WordPress Feed Them Social Plugin Setup
We have used this plugin in the past and had great success with it; however, this past couple of times we have struggled. We got access to a client’s Facebook Page as an “Admin“, so we should be set. We logged into Facebook under our account, went to the clients’s page, and verified we could manage the page. In WordPress we started our “feed“. We clicked on the “Login and Get my Access Token“.
We get the login for our account. We hit “Continue as Esceedie” our Facebook account.
The screen would appear to be working and would return to the “Facebook Access Token” page as before. The plugin instructions said below this “Facebook Access Token” there will be a list of the pages/accounts we have access to and to pick one. We had no accounts showing.
If we left the plugin settings page and came back into the plugin’s feed section, we would see the “Access Token” wasn’t working.
So confused we jumped over to Developers.Facebook.com and started creating a new App to try to get an “Access Token” the only way we knew how to create one. Once we had an access token we used the following URL to verify the Access Token, which did not verify.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/accesstoken
We used this video to create our “Access Token”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMLcmDdOSxw
This was good because it got it the Page ID, and User Name. We used these two pieces in the “Settings” tab, and then generated the access token. In the App we went to Tools >> Graph API Explorer. We selected the “Meta App” we are working on and added the following “User Page“.
Then generated an Access Token. We copied that Access Token and went to Tools >> Access Token Debugger. Pasted the access token in the debugger. Then Extended the token expiration date.
It took a couple of tries and we ended up getting a green bar to “Create Facebook Feed“.
We clicked on the green bar, and now got the following screen.
Now we pasted the feed shortcode into the page; however, nothing showed on the front end.
We went back to “Feed” settings to generate the access code again, and somehow this caused it to work better. We were notified there was an issue and to remove “slickremix” from the app. Once we did everything was working. Still not exactly sure how to we got it to work.
Let us know if this helped you….
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