I have a like button on a blog post here - http://blog.thinkplanrun.com/2012/03/2012-tpr-shoe-madness/ - right now it shows 17 "likes". I am unable to see the FB community page associated with this URL when logged into my FB account. I currently see quite a few other community pages from external URL "likes" and my official FB Fan Page, but not for this specific article. Using the debugging tool (http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) for this URL it has my admin account listed under admin ... what am I missing?
That blog post is not a page, it is a link.
Instead of trying to view the url in the debug tool, try the Graph API Explorer with the url.
As you can see, it has "link_stat" as the type.
On the other hand, if you use the same tool for your page you'll see that the type is "page".
Why do you want it to be a page?
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I keep getting this message when I try to add the Like Box to my blog:
The href parameter must reference a valid Facebook page, but "http://www.facebook.com/OneBrownGirl" is not a valid Facebook page.
Since I know my page is valid, what do I do?
This is not a Facebook Page. This is your Facebook Profile.
You can create a Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create/
From the Facebook Like Box social plugin page: "The Like Box is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website."
Like Box is for Facebook Pages. If you enter a URL value on the Like Box social plugin preview page and the URL does not render a Like Box then a WordPress plugin implementing the Like Box social plugin would be no different.
Facebook has separate profile badges which may be supported by other WordPress plugins.http://www.linkyiwu.com/
Just go to the facebook page you created, then click on setting and on the very bottom of the page you will see facebook page ID. pick the whatever iD for the page and paste where the
I am trying to link a like box on website to facebook fan page.
http://witheri.com
I created an APP (developer.facebook.com), went to settings -> advanced -> add page to create a fan page for a band. Then I used this open graph like button (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/) to link page.
It is working on website, but when I click like, it creates a 3rd page, an insight page, with this message "This is the administration interface for your webpage at http://witheri.com. You can see Insights and publish to the users that have liked your webpage. Only the administrators of the webpage can view this interface, other users are sent to the webpage."
This is all fine, but I want the likes to appear on the fan page instead of the insight page. How can I fix this?
That message explains the situation; the people who use the Like button are liking http://witheri.com , the page you see on Facebook.com is only visible to you, and lets you see the insights for who likes the page, and lets you post things which will appear in the fans' news feeds
I have implemented the like button on a website. People have liked the website, and I have the option to administer that open graph object. However, on the administration page I see the following notice:
Administer Your Page
This is the administration interface for your
webpage at [...]. You can see Insights and
publish to the users that have liked your webpage. Only the
administrators of the webpage can view this interface, other users are
sent to the webpage.
This is a ghost page, because, as the notice says, only the administrator(s) can see it. I don't want the behavior of users being sent to my website. I want them to be able to stay on Facebook and see this page, just like they would see and interact with another business page.
Is there a tool or a request form to do this kind of migration (i.e. from an open graph page to a normal business page)?
I have researched for about two days for this issue, but I have not found any leads.
According to this help article, you can merge two facebook pages into one. But the constraint is that you can merge to a page with higher likes only, and the page with fewer likes will be removed. I am not sure if it works for ghost pages or not.
Shef, let me try to answer:
if you have an app myapp, that is canvas url https://apps.facebook.com/myapp
then you will have an application profile page: http://www.facebook.com/myapp [*]
So if a search your app from google or facebook, then they come to first this page,
and if they click go to app, they reach to your app.
However if you have just implemented like url: myapp.com/myitem=1
then you will have this "ghost" page. You need this ghost page, because you need somewhere
to administrate your likes
So you are asking a real page instead ghost, well this is hard to implement this request by facebook guys. Because there is like link to refer some url. So there must be some pop up asking user: 'Do you want to follow link or go to business page instead'
[*] username is not available anymore for facebook apps. see How to get name of facebook application page?
You can use the ref parameter while specifying your like button. This ref parameter will be set by Facebook, for all url's/links that appear on Facebook, i.e wherever this like action is displayed with the link to the url liked by the user. So you know when a user visits your page through Facebook. Check the following from this link:
ref - a label for tracking referrals; must be less than 50 characters and can contain alphanumeric characters and some punctuation (currently +/=-.:_). The ref attribute causes two parameters to be added to the referrer URL when a user clicks a link from a stream story about a Like action:
fb_ref - the ref parameter
fb_source - the stream type ('home', 'profile', 'search', 'other') in which the click occurred and the story type ('oneline' or 'multiline'), concatenated with an underscore.
Upon calling your url you can redirect the user to the page on Facebook that you want. Business pages on Facebook have a particular url, of course, and you can easily do the redirect.
I don't think that you have an option to migrate an open graph page to a normal business page. You can however create your page, and give it the same name as your website. The draw back here would be when users like your page on Facebook, you won't be able to accumulate the likes already garnered by your website.
EDIT
Take a look at the like box plugin (Facebook doc here ). It can be used to like pages that are on Facebook itself, from external websites. This way you will be able to accumulate your likes. You can also modify the plugin to look like a like button, not fully but almost. But you still end up creating a new page. And the old likes will not be available.
I added a like button to a page, somebody liked it but there wasnt fb:admins tag. Now the admin tag is filled but there is no new "page" in my profile associated with this page. How to fix it? I want Facebook to create a page for already created page. Thank you!
From the Facebook documentation on the Open Graph protocol:
Note that the Open Graph protocol is currently designed to support real-life objects. If your URL is a piece of content — such as a news article, photo, video, or similar — you should set og:type to article (see below). Pages of type article do not have publishing rights, and will not show up on user's profiles because they are not real world objects.
If your page is not set up as an article, you should use Facebook's URL Linter to determine the Open Graph tags that Facebook has retrieved from your webpage.
For example, I have an article in my site,
http://abc.com/1.html
and I put a like button plugin from Facebook in the website for this article (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like)
And I also have a fan page in Facebook and share this article (by sharing a link).
If I press the link button in my site, the fan page like for this article does not add up. And vice versa, if I click the like button of this article in fan page, it does not reflect on the website either.
So is it the default behavior? I thought the article URL is provided for the Facebook Like plugin, the info should be linked. Anything I am missing here?
Thanks.
When you put an Like Button on your website for this particular article,
it's usually linked to an "Open Graph FaceBook Page", not your regular Facebook Fan Page, with a wall page. Open Graph FaceBook Page will redirect users to your own website. The good part of it, is that you'll be able to post news in the fans news feed.
When you share that article on your Fan Page, fans would LIKE the news feed post, not your website's article.
You can link the like buttons to your Fan Page, but you'll loose specific article liking capabilities.
As described in the doc (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like) :
Can I link the Like button to my Facebook page?
Yes. Simply specify the URL of your Facebook page in the href parameter of the button.
The first like is for your site, the second like is for the feed story -- they are two distinct objects.