Afternoon. I am currently working a drink search site and started work on adding social media to the search results and detail pages. After a user enters in their search criteria and the results are returned, I have added FB (Facebook) and TW (Twitter) buttons for each result, this way the user can Like or Tweet directly from the results page. However I ran into an issue, the FB and TW links are to the right of every result and I have a skyscraper ad about 10px to the right of the results, so when a user clicks on FB Like, the popup appears behind the ad. Obviously this won't work as it is against Google's TOS to render popups over their Ads, so it got me thinking, there are two ways I can handle this:
Remove the social media links from the results page and render them only on the detail page. I feel the page load impact of rendering social media links, for every result, is limited, as my pagination is currently set to 15 results per page and the JS is asynchronous.
Revisit the UI to move the social icons elsewhere so when a user clicks FB Like, the popup isn't obscuring any Ads.
Wanted to pose this question to the SO community to see if anyone else has come across this issue before and what they ended up doing to resolve it.
Thanks in advance.
I opted to keep the Twitter and Facebook links on the results pages along with detail pages, in order to avoid the overlap issue I just tweaked the UI so the buttons are more too the left and won't cover up the right ad.
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I'm trying to use the Facebook Like Button Configurator to generate the Like button for a facebook page URL but it's not showing up:
Here are the steps I performed:
Goto https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button#configurator
Type in 'https://www.facebook.com/LoveJadot/' in the 'URL to Like' textfield and hit tab to move to the next field.
The Like button does not appear below.
It does, however, work for all other facebook pages. Our client wants to know if this is a facebook issue and if so, what's the solution?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Facebook is making a few changes when it comes to promoting alcohol. Many groups and campaigns are being affected by this change.
Unfortunately we can't say for now what Facebook will end up doing. And there is no way around it at the moment(at least they did not communicate one yet).
I use fan gates on a lot of different fan pages. The idea has always been you land on the page and see a like us to gain something after clicking like the page reloads and now the user sees the content behind the fan gate.
I noticed today that after liking a page it immediately goes to the wall, is this a bug? Is this feature deprecated? I don't have much wall activity on my pages, I'd rather users see our portfolio or special deals.
This is a bug on facebook right now, described here - https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/110015112440103
It'd be great to have an interim fix but since the code for the Like button is outside of what's accessible to the page tab, I'm having trouble imaging what a solution might look like, short of removing the address from your page to make it not a "place", which seem to be the only pages affected.
I've been having this problem for the past few days, but today I found the solution. It seems the problem lies with the new recommend dialog box on pages. This box only appears on pages for places and prevents the page from reloading. If you have a address assigned to your page then remove it and your fangate will reload in the window when liked and not redirect to the wall page. I know this isn't a preferred fix, but until Facebook fixes the new dialog box it'll have to do.
I'm hoping that someone can help me out with this problem that I've been trying to solve all day. It appears as though there is a new 'Like' button on certain Facebook Fan Pages. When a user hits this button a dialog box appears that says.... "Help your friends discover great places to visit by writing a recommendation for 'Fan Page Name'". There is space to include a recommendation and 2 buttons; 'recommend' or 'skip'.
My team have developed a fangated promotion for this client (which lives on a separate canvas page). With the typical 'Like' button functionality the user likes the page and is automatically taken to the canvas page promotion. As a result of this new 'Like' button (whether the user chooses to recommend or not) the are automatically redirected back to the main Wall and can only access the canvas promotion by clicking on the correct icon in the left column.(Needless to say this is resulting in a lot of traffic being lost.)
I have 3 questions here;
Any ideas on how to remove this 'Recommend' dialog box and revert back to the normal 'Like' button
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to allow the user click 'Like' (recommend or not) and arrive at the correct canvas page without the redirect back to the Wall?
Do you have any insight on how FB are choosing which pages to roll this new 'Like' button out to?
Thanks in advance!
It's a facebook bug for places pages
temporary workaround is to remove the address from your fan page ... still looking for a coding workaround so please post if you have one!!
Just curious as I've tried to work this out, realizing the futility of working with iFrames. I've a client who insists on having his businesses facebook like box on his mobile site, as it's his main method of updating fans and followers of the business's happenings.
The main issue is the streaming content caps out at a height of 395px with no scrolling capability on mobile, thus it avails only a few of the latest entries and hides the rest.
Anyone know of a solution?
You could replace it with a combination of a Facebook like button, and code that reads and displays the Fan Page feed using the graph api's page's feed connection (/pageId/feed).
I know this is borderline StackOverflow question, but since a lot of user will have installed Facebook Like buttons, I thought it was a good place to ask.
I want to add a little Facebook Like button on my site, with the little counter showing how many people like this. I'm simply wondering if I can choose to have the counter site-wide (count all the Likes across all pages) or have the counter individual for each page.
Thanks.
As a side question: what do you think is better.?
Like buttons with more impressive number but all linking to the same (home) page...
Like buttons with smaller count, but (facebook stream) linking to different pages...
every page that has a FB widget can be linked to an FB page... therefore the possibilities are endless... if you want every page to additively connect to just one FB page, then just make sure that each embedded widget points to the same FB page...