News for Developers

Tech providers: Get ready for Meta work accounts

We’re rolling out Meta work accounts to a limited number of businesses in 2023. Meta work accounts are an account type for business tools across Meta. Organizations are able to manage these accounts with administrative features including SSO support, automated account provisioning and more. With Meta work accounts, individuals can access Meta’s...

Business Tools Social Integrations

February 13, 2023

Introducing an important update to Instagram Sharing to Stories

Updated November 30, 2022: This deadline has been extended to January 30, 2023.Instagram was designed for people to share their moments....

Business Tools Developer Tools

October 10, 2022

Why 2022 Is All About Sharing to Stories

It’s no secret that people love sharing content – outfits of the day, indulgent dishes, workouts, design inspiration. You name it, people share it with their network, often turning to Stories on Facebook and Instagram to do so. With Sharing to Stories, an integration from Meta for Developers that enables people to share content directly from an...

Social Integrations 2022

January 4, 2022

Celebrate the Season With Sharing to Stories

Six of our global partners are celebrating the end of the year by helping the people who use their apps bring important milestones and incredible memories to life.To complement these celebratory experiences, our partners are making it easier for people to Share to Stories.Sharing to Stories enables our partners to help people express themselves in...

Business Tools Social Integrations

December 16, 2021

Welcoming creative apps to expand their audiences using Sharing to Stories

Today, we’re thrilled to share more with you about our Creative App Platform, Meta’s product that allows people to easily discover apps that enable them to create unique Stories to share on Facebook. Take a look at our new page, explaining how Creative App Platform works and our awesome partners who have joined the platform. Sharing to Stories...

Platforms Social Integrations

November 11, 2021

Platform Update on Publish Permission

Update on August 1, 2019 at 6:00PM PT: We've listened to feedback from our developer community, and recognize that more time is needed for many partners to fully transition off of the publish_actions permission. In response, we’ve updated the deprecation timeline, and a limited number of developers now have until February 1, 2020, before the...

Developer Policy Platforms

July 31, 2018

Intelligent Tracking Prevention

On September 19, 2017, Apple released iOS11 and with it, Safari’s new Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP). ITP limits the use of 3rd party cookies to 24 hours and deletes a site's cookies entirely for sites not visited within a 30-day period. This will affect developers who use Facebook Social Plugins, Facebook Analytics and Facebook Login.So...

Business Tools Social Integrations

October 5, 2017

WordPress Plugin 4.0

We’re always looking for ways to make it easier for publishers to share their content on Facebook. One way we do this is by offering the free WordPress plugin for Instant Articles, which simplifies the process of generating and publishing Instant Articles from WordPress.Today we're updating the WordPress plugin for WordPress.com VIP for enterprise...

Publishing Social Integrations

September 5, 2017

Update to Like, Comment, and Share Functionality

When people read articles on Facebook, they often want to react to, comment on, and share what they've read with their friends. To enable this behavior within Instant Articles, we are introducing support for Like, Comment, and Share buttons both at the bottom of an Instant Article and on media that appears within your articles (photos videos,...

Publishing Social Integrations

June 28, 2016