I have used opengraph to share my website to facebook. Is there any way I can add a 'Like Page' button to it, so that my associated FB business page gets liked instead of the shared post?
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices#tags
“article:publisher - This property links to the publisher of the article. The target of this property must be a Facebook Page. When displayed in the News Feed, Facebook may offer the ability to like the publisher. Note that this tag is only available to media publishers.”
So your og:type of the shared object must be article, and your page that you specify as publisher must be in the appropriate category.
Notice also how it says there that Facebook “may offer” the page like button, meaning there is no guarantee it will show up if Facebook doesn’t think your page is important enough.
That looks like a sponsored post. The add searches what friend liked that page and suggests you to like that page, because your friends liked it.
I've deleted and reinserted the facebook script and it doesn't change anything. It's the same on every blog post. You can see it here: http://rowboatmedia.com/3818/rowboat-media-brand-new-look/
"https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/" - This is the URL you put in the data-href parameter, and it is always the same. You need to use your permalink for the specific page in there - meaning, the URL you want to Like.
And don´t forget to add Open Graph Tags, you don´t have any. > http://ogp.me/
When I post as my Facebook page persona, chronoglimpse, I don't want my own name to appear at the bottom in the news feed.
I've searched through Facebook's docs but I have had no luck finding an answer. Can adding my name be turned off?
chronoglimpse Facebook page
Link to target post, included for those interested only.
I think Facebook is grabbing this information from the meta tags on the shared link:
I want a Like button on my web site that Likes my Facebook profile (rather than my web page), so that when a user clicks it they subscribe to my Facebook posts.
I've created the Like button using the tool at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Further down that page there is an FAQ entry:
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.
So, I've edited the href parameter to point to my Facebook page. eg:
https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookid
When a user clicks the Like button it has the desired effect. The user ends up having Liked my Facebook page. This is easily verified by the user going to my Facebook profile and checking that the Like button has changed to Liked.
But. When the user clicks the Like button, and entry appears in their News Feed with a generic Facebook description. ie:
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and
others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to
keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links
and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
I don't want a generic post about Facebook to appear. I want the description to relate to my Facebook account and/or web site.
Normally, I could modify this behavior with the Opengraph og: description tag, but as the page in the href is a Facebook page and not my own, I can't control the Opengraph tags.
I'm pretty sure that this was working okay before I enabled timeline for my account, so maybe this is a timeline bug?
So, how do I add a Like button which a) Likes my Facebook profile rather than one of my own web pages, and b) Posts a description of my Facebook profile rather than give a generic Facbook description?
Are all your fields in the info part of your page filled in, and/or completed? I just tested your theory and it seemed to work as expected, only thing is I know all fields in "info" are filled it. Give that a try.
This may happen if you have filled invalid/incomplete/wrong og tags in past and later changed them. Facebook's cache creates problem sometime.
Try putting all the entries (i.e. all og tags) and then debug them here http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug. This debugger gives a detailed info about the url with og tags and also clears the cache for you.
This should solve the problem.
You have 3 important fields that used on page opengraph: Name,Description,Profile Image.
They are used when some one post your link on Facebook, or Google or some else web service that handle opengraph.
Actually, the suggested answers currently do not work and there is an open bug / ticket on Facebook for it. Up to now, there's no fix.
The problem is that you can not use simply https://www.facebook.com/myfacebookid. You should copy and paste the exact page URL. If you have a low number of likes it would look something like https://www.facebook.com/pages/[YourPageName]/[Your page Id]/, and this is the URL that you should use at this point.
If it does not work, try also https://www.facebook.com/[YourPageName]/[Your page Id]/.
In short, copy-paste the URL, do not type it manually.
I need to design a site where each product has a Facebook comment box. As far as I understand, it is possible to have a Facebook page related to a given URL, and the comments for the box on that URL will also appear on the Facebook page.
My problem is slightly different: I would need to have a Facebook page, where all the comments for the various products should be collected together. Is that possible?
If you want the comments for each product page to be unique and then "collected together" on a Facebook page -- its not possible.
It is possible to have the comments plugin for every product page be the same comments that are on the Facebook page, but then the comments on each product page would not be unique. Hope that helps!