Has anyone else seen any issues recently with the Facebook Likebox Plugin? One of my client sites has stopped displaying posts and has done since sometime last week at least. The specific plugin is here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-box-for-pages/
Currently even Facebooks own demo page isn't working for me in Chrome (PC, version 31.0.1650.57 m), it displays nothing? Chrome is logged into my Facebook account.
In Firefox the demo is working but my client page placed in the devloper site is not displaying posts. I know Facebook can change privacy settings (it's caught me out before!) so I took a post off the client page and put this into the Embedded Posts plugin and it displayed correctly so there are Public posts (in Firefox, again no display at all in Chrome for me, not even with the Facebook example).
I am not logged into Facebook in the Firefox Browser but am in Chrome, using the Facebook Plugin site in a Chrome Incognito Window does give the same results as Firefox, displays example data but not posts for client page.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? It certainly highlights how aware you have to be when you rely on 3rd parties!
The facebook page might have to change country restrictions. If you don't see the box on a certain browser check to make sure you are logged into facebook on that browser.
This article explains what might possibly be your problem.
http://www.andreavahl.com/facebook/why-your-facebook-like-box-is-not-showing-up.php
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I followed the instructions in this post: Mobile users unable to access Facebook page tab to try and get my Custom Page Tab to appear in mobile browsers, and mobile Facebook apps for Android and IPhone. However, it does not work. I fear that all these posts are dated and no longer apply to Facebook API 2.7.
Currently the Page Tab application works fine in a PC browser, except there seems to be no way to make this Page Tab the default one. That would be ideal. More problematic though is that I can't get the tab to appear at all in mobile browser or mobile FB application. Furthermore if I go to my redirect page: https://www.libertylive2016.com/facebook/Redirection.aspx?fb the redirect doesn't seem to work on m.facebook.com. The page comes back as unauthorized or unavailable.
Is there a 2016 way of solving this issue? I have the beginnings of a slideshow at: https://www.libertylive2016.com/facebook/TabLibertyLive2016.aspx which I want to put on a custom tab that is accessible to all. The facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/libertylive2016. The custom tab is called "Liberty Live 2016"
Thanks In Advance!
I guess the answer is that it is impossible. Pretty pathetic indictment of Facebook's technology.
I followed the instructions in this post: Mobile users unable to access Facebook page tab to try and get my Custom Page Tab to appear in mobile browsers, and mobile Facebook apps for Android and IPhone. However, it does not work. I fear that all these posts are dated and no longer apply to Facebook API 2.7.
Currently the Page Tab application works fine in a PC browser, except there seems to be no way to make this Page Tab the default one. That would be ideal. More problematic though is that I can't get the tab to appear at all in mobile browser or mobile FB application. Furthermore if I go to my redirect page: https://www.libertylive2016.com/facebook/Redirection.aspx?fb the redirect doesn't seem to work on m.facebook.com. The page comes back as unauthorized or unavailable.
Is there a 2016 way of solving this issue? I have the beginnings of a slideshow at: https://www.libertylive2016.com/facebook/TabLibertyLive2016.aspx which I want to put on a custom tab that is accessible to all. The facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/libertylive2016. The custom tab is called "Liberty Live 2016"
Thanks In Advance!
I guess the answer is that it is impossible. Pretty pathetic indictment of Facebook's technology.
Just because this issue killed some hours of my precious time I would like to share these possible solutions with you.
Issue:
Facebook like box does not appear in either google chrome, safari, internet explorer or whatsoever browser.
Answering my own question
Possible reasons:
First of all keep in mind at all times that it might have something to do with your facebook login state in a browser.
Usually you are using a certain browser when surfing and developing. In this browser your are most likely logged into Facebook.
When trying a different browser you may not be logged in and Facebook possibly hides the like-box from you if:
Your Facebook fanpage has country restrictions
Your Facebook fanpage has age restrictions and Facebook does not know your age when you are not logged in
Your Facebook fanpage has been created but it has not been published yet (This was my case and it almost drove me nuts.)
You can adjust these settings in the admin panel of your fanpage.
Happy coding :)
Up until about 2 weeks ago, if you visited a Facebook Fan Page on an Iphone through safari (not the Facebook App), it brought you to the normal internet version of the site. This made it very easy to have control over what people saw first when they visited the page by creating an app and then specifying the app related tab (page) as the default landing page for users.
In this way you could include a "like / reveal" (Fan Gate) page and have the same type of incentive and offer translate directly to the iphone viewers as it had been seen on the internet using a computer. (still not sure how it looks on Android)
Since they added the redirect that forwards mobile browsers to their m.facebook.com page, if you try going to a specific fan page, it brings you to the "Wall" as the default and doesn't seem to even show the special tabs you created through an app -completely ignoring what ever defaults you had set up in the app!
Has anybody figured out a way to have a mobile browser pay attention to the default page named in the app or somehow disable the mobile browser redirect so it goes to the standard page. This is very important for using with QR codes, since you used to just link the QR directly to the fanpage address and it worked pefect, but now simply leaves the people a little confused about the offer you were promoting.
Thanks for any help on this!!!!!
I am testing our web application on OPera Mobile. We have a signIn through facebook link. It takes me to the login page, but after I enter my ID and password nothing happens. If I click on the login button mutliple times, it gives me too many failed attempts error. But after this my facebook account seems to be logged in.
If I login to facebook and come back to our application and click on login, nothing happens, I see a blank page. After I did Javascript debug, I could see that the FB.login() callback is not running at all.
Can any of you tell me what could be the reason?
Thanks,
Yamini
Facebook Connect contains some browser sniffing (or "pseudo-browser-sniffing", detecting some features and making assumptions about what browser is used and what other features are available). They have functionality that uses HTML5's window.postMessage() which ought to work just fine in latest Opera on both desktop and mobile, but due to the unfortunate sniffing approach they send Opera down another branch in their script. To be fair, this is for historical reasons, the postMessage() support was in flux for a while while HTML5 was shaping up and getting agreement on all details, so there are probably still some implementations (earlier Opera and IE versions?) that are still in use and would not work with Facebook Connect's JS.
Ideally, Facebook would fix this. I will follow up with Opera (to double-check that what I recommend Facebook should do will work on Opera Mobile) and Facebook (to try to get their browser detection adjusted).