All facebook functions disappeared on my website? - facebook

I am using two wordpress plugins on my website (gründerzeit.de) to insert facebook functions.
The first one is "Add Link to Facebook" with which I implemented -among others- the facebook widget.
The second one is "GetSocial" wich I use for the social media buttons.
They worked fine together!
The strange thing is, that all the functions just disappeared without any error message or something.
I already updated the FB-app and made all the Oct. changes.
Hope anybody will know what to do :)
Thank you very much in advance.
Best,
Andy

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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:
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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!
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I'm trying to embed a facebook like box to my website and am using the facebook developer like box too. I find that when pasting in the facebook page no activity, posts or anything appears in the box.
I've tried testing using different facebook pages and it works fine for those. Just not the facebook I want.
I'm really not sure why the facebookpage is https://www.facebook.com/thelopesarms?fref=ts
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I had the same problem.
Clear all your cache.
It's like a recent problem on like-box. But after I fixed with this, my plugin shows one more face than before :S

Facebook Like button - only 1 line whhen no comment

Im using Facebook's like button plugin on my own website product pages, also using opengraph tags
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Everything seems to work fine, the problem is when people 'like' a product, the comment box shows up but if they leave it empty only single line is posted on their feed like:
Jon Doe has liked "title here".
But when they write that comment when they click Like or even post the the link manually all the image,text,description information is correctly displayed.
Anyone knows how to fix this?
Well, that’s the basic difference between a like and a share. Since Facebook has merged these to functionalities into one social plugin, it’s up to the user which action he takes.
The old share button has been deprecated, so not much use in implementing it now, because even if it’s still possible(?) it will stop working eventually.
If you want shares instead of likes, your one alternative IMHO is implementing the Feed Dialog on your site, triggered by a click on a button of you own making.

Facebook Like Box for my facebook page

I am trying to implement facebook like box for my facebook page on my own site. I copied the code from http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/ (HTML5 or any other) and pasted on my site. Box appears with all the correct information bu when I click on like, I get an error message saying
"The page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/xxxxx/111111 could not be reached."
I've been trying to find a solution for this for hours but couldn't find anything. It's nothing to do with the privileges etc.
I also ran it through Object Debugger and it didn't come up with any problem.
Does anyone has any solution for this? I created the page today, does facebook needs time to parse/index my page before like box works?
Thanks in advance
Are there any demographic restrictions on your page that would prevent it being seen by somebody logged out of Facebook? Is it the published? Those are the two most common reasons for that error that I've seen
Ok, all of a sudden it started working. Haven't changed anything in the code. So I guess Like Box won't work if you install it on the same day you create the FB Page.

Is the Facebook "Share" button being deprecated?

I have a business requirement to add a Share on Facebook button to a site. There are a lot of links on the web that point to this page but that just points to the page about the like button. Considering there really isn't any talk of a Share button on that page, makes me think it's going away.
This blog post from 2009 talks about the Share button. I didn't see, when I searched, any mention about the Share button being phased out.
I'm unclear on whether I should implement this with sharer.php or whether I should tell the business that "Share" is on the way out and we should just implement "Like".
I have seen some blog posts that suggest Share is deprecated, but nothing official from Facebook.
It is not deprecated per se, but we do want developers to move the Like button.
Official word from Facebook on the sharer.php being deprecated and not supported: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/share/
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.
2014: The sharer.php has been well..undeprecated. It figures, as this method has been used on millions of sites and was still being used even when the docs were previously saying that it was deprecated. Links in the old format will use the new share button functionality:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/share-button/
This new Share Button works with a new version of our web-based Share Dialog. When using the sharer.php method of invoking the Share Dialog, this dialog will also display the new version without any changes required.
And:
Can I use the Share Dialog without using the Share Button?
Yes, although we recommend using the Share button to offer the
simplest and most consistent experience for people using your site,
you can invoke the Share Dialog using a link:
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http://mashable.com/2011/02/27/facebook-like-button-takes-over-share-button-functionality/
http://visiblefactors.com/blog/994-facebook-likes-meta-data-thumbnails/
Hope it helps.
I don't know of any plans to deprecate the share bookmarklet (which is sharer.php). The deprecation I think you're thinking of is the deprecation of the <fb:share> tag, an XFBML tag which basically did the same thing as <fb:like> before <fb:like> came into existence. Now, they're redundant, so I think <fb:share> is gradually being phased out.
Using the Like button is probably the right way to go in most cases, but if you don't want to make an app id and want a simple quick method, just do this:
Share on Facebook
You can replace the Share on Facebook with an image or whatever you want. Facebook docs reference: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/share-links/