FacePress II WordPress Plugin – Publish post info to facebook
The FacePress II plugin allows each WordPress author to update their own Facebook profile and/or a Facebook page. Furthermore, WordPress admins can setup FacePress II to publish post information from all WordPress authors to another Facebook profile and/or page. When the author publishes a post (or when a scheduled post is published), the plugin publishes the post information (title, url, and/or excerpt) to the author’s Facebook profile status. Also, each author can direct the plugin to publish the post information to a Facebook page. These settings are updated in the FacePress II User Options.
Admins can use the FacePress II Admin Options to direct the plugin to publish post information for all WordPress to the Facebook page and/or profile designated in the FacePress II Admin Options screen.
Furthermore, if the admin checks the “Update All Facebook Profiles” checkbox (only in the FacePress II Admin Options screen), then when any author publishes a post, the information goes to all author’s profiles and/or pages as well as the admin profile/page.
Finally, FacePress allows each author and the admin user to set the format of the post information published to Facebook, and to set the categories to include/exclude from publishing.
Screen Shots and Option Settings
FacePress II Admin Options
The FacePress II plugin adds a submenu to the Settings menu (“FacePress II Admin Options”). Admins can use this submenu to set FacePress to publish their posts, and to direct FacePress to publish their post information to the profile/pages of all authors.
Admins should fill in the “Profile” and/or “Page” unique email fields. NOTE: Do not fill in these fields with the email address that you use to log in to Facebook. Instead, fill in these fields with the unique email address that Facebook creates for each profile and page. Follow the directions on the options page to find the Facebook created unique email addresses. Also, do not put the same facebook email address in more than one field.
When any user publishes a post, the post information will be published to the Facebook profile and/or page that is entered in the FacePress II Admin Options page (if either the Facebook profile or the Facebook page unique email address is entered).
If the “Update All Facebook Profiles” option is checked, then when any user publishes a WordPress post, then the post information will be published to all user and admin Facebook profiles and pages.
FacePress II User Options
The plugin also adds a submenu to the User Profile menu (“FacePress II User Options”). This menu allows each author to set FacePress to publish their own posts.
Each user should fill in their own “Profile” and/or “Page” unique email fields. NOTE: Do not fill in these fields with the email address that you use to log in to Facebook. Instead, fill in these fields with the unique email address that Facebook creates for each profile and page. Follow the directions on the options page to find the Facebook created unique email addresses. Also, do not put the same facebook email address in more than one field.
When any user publishes a post, the post information will be published to the Facebook profile and/or page that is entered in the FacePress II Users Options page for that user (if either the Facebook profile or the Facebook page unique email address is entered), as well as to the Admin’s Facebook profile and/or page as indicated above.
FacePress II Post Options
Finally, the plugin also adds a section to the edit post window. These options may be used to override the general settings on a per post basis. If these settings are blank, then FacePress will use the Admin and User settings respectively. If “Exclude this Post” is checked, then this post information will not be published to Facebook. Similarly, if the “Format” field is entered, this post format will override the Format fields on either the Admin or User Options pages. Once the post is published, pressing the “Re-FacePress” button will cause the post’s information to be published to facebook again.
When a post is published (or when the Re-FacePress button is pressed), the post author’s facebook accounts (profile and/or page) are updated by FacePress. Next, FacePress updates the facebook accounts entered in the Admin Options page. Finally, if the box “Update All Facebook Profiles” is checked, then FacePress updates the accounts of all users.
NOTE: Do not enter the same Facebook unique email address in more than one field. FacePress will attempt to update that account more than once, and facebook will ignore the updates.
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With FacePress 2.1.0, I’ve moved this page to my personal web development site. I’ve also cleared all the previous comments.
If you have a problem, comment, or suggestions for FacePress II, please leave it here, and I will reply either here or via email.
Thank you,
Alan
Its not working? Any ideas. I followed your instructions step by step and i can’t get this to work for the life of me.
Meghan,
Yes, I’ve noticed some problems as well. It seems to be problems with facebook accepts mobile emails. This happens occasionally when facebook is making changes. Usually it starts working again within a few hours to a day. You can check it by sending an email to your facebook unique email address. The subject of that email should show up as the status of your facebook profile or page.
-Alan
Hello!
We are using your great plugin in our site but we have a question. Is it possible to make it publish the post in facebook with an automatic excerpt? Woordbook plugin does that and the only reason I changed to your plugin is that it allows me to publish posts to profile and application wall.
Our authors do not want to have to remember to write an excerpt each time they publish something…
Nuno Filipe Coimbra,
Thank you for using FacePress. I can add that feature to a future upgrade. Thank you for the suggestion.
-Alan
Cool. We’ll be eagerly waiting.
Hi, is there any possibility that when i post a (ex.) youtube link in my excert, facebook will take it as a “link” (not a text) and post the video also?
rostek,
In my test, facebook did not post the video, only the link. FacePress II uses the mobile email connection to post to facebook, and so far, I haven’t found a way to get facebook to post these as links. Sorry.
-Alan
damn, maybe there is some other way to achieve it? probably i should ask someone who knows better facebook programing
anyway thanks for your answer and your plugin 
it works great, good job.
Seems on the New Post page, I cannot drag your module to where I need. I have to drag every other module below it. Is that in the works? I’m using WP 3.0.
Hi.
I installed your plugin and it publishes the title and url to my facebook page but it will not do the excerpt.
Is there any reason why that would happen?
Peter,
That’s a new one for me… I’ll have to look into it and get back to you.
-Alan
B,
Are you entering anything into your post’s Excerpt field? As of version 2.1.0, FacePress only uses the Excerpt field, not the content. This will change in the next release… hopefully next week.
-Alan
is there any way to post the title as a URL and not post them separately?
I was excited to find this and even more excited for the next version, but if this version can’t do the title as a link then can you add that to the next version? Thanks again for the work and the plugin!
how do I make a picture show up with the excerpt and link?
Melissa,
Facebook does not allow html in status updates, so I can’t post the title as a url. Also, at this time, FacePress will not post an image, nor can it post as a link.
-Alan
Great work, thanks.
Cannot post image with link. Anyway to make this show up?
bacana valeu a dica!