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1. Do you have link checker code in this plugin ? No broken links?
2. Can plugin be set to ALWAYS open in a new tab or window on any link click that leaves the site?
3. Other plugins seem to handle playing video and present full screen images to mobile. When do yo expect to improve your plugin to provide support for playing video and pics without going to the destination or source site? I don’t want user to leave my site that is the point of curating the various social feeds.
Hello cng_1,
1) no such tool. usually all links are fine
2) it’s possible to have it always open in new tab
3) we plan some improvements for mobiles in next major update this year
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Hello. I’m using your plug-in (ver.2.5.3) and displays Facebook and Instagram stream. As default, it shows both Facebook and Instagram and when I choose filter, I can show either Facebook or Instagram. Is it possible to show just Instagram as a default and can choose Facebook with filter? (My Facebook photo has a lot of same photo in Instagram.)
Hiroyuki
Hello Hiroyuki,
that’s not possible out of box. You will need customization for this, here’s some direction. Wait for plugin loads stream
jQuery(document).on('done.shuffle', function(event, shuffle) {
// do logic here
})
and then emulate click on Instagram filter button with jQuery
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Hi – thank you for the plugin. it’s great. we’re meekly really good use of it. i left a comment on the board about the wordpress feed. The feed displays the actual wordpress login name and we can’t mask it with the nickname. can you send a patch to display nickname on wordpress feed. don’t want the name publicized.
Hello thisisbolo,
please use this CSS in settings.
.ff-nickname {
display: none !important;
}
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Hi – this doesn’t completely solve the issue here at hand and hiding the .ff-nickname hides all the user names for all social items being pulled. This would have to be done in the core files where the wordpress user name being displayed is actually the display name. Have the real user name displayed is actually the login name. That’s half the piece of the puzzle for hackers. Yes, there’s security measures that can be put in place using plugins etc to hide the wp-admin login but I still think that the wordpress username login name shouldn’t be displayed in the Wordpress feed. Could you guys release a patch to display the ‘display name’ rather than the actually username for Wordpress? Other than that, this plugin is fantastic. Let me know if you need me to clarify, I’m hoping this is an easy fix/patch.
Hello thisisbolo,
we will check this, display name is optional and nickname is required in all networks so we prefer not to hide it. You can target WP only with next CSS
.ff-posts .ff-nickname {
display: none !important;
}
If you really need this pls edit flow-flow/includes/social/FFPosts.php line 65 and make it like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/smnfh7ked55oua3/Screenshot%202016-05-06%2017.23.00.png?dl=0
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Thank you for taking the time for replying me looks_awesome. Appreciate the timely repsonses and support considering there’s a lot going these boards.
What if you put in an if statement, use display name if it exists otherwise use username or give users the option to choose which name to display in the Wordpress feed options.
Hello thisisbolo,
we’ll consider to implement this in future updates. Thanks for feedback.
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Hello, I have already stated some issues I was having here, on 3.11, I got a response and sent back the information asked for on 3.24, I have not heard back on any issues, and my plugin is still not working correctly. How can I receive and update on what is going on?
Hello amplifyinteractive,
we answered to your PM email and haven’t heard back. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ttzr3ggw904xs0m/Screenshot%202016-05-02%2012.59.58.png?dl=0 Access you sent doesn’t have permission to view plugin settings and files
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Hello, This setting has been updated. Please revisit our ticket. Thankyou
Hello amplifyinteractive,
we updated your version to latest because you had quite old. Please re-athenticate Facebook and instagram via new auth process using Authorize buttons to get tokens https://www.dropbox.com/s/ma6iu32k4kdkldi/Screenshot%202016-05-12%2013.16.12.png?dl=0
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Thank you. When I went to authenticate Instagram it started correctly, but then it created a very long loading time for my entire site, and the page specifically holding the plug-in did not load at all. I then removed Instagram through the plug in and revoked access on the app and my site began to load reasonably again. The page with the plug-in received this error
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/hartma13/public_html/wp-content/plugins/flow-flow/includes/social/FFFeedUtils.php on line 190
At the moment Twitter is hooked up but even that is not showing up.
Please advise. Thank you.
Hello amplifyinteractive,
it sounds you overloaded server with current settings. Please check general recommendations http://social-streams.com/doc/issues-using-big-number-of-feeds/ We recommend to set LOAD LAST to 2-3 and test Instagram again
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There’s a minor wording glitch: http://imgur.com/5W9tmAW
Hello mleihs,
OK thanks for reporting
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Hello.
I try to get Flow-Flow run at our site, but I always receive a jQuery error and the plugin will not be loaded in the frontend. It tries to call a veganzadmin-ajax.php, but I can’t find one at our server – there’s a admin-ajax.php only. I hope you can help me out with this.
Console error: jquery.js?ver=1.12.3:4 GET https://veganz.de/wp-admin/?wpe-login=veganzadmin-ajax.php&action=fetch_posts&stream-id=1&disable-cache=&hash=&page=0&preview=0 403 (Forbidden)
Header info: Request URL:https://veganz.de/wp-admin/?wpe-login=veganzadmin-ajax.php&action=fetch_posts&stream-id=1&disable-cache=&hash=&page=0&preview=0 Request Method:GET Status Code:403 Forbidden Remote Address:176.58.96.200:443
Example Link: https://veganz.de/de/_test/Best regards, Marcus
Hello Marcus,
looks like calls to proper admin AJAX URL are being redirected on your site. You should check any firewalling/access plugins you have or htaccess
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Thanks for your reply. I contacted my hosters (WP Engine) support and they think this is caused by caching, that there is a exlusion needed and I have to contact you. I saw other plugins which had addons extra for WP Engine due to caching issues. Do you have an idea about this? What I’ve found out by myself is, that there will be a ”?wpe-login=veganz”-text added before the “admin-ajax.php”-call, but it should be inserted after the php (as it is a parameter) – then I get returned the social media data. I hope you take the effort to have a look into this as I really like to use flow flow.
A friend of mine found a bug in flow-flow.php around line 92:
You define FF_AJAX_URL but us admin_url() in a wrong way.
The docs say, the second parameter could be ‘admin’ (which is default), ‘http’ or ‘https’. You use is_ssl() with returns a boolean.
This leads to a problem that leads to another problem while running on wpengine.
admin_url() already handles https if it is forced – so no need for the check.
Please update this. This fixed our problem when user is logged in.
The problem still exists for non-admins.
What is the reason for pointing to ff.php for non-admins? admin-ajax.php is also accessible for non-admins and it seems to work, if I let non-admins access the route.
Update: It seems this fixed it all, also for non-users 
So it’s just the little bug with is_ssl()
Hello veganz,
so is_ssl() should not be used at all?
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I can’t test it for all cases but for my setup it works just fine without is_ssl() (btw our site runs with SSL).
OK we will investigate this if we can improve
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how do we hide the author name on wordpress feed. This could cause a security issue with people knowing login name.
The wordpress feed doesn’t show the nickname, it show’s the actual login name. is there a setting to change this? It’s extremely important.
Guys, I download the recent version of flow-flow 2.6.4 but inside of the Zipfile ist version 2.6.3. Is this a known issue?
Hello kimbo128,
yes we reuploaded with correct
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My feed is somewhat (really have no clue which config is really the cause) broken on ver. 2.6.4, and I no longer able to edit this feed no matter how many times I try even on different browsers (Chrome/IE). Clicking edit just keeps the page loading but never finishes loading.
http://i65.tinypic.com/35mnxow.png
I’ve faced the same bugs on previous versions on different servers. 2.6.3 was more stable I gues…
I had to delete the feed and recreated a new feed to solve the above comment. But it would be great if we no longer have to take this route to fix the problem.
In addition to above, Twitter search filter stopped working on 2.6.4. I was using filter:media on 2.6.3 and was working fine. But since 2.6.4, any feed with filter:media or other filter: commands are not displayed.
Could you also check this, please?
1. Edit or Save a feed with filter:whatever (available on Twitter API).
2. Flow Flow loading screen never ends (no access to other flow flow options). Your only option to access the area is to use another browser.
3. When logged in with a different browser, configured feeds are gone and flow flow plugin doesn’t respond when clicking edit button (can delete).
Something has to be wrong with Twitter on your latest update. I heavily rely on this for my site, so I hope you’ll fix this asap.
I also noticed when flow flow plugin freezes, it also erases a few (random) configured feed and resets a custom color I saved.
I’m currently testing the same setup on shared (php 5.6 module version, SSD mysql database on a separated server) and a VPS (php-fpm 5.6, full SSD, DB on the same server (serverpilot). I have so far faced the same troubles on both shared and VPS server and still trying to figure out where’s the cause.
I’ll try with the latest release (2.7) and if problem continues, will post on here.
Sorry for late response, all messages were in thread so you made this thread to be moved in support queue upper because we process older requests first. We see issue with Twitter and will check this. As for admin settings we didn’t hear similar from others. We should check your admin, please re-send access
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Do you think this is related to Twitter advanced search not working?
Retiring old (v1) Streaming API endpoints on March 31st, 2016 https://twittercommunity.com/t/retiring-old-v1-streaming-api-endpoints-on-march-31st-2016/60351Regarding flowflow crushing and deleting existing feeds, I think it’s caused by server spec. This happens especially when the server doesn’t have enough RAM and uses swap files (SSD).
I tired with EasyEngine installed on 1GB and 2.x Ghz CPU VPS, and found this spec isn’t enough to handle approx 10 feeds. Then I upgrade to 2GB/2 CPU core and haven’t faced problems except that flowflow sometimes crushes when server gets busy.
I guess I figured that in order to run flowflow smoothly, at least I’d need a 2GB VPS and possibly more ram required for handling more feeds.
Hello ceopenup,
yeah, it seems Twitter changed API, we’re investigating this right now to restore these features if this is possible.
thanks for sharing info about crushing, interesting. One user recently complained that his streams disappeared. Swap files can be issue. Check general recommendations here http://social-streams.com/doc/issues-using-big-number-of-feeds/
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On shared and low spec servers, changing cache life time also triggers crushes. I have faced it more than 3 times already… I guess plugin gets really heavy when certain (such as cache and changing size of card box) action requires full rebuild of the steram behind.
I’m mostly using the defaults (40 posts, 20 posts on the first view, 10 min cache life time) but having 10 feeds with each feed having a few social channels can easily get heavy.
Anyway, I really need the use filters: for Twitter feeds. I hope you can solve it! Cheers!
When you changing CACHE LIFETIME or LOAD LAST you trigger cache rebuilding so we don’t recommend to run this in bulk for many streams if you have many and lots of feeds in them
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Even one feed with 3 social channels could trigger the same thing.
Could you think of a new option to manually rebuild cache to prevent these problems when server has enough resources or less access?
We will look if we can timeouts if plugin detects server struggles to update and cancel update with admin notification
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hello, is it also possible to show up comments on facebook post for example? Also is it possible to let open the links (source, author …) in a new tab?
thanks
Hello eccoelements,
comments are not available but we have this in plans. Links can be opened in new tab
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Fourth time to contact about Instagram not working and haven’t heard back. Feed isn’t working, says I’m in sandbox mode. Is there any fix to this?
Hello sikpup,
check your email, not sure you’re getting notifications
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Hi,
Thanks for this awesome plugin! I had a question about the possibility to display a shortcode in the post excerpt that displays on the front grid.
I have the grid set up to only display WP posts from my site. I would like to add a ‘favorite’ button so users can favorite that post from the grid without having to navigate to the full post. I’m using the ‘Favorites’ plugin to achieve this within posts, while adding <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[favorite_button post_id=”” site_id=”“]’); ?> within the post loop.
My question is: Is there a file I could edit to add this button (via a do_shortcode call) to the excerpts displayed on the grid? I thought maybe I could add this somewhere in the FFPosts.php file, but not sure.
Thanks for any help!
Hello pruggi,
WP posts feed code is found in flow-flow/includes/social/FFPosts.php, you can try to add your customizations in this file
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Hi, My Flow Flow Facebook and Twitter feed stooped working.. I update the plugin and still does now display FEED.. not sure why.
All info in the back end is correct, can you help please?
Sure,
please contact us via form and send your URL and temporary admin access so we can inspect this and help. Please also refer to original comment or duplicate issue description in email.
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Prepurchase problem:
hi first of all thx for great plugin, i am testing your free version before deciding to go for paid version, but i have problem:
i have overlapping issue as seen on link below (firefox isnt overlapping but has strange paddings between posts, sometimes it works just fine) http://mallofsplit.hr/social/ but strangest thing is that i have a test domain and it works fine there :/ http://mallofsplit.gopa.hr/feed-2/both domains use same theme actually its a same page but one is for testing purposes only
so i managed to fix that by adding : jQuery(document).on(‘done.shuffle’, function(e, shuffle){ jQuery(function(){ setTimeout(function(){ shuffle.layout(); $(window).resize() }, 500) }) });
P.S. i think someone had issue copying this code the problem was in (‘done.shuffle’, function(e, shuffle) when you copy ’ ’ ’ they are not valid in js so you must retype ’ signs
Hello soulwreck,
please refer to this guide http://social-streams.com/doc/stream-cards-clumped/
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Hi,
Could Facebook feed be able to play GIF images on Preview mode?
(LIGHTBOX WHEN CLICKED)
This is an example link:
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialFunniestCrazyVideo/posts/1070062156485233Thks.
Hello giangliao,
currently not, we added to our plans to investigate this
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Hi, I am interested in this extension, the free version is not localized in French, is the paid version is? Regards. Jean
Hello freepixelweb,
it’s translation ready and can be easily translated to any language using this plugin for example https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/
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Feed is not updating.
Hello mandyhask,
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Should Flow Flow work on localhost? Currently in my set up it’s not. It just has the loading icon forever. The console shows a 500 server error for http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=fetch_posts&stream-id=2&disable-cache=&hash=&page=0&preview=0 I’m assuming that is the issue, but not sure what could be causing that. Thoughts?
Updated to the latest version and now Twitter is working. Instagram has a status error of:
Plugin received next error from network API while requesting this feed:
This request requires scope=public_content, but this access token is not authorized with this scope. The user must re-authorize your application with scope=public_content to be granted this permissions.
Checked Instagram, and according to them, those permissions are NOT needed for a feed on a website, and that it’s something wrong on the plugin’s end.
Hello karenp102,
we are using WAMP/MAMP solutions for localhost with no problems. If you token error, it’s not plugin side, it’s response from API to token you use. Try to generate token alternatively using Instagram Feed free plugin
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looks_awesome, I generated the token via the manual method per your instructions. It also isn’t just on localhost, I’ve since pushed the site to a demo server and it has the same problem. I don’t have access to the instagram account we are trying to pull in, does that matter? Why do I need to install another plugin to get a token when I already have one?
Hello karenp102,
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We were using the pre-moderation feature on our Twitter and Instagram feeds and it worked very well until recently. When visitors see the page with the feed, it loads properly, but when we are logged in WordPress, and we want to go approve posts, the page is extremely slow and loads forever. It freezes the browser and we have to force-close it. We are then unable to go and approve the pending posts. We are also unable to navigate to the page while logged in… We believe this may be caused by a high number of posts being submitted to the hashtag we are using. Is there a way to limit how many posts are loaded for moderation? Or can we approve the posts from the WordPress back-end?
Thanks!
Hello bamstrategy,
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Hi,
I deleted an old version of Flow Flow and uploaded the new one but nothing seems to be working. I see a red (!) mark under status.
You help will be much appreciated. I will revert now to the old version so that my website: http://stratscope.com is operational for the time being. I will wait for your response.
