Before starting, please make sure that you have created the Facebook page for displaying followers where you set as Admin.
1] Go to developers.facebook.com and click on Log In in the top right. Log in using your personal Facebook account.
Note: You must use the username and password from your personal Facebook profile. Facebook doesn’t allow businesses to register as developers, only individuals.
2] If this is your first time signing in to the Facebook Developer portal then click on Get Started. If you’re already registered then you can skip ahead to step 5.
3] Click Next.
4] Pick choose what is more suitable for you, it is not important for the next steps.
5] Select Create First App.
6] In the Create an App ID window, select Manage Business Integrations.
7] Enter your app Display Name – this can be anything you want. Enter an email address, select Yourself or your own business and click Create App ID
8] Complete the Security Check and click Submit to complete the app setup.
Important: Leave the app in Development mode. Do not make it Live.
Note: Now that your app is set up, you do not need to go through Business Verification. This is only required for live public-facing apps, not for apps which are just used for internal use and left in development mode.
Getting a Page Access Token
9] Important: Make sure your app is in “Development mode” and not Live. Then, go to the Settings > Basic to get your app information.
10] Navigate to Facebook Graph API Explorer, to generate a short-lived access token. Select the same app you set up in step 7 from the Facebook App drop-down list show below:
11] Click Generate Access Token.
12] Click Continue as Your name in the popup modal.
13] In the Permissions section copy and paste pages_read_user_content to add it as permission to your app.
14] Click Generate Access Token again.
15] Click Continue as Your name in the popup modal again.
16] Select ONE Facebook page that you want to display events from and click Next.
Important: Do not select multiple pages from the list.
Please note: You must be an admin on the Facebook page you want to display events from otherwise no events will be displayed.
17] Click Done. Note: You can ignore the message which says Submit for Login Review. The app will stay in development mode and so doesn’t need to be submitted for review.
18] Click on Access Token Info and Open in Access Token Tool
19] This will navigate you to Access Token Debugger, where you will see the full information for the short-lived user access token.
Note that short-lived user access token expires after an hour.
20] To extend the expiry date, Click on Extend Access Token at the bottom of the page and you will get the long-lived access token.
21] Copy this new long-lived access token to use in the plugin.
22] Go to Foller>Network>Facebook and paste the copied token to the Facebook Access Token field.