A quick google brought up these, which led me to this post. You can access the site’s object in the Graph and get the current “Fan count”. i.e. http://graph.facebook.com/http://google.com. Note that you will need an oauth token to do this. This is definitely the most accurate way of getting a page’s Likes. You can also … Read more
@user653 is correct, you can’t do it in a text widget with PHP but you can do it in a text widget using JQuery/Javascript. Here’s how. Starting with the Facebook Share Button HTML I assume you plan to use use the Facebook Share Button and thus will have HTML code in your widget that will … Read more
That really depends on how the video is embedded into the page. Facebook can only handle specific formats and if it sees something it doesn’t expect, it defaults to a failsafe “show nothing” standard. If the embedded video is well-recognized standard (i.e. YouTube’s default player) it should work just fine. If it’s your own self-hosted … Read more
Have you tried adding the Open Graph metadata? http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/ I think that should give Facebook the right hints.
I can see that you are rewritting to a specific page and I think that your problem is that WordPress inserts the canonial meta tag in the <head> of the HTML automatically for all core post types (post, pages, …). This meta tag will be pointing to the original page, because you are really in … Read more
FB – Comment Moderation Tool bug or error in the code?
If it is a page the global post object is already set when wp_head fires. But you have to get the data for this page with custom code. Pseudo code: add_action ( ‘wp_head’, ‘wpse_58539_get_ogp’ ); function wpse_58539_get_ogp() { if ( ! is_page_template( ‘your-template-name’ ) ) { return; } $page = get_post( $GLOBALS[‘post’] ); // Inspect … Read more
I’ve done it, here is the complete code: function insert_facebook_likes_custom_field($post_ID) { global $wpdb; if (!wp_is_post_revision($post_ID)) { add_post_meta($post_ID, ‘likes_count’, ‘0’, true); } } add_action(‘publish_page’, ‘insert_facebook_likes_custom_field’); add_action(‘publish_post’, ‘insert_facebook_likes_custom_field’); function update_facebook_likes($content=””) { global $wp_query; $permalink = get_permalink(); $idpost = $wp_query->post->ID; $data = file_get_contents(‘http://graph.facebook.com/?id=’.$permalink); $json = $data; $obj = json_decode($json); $like_no = $obj->{‘shares’}; $meta_values = get_post_meta($idpost, ‘likes_count’, true); if … Read more
Your theme and some plugins are loading older and incorrect versions of jQuery. Update your themes and/or plugins to use the jQuery components included in WordPress itself. WordPress includes up-to-date versions of these components, themes and plugins should not load their own.
Finally figured out why. Facebook only allows images with 3:1 ratio.