Title: Plugin not working: Authorization Error
Last modified: May 17, 2018

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# Plugin not working: Authorization Error

 *  [t5element](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t5element/)
 * (@t5element)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-authorization-error/)
 * After following all the instructions, the plugin cannot proceed with the Authorization
   and so, it cannot work at all!
    The error message that I get from Facebook is
   this: “Invalid Scopes: publish_pages, user_posts, manage_pages. This message 
   is only shown to developers. Users of your app will ignore these permissions 
   if present. Please read the documentation for valid permissions at: [https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions&#8221](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions&#8221);
 * What my be wrong?

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 *  [anjalixyzscripts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anjali94/)
 * (@anjali94)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-authorization-error/#post-10290416)
 * As per new Facebook platform product changes and policy updates
 * > Apps in public mode no longer allow their admins, developers, or testers to
   > access permissions or features that normally require app review. This affects
   > all apps built after May 1st, 2018, immediately. Apps built before then will
   > not be affected until August 1st, 2018.
 * If you switch the app from live to development mode ,then it won’t show the invalid
   scope error and also posts will be auto published to Facebook,but the posts won’t
   be visible to others since the app is in development mode.These post will only
   appear when you make the app live.
 * Your app need to go through the review process for the scopes publish_pages,manage_pages
   and user_photos to work with the existing plugin code.
    Submitting app for review
   isn’t easy,so we are working on alternative method. Thank you for the feedback
   and support
 *  Thread Starter [t5element](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t5element/)
 * (@t5element)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-authorization-error/#post-10294119)
 * So, in other words, until you find this alternative method, there is no way of
   auto posting with your plugin, right?
 *  [anjalixyzscripts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anjali94/)
 * (@anjali94)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-authorization-error/#post-10295082)
 * Yes,only apps in development mode is able to post,but it won’t be visible to 
   others.
    So we will update the plugin when the alternative method works without
   any flaw. Thank you.

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 * Last reply from: [anjalixyzscripts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anjali94/)
 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-not-working-authorization-error/#post-10295082)
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