I've been having trouble accessing admin privledges for the like buttons on my website (along with other things).
This is the situation:
I have made a facebook page for my website www.digitaldemocracy.org.uk
I have made a facebook app for my website that allows people with facebook accounts to register and login to the site. This works fine.
Like buttons are associated with different php dynamically created pages on my website i.e. www.digitaldemocracy.org.uk/debate/debate.php?id=3850. These Like buttons work when users click on them. I also have a like button for the main page www.digitaldemocracy.org.uk which works a bit funny as it seems to sum up all the likes from the other pages (even though they all have different URLs associated with them)
Now what I'm having issues with:
I have put 3 facebook UIDs into the metatags for admin purposes for the Like buttons. I have tested some links with the fb Linter (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/) and it doesn't seem to have any issues, but when I click the like buttons myself, I get no admin features. I have also tried accessing admin priv directly from facebook, but no luck with that either.
I read that you can tie admin rights to a fb page, so then I tried it with the facebook page (page_id) for the site, but no luck with that either.
I then tried to give admin rights from my website to the facebook app, but when i test it with the linter it says that i have associate it with the specific page www.digitaldemocracy.org.uk/debate/debate.php?id=unique_id, which seems to defeat the purpose of what i'm trying to do (tie all the website pages together so i can easily administrate them).
The furthest I've got is to see the insights for the domain www.digitaldemocracy.org.uk/ (where i wasn't able to before), but I can't seem to see likes for individual pages and I don't seem to have any admin rights about publishing to user's feed or seeing who the 'likers' are! Am I missing something now?
It 'seems' to be that i'm doing all the correct things specified by the documentation, but I have getting nowhere and don't know what else to do. I have searched forums for answers, but they're just all over the place. I hope that stating my exact problem and what I've done will hopefully find someone able to help me!
Thanks in advance.
Denise
2 things I have found:
It seems the Admin link will only appear when you are using the default like button settings (ie faces on etc)
For the times that I could not get the Admin link to appear, I ran the linter and it suddenly did.
Perhaps try emptying the cache for your browser too but I have a feeling the first point might solve your problem?
I could be wrong, would love to hear someone else's opinion!
This issue has been driving me crazy ever since I accidentally discovered that these magical pages existed. I've had them show up with and without appIds in the fb js snippet. There doesn't seem to be any logic.
Item 1 from Sam Hammond doesn't seem to matter. Most of my Like buttons have data-show-faces set to false.
<div class="fb-like" data-href="http://www.mysite.com" data-send="false" data-layout="button_count" data-width="100" data-show-faces="false"></div>
From the above example I have seen the following:
Actual Web Page Like Button shows "9k"
My admin page shows "1.7k"
It's great. I can reach 1.7k people who Liked the page. But what about the rest and what about any new pages I create?
For now, when in doubt, drop the Facebook Page Like Box on your web page because at least it works consistently:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
I also have to wonder how facebook users react when they start seeing posts in their feed from sites they Liked. It seems a bit intrusive.
I frequently use the Linter/Debugger tool on my web pages, doesn't seem to make anything appear. But this tool is highly recommended for other purposes:
updated link from above is: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
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How do I solve an issue where the Facebook comments plugin seems to be completely broken? Please see the screen shot.
When I am logged in to Facebook, I see what you see there. Where the plugin HTML is meant to be, it says "skin must be one of the following values: light, dark".
When I am logged out of Facebook, it is completely blank. I am seeing this error on all browsers, on multiple test computers (including various configurations on browserstack.com), on every website that I can find that uses the Facebook social comments plugin - including Facebook itself!
It looks like Facebook have dramatically changed their comments plugin code. All sites using this plugin will probably have to update their code ASAP because the old code doesn't seem to work any longer.
To get Facebook's own page working, I just had to type in "light" in the Color Scheme box.
I have a slightly confusing setup on my site right now with:
A like button with the data-ref attribute set to the root domain of my site
A like box with date-ref set to a Facebook page I created for my site.
These obviously leads to different things, as the like button has 2.7k likes while the like box/Facebook page has around 600. This last number is also the number of likes I see on my regular Facebook page.
Now I also noticed that I have a second Facebook page saying it is the administration page for my webpage. The page has never been used to post anything, and it doesn't seem to be visible to anyone but me. This page has 700 likes.
I've been reading documentation on this stuff, but I'm not feeling confident about merging the pages or anything just yet, so I have a couple of questions I'm hoping someone with more Facebook experience than me can answer:
Where does this 700 number come from? It's not displayed on either my like button or my like box.
Is there any way for me to combine these three different counts into one?
The 700 is the count of people that liked the URL after you created the admin page which represents that URL - this is irrelevant now as that functionality is deprecated. ( see the link CBroe provided: developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/migration
It is not possible to migrate fans from one object or page to another, except as was allowed during the migration period outlined in that document, if you didn't migrate during that period you cannot move the fans of the site/domain to be fans of the Facebook page instead
I've been struggling with this for a couple of days now. I have a simple wordpress blog. I've plugged in all the OG meta tags and run the page though the debugger many times and it shows no errors.
However when people click the Like button (generated from the Like Box plugin), they get the red error message suggesting that the page be run through the debugger.
I have generated other like buttons that live on individual blog posts, and so far these seem to be working fine, its only when trying to like page there is an issue.
Also note, that the facebook page was generated from the OG meta data after I had liked it. So this isn't from creating a page in Facebook and then trying to have people like it. I mention that just in case it matters.
The other thing of note, is that if I am already logged in (just me the admin), I can like and unlike it with no errors. If however I log out of facebook, and click the like button, after entering my facebook login, I see the error just as other users have.
I've been reading forum posts for days and have yet to find a solution. My blog URL is http://www.garrinball.com
Thanks
Your http://www.garrinball.com/ parses just fine on the linter. However, this is only a small issue, you don't specify any og:image tag on http://www.garrinball.com/2011/10/christmas-card-shoot/.
What is strange is I don't see any errors. I like the christmas-card-shoot and the like button maintained my like even after page refresh.
I also logged out of facebook, went back to like it, and it prompted me for credentials as normal. I logged in, and was able to like the button. No errors.
I'm wondering if it is specific to your account you're using.
I'd suggest trying with an other fb account.
I have a fanpage tab application with a like button on it, and after a while testing I got the exact same error as you :
<!-- with the JS SDK included and inited -->
<div class="fb-like" data-href="//fanpage-url" data-send="false" data-width="100" data-show-faces="false"></div>
When refreshing, the like button is however detecting correctly the like status.
No error message shows up when using another account than my admin-dev one... maybe its an antispam function ?
I offered to set up a FB page for our upcoming 30th high school reunion. I went in and created the page, but cannot seem to figure out how to add the "LIKE" button. Everything I have read: Getting Started / Websites https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ as well as the Social Plugins page https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ all seem to begin with the assumption that I have a website. I don't have one.
So my bottom line question is: do I have to CREATE a webpage (outside FB) in order to move ahead with adding the social plugins?
Obviously I am a newbie, have no technical experience but can read and follow directions.
Solutions, O Great Ones?
If you create a page, other users will see a Like button on the page. So, they can like that page and then you can publish posts to it. This is a good way to keep people informed, involved, and engaged.
That's what the plugins are for (to include in html), they are not necessary to use to just have a page.
You might not see the like button because you created it, i'd imagine.
You don't need to have a website in order to use the Social Plugins, but it does help. Otherwise, you need permission to use the HTML on websites / pages you don't own but have access to.
E.g. You can ask your school to add the Social Plugins to their existing website that will let students like the fan page you created.
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.