Short question: Does a page owner need to be logged in to Facebook for the WordPress plugin to publish to a page?
Detailed question:
I am trying to configure the Facebook for WordPress plugin so that it will automatically post things that are published in WordPress to a specified Facebook page. I was able to make this work initially by using the Social Publisher setting when I was logged in to Facebook.
However, when one of the other authors using the WordPress site tried to publish a story he received an authentication error from the Facebook plugin. I am trying to understand how the authentication for a page works and whether every user that wants to publish to a page needs to have permission to do so and to be logged in to Facebook while using WordPress. Or is there a way to authorize the Facebook app that is associated with the WordPress plugin to publish to a page even if no one is logged in to Facebook.
Get a page access token as described here, https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/pages/ Your app can post to your page using it, no matter who is the actual user who triggers your appâs actions.
Make sure you get yourself a long-lived user access token first â that way youâll get a page access token that will have no default expiry. (Also it will expire f.i. if the user you used to get it with changes their Facebook password.)