I have Facebook Likes buttons on every page of my website. I want it so that when a user Likes, there will be a Like pointing to the current page they are on. But the number will reflect how many Likes for the entire page. I am wondering if this is possible?
From my understanding, the number of Likes is associated with the link the user is liking. Is my understanding correct?
Facebook like buttons are linked to a URL - either that of your website home:
www.example.com
OR separately a single page
www.example.com/post-about-example
When you create the like button you decide what the like is against - essentially if you are selecting the home page - it is still only liking a single page, but its just the main page you want the facebook profile to link to. You need to have each button liking EITHER your home OR your individual page - one button cannot do both.
On a side note - from an SEO standpoint, it is better if your likes are associated with your home page as this should link to your most important pages first - reaping the best SEO benefit for the more important pages - whilst also directing users to what is set up as a landing page.
If your site is one which relies on multiple posts, say a blog. It may be better to go down the path whereby each post url has its own facebook like button FOR THAT URL. This way each post gets more exposure.
I hope that answers your question.
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So I'm working with wordpress and a costumer wants a one-page site. Now we have it working and all but if we go to www.examplesite.com/contact it should redirect to the onepage # contact. My collegue and I can't get it working so I thought lets ask here.
Please help
I'm assuming this is linked to a DB which selects what data is shown on this one page layout?
You would need to create a variable that is used to select the data you wish to see and use the POST[] method in the page when clicking on 'Contact' to change the variable to contact which would load the Contact Page up.
I need a method to get likes for my facebook page directly by cliking on a picture
I mean when a visitor of my website click in a specific picture he automaticaly likes my page
with facebook social plugin I got this link but it doesn't make you liking the page automaticaly you need to click the like button and confirm
I don't know how to get that link or html code , "I visited a website uses this method"
I hope you can help me
I researched this as well but I can confirm you that, since this could be easily abused to mislead the client and obtain a load of likes, it is not possible in an official, Facebook-approved way.
Every time I try to embed code that was recommended by another user, I get the same message: Could not retrieve id for the specified page. Please verify correct href was passed in.
All I want is something on my page that a reader can click to take them to my Facebook page. What am I doing wrong?
You can create a personal username for your account on facebook, check Facebook Usernames general information, creating a username will provide you with a custom url something like
www.facebook.com/YOURUSERNAMEHERE
you can easily add this to your blog by using the following html
Follow me on facebook
It would also be helpful if you post the code that you're trying to use currently, otherwise no one has any idea what you're trying to do.
If you just want a link in HTML to your facebook page, put this into your page:
My Facebook Page
The section that goes within the quotes should be the URL you see when you navigate to your Facebook page.
Are you talking about a Page or Profile?
For Pages, the Like Box plugin is probably the best option, and lets people like the Page right from your website: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/
For your own Profile, there's Badges ( https://www.facebook.com/badges/ ) which you can use
If it's your own Profile and you want people to Subscribe to you ('Follow') - there's a subscribe button you can use for this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/subscribe/
i dont know why, but for some reason, you have to include the http:// before the link
Using a permalink for a particular post, I would like that post to be displayed in its entirety within an iframe or a div tag. That is: likes, comments and shares and the Fb format for a post would all be displayed on an external site. Thus, a wall-post like this one https://www.facebook.com/cnn/posts/200591363341827 would appear exactly as is, except within my site.
This doesn't exist as a plug in. You would need to write something yourself to pull all the data you want, and then display it on your page.
Do you mean a div that represents a wall post and comments that relate to the topic at a URL link?
Refer to:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/
Also, look up other stuff that relates to social plugins at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
We have a facebook app that's running inside an IFRAME on a fan page TAB.
On the main page of the app, we show e.g. 10 books and users can click through to the detail page of one single book.
We want to add a LIKE button on those detail pages, so that users on facebook can like and share that book in their stream.
The problem is that facebook doesn't provide a way to like a detail page inside an iframe, as far as we can see.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
We want the liked link, to link directly to our application inside the tab of the fan page where our application has been added, in other words: when a user likes a book, others should be able to click on that liked link and see the book in the tabbed app
You might possible be able to use the app_data field to accomplish what you're looking for. Check https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/signed_request/ for more info. This should allow for unique url's that you can trigger your page to respond to.