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How do I setup a Facebook App, to allow me to post automatically to Facebook (for FaceLive)?

Things to Gather Before Submission

App details:

  1. Logo: 1024 x 1024 high-resolution image for your app
  2. Details about the usage of each Permission: You need to provide brief details about why you require a permission and how it is meant to be used.
  3. Screencast for each permission: Prepare a screencast for each permission that you seek, showing how the permission is used in the app
  4. Privacy Policy: An accessible website URL that hosts your privacy policy
  5. Terms and service URL: A valid terms and service URL.

Status and Review:

  1. General instructions of what your app does.
  2. Individual notes on each of the additional requested permissions as detailed below.
  3. Individual steps to replicate functionality for additional requested permissions as detailed below.
  4. We recommend you include at least 4 screenshots of your in-app experience.

 

Note: Due to Facebook Restriction we can use the new Facebook App in HTTPS sites only.

To create a new Facebook application ,go to the link https://developers.facebook.com/apps or https://developers.facebook.com/

If you are not a developer, register first

If you are not a developer, you need to register as a developer.

 

Click on the “Register as a Developer” link (highlighted above).

 

In the first step “Accept the terms” and click continue.

 

In the second step “Tell us about you”, select the appropriate section and click continue.

 

Now you are a Facebook Developer. Click “Done” and you can now create the application.

Create Facebook App

Step 1:

Click on the “Create New App/ Add a New App” link.

Step 2:

Enter the App Display Name and the contact email and click the “Create App ID”.

Step 3:

Now it will redirect to the “Add Product” page and in this page click the “Set Up” button in “Facebook Login”.

Step 4:

Click the “Web” button.

Step 5:

In the “Site URL” section add your site url and save it.

(Note: You can see your site URL in the top of the plugin Facebook settings.)

 

Note: If the “Quickstart” page is blank and you cannot enter the domain URL, please go to “Settings > Basic” section, just below the Dashboard and then click the “Add Platform” as shown below.

Then select the “website” as given below.

In this page you can add the site URL and save it.

Step 6:

Click on the “Facebook Login >Settings” link as shown below.

Here enter the “Valid OAuth redirect URIs”.

Note : You can see the OAuth redirect URI in the top of the account settings in the plugin.

Please use this OAuth redirect URI in the facebook settings.

After entering the OAuth redirect URI and enable the “Client OAuth Login and Web OAuth Login”, please save the changes.

Step 7:

The app is ready now. Click the “Dashboard” link in the menu to see the app id and secret.

In the “Dashboard” we can see the App ID and App Secret.

 

The App ID and App Secret are now ready. Click the “Show”button to see the App Secret. (The app secret is in alphanumeric and DON’T use ******* as App Secret.)

Step 8:

Here the app is in development mode. Only the developer can view the posts now.

We need to “submit the app for approval” and after the app get approved, we can make the app public and the users can see the posts in the Facebook.

The App Review Process Submission is given below.

1: Click on the “App Review” and then the “Start a Submission” button in the “Submit Items for Approval” section.

2: If you only wish to publish to Facebook pages you own, In the permissions page please select the login permissions manage_pages, Live Video Feature, publish_video and  publish_pages  and click on the “Add 2 Items” button. If you wish to publish to groups, you will need these permissions for publishing the posts to groups – groups_access_member_info, Live Video Feature, publish_video, publish_to_groups and Groups API.

3: Now you can see the current submissions and it is asking to “Add Details” of each item.

4. Click on the “Add Details” link and you can add the details of each item.

4 A : Details for publish_pages

  1. For the question “How is your app using publish_pages?”, please select the first answer “Lets people publish content or respond to posts and comments as a Page (also requires manage_pages)”.
  2. For the question “What platforms does your app use publish_pages on?”, please turn on the Web.
  3. In the detailed step-by-step instructions, please use the detailed steps.
    The publish_pages permission is used to create live events on pages by the app.A Sample detailed step-by-step instructions are given below:
    1. Go to https://DOMAIN.com/wp-login.php
    2. Login as an administrator with user name : <user name> and password: <password>
    3. Go to https://DOMAIN.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=facelive_admin_settings where user has to add Facebook App ID and Secret.
    4. Save settings.
    5. Go to https://DOMAIN.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=facelive_facebook_panel where user has to authorize the application from the plugin’s settings page,  following the steps suggested by the plugin.
    6. Follow required steps, then click on the button ‘Authorize the App’ button.
    7. It will take you to Facebook authorization procedure.
    8. Upon successful authorization ,if you manage Facebook pages, you will be prompted to select the facebook pages to which you need updates to be published.
    9. After selecting Facebook pages , save settings.
    10. After the authorization is complete,make a post in website by following below steps,

         10.1 : Go to https://DOMAIN.com/post-new.php

         10.2 : Fill in some title and content ,and add an image to post ,then click ‘publish’ button on right side.

                  The new post will be published in the website as well as on Facebook.                

         10.3 : Without the Facebook “publish_pages” permission, we would not be able to publish content to Pages owned by the admin.

  4. Now upload a video screencast of the above procedure.
  5. After adding the details click on the save button.

Here is the demo login account for you to check 

Login URL : https://yourdomain.com/home/login_page
Email : login@yourdomain.com
Password : XXXXXXX

Thanks for your Kind Review. 

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