application (itzknotty) social network widgets 4.1.2

What is it?

Itzknotty is a small application that brings several widgets with it to display your tweets from twitter or posts from your facebook pages / groups:

• A widget to display the latest posts of a configured facebook page
• A widget to display the latest live stream of a configured facebook page. The livestream widget will only be displayed if there are users viewing the stream at the moment.
• A widget to display the tweets of a configured twitter page

There is also a page...

• ...that shows the complete activity stream of the configured facebook page. The user can click on a button to load the next activity items from the facebook page.

Configure the application (Facebook)

• Go to the admin control panel of your site and login with your account.
• Go to Community > Itzknotty > Settings
• Select the tab for the facebook settings
• Fill in your data:
   
  • Facebook Pagename
    The name of the page you want retrieve data from (https://www.facebook.com/your-pagename). You could also insert the id of a group or other endpoints that support the "feed" configuration. But: the data must be public accessable!
     
  • Facebook App ID
    The app id of your application. For further information how to create an app scroll down.
     
  • Facebook App Secret
    The secret of your application.
     
• Place the widgets you prefere to your board.
  
  
   
• Add a link to the complete stream if you want:
  
  

How to create a Facebook application to access data of your page

You need an active Facebook account to create an app.

• Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps/ and make sure you are logged in with your preferred account.
• Click the button "Add a new App" And fill in the information for Display Name, Contact Email and choose Apps for Pages as category.
  
  
  
  
   
• Click on Create App ID and confirm the security check to proceed.
• Navigate to the Settings page in the left navigation bar.
• Copy your App ID and your App Secret and insert both in your admin control panel.
  
  

Everything should work now.

Configure the application (Twitter)

• Go to the admin control panel of your site and login with your account.
• Go to Community > Itzknotty > Settings
• Select the tab for the twitter settings
• Fill in your data you can get from your twitter application.
• Place the widgets you prefere to your board.

How to create a Twitter application to access data of your page

You need an active Twitter account to create an app.

• Go to https://dev.twitter.com/ and make sure you are logged in with your preferred account.
• Click the button "My Apps" and "Create new app"
• Fill in the details and accept the Developer Agreement. Choose "read permissions" only to be more secure. You do not need write permission for the application.
• You can copy & paste your data from there
• Update Facebook Graph SDK to the latest version
• Make compatible to 4.3