I'm trying to embed few dozens of comments into my own website. I'm currently using this method.
The problem is that the pages loads really slow (takes a few minutes to load all comments when there are few dozens of comments).
How can I present dozens of facebook comments on my website without it taking so long to show up?
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After some extensive web searching, it appears others are having my same or a similar problem. But I have been unable to find any sort of solution.
I have 3 different clients for whom I've added Facebook Likebox widgets to their sites. I haven't had any issues for over 2 years. Last week though, without any changes to site, 90% of photos stopped showing in the Likebox Stream on all sites. The only thing that is showing on their Stream is comment, day, & time of post (photo upload).
Went to Facebook Developer site to address the problem (recreate code in case of changes) and even on FB Developer Page where Likebox code is created for copy & paste to site, the preview pane of widget isn't showing pictures either.
The oddest part is that there doesn't seem to be any common element to which photos do show. For example, one site is showing 2 photos out of the 12 most recent photo uploads, all of which were uploaded to timeline from the same pc.
What was once a perfect solution allowing tech-challenged site owners some content control, saving me time, saving them money, and cross promoting their sites with their Facebook pages, has now just turned into a nightmare.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
I'm working on some new features for a CMS, and I'm having trouble finding the information about how Facebook interacts with other websites. If turn key solutions exist for this I'd love to hear about them, but I'm basically just looking for pointers to documentation of how this stuff works behind the scenes. Including php, wordpress, and drupal since those are the base technologies I'm working with, but other platform solutions are welcome.
When you paste a URL into Facebook's "What's on your Mind" box, Facebook will automatically fetch a short page description, as well as a list of possible thumbnails. If there's a video it will often auto-generate the needed HTML to embed the video. I've also seen features where you link to a business's main website, but then are prompted to "like" their Facebook page.
How can I, as an independent website owner, have my pages reacts to Facebook in this way. For example, on the following page (link to a personal website) I have four images. However, if I drop that URL into a Facebook status update, there are no thumbnails for those images.
Also, while I've inferred several features of the notification box, I'm curious if there's other's I'm not aware of.
Again, while turnkey solutions and existing plugins are of interest, what I'm really after is what sort of meta data I need to embed in my own page, or what special responses I need to make to Facebook requests. In other words, how do I program a website to response correctly to Facebook.
Basically you convey that information to user in terms of open graph meta tags. From that Facebook picks up what type of site it is. Is it about a book or some music or some commerical brand or may be has a FB page linked to it? Check this documentation for general idea about graph objects - https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/using-objects/
Coming to specifically the image used as thumbnail, it is specified with og:image meta tag. Important thing to note about it is that FB caches that for ~24hours so don't sweat it if it doesn't show up. You can use this tool to check for your values which fetches it in realtime - https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Also Facebook happens to have quite a lot of bugs around this, so it might take really long before it start showing up. If its picked up debug tool, then you are fine at code level. Not much that you can do about it.
I happen to know about this as I authored a tiny WordPress plugin for that and boy I know the support requests that used to come in. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-like-thumbnail/
Now for 3rd part of your question, even this is specified through meta tags only, like you have primary video content on your website, and you would like it to embed on Facebook when someone puts a link in the status box, so for that this link has code samples http://garethhooper.com/articles/social-media/45-integration/166-how-to-embed-your-own-videos-on-facebook-using-the-facebook-like-and-share-buttons.html
Hope that sets you on track giving you a head start :)
Does anyone know if it's possible on a FB app to insert the comments via javascript so I can access the elements via jQuery instead of using the <fb:comments> which inserts an iFrame which means I can't touch any of the elements.
The pre-made Facebook plugin has some big limitations, and this is one of them. You can write your own comments tool (I have in the past for a file storage app I wrote many years ago allowing people to leave comments about files other people uploaded). See: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/ for how to interact with the Graph API.
Decided just to build my own comments system and not worry about trying to use the Facebook comment system.
I have a web site that gets quite a bit of traffic from Facebook. I've never had any problems sharing links to it on my Facebook page, but starting this afternoon, whenever I post a link to my web site from my facebook page, the post disappears from all users' feeds after 2-3 hours. This has happened 3 times now and I can't understand why. At first I thought it was my page itself, but it seems to be my domain because when I share from a different page (the same domain), it also disappears.
It worked fine this morning but not now. What is going on? Is this a glitch or is it some kind of system FB has in place now? This is really hurting traffic and clicks out from FB to my site.
Thank you.
Edit: looking back, it seems this may have started happening around Tuesday. Is there some kind of system in place now to limit the amount of clicks out you can get from a post? I can't see any other reason it's happening...
There are several possible causes:
Links that you use is a dynamic link which at times can be changed, use the static link. Example your link like this: http://www.domain.com/page.php?var=xxxxxxxx, where the parameter xxxxxxxx values on the links can change at any time may be due to activity updates. This will cause facebook can not find a link that has been logged.
Bandwidth & server connection you less stable.
If I may suggest, avoid links / URLs dynamically & use the SEO Friendly link/URL like this page URL http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8529022/why-are-my-links-to-my-site-disappearing-from-feeds-after-2-3-hours
I want to add a link to my Facebook page that will open new information within my page. Not a website, but information from a scoring program my bowlers use. I'm not a programmer by any means and have no programmer on staff I am trying to teach myself these things as I go along.
First of all, I have no idea if what I want to add is called a "tab" or an "app." I can't really seem to find a good explanation as to what the difference is. They both kind of sound the same to me. I've tried to figure out how to add both and have found a lot of great websites and information on Facebook that kind of leads you through the process.
The problem is all of them seem to expect me to already know what things like, JavaScript, canvas urls, FBML, etc... and I don't. So I'm getting tripped up on the steps even as I'm trying to work my way through the steps. I guess I'm kind of looking for a page entitled something like "Facebook developing for ignorant people."
I really appreciate any help you can give me.
Please forgive my ignorance here but I have searched and searched for how to do this and just keep coming up against a wall.
What are Facebook Tabs?
The tabbed structure multiplies your possibilities. Tabs help keep Pages organized so people know where to go to get different pieces of information. The Wall tab is for dynamic content, the Info tab has static information, the
Photos tab contains photos albums and Fan photos, etc
What are Facebook Apps?
Apps on Facebook are web apps that are loaded in the context of Facebook in what we refer to as a Canvas Page.
What is a Canvas Page?
A Canvas Page is quite literally a blank canvas within Facebook on which to run your app.
Now where you may have been confused is that you have ability for your app to be used within the context of a Facebook Page via a tab. So it is a custom tab
So now to what you want
I want to add a link to my Facebook page that will open new information within my page.
You want to add a new piece of information to the page. Is it static content. If it is just the rules of the scoring program, then you can use a Tab. Previously one was able to accomplish this using a simple FBML tab. Put Facebook has phased this out.
FBML will no longer be supported as of January 1, 2012
Two quick ways to deal with your problem
Use the Info tab description to place the information
Search for apps that offer this functionality for example TabPress
The longer way (long term) would be to follow this guide and bite the bullet for learning web hosting and development
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs/
Any more information in terms of languages, and steps depends on exactly what you would like to do. I am not really sure what you mean by showing the bowling information. For the moment I am thinking it is just static information. So all you need to know is how to use the following HTML tags
html
head
body
p