After browsing FB bugs on https://developers.facebook.com/bugs, and not finding an answer to my question, I posted a question on SO - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12042372/facebook-like-button-unsafe-javascript-attempt.
Although I'm still holding out hope that someone in the SO community has an answer, I thought it might be best to create a bug report on FB. Unfortunately, I see no method of creating a bug report. A couple of Google's turned up this tutorial - https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/559/, but the "Create" button doesn't show up on my page.
I feel darn silly for posting a question about how to post a bug, but I've exhausted my limited resources.
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I've tried the solutions mentioned here: How to submit a bug report to Facebook?
Go to: https://developers.facebook.com/bugs
In the "Search bugs or file a new one..." field, type a title (or just a few random characters, really) for your bug report.
Select the "Create a new bug report" button from the drop-down that appears.
If this doesn't work, try a different browser.
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I've been running Facebook's Comments plugin for a while and I've got a profanity abuse problem at one of my sites.
I've recently placed the code necessary for moderation, Facebook's debugger says all it's fine and my moderation console works so I included a blacklist with the idea of using it as profanity filter.
The thing is, it seems to work, but past comments aren't filtered.
It seems this is a limitation of the tool (thanks John Hall).
Is there a way to moderate past comments?
This behavior sounds correct and appears to the same for comment boxes I've moderated. I just checked the Facebook Comments FAQ - How does the blacklisting words work? and it pretty much says the same thing:
The content of new comments is checked against the blacklist of terms to see if this comment should have limited visibility.
Which confirms that the filtering is applied only to new comments.
Is there any chance to get some "settings" for the comments order on Facebook page? We activated the new "answer mode" or something like that, so people has the ability to reply to anyone comment.
But, what's wierd, when somebody new add the comment it order to somewhere between the discussion. Where is settings - when we can sort the parent comments by date?
There's no setting for the ordering of comments. They are all based on an interactivity score. So the higher the interactivity is, the sooner it is ordered whithin the comments.
you can find more info about this here: http://allfacebook.com/replies-ranked-comments_b113737
Sorry for this basic question but all attempts at Googling and using facebook help only provide out of date information.
I am attempting to make my first fb app. Just an html page saying hello. From what I understand the app (or webpage) is stored on my server and I set up a facebook app that basically points to the URL of the app (or webpage) on my server.
Is this basically correct.
Where do I enter this URL information in my edit app screen. I have followed the latest fb instructions and all I see when I view the app is the admin page in fb for the app.
Does it take a long time for the page to appear.
Is there a current idiots guide. The app design is not a problem for me loading it in to facebook is the problem.
Unfortunately this wasn't very helpful, not because of what you posted but due to the fact that it appears that Facebook has updated the way in which pages are linked to again.
The pages you suggested I look at were well laid out with lots of information on them but they are already out of date and do not seem to correspond with the layout of the Facebook 'dev app' and even the fields in the form seem to have been either dropped added to renamed.
Thanks for trying to help me and I hope that FB may produce some up to date information soon and not keep changing the interface.
I can completely understand your confusion - the Facebook docs give very little information for the complete beginner. The 'Getting Started' section makes some massive assumptions and completely ignores huge key areas you need to know to get your first application up and running.
So to address your points:
Yes, this is basically correct. Apps on Facebook are served up to the user in one of two ways. Either as a 'Canvas App' or a 'Tab App'. A Tab App is an application you can install as a tab on a profile page. A Canvas App can operate on it's own page and has more room as there's no left menu as you would have on a profile page. You can configure a single app to work in both ways.
To edit your application settings, go to your own Facebook home page. Use the search bar to search for the 'Developer App'. Typing in 'developer' should do it - it should be the first result in the App section with around 830,000 monthly users. This Developer app is the window into your own app settings. You need to install it if you haven't already. It's a hub where all the apps you create will be available for you to edit. Whenever you want to edit one of your app settings in future, you click the Developer bookmark that will now be in the left menu on your own Facebook home page.
No. Apps are basically an iframe onto your code. There should be very little if any wait at all. Start with something very simple like spitting out some straight html so you can easily tell if things are set up correctly.
Yes. I found thinkdiff.net to be massively useful in the early days to get my head round the basics and then more advanced concepts. There's tons of examples ranging from very simple to quite advanced. I've just had a quick look around and found this page which should give you a decent head start in getting things moving. Note: I have no affiliation with thinkdiff.net at all - I just found them helpful in the past.
Finally, a request from me; this whole stack overflow thing is new for Facebook developers and very few people are voting up answers they consider helpful. This means new users to SO but experienced FB developers can't vote up good answers and vote down bad ones as we need enough Reputation Points to do so. If this has helped you, please ensure you vote up the answer. Of course if it was rubbish and you're just as lost, dont :D
Hope I've helped in some small way; I know I was completely lost for the first few weeks with FB development and even now there are things that make me tear my hair out! In the end it's very rewarding, but you have to put in the time. Good luck :)
I followed the tutorial on the Facebook dev site and used the following code to create a discussion app. Whenever I click on "Start new Topic" nothing happens. I've searched and found people with similar issues but no one found a solution. Anyone have any idea?
<fb:board xid="crockrec_board"
canpost="true"
candelete="false"
canmark="false"
cancreatetopic="true"
numtopics="5"
returnurl="http: //facebook.com/CrockpotRecipes/">
Community Recipes
As you said, there are many problems with this, it's not only you. Even official test console is throwing errors for me. Fill bug report on their page
I would consider abandoning any FBML markup like this. FBML is not going to be supported after January 2012 (in about a month) and in June 2012 FBML markup just isn't going to work at all, so anything you write in it now is going to have to be rewritten. Might as well find the alternative now rather than later.
I need help with a problem I'm facing, basically I'm utilizing the new "Facebook Comment Box" feature and the issue is it is overlaying with standard Wordpress comments. It is best described by showing you the following screenshot:
Because I'm new here I couldn't post a screenshot because I don't have enough rep so a link to the screenshot of the problem is here - http://www.wdbc.org.au/comment_screenshot.jpg
The true URL for the above screenshot is here
So I did some investigating around, I couldn't find anyone else who came across this problem, but I also found that it is a combination of factors which makes encountering it more rare. Below are some specifics on what I'm using, and factors I believe are contributing to this problem:
Wordpress 3.1
Wordpress Theme Genesis1.5
Wordpress Plugin Facebook Comments for WordPress 3.1
Wordpress Plugin The Events Calendar 1.6.5
Google Chrome Browser 10.0.648.204
Some important notes on this problem:
It does not happen for the same URL in Explorer or Firefox, only in Chrome
It only happens in Wordpress posts tagged as Events so the events calendar plugin is definitely part of the issue here (for example I don't see the overlap issue on a non-event post which does not utilize the Events Calendar plugin)
My thoughts:
The plugin "The Events Calendar" has something to do with this. The plugin adds some information at the top of the post such as Date, Address, Cost, etc, and the height this information takes up seems to be about exactly the height the wordpress comment is encroaching on the space of the facebook comment section.
I don't have enough Wordpress expertise to dig deeper in to this and determine what is wrong with either the Events plugin or the Chrome browser and I'm not really sure where to start. I would really appreciate if anyone can help provide some tips or guidance on how I could progress with this issue. If you need any further details just ask and I would be happy to share, thank you.
Edit: Same problem observed in Safari (on iPhone) so impacts Chrome/Safari not Firefox/Explorer.
Edit2: On further testing it looks like this is only impacting retrospectively. I created a new Event post and it works fine, but older Event posts are affected. I guess this makes the issue not as impacting as I first thought so I might be able to live with this.
It might have something to do with the like button. I use a plugin for wordpress that also includes the like button. I chose to hide it, and all is good. I will enable the like button using another plugin.