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http://www.facebook.com/beckermanphoto?sk=photos After I created a "page" called BeckermanPhoto on Facebook, I discovered that the normal export plugin for Lightroom wouldn't post to pages.

So a bit of searching turned up: Jeffrey's Export Plugin for Facebook / Lightroom by Jeffrey Friedl.

I like his business model. Donationware.

The way it works is this: You get a fully functional plugin. After six weeks, you can only upload 10 photos at a time. Your donation is up to you. So far - so good. 

I am watermarking the images going up to Facebook since I don't really trust them.  But I also need them given that they control most of the population, if you know what I mean.  You ignore them at your own peril.

At least, if they decide to take my stuff and sell it or use it in someway that annoys me - (unlikely but could happen) someone will have the annoying task of cloning out the logos. The plugin is more sophisticated than the previous export plugin I was using which I don't even know who it's made by - Adobe?  A third party.  Whatever, this is a much better and more flexible export plugin.  It gives you more choices as to where to publish, and what should be done when, for example you delete a file from Lightroom that's been published to Facebook.  

The only qualms I have, is that Facebook changes things so often without telling anyone - that unless you've got some "in" with them - you may be surprised as a developer to suddenly find that your plugin has stopped working.

On the other hand Jeffrey comes out with a lot of incremental releases which is a very good thing.

I wrote something about this in a previous post where the other day an export plugin was banned (for no reason that anyone has figured out yet) and all the photos that were uploaded by it were deleted. 

Maybe it was just a mistake.  Whatever. In short - if you are using Lightroom and looking for a good way to publish to a Facebook page, or even if you just want to publish to your wall or profile etc. - this plugin is working fine (so far).  I've only used it for one day and haven't tried all it's features yet.  There are templates that look pretty powerful that I want to experiment with.