I have a Like button on my theatre pages. For example:
http://raleighlittletheatre.org/shows/11-12/crucible.html
Strangely many of them say the starter message (even though I know people that have Liked this page):
Be the first of your friends to recommend this.
When I click the Like button it reports an error "Error" and when I click it I get:
There was an error liking the page. If you are the page owner, please try running your page through the linter on the Facebook devsite and fixing any errors.
I ran the linter, but there are no errors other than a warning that my image is too small.
A couple of other pages also have this error, although I'm sure they didn't use to. However this page does not have the error and I am using the same code on them (all via a CMS):
http://raleighlittletheatre.org/shows/11-12/firecracker.html
Clearly I created an error that affects some pages, but not others. Ideas?
Even stranger, if I log off Facebook then I see that 93 or 27 or some non-zero number of people (at least some of which I'm friends with, I'm certain) like these pages.
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When checking in the debugger, my image shows up fine and I even get the preview of 'When shared, this is what will be included'... but when I try to share the link on Facebook, the bit where the image should go is blank.
I see no kind of errors or warnings in the debugger though so I have no idea what could be wrong?
I've done this countless times in the past without issues, I don't recall this happening before. Could it be due to how this server / hosting is set up perhaps?
This is not a duplicate thread because last two days I have been trying every possible suggestion on this site, and still my Like image refuses to pop up on facebook.
My website is here
No errors in debugger. In my multiple attempts to try various permutations combinations, facebook suddenly started to evaluate my site as spam. Instead on like button , my friends now see confirm button. For now I have removed Like button but still have share button on my website.
Image is rounded - 400 by 400; jpg and fits possible criteria.
I would be delighted to find out what is it I should have done to get my og:image on facebook.
Again, there are no errors on debugger as well.
Thanks
Rahul Trivedi
I ran into a strange problem with the Facebook Like Buttons. After implementing it on the articles pages in SOME cases, but most of them, it shows up the like count for the main page.
Article page example:
http://www.men.hu/a-legnepszerubb-gyogyteak/eletmod/gasztro/225
This article should have 0 to 5 likes, not 200+. The main URL has 200+ likes. After parsing it with Facebook's Linter tool, it works just fine! Shows 0 likes and the Facebook like button starts working on the article page too. It seems like it clears some kind of cache, or re-parses the URL and corrects its data.
Debugging the parsed Facebook like button, the data-href tag seems to be correct, showing up the current page URL, not the main page.
Where can be the problem and how could I solve it? Any ideas are welcome as I feel like I tried already everything...
I had this problem with some pages, it turned out that the pages had been published, then someone disabled them and reactivated them again later. While the pages were disabled, Facebook checked the page (they say they check pages every 24hrs to make sure the Page Title and other details are up to date) and got redirect to the home page, so used the 'like' count for that page. However, Facebook cached the redirect so never picked up again that the page had been re-enabled.
We resolved the problem by manually re-linting the pages using the Facebook debugger, as you have done already.
Your page does seem to have the correct Like count just now (3), so looks like you may have resolved the problem for now.
I've been struggling with this for a couple of days now. I have a simple wordpress blog. I've plugged in all the OG meta tags and run the page though the debugger many times and it shows no errors.
However when people click the Like button (generated from the Like Box plugin), they get the red error message suggesting that the page be run through the debugger.
I have generated other like buttons that live on individual blog posts, and so far these seem to be working fine, its only when trying to like page there is an issue.
Also note, that the facebook page was generated from the OG meta data after I had liked it. So this isn't from creating a page in Facebook and then trying to have people like it. I mention that just in case it matters.
The other thing of note, is that if I am already logged in (just me the admin), I can like and unlike it with no errors. If however I log out of facebook, and click the like button, after entering my facebook login, I see the error just as other users have.
I've been reading forum posts for days and have yet to find a solution. My blog URL is http://www.garrinball.com
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Your http://www.garrinball.com/ parses just fine on the linter. However, this is only a small issue, you don't specify any og:image tag on http://www.garrinball.com/2011/10/christmas-card-shoot/.
What is strange is I don't see any errors. I like the christmas-card-shoot and the like button maintained my like even after page refresh.
I also logged out of facebook, went back to like it, and it prompted me for credentials as normal. I logged in, and was able to like the button. No errors.
I'm wondering if it is specific to your account you're using.
I'd suggest trying with an other fb account.
I have a fanpage tab application with a like button on it, and after a while testing I got the exact same error as you :
<!-- with the JS SDK included and inited -->
<div class="fb-like" data-href="//fanpage-url" data-send="false" data-width="100" data-show-faces="false"></div>
When refreshing, the like button is however detecting correctly the like status.
No error message shows up when using another account than my admin-dev one... maybe its an antispam function ?
My homepage at http://www.kccurling.com no longer shows the likes. Though the other pages I set the ability to like is uneffected and does show their respective likes.
When I click the like button. rather than showing my facebook avatar I get a red "error". Clicking on the "red error", I get the following message
"There was an error liking the page. If you are the page owner, please try running your page through the linter on the Facebook devsite (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/) and fixing any errors."
I then go the link provided. Type in the url and can see the number of likes for that page. by clicking the link at the bottom of the page. I click on debug. but that appears to do nothing. I am not savey enough to understand or see why the likes are still no longer showing on this page only.
This happen about the time I set up a facebook fan page but I am not sure if the two are linked.
Any directions would be appreciated.
Its most likely a temporary error.
Its worth making sure your Open Graph tags are present and working as per the linter.
You may need to wait an hour before linting again.
If its still borked in a couple of hours then there is a problem.
I've seen today a strange behaviour on my site too. The like button doesn't seem to work any longer. Then I've tried to create again a new like button on https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/. And this points in two directions. First I get a new app_id (but I don't know why). And second thing was, that I've had to verify my account by SMS or credit card. After that, all was fine...