[Platform] Facebook Share button on the WordPress site throws an error

On November 23, 2017 by mohitsawhney

The Send and Like buttons work alright, then why not the Share button?

“App Not Set Up: This app is still in development mode, and you don’t have access to it. Switch to a registered test user or ask an app admin for permissions.”
 
Try, try, try and try again. Sleepless nights. Nothing works. I check in Facebook for Developers that the APP is actually enabled for Public. Can’t get a handle around why is it still not working.

Eureka moment: I realize that the App ID that appears on the URL that opens when Share is clicked has an App ID which doesn’t match that of my Application. If I manually change the App ID to the one that appears on the Facebook for Developers site, the share functionality works fine. Now, it boils down to how do I correct the App ID that shows when the button is pressed.

After All: This problem has boggled my head for too long – several days. Finally, I figure that this is a bug in the plug-in I was using (plug-in called ‘Facebook’). I found another very simple and useful replacement  (plug-in called: “Social Ring“). It works pretty smoothly (‘malai’ in local lingo). Not only does that let me share and like on facebook, twitter, google+, but it also lets the user save content (blogs) as PDF! Not only that, it will even allow emailing, and printing the blogs.

However, I still can’t get rid of my older ‘Facebook‘ plug-in since it is somehow connected to the LIKE US ON FACEBOOK widget that appears on the top right of my posts. But that’s alright, I can live with two plug-ins.

Problem solved, and I can sleep tight at least until the BUGs bite again.. Ciao!

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