How is it possible to show websites in facebook after pressing "Use app" in pages? I knew it was possible before using page tabs, but now they changed the rules so that you need over 2000 followers for that page. I am looking for something like this:
Yes it's still available, but like you said yourself it now requires the page to have at least 2000 followers. See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/pages/tabs/
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I'm trying to use the Facebook Like Button Configurator to generate the Like button for a facebook page URL but it's not showing up:
Here are the steps I performed:
Goto https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button#configurator
Type in 'https://www.facebook.com/LoveJadot/' in the 'URL to Like' textfield and hit tab to move to the next field.
The Like button does not appear below.
It does, however, work for all other facebook pages. Our client wants to know if this is a facebook issue and if so, what's the solution?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Facebook is making a few changes when it comes to promoting alcohol. Many groups and campaigns are being affected by this change.
Unfortunately we can't say for now what Facebook will end up doing. And there is no way around it at the moment(at least they did not communicate one yet).
I have a slightly confusing setup on my site right now with:
A like button with the data-ref attribute set to the root domain of my site
A like box with date-ref set to a Facebook page I created for my site.
These obviously leads to different things, as the like button has 2.7k likes while the like box/Facebook page has around 600. This last number is also the number of likes I see on my regular Facebook page.
Now I also noticed that I have a second Facebook page saying it is the administration page for my webpage. The page has never been used to post anything, and it doesn't seem to be visible to anyone but me. This page has 700 likes.
I've been reading documentation on this stuff, but I'm not feeling confident about merging the pages or anything just yet, so I have a couple of questions I'm hoping someone with more Facebook experience than me can answer:
Where does this 700 number come from? It's not displayed on either my like button or my like box.
Is there any way for me to combine these three different counts into one?
The 700 is the count of people that liked the URL after you created the admin page which represents that URL - this is irrelevant now as that functionality is deprecated. ( see the link CBroe provided: developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/migration
It is not possible to migrate fans from one object or page to another, except as was allowed during the migration period outlined in that document, if you didn't migrate during that period you cannot move the fans of the site/domain to be fans of the Facebook page instead
I like the share button more than the like button, thats why i'm using it. The problem is that if the title of the page change and when someone paste it into facebook is still with the old title
Sample code
I put span with a tag in the bottom of the page
http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://stackoverflow.com
Using the share functionality is not a good decision since it has been deprecated and is no longer supported, as it clearly states here:
The Share button has been deprecated in favor of the Like button, and
will no longer be supported. Please use the Like button whenever
possible to drive maximum traffic to your apps.
And here:
What happened to the old Share button?
We deprecated the Share Button when we launched the Like button,
because the Like button improves clickthrough rates by allowing users
to connect with one click, and by allowing them to see which of their
friends have already connected.
With that said, to answer your question, it also written in the Like Button guide:
When does Facebook scrape my page?
Facebook needs to scrape your page to know how to display it around
the site.
Facebook scrapes your page every 24 hours to ensure the properties are
up to date. The page is also scraped when an admin for the Open Graph
page clicks the Like button and when the URL is entered into the
Facebook URL Linter. Facebook observes cache headers on your URLs - it
will look at "Expires" and "Cache-Control" in order of preference.
However, even if you specify a longer time, Facebook will scrape your
page every 24 hours.
The user agent of the scraper is: "facebookexternalhit/1.1
(+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)"
To clear the cache the easiest thing is to just use the Debug Tool.
Here is a site that I'm upgrading for one of my clients:
http://home.minitraper.pl/
As you can see, rolling the mouse over the facebook icon on the right, the LikeBox panel shows only 2 faces/connections but there are 5 people who like the page. I was playing around with various versions of LikeBox code (the current one is the iframe version) but it didn't change a thing.
What can possibly be wrong?
It could be that these people have set their FB preferences so you cannot be seen here unless you are that person's friend. You can't do anything about this.
This seems the most likely answer.
I'm able to make Facebook apps. But I have some problems. The documentation highlights this example: http://www.facebook.com/cocacola?v=app_161193133389
My apps are getting included as iFrames, even when I specify FBML - Coke's is more embedded. The "like button" generator creates a different style of like button to Coke's. Coke's uses a built in Facebook CSS stylesheet. Coke also has FB style links down the left side of their page.
Does anyone know how I could go about making an App like that? The documentation really does not cover it. Even useful web-links would be great. Thanks!
Actually, the link to Coke is not an application, but a FB page. The like button showed is the standard like button that you get when you create a page, which is different than the one that you obtain when you use FB social plugins.
They are very different things. A page represents something: a business, product, service, etc., while an application is, well.. an application. Note that pages can hold applications in their tabs, or just normal (and brand new) iframe tabs.
Regards