"Official" Help Forum for Facebook Fan Box Cache

[Donald Gilbert]

If any of you have issues / problems with Facebook Fan Box Cache, or if you would like to suggest a feature, please do so in this topic.

Thanks,
Don

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/facebook-fan-box-cache/

[Donald Gilbert]

@alanp57 – It’s possible, but doing so requires un-doing the advantages of this plugin. Meaning, all Facebook Like buttons that allow you to like a page without going to Facebook use an iframe. It may be possible in the future to accomplish this, since all the necessary javascripts are available, but I don’t know at this time.

@6×7 – the presence of .widget_FBCache is dependent upon your theme and it’s usage of the WP function, register_sidebar(). The next update will remove this dependency and update the CSS rules.

[Donald Gilbert]

Version 2.0 has been released – please install and let me know how it works for you. Thanks.

[Amanda & Steve]

Thanks for the update Donald.

Has speeded up my website by over 6 seconds! Fantastic plugin and saved me dumping the manual iframe I previously had.

On my website, https://www.merchistounhall.co.uk with limit of 6, 140px wide, and ‘Facebook style’ CSS I noticed that the ‘Merchistoun Hall on Facebook’ text is now wrapping and the line underneath it is too long.

Any help very much appreciated!

[Donald Gilbert]

@supersonic – thanks for the response. It looks like with the introduction of themes, setting the width in the admin doesn’t override the setting in the theme css file.

If you can, go into the css/style_fb.css file, and change line 1 to width of 170px from 225, and that will fix the layout on your site.

I need to rework the codebase, as it’s become kind of a mess throughout the development process – that *should* fix the issue you’re experiencing.

[Amanda & Steve]

Thank you Donald, that was an easy tweak, all fixed now, and the Facebook box looks fantastic!

Thanks again!

[robnalexpress]

Upgraded to 2.0 (by mistake) and now have all thumbnails in a vertical row at https://trianglehomesuccess.com/

Need to fix this a.s.a.p. or remove it or go back to previous version. Thanks!

Went back to 1.5 and got it sorted out.

[onetrickp0ny]

Hi Donald,

Something weird happening for me. I can only set css to “disable” — when I set it to anything else, and save the page, it just pops back to “disable” and doesn’t save any of the other settings. I’m using version 2.0 on the latest wordpress. Any help?

[Donald Gilbert]

Try making the change in your Widget Settings specifically. I am working on updating the admin still, so you may still experience issues.

[onetrickp0ny]

Hi Donald,

Not sure what you mean. There are no separate widget settings in the widget area. Did you mean something else? I’m not a coder, so hoping I can find a way to make it work just with the dropdown (which is probably your intention too).

Thanks!

[Donald Gilbert]

It is/was my intention.

There are settings in the FB Cache widget. Those are going away in the next version though. The next update is going to be a large re-write of the codebase – that will streamline the whole process.

[robnalexpress]

Checked my sites this morning and all thumbnails for the plugin are gone and the “Become a Fan link directs back to the site home page. Deactivated, reactivated, deleted, reinstalled and no joy. Something on the facebook side? I noticed my other FB apps don’t show unless logged into FB on the same browser. My site is here.

I recently edited my FB privacy settings and think that might be the problem, but I can’t figure it out!

[robnalexpress]

SOLVED above issue by removing the country restriction from FB page settings.

[peteratomic]

seems that after an update all of the fan graphics are screwed up… tried setting different style sheet settings but didn’t help:

https://www.atomicdesignstudios.com/blog/clients/

[shecky]

Hi Donald!

Your plugin is wonderful, but there is a potential problem.
For retrieve image from Facebook you use file_get_contents.
This involves allow_url_fopen enabled in the server configuration, and this is a potential security issue on server.

So I have modify your plugin to retrieve images with CURL ??

If you want the file modify, please reply to this post and tell me where I can send it.

Regards.
Davide.

P.S.: sorry for my bad english!

[Donald Gilbert]

sure, send it over – [email protected]

I’m working on converting this plugin over to use the WP_HTTP class instead of strictly cURL – but I’m sure your code will be helpful.