I'm trying to figure out how to add a Fan button to a Facebook page right next to the company name. I've seen this done on a few pages, as shown in the following screenshot.
I've added the FBML application though I can't find a great deal of information on the code required for the actual button and then how to place the button on the page. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Many thanks.
For pages, that button is automatically handled by Facebook. If you are already a Fan of the page, the button won't appear. You should be able to "unfan" the page in your account settings.
The FBML application lets you add arbitrary FBML to the "box" that represents that application. It has nothing to do with the Fan button.
Visit the url that lets you edit your page information, on the right had side you should see something along the lines of "Promote with a fan box" -- that should be what you're looking for.
If you want to do it by hand you can use the fb:fan tag (http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Fb:fan)
Thanks guys. Yep I delved into the hacks for this using FBML though eventually logged out and logged in with a different account and lo and behold! Facebook add this Fan Button by default now.
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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've had this like button/box setup for this specific page for some time. But now it;s stopped working:
Using code generated (for iframe) on this page:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
to display this fb page:
http://www.facebook.com/JohnPurkiss
does not display/work. If I amend the like button url in the iframe to another fb page, it does work. I'm not tryinig to use a button/plugin that requires an app. Just a plain 'ol simple button. But it appears to me there is an issue with this specific fb page (johnpurkiss one above)
Any advice/help greatly appreciated.
The problem here is that the "page" you linked to is in actual fact a personal user.
You can not "like" a user in the same way that
you can not add a page as a friend...
or "poke" an event...
or subscribe to a photo...
You'll gave to provide an actual page to be liked.
As you can see from the screenshot below taken from the link you provided, there is no like button to be found.
Only an "Add Friend" and "Subscribe" button. I'm not sure if converting your profile into a page is the way you want to go, but it is possible. You can learn how at this link.
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!!
Every post on here seems to be directed to Advanced Users, I just want to know simply how to place a "Like Button" on my Facebook page? Where do I put the HTML code thats generated for me?
Use lint, place your link there and at the bottom you'll have iFrame code. You'll place it to your website (anywhere) and you're done
I just start on creating fan page on facebook. Left hand side of the fan page, there is a "Share" button which is sharing the current fan page.
I saw that it's url is: http://www.facebook.com/ajax/share_dialog.php?params
When i try to use this, it's failed. Is there any method can use this or simulate this function, allowing me to share the fan page?
Thanks to all in advance.
I know this thread is basically dead, but it still comes up in Google, so I figured I'd answer it. This is possible using Jquery and the FB Javascript API.
http://fbmhell.com/2011/07/facebook-share-popup-iframe-tabs-jquery/
Check out http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
You can use the method I describe here : How to make custom share buttons
It works in page tabs.