There used to be a social plugin from FB for Follow button and it was working fine on my clients website earlier. But recently I've noticed that it doesn't load. So when I tried looking for the issue, it seems like FB has removed it. Is that the case? I could not find any documentation regarding removal of / changes to follow button social plugin.
When I searched for follow button on developers.facebook.com it does show "Follow Button - Social Plugins" as first result but when I open the page it says the link may be broken or the page may have been removed.
Has anyone else faced this issue? Is there any way to get the earlier functionality of follow button?
Search result:
Page error:
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2017/11/07/changes-developer-offerings/:
Follow Button: With multiple options to follow a person or a Page, the Follow button has become redundant. You can use the Like button plugin as an alternative, which provides the ability to subscribe to a public profile or a Facebook Page's public updates.
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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).
Please help.
I want to add a facebook like button for my facebook page on my website, but I cannot do it because the fb like button does not show up.
When I go to the like button configurator https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button#configurator , and enter the url of my fb page in the 'URL to like', the like button does not show up. Even if I copy & paste the code generated from the like button configurator to my website, the like button does not show up on my website.
But if I enter a different facebook page in the 'URL to like', the like button shows up and everything works as expected.
I noticed this issue about 10 days ago.
Before that, there were no issues and the like button for my fb page was visible on my website and also in the like button configurator https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button#configurator.
I contacted facebook about this issue many time but they don't answer.
Why is my like button not visible anymore?
We had the same issue today. We recognized that the og:url didn´t match the data-href of the like button and so the button wasn´t shown at all (even though it was rendered) - This is also mentioned in the official documentation.
Maybe this helps someone else.
I'm currently investigating the capabilities of Facebook API, like/share/comment of public posts from a public pages, for a client. I also noticed this problem. I think that this is related to a fact that Facebook removed the option to like page posts without the page access token that must be granted to your app by a page owner. If you try to do it from the Facebook API you will get the following error:
"(#3) Publishing comments through the API is only available for page access tokens"
I was able to get like button for my page itself, but as soon as I enter the url to some of the page's posts, the button disappears. You shouldn't suppose to have problem with the share button, but if you try to use an integrated version of like+share button, if the like doesn't work, you will lose the share button too.
Here is (only) the share button Configurator:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button
We use the facebook iframe to handle Facebook comments on our clients product pages.
However someting seems to be wrong with the "view more" comments;
it works fine for the first click, but then it stops working.
This problem only occures when you are signed in on Facebook while viewing comments. You need to be signed in to see relpies to comments.
For example this URL (site is in swedish)
http://www.have2have.se/skor/stovletter-skoletter/have2have-brands/stovletter-carola-svart
It has a total of 7 comments. At first the link says "View 5 more".
If I click the view more button, additional comments will be loaded (not 5 however, but that is another question)
and the button will change to "View 3 more".
If I click the "View more" button again it shows a loading indicatior and then changes to "View 2 more".
but no new comments are loaded.
If I keep clicking the button nothing changes, it just keeps showing loading indicator and "View 2 more".
Is there something wrong with the iframe implementation that I am not seeing or is this a bug on Facebooks side?
I have found that from time to time Facebook refuses to load additional comments, after much fruitless debugging i have had to conclude that this was/is a Facebook issue and out of my control.
I recently migrated to Disqus, which offers Facebook connect which from a users point of view is similar and allows them to comment after logging in via Facebook, Disqus allows allow you to connect through Twitter and a number of other services which is nice.
I understand this is not perhaps the answer you were hoping for however i can say based on my personal experience with Facebook Comments, Disqus ended up being our best solution.
Since today, I cannot add new apps to Facebook pages.
Normally I create an app, go to the app-page and click on "Add to my page":
The link to the add page was this, but it's not working anymore.
Any solution?
Check this page tab tutorial.
Here is a little helper page to do this until Facebook fixes it themselves: http://stickybeat.se/addapp/
This link might be more direct on what you are looking for. It gives an example of using the Facebook api to add a page as well as the dialog method.
Facebook like button not working on my site.
It goes from like back to default as if it isn't passing some validation.
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Once the problem is detected and solved, I'll edit the question to represent a minimal example that will benefit the SO community. Unfortunately I can't pull out the problem out yet as I'm not sure what it is..
Here is a screencast demonstrating the issue http://see.weareinto.com/8Hbq
I believe this is a problem happening on facebook's end. But, there is a way you can fix it... Just copy the URL of your page and enter it in the Facebook LINTER tool here:
Facebook LINTER -> https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
I'm not sure of the exact details of why this works, but from what I've been able to gather, when you run the LINTER tool on your URL it will also update the cache facebook has for your URL. The error with the button working is on the facebook side, so by running this tool and getting facebook to update their cached data for your page, the like button starts working again. I've seen this broken facebook button occur for a few different reasons, one being that a page used to use the old facebook share button. When you add the new like button to a page that used to use a share button, the like button won't work until you run the page through the linter.
Bottom line is doing this will fix your like button. If your facebook button doesn't work on a page, run it through the LINTER tool. Hope this helps!
If you are on Wordpress and you have the "Facebook Comments" plugin enabled, uncheck "Include OpenGraph Meta Information" at the very bottom of the Facebook Comments settings page. This was screwing it up for me.