To help Facebook better share images on your Joomla site, we highly recommend creating a Facebook Application and entering its ID number into your Shack Open Graph plugin.
Let's take a look at this task.
- Log in to your Facebook account.
- Visit the Facebook Products page and go to My Apps > Add New App:
- You will see the "Create a New App ID" box. Enter the required details:
- Display Name: Enter an informative name that you would like to be associated with your new Facebook App.
- Contact Email: Enter your contact email address.
- Click the Create App ID blue button:
- You will be presented with the Security Checkbox modal box. Tick the "I'm not a robot" checkbox and click "Submit":
- On the left side, Click Settings > Basic:
- On the right side, enter the required details:
- App domain: enter your site URL
- Privacy Policy URL: enter here an URL of your Privacy Policy page
- Terms of Service URL: enter here an URL of your ToS page
- Data Protection Officer Contact Information: fill in this section with appropriate contact information
- In the bottom right corner of the screen, click "Save changes":
- If you selected the "Support my own business" option for the "Business Use", then scroll slightly down the page and click "Get started" in the "Business Verification" section:
- You will be prompted to create a new business manager account with Facebook, as shown in the image below. Click "Create a new Business Manager Account":
- On the next prompt box, fill in the required fields with your business name, your name and your business email address and click "Create Account":
- On the next screen, finish the process by clicking "Submit":
- This will bring you back to the "Basic" screen. Good job! You just created your Facebook Application with its ID number at the top:
