Any particular reason why FaceBook's Subscribe Button isn't showing on my web page?

Question

I got this FaceBook profile for my upcoming website and I can't get the Subscribe button to show, NOT EVEN ON FaceBook's page!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003492130845

Now, if you go here on FaceBook's page where we build the Subscribe button:

http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/subscribe/

And add the above link, it will show nothing.

I enabled subscribing and I also created myself a page, linked to the same profile:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Axonn-Says/372194956141393

But not even the page works ::- /.

LATER EDIT:

I temporarily added 2 other Subscribe buttons on my website to demonstrate that it works for example for Mark Zuck's page and to demonstrate that there are no JS conflicts. The 2 buttons appeared ok, but my button still didn't show up.

Answer 1

Subscribe functionality desired for user profiles, not Facebook Pages

From Subscribe Button documentation

href - profile URL of the user to subscribe to. This must be a facebook.com profile URL.

Tagline from social plugins:

The Subscribe button allows people to subscribe to other Facebook users directly from your site.

Actually Like (aka Fan) functionality (and also Like Box Social Plugin) is used for same purpose for Facebook Pages.

Answer 2

You have to use the code from the SUBSCRIBE BUTTON. But change "subscribe.php" to "like.php". Everything else is the same. You might have tried "likebox.php" but try this too.

Answer 3

As Juicy Scripter pointed out, it is impossible to 'Subscribe' to pages. If you set it to a profile URL, make sure you have enabled Subscribers for that profile - as it isn't enabled by default.

To do that, open in your browser: http://www.facebook.com/YOUR_PROFILE_URL/subscribers Click the Settings button, and make sure Subscribers is set to On.

Edit:

I enabled subscribing and I also created myself a page, linked to the same profile:

Oops, silly me, I missed that bit

Answer 4

This is to address one part of your issue, namely the missing FaceBook 'Subscribe' button in your timeline.

I thought I had the same problem... but there was no problem at all.

I couldn't see the 'Subscribe' button on my profile page, but then I realized that potential subscribers CAN see it.

This is how to check: Click on the downarrow next to Home on the top right of a page in facebook, then 'Account Settings', then at the bottom of the right pane there is a link: "Want to know what subscribers can see? View your public timeline."

If you click on that, you might see - as I did - that your Subscribe button is perfectly visible to visitors.