Mike Auteri

Yes, will do that soon. The 0.5 release was done in a hurry because the plugin was going to break with Facebook deprecating the API I was using. I will be updating the instructions and make it more comprehensive and easy to follow.

No worries. Are you using the latest version of the plugin (version 0.5) and have you created a Facebook App and hooked it up to the plugin under the “Import” tab. These things are required now since Facebook deprecated the older version of the API I was utilizing. If it’s not that, let me know. There are a few things in the plugin I have to optimize which are on my list to do.

Thanks,
Mike

It’s on the plugin roadmap to have it sync automatically (probably use wp_schedule_event on it), but I haven’t had a chance to write that in yet. If you want to write it and submit a patch I can review and implement it into the plugin. Thx.

Awesome! Next update I’ll make the instructions a little more clear. Thanks!

Yes, sometimes if you use Facebook links directly rather than importing them to WordPress, the links appear to change. If you click the “sync” link it should correct the problem.

Hi, you also need to make sure you add your website domain to the Facebook App. Just go to your app on https://developer.facebook.com, click on Settings, and make sure your domain is added to Site URL. In your case it’s https://wordpress.creativelearning.in/

Haven’t heard back from you so assuming this is resolved. If you are still having issues just let me know!

Had to translate this to english, but you need to click the link above the place where you add the app ID to create your Facebook app. Here is the link:

https://developers.facebook.com/apps/

There you click on “Add a New App” (green button). Fill in the information including the URL of your site. Once it is completed, you will see an App ID in the Dashboard of your App on Facebook. You just need to copy and paste into the spot in WordPress and if done right everything will work.

Mike

The 0.5 version of the plugin now requires a Facebook App, so this shouldn’t be an issue any longer. Let me know if you have any other issue here. Thanks!

You bet!

It sounds like there is a timeout issue on your server. If you don’t mind, can you try again, but this time (in Google Chrome browser) open the Network tab in development tools, click the filter icon, click XHR and then try to import the album. You will see an ajax request that makes a post request to the server. If that request timesout, it will return a red 500 error. That would confirm the timeout.

Whether you import the images or not, it will show the whole gallery if you use the fb_album shortcode. At the moment, there isn’t a way to edit the display. However, importing the images does allow you to use other methods of displaying them, but it would require the use of another gallery display not associated with my plugin. If you plan on using the fb_album shortcode associated with the Facebook gallery, importing or not importing makes no difference. The only difference is that the images will be served from Facebook rather than the WordPress site. There’s nothing else functionally different. Importing the gallery without importing the actual images will likely not timeout since no images are being downloaded and saved, just the gallery data.

Hi mmcdermott,

I did a test and I was able to import the Mobile Uploads album. It did take a while to upload, but that may be due to large images being imported into WordPress. So the question is, how long did you wait before you gave up on the import? The issue could be the server timing out. I may need to limit to less than 25 photos at a time if there are time out issues. In the mean time, you can also uncheck the box that says “Import images to WordPress media library”. This will make it so the album images are served from Facebook rather than being imported into WordPress and being served from the site. Let me know if that works and/or if waiting a little longer for the import works. If it is a timeout issue, I’ll start limiting the number of photos to send at once in a future update.

Thanks,
Mike

@mmcdermott can you send me a link to your Facebook page and the album you are trying to import? I can try to reproduce your issue.

Private data is not yet supported in the plugin. Currently, it just works with public un-restricted Facebook pages so far since you can access that data without an access token. There is a plan to support private data, but I haven’t built that part of the plugin yet.

No problem, going to make that feature more obvious in a future release I’m working on.

Hi, thanks for using my plugin!

That image is actually sent by Facebook as the featured image with the album data request, so I’m just using the one Facebook recommends as the featured image rather than picking one from the data.