While trying to automate things with IFTTT, I use a custom recipe to automatically post new articles from my WordPress site to a Facebook Page via RSS. Everything works except that no EntryContent is generated for the articles by IFTTT and posts on Facebook end up quite poor.
Is there a way to see how IFTTT posts look like before they get posted on Facebook?
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I am struggling with remote post preview using wordpress api.
Currently I am publishing new post, capturing html and deleting post.
This works, but I am looking for better solution.
I have an app which is publishing posts remotely to Wordpress. I need to add functionality of post preview on somebody's blog which will be viewed in my app. I need to get full html of wordpress site with post content which is held in my app. I am publishing post using this: http://developer.wordpress.com/docs/api/1.1/post/sites/%24site/posts/… capturing html and deleting this post. This solution has lot of disadvantages, for example when wordpress user inform his readers about new post via email, readers will get a notification about new post that doesn't exists any more.
I am looking at importing Facebook posts and not just embedding a Facebook iframe in the page. I want to be able to get the SEO benefits of having my website news page updated all the time by my Facebook page and I believe if I just use the Facebook embed code this wont work to improve it ?. Does anyone know of a tutorial or plugin for importing posts / pics into a php based website ?.
Thanks
Iain :-)
For this you may want to look at their graph api, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/490/
you need to authenticate to facebook and retrieve the post using the api
or you can use their plugin to display the fanpage posts on your website, it's much simpler.
Social2blog ( http://www.social2blog.com/ ) import facebook posts in your blog, with a creation of Wordpress post and then with real SEO benefits. Furthermore Social2blog permit to decide if you want to point the canonical url to Facebook post. The problem with Social2blog is that it works only with facebook page. Otherwise you can create your own php script, please refer to:
How to pull in Facebook Page posts as blog posts to WordPress?
I'm building a website that will have a news feed (similar in idea to facebook and twitter) ...
Other sections in the website will also be using the same idea.
I've already build the DB and working on the HTML/PHPs with my team. I need to know how to create a news feed which is scrollable like facebook. Don't need to set a limit to it.
UPDATE
After further searching, I found that what I need is news ticker ...
You should consider Feed Creator.
It'll do everything you want without reinventing the wheel.
I have a website where i implement a wall of messages, the idea is to add to each of this wall messages a like button, where clicking on it would immediately post on the user's facebook profile page that he likes THAT SPECIFIC COMMENT.
Is this possible? I just enter this new world of facebook php developers, and as far as I have read here it always talks about adding a Like button for a specific URL. I would like to make the like button apply for the specific post within the messages wall.
I am clueless as where to start, if by the way any one could recommend a detailed tutorial on how to integrate a website to facebook in its different ways, i would really appreciate it.
EDIT:
Looking into #Kaan Soral suggestion of using open graph, I think it is important to add that I dont want each wall post that the user likes to appear in the "Likes and Interests" section of his profile... This wouldn't make sense because he would rapidly have loads of likes of separate wall posts.
Its possible, read this: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/
You have to create a URL for every item that will be liked and on that URL there should be META tags for descriptions, image etc
I've successfully integrated a Facebook Like button to WordPress based website. The Facebook Like button is shown only on single posts. However, I would like to output how many times a post is being liked on the front page of my site without showing the actual like button. A simple number output is what I'm after.
I've been reading Facebook documentation as well some tutorials that partly deal with this issue, but haven't got anywhere so far.
Paste this function in your theme functions.php file and save the file.
function bfan() {
$pageID = 'Page ID/Page Vanity URL';
$info = json_decode(file_get_contents('http://graph.facebook.com/' . $pageID));
echo $info->likes;
}
Then you can call the function.
You will need to know your facebook page ID or facebook page name,then just substitute it in the code above.
Hope this helps you out.
Facebook has an API for finding out how many Facebook shares (likes etc.) a page has:
http://graph.facebook.com/?ids=https://stackoverflow.com/
I found here a simple and great solution: link
If you want see the evolution of your Top Social Stories in your Wordpress, you can use this plugin that tracks data from Facebook, Twitter and Google+ for each post and globally for all the links of your blog and export these data also in custom field to use them in your theme.
UPDATE: this plugin now tracks also Pinterest, Linkedin and Vkontakte and has many new features.