Official Facebook WordPress plugin fails to publish actions for Auth Dialog Preview User- Facebook Developers

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Philippe Harewood

06/16/2012 7:58am

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BugsOfficial Facebook WordPress plugin fails to publish actions for Auth Dialog Preview User

Status: Fixed
Priority: Medium
Updated: July 11, 2012 at 10:34am

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Latest response from Facebook

Eric Osgood

This was fixed in 1.01. Thanks for your patience.

Status changed to Fixed · July 11, 2012 at 10:34am

Eric Osgood

Thanks for the report. We are looking into this.

Status changed to Assigned · Priority changed to Medium · June 18, 2012 at 10:47am

When using the Official WordPress plugin for Facebook (http://developers.facebook.com/wordpress/) , none of the users are able to send a publish action within WordPress. Where as it is possible to send the action via other means such as http://philippeharewood.com/facebook/publisher.html or

curl -F 'access_token=XXX' \
-F 'article=http://philippeharewood.com/facebook/so-many-silly-tests' \
'https://graph.facebook.com/me/philippeharewood:publish'

I assume the WordPress Plugin is indeed a tool in the same the PHP SDK and plugins in are. I saw http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/facebook and well that's a mess.

An obvious solution would be to debug the plugin and fix any holes but this defeats the purpose of the plugin being released by Facebook.

I was given this rejection notice from the submittal,

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Status: Changes needed
We are unable to test this action according to the usage instructions you provided. Please provide thorough reproduction instructions and link(s) to a specific URL where we can trigger the action. You should also test your action to ensure you can successfully publish actions back to the timeline of the test user named Auth Dialog Preview User. Once you have made these changes, re-submit your action. Specifically, we got the following error when we tried to test publishing in the Word Press account: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/13/8291213/html/facebook/wp-content/plugins/facebook/fb-social-publisher.php on line 255 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/13/8291213/html/facebook/wp-content/plugins/facebook/fb-social-publisher.php on line 297
Please make changes below and resubmit for review.
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And I have been trying to get the Auth Dialog Preview User to publish since yesterday though the plugin, no luck. Yet other ways (mentioned earlier), work.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Go to philippeharewood.com/facebook (login on the right) and use the author role philippeharewood_test password:lintthegraph (as well as sign up with your Facebook account) or
1b. Create a fresh WordPress install and install the plugin following the instructions listed at http://developers.facebook.com/wordpress/
2. Ensure Auth Dialog Preview User in enabled in the roles in your app
3. Ensure sandbox is off (just to be sure)
4. Switch to Auth Dialog Preview User
5. Login to WordPress and create a post in the Wordpress Dashboard
6. Publish the post
7. The post is not published on the Auth Dialog Preview User
8. Grab the access token from the roles for Auth Dialog Preview User
9. Execute curl -F 'access_token=TEST_USER_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
-F 'article=YOUR_URL_ARTICLE' \
'https://graph.facebook.com/me/NAME_SPACE:publish'
10. This will publish to the timeline of Auth Dialog Preview User
11. Go to philippeharewood.com/facebook/publisher.html and click article or
11b. Use similar code to create a page on your site.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# philippeharewood: http://ogp.me/ns/apps/philippeharewood#">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Social Publish</title>
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="260009694029887" />
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://philippeharewood.com/facebook/publisher.html" />
<meta property="og:title" content="testing FB open graph" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://philippeharewood.com/apple-touch-icon.png" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Have you tried the debugger?" />

<script type="text/javascript">
function postArticle()
{
FB.api(
'/me/philippeharewood:publish',
'post',
{ article: 'http://philippeharewood.com/facebook/publisher.html' },
function(response) {
if (!response || response.error) {
alert('Error occured');
console.log(response.error);
} else {
alert('Publish was successful! Action ID: ' + response.id);
}
});
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script>
window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
FB.init({
appId : '260009694029887', // App ID
status : true, // check login status
cookie : true, // enable cookies to allow the server to access the session
xfbml : true // parse XFBML
});
};

// Load the SDK Asynchronously
(function(d){
var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}
js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;
js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";
d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);
}(document));
</script>

<form>
<input type="button" value="Article" onclick="postArticle()" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

11b. Click article
12. Article will be published

Thus, there is a problem with the plugin.

Expected Behavior:

When step 6 occurs, the timeline should populate with the new publish.

Actual Behavior:

When step 6 occurs, the timeline is not updated as shown by observation or polling 'https://graph.facebook.com/me/NAME_SPACE:publish?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN_TEST_USER'

API/SDK:

PHP SDK

App IDs:

260009694029887 (Philippe Harewood)

2 people can reproduce this issue by following these steps

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