Facebook promotion option disappeared in 4.7.5?

[Clover13]

Went to promote a forum topic today and the Facebook promotion option was no longer there, only the Twitter one and Top Picks.  Can't seem to locate where this is configured now.

[Marc]

Facebook promotion was actually removed a couple of releases back. Facebook was unfortunately making it almost impossible to add

[Clover13]

9 minutes ago, Marc Stridgen said:

Facebook promotion was actually removed a couple of releases back. Facebook was unfortunately making it almost impossible to add

I did notice in the last release I had the Facebook share box with a checkbox option (some underscore name like promote_to_page) which still worked.  Now that is all gone.   This was a pretty significant way for me to attract traffic from FB to my site and it did work.  What changed with FB or what do you mean by making it almost impossible to add?

[Randy Calvert]

Facebook has been changing how access is given to the APIs and adding a lot of extra requirements around it that most people are not able to do.  For example:

The recommendation for now that I've seen is to use Zapier to push content to Facebook.  

[Marc]

15 hours ago, Randy Calvert said:

The recommendation for now that I've seen is to use Zapier to push content to Facebook.  

This would indeed be the correct way forward at present

[SecondSight]

Hello, 🙂

I don't know what is Zapier. Do you know a good tutorial which explains how to use Zapier with IPB ?

Thank you. 🙂

[Mark H]

Please check our documentation for Zapier: