{"id":841,"date":"2025-03-24T14:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/settings-overview-for-gd-settings-social-importer-facebook\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:24:10","slug":"settings-overview-for-gd-settings-social-importer-facebook","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/social-importer\/settings-overview-for-gd-settings-social-importer-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Settings Overview for GD > Settings > Social Importer > Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t This is the Settings Overview for the <strong>GD &gt; Settings &gt; Social Importer &gt; Facebook <\/strong>page.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section class=\"alert alert-success\">\n\t You need to have the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/downloads\/social-importer\/\">Social Importer<\/a> extension for GeoDirectory installed and activated in order to access these settings.&nbsp;<\/section>\n<h2>Facebook App Details<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Enable Direct URL Parse &#8211; <\/strong>If checked, Social Importer will bypass the Facebook API and instead directly parse the URL return data. This is similar to entering a URL in Facebook and grabbing its title and image.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Facebook App ID &#8211; <\/strong>Enter the Facebook App ID.<strong><br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Facebook App Secret &#8211; <\/strong>Enter the Facebook App Secret Key. <\/li>\n<li><strong>OAuth Redirect URI &#8211; <\/strong>This setting needs to be added to your app settings by going to <strong>Products &gt; Facebook Login &gt; OAuth redirect URI.<br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2> Post to Facebook Settings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Disable Post to Facebook &#8211; <\/strong>If selected, Post to Facebook feature will be disabled for all post types.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enable Post Type for Post to Facebook &#8211; <\/strong>You can select the post types for which Post to Facebook feature is enabled. If left blank, it will be enabled for all post types. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Disable Auto-Post to Facebook &#8211; <\/strong>If selecting, auto-posting to Facebook (whenever a listing is published) will be disabled. You can still manually post to Facebook from the Listing Edit page. <strong><br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tLooking to login using the <a href=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/tag\/facebook-app-login\/\">facebook&nbsp;login app<\/a>? Check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/userswp.io\/how-to-add-facebook-app-login-to-your-wordpress-website\/\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up your first app for social sharing with FB importer?<\/p>\n<p>FB has moved manage pages permissions under Facebook Login fro Business. 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