Facebook Auto Post

ernestdefoe

Flarum Facebook Page Auto-Post
Automatically publishes an excerpt and link to your Facebook Page whenever a new discussion is created on your Flarum 2 forum.

Features
Posts the discussion title, a short excerpt, and a direct link to your Facebook Page
Toggle on/off from the Admin panel — no code changes needed
Stores the Page Access Token securely in Flarum's settings store
Logs success and errors to Flarum's application log (storage/logs/)

Make sure to read the entire readme to get full instructions on setting this up as it was a pain. This was made using Claude. I'm not a developer by any means but this was something I really wanted for my site.

composer require ernestdefoe/flarum-facebook-post
php flarum migrate
php flarum cache:clear

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‼️ Support will be very limited as I used Claude to create this I will have to do any bug fixes or what not on weekends when I am home.

ernestdefoe

New release: Now you have the ability to choose which tags new discussions get posted to Facebook.

I know the spacing if off but I will get this fixed later today. I know @ram0ng1 had asked in the discussion thread if it was per tag or all new discussions. I thought maybe that should be included.

To update run composer update ernestdefoe/flarum-facebook-post or if this is your first time installing composer install ernestdefoe/flarum-facebook-post to grab version 2.0.9 that has this option added.

ram0ng1

ernestdefoe I know the spacing if off but I will get this fixed later today. I know @ram0ng1 had asked in the discussion thread if it was per tag or all new discussions. I thought maybe that should be included.

Does it work with Facebook Groups or only Pages?

ernestdefoe

ram0ng1 just pages. If there is enough interest in groups I’ll see about adding that option.

ernestdefoe

@ram0ng1 i just released version 2.0.10 which adds Facebook Group support but I haven’t had a chance to check it yet.

Mirzaagha

Good job. Have screenshot fb post?

ernestdefoe

All it does is just post a small excerpt of the discussion and a link to the discussion on the forum.

ernestdefoe

Version 2.1.0 Update

I have figured out how to get an image to post to Facebook. If there is an image in the post it will post as a photo post instead of a link post. It will still include a link to the post in the Facebook post. If there is no image in the post it will revert back to the default link type post.

If you want to set a default image that will post when no image is in the post you will need my other extension ernestdefoe/og-image which allows you to set a default image which should also work when sharing a post to your personal Facebook page.

DLBB

This looks great, thank you. I'm crossing my fingers for a Bluesky auto post in the future as well.