I created a site and added a Facebook like button to it. Weeks later I realised that I would also like to have a Facebook page for the site. Good enough, except that when I create the FB page, it has its own Like count and its at 0. Is there anyway to integrate the existing like button with the new page?
URL likes and Facebook PAGE like are different things. So, I don't think its possible to migrate your URL likes to your FB Page.
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I have a problem. I created an app in FB and then with that app I created a like button. FB says that I should see an admin link next to my like button on my website when I am logged in.
I have fb:app_id and fb:admins set up in meta, still I don'see the link. I would need it for two reason.
One is to acces the admin of the page so I can send messages for people who liked my site, also I want to set up a fanpage and once I could access the admin of the website likes according to the facebook documentation I could turn it into a fan page (FB page) this way not loosing the likes.
Thanks in advance
That functionality is deprecated, there's a migration guide on Facebook's developer site explaining how to move your OG pages to regular pages if you want to maintain part of that functionality
I just created a Facebook page for my blog and am working on adding the like button. I suppose my first question is, is there already a like button added to a Facebook fan page itself and the code for the like button is so you can create a like button on a whole different page, like my Blogspot blog page? Since I'm the admin I'm not sure if I'm seeing whatever else is. If not, I'd like to add a like button to my Facebook page for people to like, but for the life of my cannot figure out where to paste the code. I know it says behind the tag, but that doesn't mean anything to me. Please help.
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
On the Facebook page is a like button of course already integrated, on that page you can get code for your Blog or website.
Specifically, you're looking for this plugin:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/
Specify the URL you want the like button to like, whether that be your blog post or your facebook page.
You are looking for the facebook Like Box.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
I've got a Drupal website with articles on them which have Facebook like buttons.
Now I've got all the OpenGraph metatags added on the pages and it's all working perfectly except for one thing.
Site visitors can share a page URL or like a page URL.
When a new article is added and the first person who presses the like button will not see the image added in the og:image tag.
If another person afterwards presses the like button, the og:image however is visible so it seems to me Facebook needs to scrape the page first before the og:image is added in the 'Facebook Like window'.
The Facebook share doesn't seem to suffer from this problem and does it right from the first time.
Now whenever somebody adds a new article, I'd need the URL of the article to be scraped automatically by Facebook using some PHP code or some other fix...
Anyone who knows if autoscraping a URL is possible or does anyone have an idea for a workaround?
You can use the graph API with scrape=true to force Facebook to scrape you right when you create your contents
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/beta/opengraph/objects/
I've had a like button on my site for a long time, and right now it has ~500 likes. However, this button only likes the actual link to the website and not a page on Facebook.
Today I have created a new page for my service, and even though I've found a way to make a like button for the page, I'd like to know if there was a way to transfer the likes I had on the old button (link only) to the new button (fb page) and also maybe make it so that the old "link-only" button actually links to the new page (right now the link button and page button act as if they're completely unrelated).
Unfortunately, there is no way to transfer likes from one graph object to another.
But there is something you can do:
Every like button in fact creating edge in opengraph which have a page on Facebook, so you can inform people who already likes your "old page" about existence of new one.
You can publish stream updates to the users who have liked your page just like you can with Facebook Pages. There are two ways to get to the publishing interface:
From https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/#publishing
From your Web page, click Admin Page next to the Like button. From
Facebook, click Manage Pages under the Account tab, then click Go To
Page next to your page name You can publish stories to your users the
same way you write a Facebook post from your own wall: by typing in
the Publisher, the field at the top of the screen that says "What's on
your mind?" The stories appear in the News Feed of anyone who has
clicked the Like button on your webpage.
For samples how to do same thing from code look at http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/465
Ive made a website which you can 'like' and this is linked to the Facebook Page.
Is it possible to have individual blog posts 'liked'? If so, how could I still link these to the Facebook Page in some manor?
Thanks
You can set up Like Buttons for individual blog posts as long as each post has a distinct URL (which should be the case).
You cannot simultaneously Like a blog post and a Facebook page. A Like exists between one user and one Facebook object: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/like/
If you want to increase your Facebook page Like count, you can either direct people to the page itself or add a Like Box to your blog.