About This File
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
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Fill in your data:
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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!
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Facebook App ID
The app id of your application. For further information how to create an app scroll down.
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Facebook App Secret
The secret of your application.
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Facebook Pagename
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Place the widgets you prefere to your board.
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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.
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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.
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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