I'm seeing some complicated, not-documented behavior with the like button on a couple of sites I manage.
Here are two examples:
http://action.anthonybrown.com/secondterm/thanks/
http://handsoffwomenshealth.com/thanks/
In both cases these are signup form "thank you" pages where the intended purpose is to "like" the actual main landing page.
In both cases, users can click the like button and the like is actually registered back to Facebook.
In both cases, the popup "flyout" to allow users to post comments / statuses shows properly. However, when you fill out a comment and click "Post to Facebook," nothing happens. Your comment is not posted to Facebook and the dialog does not disappear.
A comment to a bug report here:
See Comment 1
...suggests that this is expected behavior when links generated by the like button are "protected" by Facebook and shown with a "please be careful" interstitial when clicked on by a user in facebook.com.
When I use the like button myself, links in my activity posts about both pages do go through this "protection" mechanism:
See Comment 2
To be clear, I'm not actually certain that the failure to post a comment is related to the "please be careful" warning, but it does seem to be correlated.
Google, Facebook, and Stack Exchange searches all suggest that this issue is reasonably common, but provide almost zero insight into why it's happening and how it can be mitigated.
Any help in understanding/solving the issue would be greatly appreciated.
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I have a problem that's been bugging me for a while now. I have a page with a Facebook Like button on it. When the visitor clicks on it, everything is working as it should. The user first logs in her Facebook account, and the right information is showing in the little iFrame that pops up. It has correct headline, url, image, and the possibility to add some text to the post.
But once posted on Facebook, the wall post doesn't show the description, instead it shows four rows with the text n/a. How come?
Some additional information:
I have set the followwing fields in the head section of the html, and
the Facebook debugger tool scrapes the correct information: og:title,
og:description, og:image, og:url, og:locale, og:type
Also, it always works for me and some others when liking it, but not
when person X or Y tries to share it, so it's kind of sporadic...
I use the Facebook js sdk.
In the Facebook debugger tool I get this warning: fb:admins and fb:app_id tags are missing. These tags are necessary for Facebook to render a News Feed story that generates a high click-through rate. But I have read somewhere that this shouldn't be necessary in my case.
The description sometimes contains characters like Å, Ä and Ö.
Has anyone else experienced this behavior?
Thanks in advance!
I'm using the Facebook comments box plugin..I have many pages with different get urls (example.com/id.php?id=1,example.com/id.php?id=2), and I'm attempting to give each its own seperate comments box. Everything is working fine except I get a warning telling me to add the href to the like button so I did. The only problem is, now a moderation link doesn't even appear..Here's code
" href="example.com/example.php?id="> ...I also included all meta tags I'm 100% sure..
I figured out the problem..Basically, if the page requires a login of some sort to view the contents, Facebook's bots don't have access to the meta tags.Therefore, you should add the meta tags to the page that a non-logged in user would see..This really caused me trouble and I hope this helps someone!
I've implemented the facebook like button in my tumblr project - and it works well. However, one thing I have noticed is that when I backdate a post, ie so I can change the order the way it appears on the site, the facebook like button no longer works for that particular post. I've used the lint/debugger and it's not throwing any errors and there's been no change in the coding as it's been called in a loop and the facebook like button works for other posts. So does anybody know what's going on or if this is an issue I need to be aware of?
There was general problems between Tumblr and Facebook in the last days
but now it should work fine,
if you still get general problems then you can report about them as a comment in the main bug report here:
http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/134909119955013
and a link to your blog will be helpful.
My questions are about this (pasted from http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/)...
"What makes up the number shown on my Like button?
"The number shown is the sum of:
-The number of likes of this URL
-The number of shares of this URL (this includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook)
-The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about this URL
-The number of inbox messages containing this URL as an attachment."
With that in mind, let's say I create a feature to let users submit ideas to improve my site, and I want to let users vote on the ideas by clicking Like buttons next to each idea.
(For simplicity, let's also say it's okay if they click more than one Like button.)
When a user clicks a Like button, a story about it shows up in his/her friends' newsfeeds, which brings up my 2 questions:
1.) If one of those friends comments on it with "That idea sucks," will that comment still add to the Likes count?
I know the content of the comment doesn't matter, but that user is clearly expressing his dislike of the idea, not liking it.
2.) Can the same user generate 2 or more Likes?
From the above, it seems like he/she could click the Like button, and then send a FB message with the URL as an attachment, which would generate another Like.
Thanks for the clarity!
P.S. This other thread was useful, but there were no conclusive answers:
Voting for items via facebook like?
A week ago, the "Like Button" in a page I'm developping stopped working, whether I use XFBML or social plugins, I get the same result.
When some one tries to click the Like Button, the get an error message, and the link says "This page is either disabled or not visible to the current user."
What couldit be?
Had the same issue recently. If you used the like button generator, this is what solved it for me: you have to have the exact same settings in your iframe and open graph data as you did when you first generated the like button. Not sure why, but this was the only way to get mine to work. I had changed to a different layout and size. Of course, the facebook linter is definitely helpful as well:
http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
Put the url into the URL Linter and that should clear the cache. If it is still an issue, perhaps your link got blocked for spam. What is the url?