Perepandel

I am trying to use this plugin but haven’t been able to get it works.

I’m using WP 3.5. I already had to replace some “<?” tags with “<?php” in the source code because my server don’t accept the old style ones and I’m trying to debug the problem. The strange thing is that the thumbnails are actually being generated! Put a link to a Vimeo video in a post without a featured image and update it. You apparently still don’t have a featured image. But if you click in the “Set featured image” link, a window opens, showing a gallery with a collection of thumbnails corresponding to the attached images you have already uploaded to your blog… and the auto-generated one for your post is there!!

Now to strange thing: try to select it. You can update Title, Caption, Alt Text and Description. Click on “Set featured image”… and it will ignore it. You see again your “Edit post” screen and there is no Featured image. Try to do the same again, this time with another image you uploaded previously by hand: it will work flawlessly!

Another strange behaviour with the auto-generated images: click on it to select it; you’ll have it on the right side of the window. Insted on clicking in “Set featured image”, click on “Edit image” in the “Attachment details” section. It will take you to the “Edit Media” screen. There again you have almost everything about the image… but the image itself! You can change name, caption, alternative text, description, see when the file was uploaded, see the file URL, the file name, file type and dimensions. Everything seems right! The file URL corresponds to what I see in the file system: it is there, and there it has no strange permissions or whatever – I can read it without problems with my user account both in my Windows and Linux server.

Finally, the last odd thing: go to Media Library. You’ll see a list of your existing media, with its corresponding thumbnail. Where, the autogenerated images “are” there! Again, without the image itself. There is its title, its file, the upload date… you can see it is unattached… and the icon has been replaced by a wp-includes/images/crystal/default.png image. You can select to attach it to a post from there. It will say it’s attached, but again… you go to the “Edit post” screen and there isn’t any featured image there.

According to the WordPress Function Reference, it looks to me like the plugin is doing properly what it needs to be done to generate and attach a file to a post properly: it constructs the attachment array, then uses wp_insert_attachment and wp_update_attachment_metadata, with the right parameters. But it seems like there’s something missing. Is this is a bug of the plugins or a WordPress one? Have there changed something and it’s not reflected in the docs?

@desisliva

Did you read the entire thread? You could had gotten both your site and the plugin working if you simply did what @anibal.aguila told: edit a few lines in wp-content/plugins/facebook/includes/facebook-php-sdk/base_facebook.php. Much cleaner, much easier. To edit a file you just have to download it by FTP, then open it in you favorite editor in your computer then upload it again. Or edit it directly in your hosting if you know how to connect through SSH.

Both things ??

Mainly I came here searching for help, since I had the “Fatal error” problem.

I was near to solve it by myself; I outputed the value of $code and $msg, noticed the 1st was a string and looked at the documentation of the Exception class in PHP but didn’t realized it was expecting an int; insted, I assumed the error was at Facebook’s server (that’s what “http_failure” suggested me).

Then suddenly I read anibal.aguila solution and realized it was much easier than I thought, which I confirmed after reading the explanation in the link he posted.

So Jan, I wanted to thank him and confirm his answer was right and give him the credit he deserves.

To me, the final result proves he came to post in the right place ??

Also wanted to advice jmunchbach that he could haved saved a lot of work!

I registered just to post in this thread.

1st of all, just to clarify: @jmunchbach, just because you cannot access anything on your site, the solution is what anibal.aguila proposed: just fixing some lines of code, exactly in the file
/wp-content/plugins/facebook/includes/facebook-php-sdk/base_facebook.php, line 54
Please note your solution took 4 tedious steps and it just made your WP site work again, but it didn’t solve the bug in the Facebook plugin. Instead of that amount of work, you just would have need to edit one single file and upload it by FTP (or edit it directly through SSH) – both site and plugin would had beed working after some seconds.

About the “interrumping the thread” matter: Jan, please tell us why this is not the correct place to put our comments on this question. After more than 15 years using the Internet and posting on forums, I think I know how to use them and, to my understanding, it’s nonsense to start a new thread each time a user has the same problem as another one (actually THAT would be a reason to complain). That being said, anibal.aguila, jmunchbach and myself did the correct: they commented on the matter and contributed to solve it.