Facebook Like Plugin has stop to work on post?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21933685

  •  14-10-2022
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Question

Example: this post has 27 likes on Facebook right now:

https://www.facebook.com/160210837333829/posts/712679778753596

but if I check the link with the Facebook's Like Button Plugin it says 0 likes. Why? Should I insert another link?

Was it helpful?

Solution

I hope I understood your question right.

The like button plugin takes the url, which you gave to it and counts how many times it appeared in a post and was liked, how many times it was shared, commented and so on at the facebook page. That means, if you give the url http://www.example.com/, it will count all the likes, comments and shares that were given/made to a post which include this certain url.

So, probably your post has 27 likes, but the page you checked with the plugin (the facebook-url, it's not the same as the post!) does not have been shared, liked or whatever on facebook itself (I know, it's a bit complicated).

I think the better alternative for you would be embedding the post. Here is a nice tutorial for this.

Hope this helps!

OTHER TIPS

Because you're trying to create a like button related to a facebook post, the like button only works with websites and facebook pages

You can accomplish something similar creating a facebook app and do a graph api call, after the user granted you the permissions of course.

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