Afternoon,
I have a facebook application that i have added to a facebook fan page, this application has an URL like http://facebook.com/fanPage?sk=app_id. Now i if copy this link and try and share it on the facebook fan page it uses the description/image from the page and not from the application like it want.
Is there any way to change this? The correct meta tags are in place.
Peter
yes there is a way, but not directly. facebook always fetches the meta tags of the top page, as your app runs in an iframe its not fetched.
but you can submit a wallpost (as user or as a fanpage) via the api and give alle information you want. (like image, video, description, title, ....)
see http://www.fbrell.com/fb.ui/feed for an example.
An other variant:
You add a canvas app beside your facebook app. (see the app settings) on this page you add the meta tags for the wallposts, and a javascript which redirects to the fanpage like
top.location.href = 'http://www.facebook.com/mypage?sk=app_id'
when ever you want to share you use the canvas app url. Facebooks greper ignores the javascript redirects but read the meta tags. A user clicking the wallpost is automaticly redirected to the fanpage - tab.
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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
In Facebook docs it says:
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.
My problem is that I don't want the Facebook page to be the target of the 'like'.
So currently, the like button on my site attributes the likes to the root domain 'http://example.com/', which is what I want.
This has got many more likes than the facebook page 'http://facebook.com/examplecompage'
Is there a way to make the likes on my facebook page contribute towards the root domain likes?
That is not possible, since they are treated as 2 different objects.
And just to clarify, the documentation on the Facebook developer site is referring to the Like button that you create to be displayed on your site, not the Like button you get on Facebook automatically when you create a page.
I have a Facebook App that is setup as an "App on Facebook" and a "Page Tab." I have this app installed as a tab on a Facebook business profile page.
The app is loaded as an iframe and I use the Facebook JavaScript SDK withing the iframed page to setup social widgets including comments.
My problems:
I can't access the comment moderation tools on the page -- they don't show up at the top of the comment widget.
When accessing the comment moderation tool at http://developers.facebook.com/tools/comments, I don't see any comments associated with the app.
I am an Admin of both the page and the app.
I am declaring an App ID in the <head> of the page:
<meta property="fb:app_id" content="{MY_APP_ID}">
Is there any special configuration that is needed to make this work? I have successfully setup comments with moderation before on regular web sites, so I think there must be something special about the application tab case. Should my fb:app_id reference the page's ID or the app ID of the tab?
Reason you can't moderate comments is the fact you linked Comments Social Plugin to Facebook Page URL.
Facebook linter doesn't even get to the Page Tab Canvas URL of your Application to get the values of fb:app_id and any other OG tags too.
Simply link Comments Plugin to URL accessible by linter (like your page canvas URL) pass it to linter to ensure all required tags is here, post comment and see it in moderation tool.
BTW, You will loose all existing comment due to URL change...
Update:
As you noted users may click on link comment link posted in feed they will see your app "naked", while this is true if you'll use Page Tab Canvas URL for linking Comments Social Plugin you may overcome it with next scenario:
You may link it to some special page which will only include OpenGraph tags and single javascript line redirecting to your Application tab on Facebook Page (according to URL arguments to that page for example).
<!-- OG tags should be placed here -->
<script type="text/javascript">
window.top.location = 'http://facebook.com/pages/PAGENAME/PAGEID?sk=?sk=v_APPID'
</script>
If that special page will be part of your "regular" Application (I mean within the scope of your Application Canvas URL) you may link to it's URL within Application on Facebook to avoid driving users outside of Facebook itself. Once user landed to that special page he will be redirected there real comments are displayed...
If you'll use page outside of Application Canvas URL users will get out of Facebook and only then landed to Tab.
For example, I have the application starting at index.php. The user navigates to about.php within the iframe, likes that specific page and shares it. What would the structure of the url look like to take people clicking from their own timeline into that page of my iframe?
Thanks!
This depends, if you are on a FanPage it does not work (directly)
on a App Page its easy. You simpley dont link relative in your iframe, but outside to the facebook page itself, for this to work your Canvas url needs to be a directory.
Then you can link to ie. http://apps.facebook.com/yourcanvas/about.php (dont forget the target _top)
On a FanPage the only way i know is to use beside the tab setting, a canvas app page.
in your share code you set the app page as target (with parameter) and on the app page you set a session variable for the desired target and then redirect back to the fanpage.
on the fanpage you look if you have an target value in your session, if so redirect the user.
I want to make a Facebook Like Button for Facebook's individual page.
For example: http://www.facebook.com/michelleobama/posts/10150938120900578
I get the code from facebook developer's page, and put on it to a my html.
My html: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/188423/like.html
But raised a error.
So, I try to check the url by URL Linter.
It say "Facebook Can't Crawl Itself. Sorry!".
Dose it possible that I want to do?
Unfortunately Facebook won't scrape OG tags from Tab Apps. However you can let Facebook scrape Canvas apps (apps on apps.facebook.com). If you want to implement multiple Like buttons inside a Tab I recommend setting up simple HTML pages that include the appropriate OG tags as well as a redirect to your Tab in either a Canvas app (this way it feels like you're never leaving "The Facebook experience") or some external location (on your web server).