[UPDATE 1-5]
http://blog.ahmedgeek.com/archives/416
[UPDATE 25/4]
- Now you can like in home page.
- Decreasing the height of the container div.
Features:
- Select your layout from dark or light.
- Change like to recommend.
- Current settings are now shown in the settings section.
- Change from normal like to count button.
- Hide faces.
Bug Fix:
- Database bug fixed
Download:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-like-button/
Enjoy and send you feedback on me@ahmedgeek.com
Regards :) …
Hey!
Faces don’t show no matter if I select the option! Actually when I check Show Faces after save the check disappears and faces never show on the site!
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April 25th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
What version do u have Manogr ?
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Great plugin, thanks!
One question, it created quite a bit of empty space below the button, how can I fix that?
R.
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April 25th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Okay i will release update today to remove the empty space
And will let you adjust the height of the container div 
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Hey Ahmed. Thanks for this. How do I get the comment box to show up after I click like? I notice it works on your blog but not on mine
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You have to be using XFBML and you have to enter valid AppID.. and that’s it hover on the like after clicking and it should work
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I have the latest one as in WP plugin page 2.5.1.5 but still faces don’t show and when I select the option it unchecks after saving!
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Remove the plugin and install again and let me know!
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I deactivated, deleted and reinstall but I still can’t see faces or make the option stay selected!
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it seems to be database problem problem…
Can u access PHPmyadmin? if you can delete the table FBlikes and deactivate the plugin and activate it again.. and this should solve the problem
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Great plugin Ahmed!
One Question: I only want it to show up in the single pages, not on the homepage. How can I de-activate it on the index??
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April 25th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Thax Bakkel,
Tomorrow will release new update and will include this feature
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Is there a function tag that I can use to insert it into a template?! I do not want it before or after content, I want to place it in specific locations. Is this possible?!
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April 25th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
No problem tomorrow i will release new update and will include this feature
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Hey Ahmed, is there anything else i have to do to enable xfbml other than creating a facebook app and providing the app number in your plugin?
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April 25th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Give the site you’re using the plugin on.. and i will tell you where is the problem
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http://www.kilianateh.co.uk
cheers buddy
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I am using XFBML option with my AppID included…am I able to have the comment box pop up after someone likes it? Also, after it is liked, facebook shows a link but it is always to the root url…not to the page that was liked. Is there a way to have it generate a link back to the page that was liked and not just the homepage?!
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nice plugin
thanks
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After deleting the FBlikes table from the database everything is ok and Faces appear again!
It will be nice if we can also change the height of the Like box as the faces are very close with the letters below them.
Thanks
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Hi Ahmed! Thank you for making this easy! One suggestion…
It would be helpful to have the option of disabling the Like button on certain pages by ID.
Cheers!
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@Manogr
I add new two feature:
1- recreate the database table right from the plugin.
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2- adjust the height as you asked
@Mike.. glad you like the plugin
Soon you will be able to place the like button anywhere you want by typing [Like_Button]…
@Kurt…
You’re welcome, I will add this feature in the next update
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Great plugin! When you add the [Like_Button] feature, would it be possible to disable bot the counter and the text? I just want the button!
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April 26th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
@biiink… i don’t think it’s possible but will see what i can do
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@Ahmed:
Thanks for putting this together and making it so easy. I have a photography website and wanted to make it easy for people to share my pics with this button on their FB page. When it pops up in your news stream, it seems to just pull the first image from the page (my logo). Is there a way to specify which image it grabs (maybe by counter or index)?
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Hey, great plugin. I’m having a problem with it though. When I try to like something on my site, it gives me an error stating that “You must specify an URL as part of this widget or API.”
Do I have it set up wrong?
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Great Ahmad,
I have a little problem with this plugin I hope you help me to figure out the solution :
I activated the plugin to be after the posts, then it shows up at the home page after every entry, and if someone press “like” for specific entry (From the homepage) then it appears at the whole “like” boxes in the other entries shown in the homepage.
I want to link every “like button” to it’s relevant entry in the homepage, so if I press “like” for the first post, it doesn’t show up at the other posts too. and if this won’t work, I prefer to disable showing it at the homepage.
How to do that
Thanx in advance
(you can visit my blog to see the problem)
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April 27th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Thax Fahd,
Easily you can download the new update and install it.. and this should solve the problem
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Hi, I keep getting these error when I click save:
Unknown column ‘css’ in ‘field list’
Any ideas?!
Cheers
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April 27th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
if you have V2.6 press the recreate table button
that should solve the problem
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Tried that – it doesn’t solve the problem! Recreate table doesn’t error, but I still can’t save after recreating. Activated, deactivated plugin, still no joy!! grrr
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April 27th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
@Eng Wei Chua,
If you have access to phpmyadmin go to your wordpress database and delete table wp_fblikes and deactivate the plugin and activate it again.. this should solve the problem
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Hi Ahmed. I asked this question above but I think you missed it:
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April 27th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Hi Leslie..
Sorry didn’t see the question.. i will contact facebook to know what causes the problem and will e-mail u
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Great work Ahmed.
Have installed the plugin and it works great on the ‘blog’ section of our site.
I would like to know how to prevent the like button showing up on the ‘home’ (top level) page of our site though?
Thanks! (URL provided in this comment header)
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Thanks for the plugin, Ahmed!
I’d like to see the following addition to the plugin, to support different locales:
On line 418 in “facebook-like-button/Add_Facebook_Like.php” could you change the line from this:
"//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js";to this:
"//connect.facebook.net/' . get_locale() . '/all.js";I’ve tested this on my german blog (with the de_DE locale) and on my english blog (with the en_US) locale and it’s working fine.
There’s a problem with (de_AT) though, but WordPress doesn’t offer an AT-localised version so it won’t be a problem. Just wanted to mention it, because there are probably other countries that aren’t supported by FB, too.
I tested the fallback language (just “de”), but this is not supported. Maybe there’s a list of supported locales out there and you can fallback to en_US if it’s not in the list?
Thanks again,
anty
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I’ve found the list of supported locales: http://www.facebook.com/translations/FacebookLocales.xml
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great plugin … it works well.
So, one request, so … If I want to develop the sociabilisation on my site, it would be nice, as widget, or simple require to put on website or call function … anyway … put where i want, like last comments, last “I like” from my site.
Possible ? crazy ? let me know.
Thank you man.
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April 28th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
anty.. i will try this code and will see what i can do in the next update
@ Rod
I admit nothing is impossible with programming… will see what i can do
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Have installed the plugin and it works great on the ‘blog’ section of our site.
How to prevent the like button showing up on the ‘home’ and non-blog pages of our site though?
Thanks! (URL provided in this comment header)
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Another small detail: You might want to remove the trailing br-tag in $iframe and $xfbml. This adds another line that really bugs me and could be added with the class-feature anyway.
Regards,
anty
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Ahmed, I deleted the table using MYSQL Query browser, and recreated the table using your button but it still didn’t work! i manually added the css column and I can now save the settings.
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Great Plugin! Hope it will work for me!
Has anyone been able to get the dialog comment box to show up using XFBML option? This is how I want to use this plugin yet I have not been able to get it to come up.
Also, would be great if you could add “None” under position because I want to use a template tag like to call function (or whatever it would be). Is this a possibility with the next update?!
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Have installed the plugin and it works great on the ‘blog’ section of our site.
How to prevent the like button showing up on the ‘home’ and non-blog pages of our site though?
Thanks! (URL provided in this comment header)
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April 29th, 2010 at 9:36 am
This feature will be added in the next update
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Would also love to see the hide on Home option!
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Thanks for the update – will eagerly await
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Which feature do you mean?!
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i have added it to my site using xfbml but its not showing up at all. no idea what i need to do to get it to work. is there a tutorial anywhere
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I’m still having trouble with the extra space below the Like button. Tried setting the height, but that didn’t seem to change anything. Any help?
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That is caused by the br-tag I mentioned in #41. I think you could remove it by adding margin-bottom: -1em to the class you specified in the admin panel. Or you could edit the plugin source…
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April 30th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
V3 is now released with all features you requested
http://blog.ahmedgeek.com/archives/416
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Hey Ahmed I wonder what is the code to insert the plugin manually
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Ahmed – I’ve been using your fb like button – and I love it! However, today when someone ‘likes’ and leaves a comment, on THEIR fb profile a different thumbnail is showing up. Not the thumbnail from the blog post. Instead it’s a thumbnail of my logo. It didn’t used to do this – any thoughts? Couldn’t find anything in the settings that seemed like it would help.
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Hi Ahmed,
Thanks for the plugin, I “Like” it very much. However, there seems to be a problem with my posts page on Internet Explorer. I’ve manually added a Like Button in the main page, because no matter which plugin I used, it never shows up on my home page, I guess it’s something with the theme. But I don’t want to change my theme, so I am okay with using two methods.
The thing with my Post pages is that if you use Internet Explorer to enter any posts, the Like Button doesn’t show up. You have to click on Pages, like About or Forum, which immediately shows the Like button. Afterwards you can click to any posts and the Like will magically shows up, with the correct info too.It feels like something to do with cache, since once I am able to see the Like button on the post, I can close IE, and open IE again to my post, it will magically show up again. Only when I clear my browser cache, then it won’t appear until I enter a Page like About or Forum. Any clues?? It works perfectly under Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
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Sorry my post is too long~ heehee, I want to be clear with my question.
This is a problem, because no reader will click around different pages to click Like to my post, right? This is drastically reducing my readers “liking” the post, limiting to non-IE users.
Can you help me check this out?? Thanks a million.
A sample page: http://www.oxyjan.com/oxyjan/2010/06/23/iphone-4-reception-problem/
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July 11th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I think I found a fix for this here:
http://forum.developers.facebook.com/viewtopic.php?pid=242506
http://digitizor.com/2010/07/06/fix-facebook-like-button-not-showing-ie/
I haven’t had a chance yet to test it since implementing the solution on my site (I’m on a MAC).
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Hi Ahmed,
I’ve installed your plug-in some time before, and it has been working fine with me. Since about 3 weeks, it stopped showing the number of likes for posts, even though the statistics show that posts have been liked more than once. What could the problem be?
I upgraded to wordpress 3.0, could that be the problem? Isn’t this plug-in compatible with V3.0?
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Great plugin!
BTW, could you fix the W3C compliance?
Thanks,
Jozef
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