up in the same place anyway.

@pokr777 Sorry :\

I just went into my FB account, then to Settings > Apps, and my app is there.

It appears that the Facebook auth system is recognizing when you authorize it to your account, however, there is something broken in the link between FB and WP. Most likely it is something the OG code in the plugin itself.

I dove into the code, at line 209 of facebook/admin/profile.php, there is this:

} catch(Exception $e) {}

I added in an echo and caught the problem:

$e: 210
WP_FacebookApiException Object
(
    [result:protected] => Array
        (
            [error_code] => 12
            [error] => Array
                (
                    [message] => (#12) username is deprecated for versions v2.0 and higher
                    [type] => OAuthException
                )

        )

    [message:protected] => (#12) username is deprecated for versions v2.0 and higher
    [string:Exception:private] =>
    [code:protected] => 12
    [file:protected] => [redacted]/wp-content/plugins/facebook/includes/facebook-php-sdk/class-facebook-wp.php
    [line:protected] => 46
    [trace:Exception:private] => Array

I truncated because it dumps out the API ID, Secret, etc.

So i should just copy this just after line 209? Or I delete 209 and replace with this?

Neither.

I was just posting the error that was previously uncaught (in case the developers were watching). I have managed to get my account to link, but I still cannot post from WP to FB.

My pulse got high :)) tough you got the bug.
So..I’ll just wait.
You said you have your app listed in FB acc. I have it to: one that is active…witch i made +- a month ago, and the new one that I just send it for approval. And i dont think it will be approved, since i cannot make a timeline print screen because I can’t associate FB.

@jessepearson indeed you seem to have found *a* problem :-). Honestly, if I had the time, I’d be all over this, but I find the Facebook documentation to be either outdated or sparse (few clear and working examples) and I just don’t have the time to wade through it… If, however, that changes, I’ll post my updates here.

Ted

Ok so, maybe I lied. I can’t resist a good puzzle and while perusing the documentation, I found this gem:

“Note: If the only people who are ever expected to log into your app are the people listed in the Roles section of your app, you do not need to submit for review. For example, if you use the Facebook for WordPress plugin to publish your blog posts to Facebook, you do not need to submit for review to be able to grant the manage_pages or publish_actions permissions as long as the person logging into the app is listed in the Roles section of your app’s dashboard”
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/overview/v2.0

I think the bottom line is the current version of this plug-in is written against the previous version of the Facebook API. However, any Facebook application created after about April 1 is prohibited from accessing the Facebook 1.x API.

So in other words, you may be able to get this to work making a few modifications to the existing code but I’m gonna guess there are some deeper issues that will need to be resolved before the plug-in works full force.

In fact, I’ll bet that the two developers tasked with maintaining this plug-in are actively working on the 2.0 version as I write this, but they are prohibited from talking about it (and would probably benefit from having some beta testers).

Ted

So I just logged in to my Facebook application and see that my request for the publish_actions was DECLINED ROFL.

I’m hoping it was declined because, as the documentation states, I don’t need it but it would be so helpful if Facebook would specify that in their response.

Ted

@tedmaster

my application was DECLINED too!

See here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fsdmaqp7dsjqrou/Screenshot%202014-05-15%2013.37.56.png