Facebook Problems And Changes

Facebook Problems and Changes

Facebook recently became a major troublemaker for the Social Auto Poster.

Unstable Graph API 2.12

Date: Apr 6, 2018

It started with the release of the very buggy and unstable Graph API 2.12. The first thing it broke is the ability to post to pages as "page name"?. Posts were posted as personal name and went to the "community"? section of the page. Facebook acknowledged the bug and tried to fix it. As of today it’s fixed for most users, but some are still experiencing it.

Graph API 2.12 also removed the ability to post to any groups (even public) where you just a member. Only admins can post to groups.

Graph API 2.12 also tightened up security basically forcing people to switch sites to https (ssl) protocol. It came in form of “Insecure Login Blocked: You can’t get an access token or log in to this app from an insecure page. Try re-loading the page as https:// error.

To make things worse (much worse) right after the release of already unstable Graph API 2.12 Facebook got hit with now famous “User’s data leak? issue. Data got leaked through the misuse of API apps, so Facebook started to shake it down. Right now all apps are getting reviewed and checked for undesired activities. As the result platform become unstable to almost unusable level. Many apps just randomly stop working partially or completely. Some apps lost an ability to be authorized, some can’t post to groups anymore, some can’t post to pages, some apps are getting temporarily disabled.

All kinds of pretty useless error messages are thrown:

(#200) Access to this data is temporarily disabled for non-active accounts due to changes we are making to the Facebook Platform
(#200) Permissions error
(#200) The user has not authorized the application to perform this action.
(#283) Requires manage_pages permission to manage the object
Platform Access Disabled: Access temporarily disabled due to changes to the Facebook Platform.

End of Groups API

Date: Apr 6, 2018

As this wasn’t enough today Facebook issued a new statement announcing the end of some API features used by Social Auto Poster. It looks like starting today Groups are no longer available though the API at all. It’s also unclear what will happened to pages.

The end of autoposting to Groups comes in form of this error:

Unsupported post request. Object with ID ‘***************’ does not exist, cannot be loaded due to missing permissions, or does not support this operation

Posts made by the plugin don't show image/correct image in the Facebook.

Date: July 21, 2017

Facebook API 2.9 update came with deprecation of support for manual setting info of shared links - Facebook API 2.9 Changelog



This is exactly the part of the Facebook API Social Auto Poster plugin was using to set shared links info. Facebook API 2.9 made those fields 90 days deprecated. That means all apps stopped posting that info on July 18, 2017.

Facebook do not provide a special way to specify the image during the autoposting. Facebook retrieve and process your link internally and set the image using their own internal algorithms. Facebook set the image automatically based on the opengraph (OG) metatags. The only way to tell Facebook what image you would like to use is to setup og:image metatag. There are dozens of plugins that can do that.

Is Opengraph tags is ok and still image not display on Facebook? There are following possible solution.

1) Please select WordPress as URL Shortner and check Pretty permalink URL option from Facebook setting as shown in below screenshot.