Can I publish my posts to Facebook without using an approved app?
Yes, This feature is available as a Paid Service in the free and premium plugin.
The price of this paid service starts from USD 10 per year.
In this there is no need of submitting the facebook app for approval.
The procedure is given below.
Step 1: Premium Plugin
In the facebook account section in the plugin, please select the approved app option “Use smapsolutions.com’s facebook application”.
Please enter other details and save it.
Now click on the reauthenticate button.
It will display a popup and login to your fb account.
Step 1: Free Plugin
Please select the approved app option and click on the connect to xyzscripts account button.
Now it will display a popup to login to xyzscripts or register to xyzscripts.
If you are creating a new account, it will send a confirmation mail to the registered email and click on the confirmation link.
After confirming the email, please save it and click on the “authorize” button.
Step 2 : Applicable to both Premium and Free Plugins
Now you can purchase the SMAP Package. The price depends on the number of facebook accounts, API calls per hour per account and number of facebook pages per account.
For publishing a simple text message, it will take 1 API call, Upload image option will take 2-3 API calls and attach link option takes 1-2 API calls.
So if you are selecting 10 API calls, you can publish 3-10 posts (depending on the posting method) per hour to all your facebook pages.
After purchasing the package and successful payment it will redirect to facebook authorization flow.
Now click on the continue button.
Click the Next button or choose the fb pages.
After Facebook authorization is completed, facebook pages will be listed.
Select pages and click the continue button,it will redirect to the edit-account page,where the selected pages displayed.
Now save the account and it is ready to publish to the selected fb pages.
Step 3: Applicable to premium plugin only
Publishing post to facebook groups
In the premium plugin, after the authorization of the app we can select the fb groups (where we are an admin).
After selecting the fb groups for publishing, we need to add the app to the group.
For this process, please see How can I add or remove an app from a group that I manage?
If we have not added the app to the group it will show the following error message.
[Error] => (#200) Requires either publish_to_groups permission and app being installed in the group, or manage_pages and publish_pages as an admin with sufficient administrative permission
Error cases on authorization procedure
- Click on continue without selecting pages
- Page limit reached
In this case you can upgrade the package by clicking on the upgrade plan.