I am maintaining a blog (in Tumblr): baierblog.com.
For the past few weeks the Facebook like buttons on the blog's posts are acting up.
Few of the posts' like buttons are OK, but others suffer from two problems:
A. Some buttons do not save the like count (you can click on the button but when you refresh the page, the button is reset and your like is not saved). for example: sweet and sour chicken.
B. Other buttons carry the like count of the blog itself (baierblog.com) and not of the exact post. for example: corona brown bread.
This behavior does not seem to be related to my code because when I enter the urls in the Like buttons page the generated buttons act the same.
The site passes the Lint Debug.
Any ideas?
Update: Though Mutant24 spotted an error, it does not seem to be the cause of the problem.
With out any interference by my part, the two examples given above now act the same. meaning, they both carry the like count of the blog itself (as do the Like buttons in the Like Button generation page for these urls).
The value held in graph.facebook.com/http://baierblog.com/post/19733836593/sweet-and-sour-chicken is the real like count of that post.
Dori : in the og meta tags u have assigned wrong value in og:url
original url is - http://baierblog.com/post/17578099422/dark-chocolate-cake
and your are providing - http://baierblog.com/
Please fix it and check ur issues will be solved.
Inserting the "Sweet and sour chicken"'s url into the like button creator produces the following error:
The app ID specified within the "fb:app_id" meta tag is not allowed on
this domain. You must setup the Connect Base Domains for your app to
be a prefix of
http://baierblog.com/post/19733836593/sweet-and-sour-chicken.
Its attempting to like the post but failing.
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After searching the internet and doing my own research on this subject I still can not find the answer to my problem, so here it is.
When I click the like button (to like my website http://openarchitecture.cz) then the like count is not being increased.
Debugging the FB javascript code on client-side (in Chrome) and examining the ajax response
send back from FB servers after the click on "Like" button, revealed that FB is instructing the Like button to be "disconnected", resulting in the behaviour described below.
The term "disconnected" is a strict FB term (in a sense of a javascript code), it means that on client-side there will be used a "plugin" that will perform certain operations leading to "inactivity" of like button. Technically, when the plugin "disconnect" is beeing recognized as part of the ajax response, there is an array of predefind actions (functions) that will be followed and called sequentially.
Now for the reproducibility of the problem.
Go to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like and fill the "URL to Like" field with http://openarchitecture.cz
url.
Click "Get code", then click "Ok" on the pop-up and finally click "Like" button on the right.
The like count should increase. Instead a pop-up shows up for (aprox.) 1 sec.
then the popup disappears. Now I am in the same state as before I click the
like button, i.e. like count is not increased.
I have found similar questions here on SO, but none of them seems to finally
resolve the issue.
The related questions here on SO are:
1. http://facebook.stackoverflow.com/questions/5195183/facebook-like-button-flashing-on-then-off/12958474#12958474
2. Facebook Like button does not work on one website?
One of the suggestions was that this migth actually be a FB bug. I found a (very recently created) bug, reported in FB bug tracking system. The bug is located here:
http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/268340209965207?browse=search_512b8e0bed9724580954683
The bug has however "Low" priority an so far it does not seem to be resolved (it might even be returned as not a FB issue, I am not sure if this possibility is still open).
So for all interested in this.
Is this a real FB bug ?
How have you dealt with this ?
Could it be that my site is for some reason on FB spam/black/"whatever nasty" list ?
Well. This will end up like the other posts, i.e. no lesson learned here.
[The term "page" used later in this post represents the http://openarchitecture.cz page]
I just tried today to like the page again via the FB generated like button (on http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ ) and the result is now ok. So the like count gets increased after clicking the like button.
The difference that I observed when checking the request exchange to FB servers is that this time the communication has been done (by default. i.e. using the XFBML version of the like button) over iframe, not direct ajax call (as was in the past for XFBML).
I dont know what was the cause (I tried the pure iframe version of like button before) but the response going back as a result of the mentioned iframe request is now correct, ie. FB sends back response instructing javascript in client browser to use "connect" plugin not "disconnect" plug-in.
One more thing. One month ago I have created a FB profile (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Openarchitecture/125515934292877) of the page and have done some updates to this profile. So maybe FB decided that the page (being referenced from FB profile) has now earned the provilige to be "liked".
Like I said at the beginning. Problem solved, but no lesson learned.
For me, the problem (Like popup disappearing after a second; "Plugin","disconnect" response) was happening when the Like button URL redirected to another URL.
The fix was to add og:type, og:url, and og:title (required per https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/object-type/website), then running the URL through the Facebook debugger to clear the cache (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug).
More at https://stackoverflow.com/a/16597060/2391566 .
I cant figure this one out, i have built a site with an e commerce system and i want visitors to be able to like an individual product and thus that product be added to their feed.
I have added all the open graph code to the relevant place, but when someone clicks "Like" is shares a default thing rather than the perticular product. this is the one i have been using for an example
https://pinnaclesupplement.co.uk/index.php/shop/168/10/weight-gainers/serious-mass-2-72kg-detail
so I tried using the facebook debugger to see if i could figure it out, but thats is showing the correct info and exactly what i want to show up on peoples feeds! here is a link for that.
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=https%3A%2F%2Fpinnaclesupplement.co.uk%2Findex.php%2Fshop%2F168%2F10%2Fweight-gainers%2Fserious-mass-2-72kg-detail
You have your Like button set up to point to http://www.pinnaclesupplement.co.uk – so when people klick like, they only get the “default thing”, your basic site’s description.
If you want customers to like a specific product page’s URL – then you should point the href parameter of the Like button there.
I'm a rather beginning programmer trying to get the XFBML 'Like' button to work on my site correctly... I chose the XFBML so I wouldn't have to manually type in the URL for each button- I use a lot of templates and want to be able to update everything quickly and easily.
But about half my pages seem to share a like button- and strangely, the other half each have their own individual like buttons, even pages that use the same template as the first set. How do I fix this? I've seen some stuff for blogs about automatically generating different like buttons, but I'm not sure it'll work because this a regular old site and every page is a different URL. I've searched all over the place online and I haven't seen anyone else with this problem. The site is at www.millerandcampbell.com if that helps.
Thanks in advance!
In the future, plase use https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug to debug problems like this.
It clearly shows that f.e. for the page http://www.millerandcampbell.com/rental.html you have given your base address http://www.millerandcampbell.com as value for og:url – and of course the like button respects that value, and therefor likes the latter URL.
If you don’t want that – then set og:url to the actual address of your sub-pages.
This happens on any web browser. When I go to the page, I see the like button not showing any counts. Then I...
Press on the Like button.
I then see the box say +1.
I refresh the page.
I no longer see the +1 and I see the Like button as if it was never pressed.
I can repeat steps 1-4 endlessly with the same results - I never see the total live count.
It would seem like it's not keeping counts, but when I query it via:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select total_count,like_count,comment_count,share_count,click_count from link_stat where url='https://www.myswebsite.com/'&format=json
I see the live stats - so I know it's working. I've also tried different variations of http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ - and old versions as well. I've isolated the code to just be the facebook code with nothing else on the page. For some reason, when I use https://www.myswebsite.com/ it doesn't show. I try other URLs like http://www.google.com with the code, and it works fine, I can see the count.
It's an SSL web site. Does this have anything to do with it? Also, when we initially launched the site with the Like button, it was http://mywebsite.com originally. Then we switched it to http://www.myswebsite.com, and then setup a SSL wildcard to function with both. I'm not sure if caching has anything to do with it.
Thanks!
This blog post might give you some help. What the post says is that you can "sort of" clean your URL with Facebook URL linter tool
Also there is a bug reported related to this issue
I think I have the same issue as here, but can't quite get enough out of the answers over there.
I'm using a Like button (in an iframe on a Static XFBML page) to allow users to Like a YouTube video, with the intention that since the user clicks Like it shares it to their Wall.
What happens is that they click Like, it says "You like this", but nothing is posted, and then after a random short interval the Like button is replaced by a Confirm hyperlink.
What I really want is no "Confirm" stage because a) it's clunky and b) the user has probably left the page by then. I know there's at least one app that does it... Is this behaviour possible for me to code, and if so, how?
this is a feature of the like button, so as to avoid spamming website that cheat user on the like buttons. The "confirm" feature will be turn on for suspicious site. When your site is well received and get positive feedback, the "confirm" feature will be removed automatically.
In your case it's because you implemented it using an <iframe> - I've tried it before and the <iframe> is the cause.