Comments on: Creating a Wordpress plugin: Add the new Facebook Like button to your posts

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:08:45 +0000

Plug in works..except when someone likes a post -it posts to face book with a Twitter “t” Icon. How do i fix that?

By: katie

katie — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:26:12 +0000

Hello, I use this plugin and I get this error in FB Lint:

The og:description property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags.

I have checked the Use Excerpt as Description option. How do I get rid of this error?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:17:11 +0000

We’re using your wordpress Like plugin and it works fine, but the image it pulls when it posts to facebook is random and usually wrong. is there a way to control the image it chooses to post since this is important in what people click on?

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:15:07 +0000

Very handy and useful plugin, but you really need to have the ability to exclude the Like button from a particular post (e.g. private posts, etc.). I have looked everywhere for a solution and can’t find a way to do this. Any chance a short code will be coming for this in the future?

Regards,
Lee

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:54:29 +0000

Hi, my like button was working fine until today but now I’m getting an error and when I run it through the facebook developer debug site it says:

Error Updating Page: Value cannot be null (Value given: null) TAAL[BLAME_file]

Any thoughts on what I need to do to fix it?

Thanks, Aaron

By: art

art — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:57:00 +0000

I made og:title with custom field ‘facebook_image’ and then edit plugin file:

$image = trim(get_post_meta(get_the_ID(), ‘facebook_image’, true));
if($image!=”) {
echo ”.”\n”;
}

By: Mattias

Mattias — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:36:13 +0000

Quote:
“@Michael
For the language, you Facebook language setting will determine how the button if displayed (Like or Liebe,…) and you Wordpress settings will determine how the plugin configuration page in the Wordpress admin dashboard is being displayed.
If you want the button to read “Liebe” instead of “Like”, change you Facebook language settings (but it will display it only for you, the beauty is that others with different language settings will still see “Like” written in their own language)”

I have problem with this. I’m from Sweden, I have set my Facebook to Swedish. My wordpress site is in Swedish and so is the Adminpages of Wordpress. I have even translated this plugin into Swedish. But the Likebutton is still in English under my posts. That doesn’t look good on my Swedish site.

I used the Facebook Like plugin before and there you can choose what language you want to use in the Pluginsettings, but it didn’t work 100% like I wanted it. Yours does, except this little problem. Any ideas?

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:24:43 +0000

Hi there,

also having the random image published on facebook… wondering how can I change the image that shows up when someone like my post…

many thanks for the great plugin!

By: prk

prk — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:51:28 +0000

Is it possible with this plugin to make the connection described in http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/: “Your page will appear in the “Likes and Interests” section of the user’s profile, and you have the ability to publish updates to the user”? I guess it have to be XFBMLversion then, and that you have to create a App ID?

I manage to get the page to appear in the “Likes and Interests” section with the instructions from developers.facebook.com, but that is from a ordinary .html document, and not Wordpress.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 16:57:34 +0000

Hey, I recently read that with the use of iframes, facebook tracks your visit to a site with a like button, even if you don’t click it. Regardless of whether you have a facebook account or not. I suppose it is the same with the share button.

A german website, heise.de, implemented a two-click-solution, where your presence on the site will only be send to facebook when you actually use a facebook button.

I think that’s an awesome idea, so now I am looking for a plugin that could do this on wordpress. So far to no avail.

heise.de even provides the code, but unfortunatelly I don’t know the language and grammar to program my own plugin. But maybe you like the idea too and like to implement this into yours!

This is a link to the open source code/plug in heise.de provides:
http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/

unfortunatelly the documentation is in german, but the plugin itself is probably understandable to you?
http://www.heise.de/extras/socialshareprivacy/

And this is the – also german – article where I got all this from
http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html

I hope this is somehow interesting to you, in any case, thanks for reading and kind regards!