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What is the attribute property="og:title" inside meta tag?
I have this extract of website source code:
<meta content="This is a basic text" property="og:title" />
What does this property attribute stand for, and what is its purpose?
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Default website image for social sharing
Is there any way to set a default image that appears when I share my website on Facebook? I've noticed that Facebook usually fetches the first image from the site to use as a thumbnail.
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How to embed a Facebook page's feed into my website
I am working with a group to help promote a charity event. The page I would like to embed is NOT my Facebook profile, but a Facebook page someone has created.
I would like to show that news feed in ...
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Meaning of HTML prefix attribute (Open Graph Protocol)?
I'm new to Facebook Open Graph Protocol. I have been trying to figure out what the meaning of the HTML prefix attribute is. The closest post on Stack Overflow I could find dealing with this subject is ...
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Can't fix: 'og:image' property should be explicitly provided, even if a value can be inferred from other tags
I have a website that triggers a warning when clicked through a link shared on Facebook. The warning says:
Possible problem with this link
We have detected that this link: http://www.example.online/ ...
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Open Graph validation for HTML5
Is there any way to get facebook's crappy Open Graph meta tags to validate if my doctype is <!DOCTYPE html> (HTML5)?
Other than facebook's Open Graph meta tags, my document validates perfectly.
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Misalignment of Facebook & Twitter buttons
The page contains two buttons, from twitter and from facebook.
What I'm observing in Firefox 3.5.15 is:
While the page is loading, the buttons are more or less aligned (I mean their bottom sides)
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Facebook Conversion Pixel code: BODY vs HEAD
Can I place the Facebook Conversion Pixel inside the BODY (as opposed to inside the HEAD, which is what Facebook suggest in their specs?
I don't see why not. Has anybody tried it?
Here is an ...
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How much more efficient is one big image rather than many small images. Facebook style
So I was looking at the facebook HTML with firebug, and I chanced upon this image
and came to the conclusion that facebook uses this large image (with tricky image positioning code) rather than many ...
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New Facebook like button HTML validation
After adding the new facebook like button on my page, it's no longer validates using XHTML strict standard. The two errors I come across are:
All of the meta property tags say that there is no ...
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Allowing multiple domains for 1 Facebook App (like Tumblr)
I am trying to get my website validated with the Facebook object debugger and I'm running into the following error:
Object at URL 'http://www.example.com/latest' of type
'smallteaser:teaser' is ...
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HTML: What is `xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"`?
What is xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml"?
I've been seeing it in a lot of <html> tags recently. What does it do?
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Deeplink to Facebook App (using fb: protocol) not working from Facebook in-app browser
I am writing a mobile web page which has both a redirect and two manual backup links (for when the redirect doesn't work) to a Facebook Page.
The link takes the form:
fb://page/[PAGE ID NUMBER]
The ...
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How to pass a parameter like title, summary and image in a Facebook sharer URL
Question:
I need to pass my content like title, summary and image in a Facebook sharer URL like this:
<a id="button"
href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?
s=100
&p[url]=http:/...
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How can I force Facebook to purge its cache and use newer meta description of a shared webpage?
Facebook fetches the title and webpage description from the HTML header of the webpage whenever people share a link on Facebook. I realized that [I believe for performance purposes], Facebook caches ...
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