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M E Cieplinski

8 Years Ago

Help With Photos On Fb Fanpage

I've searched and searched through the old threads but I haven't been able to find these two issues. I did try, cross my heart.

1) Does anyone know a way to get older photos onto a Facebook fanpage without having to reupload every one of them individually? I have about 80 that were already posted here when I created my fanpage and all of the older ones were never added there. I experimented with two images but the only way I could think to do it was to edit the image, then resubmit with my personal page unchecked and the fanpage checked (those photos have already been shared on my personal page - didn't want to spam anyone). Unfortunately, doing that wipes out all likes, faves, comments, etc. I know they're not really important (those exact words from Mike in 3... 2... 1...) but I'm pretty new to this and those pats on the back are keeping me going for the moment. Is there any other way to do what I want to do? Or should I just suck it up and get them added?

2) Not a single one of the photos I've uploaded to my fanpage is showing in the Photos section of the left sidebar. My avatar and cover photo are there, but that's it. Is there something else I need to do? I wouldn't be surprised if there is. I spend a lot of time on FB but I don't know how to use a lot of it.

Here's the link to my fanpage (I hope). https://www.facebook.com/looking4silverliningsphotography
Thank you in advance for any suggestions, hints, help, whatever you've got.

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Abbie Shores

8 Years Ago

1 edit image
2 it won't, the image is not on Facebook.

 

Cynthia Decker

8 Years Ago

Option 1: If you just want to share images from here, just click the little FB button on the image page here and share the image to your own page or to "a page you manage" for your fanpage. This is a one at a time operation and will post each image to the newsfeed, although the way FB works all your followers won't see all your shares. You could just share one a day or a few a week if you wanted to spread it out. Sharing or "liking" an image from FAA will not add the image to your photos on the left sidebar.

Option 2: If you want to add images directly to your Facebook page, go to facebook, go to photos, click on "add photo", or create an album and add your older works there. You can hold down the "CTRL" button and upload a bunch of JPGs at once, (you'll have to create small size images and upload from your computer, less than 150k works best on Facebook) then Facebook will let you rename/edit each one if you like to before you post them. You can then add a link to the FAA page for each image by cutting and pasting the URL from FAA and adding it to the image description. This method definitely adds the photos to your left sidebar on Facebook.

Option 1 will notify your followers about each new image, Option 2 will notify them once that you've uploaded new photos or a new album.

 

M E Cieplinski

8 Years Ago

@Abbie - 1) Bummer. That means erasing all the attendant info. I rather suspected that's how it works.
2) So using the FAA app on Facebook doesn't store the images on FB, even though you never leave FB when you click on something to purchase?

@Cynthia - It sounds like Option 1 is just for sharing, which I know how to do. I've had a personal FB page for years and several photo albums there. So I guess I should try Option 2, as long as that also places the image in the print shop page for people to purchase. That's the main issue with trying to add the older photos. I didn't have the fanpage app enabled until recently. The new ones I added are in the main fanpage stream, but I'm wondering if Option 2 will do that for the older ones or not. Only one way to find out I suppose.

What I'm trying to accomplish is what was shown in an earlier thread about installing the app (which was a huge help - I got it to work without too much swearing). This is the example that was in the other thread. https://www.facebook.com/powersfineart?v=app_309028460694
I know that opens in the shopping cart, and my page won't, but clicking on the timeline shows his photos in the sidebar. I guess Option 2 will help with that. I'll try creating an album and hopefully they'll show up there.

Thanks very much for your suggestions. I'll keep plugging away. I have no intentions of going public with my fanpage until it's working the way I think it should.

 

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