The like button for my facebook app page stopped working a few days ago. I have added SSL support to my app, but this hasn't solved the problem. I still see the number of likes, but other users just see 0 and when they click the count increments to 1 for a second and then flashes back to 0. I really need help with this. I've tried every solution I can find online and nothing solves it.
Here is the URL of my facebook app: http://apps.facebook.com/speeksy
If you go to the page for creating a Like button for this url, you will see the problem.
Thanks,
Barry
This problem is fixed. I found the problem by going to the 'Like' button generation page and typing in my URL. Then it gave me a link to the Admin page for the like button. On the admin page I saw that the admin page was scheduled for deletion. Not sure why this was, but maybe I did this because I was making sure the admin page wasn't being confused with the App Profile page. Anyway, canceling the scheduled deletion made it work again.
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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.
This is driving me mad, I have a facebook like button on my site http://www.myabandonware.com/, and the button have been showing 0 like for the site when logged out of facebook. When logged in, the share count is 5k.
When refreshing the page, I get sometimes 4.7k likes instead of 5k. I have checked the share count with the API.
I check the AJAX call with this URL : http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?api_key=172628266142459&channel_url=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter.php%3Fversion%3D9%23cb%3Df3662e52e4%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.myabandonware.com%252Ff188d369e%26domain%3Dwww.myabandonware.com%26relation%3Dparent.parent&extended_social_context=false&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myabandonware.com&layout=box_count&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=55
Sounds like a bug to me, should I file a bug report on Facebook ?
This is maybe temporary, I've started the delete procedure of an old fan page that got 200 likes.
EDIT : this went back to normal behavior, I suppose this was due to the old fan page (automatically created around 2009 I think) being really deleted (after the 15 days allowed for rollback). The link count lost the ~200 fan of this page. I permanently deleted the fan page this morning.
Answer: It is not a user-side issue.
You should definitely file a bug report. Although not new, the Like count integration for certain pages have been wonky as of late. Our startup recently encountered problems as well, so this is no surprise.
Tried to add a facebook like button which worked ok earlier, I have installed a plugin for wordpress to display the correct thumbnail when its shared on timeline. The problem is when I refreshed the sites thumbnail image using facebooks lint/debug tool (http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) I am not unable to actually 'like' the site.
When I click it a pop asked me to sign in which is fine, but the 2nd pop up 'where you can type a message along with your like) closes itself when I click it, I have no idea what is causing this, anyone shared the same experience or have any idea what may be causing it? Or do I have to wait until Facebook scrapes the page?
This ended up working today after another refresh on facebooks URL debug tool, seems random.
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...
I'm trying to add a facebook "like" button to my page, and it is appearing just fine. My problem is that once it is clicked by a user, it says "Like NUMBER" then resets as if the request was canceled or something.
The weird thing is that if I try to like a page using my facebook account it works, but I tried letting a friend like some content and this behavior appeared.
I created a facebook app, specified the site url with a trailing slash, and site domain. I used the app ID with FB.init, and with the open graph tags. I can't figure what I'm doing wrong here. Any help would be appreciated.
Sample page can be found at: http://wiseolive.com/en/doctors/3881-khalid-jamal-salaymeh
First, for the count to work correctly, Facebook needs to have access to the page (in other words a public page). Check your URL in the linter tool (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug) to ensure it can been seen by Facebook.
Secondly, ensure your og: tags are correctly setup. Once again, you can use the linter tool to do that.
Facebook like buttons will show this behavior until they have been scraped by Facebook. That scraping (facebook like docs) will occur every 24 hours, when an admin clicks the like button or the url is put in the url debugger/linter. From what I can tell doing that will solve the problem for that specific link, but not any others you may have on your site.
I don't know of a generic solution for dynamically generated pages unfortunately.