ZENVERSE » Facebook http://zenverse.net Design and Web Development Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:12:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 How to Remove Facebook Cache of Your Page’s Metadata http://zenverse.net/remove-facebook-cache-of-your-page-matadata/ http://zenverse.net/remove-facebook-cache-of-your-page-matadata/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:14:21 +0000 Zen http://zenverse.net/?p=2506 Whenever Facebook visited a page (most probably when someone shared your URL on Facebook), your page’s metadata will be cached. I am not sure when the cache expires, but you can actually clear the cache easily by directing your browser to this address below:

http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object?q=[YOUR_PAGE_URL]&fbrefresh=any

Of course, replace “[YOUR_PAGE_URL]” with your page URL and you are good to go.

I also created a quick page for you to clear facebook cache of any page in my WebTools Site. You can bookmark this page to use it in future.

Hope this helps :)

]]> http://zenverse.net/remove-facebook-cache-of-your-page-matadata/feed/ 0 Legacy Facebook “Share” Button Codes (Bubble Count, Box Count and More) http://zenverse.net/legacy-facebook-share-button-code/ http://zenverse.net/legacy-facebook-share-button-code/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:12:32 +0000 Zen http://zenverse.net/?p=2329 "Like" button instead. While "Like" button is fast and easy but we cannot add our comment along with the "Like" action. Therefore, in some cases, we still need the old Share button. Fortunately, the sharer.php still exists, so we can add the Share button using Facebook's official script.]]> Few months ago, Facebook removed the page that allow us to generate codes for their official “Share” button. They replaced it with “Like” button instead. While “Like” button is fast and easy but we cannot add our comment along with the “Like” action. Therefore, in some cases, we still need the old Share button. Fortunately, the sharer.php still exists, so we can add the Share button using Facebook’s official script.

Here are the complete codes for all sizes of Facebook share button for those who are interested:

Box Count

Share  *count will only visible when there is at least 1 share

Codes:

?View Code HTML
<a name="fb_share" type="box_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>

Button Count

Share *count will only visible when there is at least 1 share

Codes:

?View Code HTML
<a name="fb_share" type="button_count" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>

Button only

Share

Codes:

?View Code HTML
<a name="fb_share" type="button" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>

Small Icon only

Share

Codes:

?View Code HTML
<a name="fb_share" type="icon" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>

Custom URL?

All codes above “shares” the current page. If you want to share another page or a specific page, you need to add a “share_url” attribute to the <a> tag. You need this too when you have multiple share buttons in a single page.

Example below shares our main website http://zenverse.net instead of this page.

Share

Here’s how:

?View Code HTML
<a name="fb_share" type="button_count" share_url="http://zenverse.net" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php">Share</a>
<script src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect.php/js/FB.Share" type="text/javascript"></script>

Multiple Share Buttons

If you have multiple share buttons in a single page, you just need to include the <script> element once.

Hope this helps.

]]> http://zenverse.net/legacy-facebook-share-button-code/feed/ 9 How to Get Rid of The New Annoying Photo Viewer in Facebook http://zenverse.net/how-to-get-rid-of-the-new-annoying-photo-viewer-in-facebook/ http://zenverse.net/how-to-get-rid-of-the-new-annoying-photo-viewer-in-facebook/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:43:57 +0000 Zen http://zenverse.net/?p=1781 If you are regular Facebook user, which I am sure most of us here are, you will notice a new feature which I believe its known as “theater”. When you click on a photo, you will not be brought to photo page anymore, instead, you will stay on the page and a theater-style photo viewer will popup for you to browse and comment on the photo.

A lot of people complaint about the new photo viewer, including my friends too, who said it is ugly and annoying. Anyway, there is actually a way to get rid of that manually.

Get Rid of The New Annoying Photo Viewer in Facebook

The most basic method is of course open the photos in new tab. For users like me who like to open a new tab for every link I click, the new photo viewer doesn’t really annoy me.

For now, there is no permanent way to stop the annoying photo viewer since Facebook did not provide us any option to disable it. However, you can get rid of it after the photo viewer pops up by pressing F5 after the photo viewer pops up!

Why would pressing F5 work?
When the photo viewer pops up, the browser address bar will be dynamically updated to something like:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=XXX&set=a.XXX&theater

which is equivalent to the URL to the photo. Therefore, by pressing F5, the browser will load the old photo viewer page using that new URL.

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