Woocommerce Facebook Tab
Woocommerce Facebook Tab is a WooCommerce Extensions being developed by Woothemes. Woocommerce Facebook Tab allows you to sell products from your WooCommerce Store directly on Facebook Fanpage.Woocommerce Facebook Tab required SSL Certificate
Requirements
SSL Security must be enabled. Speak with your hosting provider to set up SSL on your WordPress site. To check if you have SSL, change “http://” to “https://” in your address bar and see if WordPress loads without errors.
Latest version of WordPress
Latest version of WooCommerce
Facebook account and a Facebook page
Products you wish to sell via Facebook ?
For Facebook Tab to work in the latest version of Internet Explorer, your website needs to send a valid P3P header. If your website doesn’t already send a P3P header, please install this
Setup and Configuration
You can find these instructions within the extension itself by navigating to WooCommerce > Facebook.
- Sign up for a Facebook account if you don’t already have one
- Create a Facebook page for your business if you don’t already have one ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php )
- Visit the Facebook Developer App ( https://developers.facebook.com/apps ). If you haven’t created an application before you will be prompted to add the Developer Application (ie: Press Allow)
- Click the “Add a New App” button
- Choose the “Website” option
- Enter your website name (eg: Bobs Online Gift Shop) and click “Create New Facebook App ID”
- Choose a Category and click “Create App ID”
- Click “Skip Quick Start” (top right)
- Choose the “Settings” tab on the left
- Click “Add Platform” and choose the “Page Tab” option
- In the “App Domains” box enter your domain name (eg: yourdomain.com)
- In the “Secure Page Tab URL:” box enter this special URL: https://yourdomain.com/?post_type=product&fbtab
- In the “Page Tab Name:” box enter a name like “Our Shop”
- In the “Page Tab Edit URL:” box enter this special URL: http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=woocommerce_facebook
- Click the “Save Changes” button.
- (optional) Go to the “App Details” tab and upload a logo to match your website/business logo. This logo will be displayed on the Facebook tab.
- Go back to the “Dashboard” tab and copy the “App ID” and “App Secret” into the WooCommerce > Facebook settings in WordPress
- Once you have entered these details go to WooCommerce > Facebook and click the link to activate the Page Tab.
