I have created a Facebook app. The app is running on my hosted server through Facebook. I have a community sit and a blog site. How do I get the blue “Go to APP” button for my Facebook pages to drive users to the app? I cannot find the information in Facebook help files. Sorry if this is a novice question.
You can create a Facebook page for your app. It will have the blue “Go to APP” button that takes the user to your app.
To create a page for your app, click on the “Create Facebook Page” button in Edit App > Advanced > Contact info tab
In that case, as of February 1st, 2012, "App" pages are no longer available (read Removing App Profile Pages).
Please see this link for completed roadmap changes:
https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/completed-changes/
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We run a website with a blog and we're using a wordpress plug-in that pushes the blog posts to facebook via an app. It is working fine for regular users but we want it to push the posts to the organisation's community page.
The annoying thing is, I deleted an existing community page and created a new page via the "Create New Facebook Page" button in the "App Page:" setting of the "App Details" area for my app.
The new page was created exactly as requested, and it still won't allow me to link it to the app.
How can I get this working?
The Wordpress plug-in is called "Add Link To Facebook" in case anyone is wondering.
Please ensure you are using the pro version and confirm this. It seems this functionality is only provided in pro.
Wordpress requires a separate action to authorize pages. So using an app for example you'll first authorize your account to be accessed and then another popup will appear asking you to select one of many pages in your account. Is anything like this happening?
I have a fanpage and a game app. The fanpage was created before the game, so I already have some likes, which I'd like to preserve. I need to add some tab or button which takes the user to my app (www.apps.facebook.com/myapp). There are no options about that on the fanpage's admin panel.
Thanks
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You have to build an HTML/PHP page with the button linking to your game page.
Also have in mind that you can use the same application (your game) with the Timeline App by serving the content from a different directory. You can setup this in the facebook developer app.
Some helpful resources:
Page Tab Tutorial
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/appsonfacebook/pagetabs/
PHP SDK
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/php/
Javascript SDK
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/
I'm making some tests here and all the apps that I had created today didn't show on the App Profile Page (example http://apps.facebook.com/lojaeotica/). Is there some update or policy change for today? I didn't see anything in Developers Blog.
Have a look at the blog posted today - http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/611/
Title of the topic is "Removing App Profile Pages", this would explain you on how to address your need.
Here is what it says - "New apps will not automatically get an App Profile Page. Instead, new apps can choose to create a Facebook Page from the Dev App. Simply visit the Contact Info section in the Advanced tab of the Dev App and click on the “Create Facebook Page” button to create a new Facebook Page."
There's an open bug report about this:https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/325983410747148
As stated by Facebook, new apps won't get their own app page automatically. You can either create it in the apps 'advanced settings' or if you just need the link to integrate it into your facebook page, modify and use this one here:
www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL"
It is not a bug, but a poorly implemented new feature. If you only need the profile page to add it as a tab you can use this: http://www.addtab.info/
I developed a facebook landing page with an iFrame and now I want to add the page to my facebook profile page. When I click "Add to my page" at the application's profile page, my profile is not listed there.
Can anyone give me a tip please?
From the comments above :
"To my personal profile." – enne87
You can not have this functionality. You can only add application to facebook pages, not to peoples profiles.
When you created your application it should also have created an app profile page. You can add your application there. To find your application profile page you can navigate to this URL https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id={APPLICATION_ID}
Or, in your application settings click on the "View app profile page" in the bottom left sidebar.
I am using Facebook Connect on an external website. I don't want to show an App Profile Page on Facebook for this app. The main reason is because I have a Fan Page of the same name on Facebook and I am trying to get "Likes" for the Fan Page.
But when you search for the Fan Page by name both the App Profile Page and the Fan Page show up in the search results. And there would be nothing of use to show on the App Profile Page since all I am using it for is Facebook Connect.
Is there a setting in the app setting to not show the profile page? Or better yet, to use the Fan Page as the app profile page?
There currently doesn't exist a way to disable your App Profile Page or associate your app to a Facebook Page. We are planning to enable this soon after f8.
Yeah, I hated this… so I tossed up a super simple redirect app. Toss this up as your default tab for the application and put the link to the page.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=127885633976737
Also let me know if there's an error. :)
You can migrate app pages to regular fan pages now (go to your app page for instructions). App pages will be disabled by February.
Removing App Profile Pages By February 1, 2012, we are removing App
Profile Pages. You can migrate Likes and the Vanity URL of this Page
to an existing Facebook Page with the same name and of Product/App
category.
Click here to migrate to an existing Facebook Page
Unfortunately not. We ended up asking all of our fans to move over to become fans of our application page and then deleted our fan page. The only thing you can do is set your app in sandbox mode but then obviously nobody except developers can access it.