Since around June 19th the pages I 'Like' in my site (which generate all the metadata automatically) are no longer creating the respective Facebook Page where one could 'Build Traffic' to the page, monitor likes, comments, etc. The previous pages do have the reference, but pages created and liked from then on are not!
Also, the pages are not showing on the Pages I Like section of www.facebook.com/pages . If I go there and change to the pages I have liked I see only the pages up until that day, and newer pages on other sites, but no longer the pages I liked on my own site! The weird thing is that if I navigate to the page itself, I can see myself as a 'liker' of the page.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page inside my Web Page : http://rafaelpolit.com/inicio/index.php?sid=14&gim=240&ln=2
2. Like the Web Page
3. Go to your www.facebook.com/pages and navigate to Pages I like
4. The page does not show there.
Try accessing it via this link:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/OGTitle/OGObjectID
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The original method for sharing links with a custom image, text and link appears to have been stripped from Facebook. I for one would love to see them bring this back.
Here is my situtation. I have a Facebook tab that loads a page that is hosted under my hosteddomains.com. I setup a Facebook app to work with my Facebook tab. When I try to use the new "Share Dialog" if the link I want to share is not the same as the app domains then i get an error and I can't share the link. Am I doing something wrong or is this what they intended to do?
IF that's what they intended to do then there is no way that this will replace what sharer.php could do. I could be on any site and share any link with an image to Facebook and have it posted to my wall.
The question is if i am on facebook tab and i want to share a link (I want a dialog box with a custom photo, title, link, and summary) and allow my users to post this custom message to there Facebook status.
Maybe i am confused about how to accomplish this, but so far i am not having much luck.
I miss the good ole days when i could just construct a URL and that would give me the ability to share what i want to share. Twitter and Pinterest have these methods.
Here are some code examples of things that I've tried that did not work:
Option #1:
The url in this option goes to page that I created on hosteddomains.com that has the Open Graph Meta Tags in it. My idea was to share these pages from my server that will direct them back to my Facebook tab. The result I was getting from this method was seeing the title of the tab from my FB page and description. The reason turned out to be that if i set the og:url to my Facebook tab page, that's the page that would get scraped. That's not what i was expecting from this method. I thought it would take the meta tags from the page i shared and the url with it. Not take all of the info from url and ignore the meta tags.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=[URL]"
target="_parent">SHARE ON FB</a></p>
Option #2:
Tried using Facebook Share Dialog. I had an interesting time with this one. I setup a new Facebook app. I tried the Facebook tab as the URL and also my custom url to the page that has custom open graph meta tags. The facebook app has two App Domains - hosteddomain.com and websiteA.com. I also created a Page Tab section. The page tab section loads the HTML page that was loaded in the tab we made for our facebook page. Issue with this method is I don't get a custom open graph options set from my php page. I'm picking up information from the facebook tab again. At least now the dialog box shows the name of the new app. I am limited in what i can share using this method. The url i share has to belong to the App Domains. In order to have multiple app domains, I had to make that Page Tab section and then add the second url to the App Domains field, otherwise i got a warning.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=[appID]&display=popup&href=[url]
&redirect_uri=[url]&ref=s" target="_blank">SHARE THIS</a>
Option #3
The last thing I tried was the fb-share-button using the Javascript SDK. I get the same result as option #1. I don't think there is much difference between these two. Option 3 here is a bit easier to deal with and cleaner code. In this example, the url is to my custom page on hosteddomains.com that has my custom open graph meta tags. That doesnt seem to matter though. It still pulls the info from the og:url meta tag. I tried removing the og:url meta tag. I get the same result. Is it the Page Tab info interfering?
<div class="fb-share-button" data-href="[url]"></div>
I have a wordpress site which is meant to use via Facebook page tab. I have made a page tab and added an iframe tag which opens the site into the page tab. I have added a Facebook plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook/) to publish new posts to my page's wall to get more traffic to the site. All this works perfectly.
My problem is the following:
The plugin publishes a link to e.g. www.mysite.com/fb/new-event/. The site is meant to use only via the page tab, not at that domain. The link should be customized to open the page in the Facebook page tab via iframe.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this or how to achieve the solution another way?
I think that it can be done by customizing the link to point first at the right Facebook page tab and then inside the iframe to the correct page.
We launched a website which uses the Facebook open graph and like buttons to share content on Facebook etc. One of the open graph tags includes information about the Facebook IDs of the website owners (<meta property="fb:admins" content="..."/>), so these were included. I am one of the admins, and when I liked the web page myself Facebook automatically created a fan page. This is OK, and we are going to keep the fan page, but I can't seem to edit it.
Is there any way to edit a Facebook page which was automatically created?
I managed to solve this by creating a new Facebook page then merging the old, uneditable page (which was automatically created in the first place) with the new page. From the new page I created I went to:
Edit page > Update info > Resources > Request to merge duplicate pages.
Select the old page and merge it to the new one. All the updates and pictures from the old page were lost (this wasn't really a problem) but the likes were merged into the new page. It also asked which username (which forms the Facebook.com URL) I would like to use for the new combined page, so I selected the username of the old page as this is what everyone was used to. At the end of this process I have a Facebook page, with the same likes and same URL as before which I can now edit.
I hope this helps.
when I added the open-graph meta data to my website, every Like that my webpage gets is saved only for the webpage under a "ghost page". means that if i want to create a "facebook page" for the website, it's totally separated from the website, and i need to re-build my audience again.
is there a way to merge between them?
For example, if I insert a Like-Box to my website, and I click on the Facebook link in the Like-Box - it redirects me to the website, and not let me see the Facebook page.
if I'll change the link to the Facebook page, the likes number will be much lower.
I know i can merge under "Resources" but i wonder if it will transform my "Facebook page" to another link to my website. which i dont want.
So, how can I let people click on the link: "MySite on Facebook" and get to my site on facebook and not to my site...
I think that the ultimate solution will we set the like button to the "facebook page", and not to the page itself. what do you think?
You will have to create a Fan Page for you website and move the Likes over. There is a page migration / merge tool you can use, but it only works if the pages have similar names. You can find it in the Page Admin screen.
I have a live website currently (www).
About 4 months ago we launched a Facebook Application (FB APP) that introduced our product. At that time we created a "like" button that is connected to (www). There are currently 80 likes when I look at the app page.
Within the past month Facebook created, what I believe is called a "Community Page" (FBCP). I believe that this is just an interface that allows me to communicate with people who "like" my (www). Nobody else can see this page (Not a Fan Page). This pages says that I have 30 "likes" currently.
I have a checkout page on (www) that has a "like" counter that we generated based on (www). This counter about 3 weeks ago had about 110 "likes" on it. Recently the number has dropped to 80. It was about 110 and now 80.
My questions are...
Did something change with how Facebook looks at the community page vs the website (www) and separate the likes between each?
Is there a way to merge both groups together?
Is there a way for me to claim the Community page or convert to a Fan Page? FB says yes, but the documentation on doing this seems out of date and I can't get to links they document actually exist.
What distinguishes FBCP "likes" vs www "likes". Some of the people are in both???
The count on the like button is a combination of a number of actions including "liking" the page web page and "sharing" the webpage (e.g. via a copy and paste into Facebook.com or use of a share dialog. ( Ref: end of second paragraph https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ )
The count on the Admin Page (or FBCP as you are calling it) is just a count of those who have clicked the like button only.
If you have everything linked by an app ID (e.g. domain claimed by app ID etc) then you may want to create a publicly visible "App Page" on Facebook.com via the "Create Facebook Page" button at the bottom of the advanced menu in the developer app: https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
If you need any more help it would be easiest if you supply the URL for the WWW and FBCP as well.