[Plugin: Share and Follow] Synchronize Facebook Site Likes with WordPress Likes

Hey ngeorgiev,

The Like stuff is managed via facebook and not really anything (currently) to do with my code. What facebook does is check for an exact URL and see’s if it has been liked before.

So for example if you have a website with a like button on it and a facebook fanpage with a like button, they will never correlate.

However if you are talking about a share that has gone into a newsfeed and then is liked by another person viewing that newsfeed, it should add the stats together.

I expect that the two URL’s you are trying to compare/like/get stats on are not the same ones, but different.

Use this link (not in Chrome as the XML support is poor)

https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=select%20%20like_count,%20total_count,%20share_count,%20click_count%20from%20link_stat%20where%20url=%22https://share-and-follow.com/%22

and replace https://share-and-follow.com with the actual link of the page(s) that you want to find out the stats for.

Hope this helps you to understand your stats from facebook
regards
Andy

Hi Andy,

thank you a lot for the information!

yes, it is the case where somebody Liked the link in the Facebook newsfeed.

I tried the query which you gave me, and it showed exactly 1 person, the person who Liked it in Facebook, but on my website it is still 0 likes. Do you know how to check whether the URL on my website is different than the Liked URL in Facebook?

Greetings,
Nikolay

I noticed that the request from my website to Facebook is the following:

https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=MyWebSiteURL

and it shows 0 likes.

The request to
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query
shows all the Likes from the in Facebook shared link.

Problem solved!

I used the Lint tool
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint

and it seems that Facebook scraped my page and now it is the correct number of Likes.

More info about Scraping:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like

Hey ngeorgiev

thanks loads for that feedback, I think it is something I will have to incorporate into future releases of the plugin so that those stats stay on track.

thanks again
Andy

Oh and I’m gonna add the Like button for vkontakte also soon. just had a nice guy on my facebook page show me where all the code is.

hihi nice ??

I am not a Russian, but it maybe useful for people who use the service ??

Greetings,
Nikolay

hehe… yep best not to assume things.

Hey Andy. Not certain if it is OK to jump on this thread discussion or whether I should start a new one. My question is related to the “disappearance” of the Like tally on my website https://www.americanninjawarrior.com. I had a lot of “likes” counted up on my recent blog entries, and then suddenly all of them have disappeared and everything reads a big fat 0.

I went to the URL linter tool mentioned in this thread (https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint) and Facebook centrally still seems to have a proper tally for the Likes on my site, but they still don’t appear on my site in the box counter window. Any ideas on how to remedy this? Thanks for your help!

Hey anw2010,

Sorry to say it but this is a thing that facebook works out and does not use any programming by myself, apart from to pass the permalink to facebook of the URL

here is a breakdown of the URL/facebook iframe

link to like script
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?
your permalink (first item on blog page)https://americanninjawarrior.com/my-run-at-american-ninja-warrior/
href=http%3A%2F%2Famericanninjawarrior.com%2Fmy-run-at-american-ninja-warrior%2F
Layout style box count
&layout=box_count
don’t show faces
&show_faces=false
make iframe 65px wide
&width=65
use the word like not recommend
&action=like
fonts are arial
&font=arial&
color scheme light
colorscheme=light&
height is 65 px

So I would say that this is a facebook issue and not a programming from my side issue, as it was working the other day and there has been no changes to the plugin for a week or so, and nothing changed about this part for a few weeks at least

regards
andy

oh weirdly when I liked it just now, the tally suddenly went to 4

Hi Andy. Thanks for the fast response! Have you seen this before…Facebook just losing count for a while and then maybe “re-discovering” the proper count? I’ve actually seen this happen once or twice already. I understand that it is not a coding issue on your side, I’m just trying to get a sense of whether what I am seeing is normal Facebook stuff, or there is a problem elsewhere on my blog that is creating this problem.

Thanks again for your efforts. Just bought the CDN license for the site, and it is already faster!

Best,

Matt

*scratches head* I see that now…the tally for that one post is right. I went through and clicked Like on the different posts and it seemed to help Facebook remember the Like tallies of those posts too. Hopefully this is a one-time thing with Facebook just temporarily forgetting ??

Thanks for your help.

I was curious about why in the Interactive Share Button spot you have “Like” for Facebook instead of “Share”. I see on some sites they use Like with the counter, and then on other sites like Mashable.com they use the Share function and counter in that spot. Would you consider offering both options under Interactive Share Button and let people choose? Likewise, are you considering adding the LinkedIn Share button and counter in the Interactive Share Button spot? Just curious ??

Best,

Matt