Facebook like button using OG (open graph) tags

Discussion in 'Facebook' started by michiel, Nov 22, 2011.

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    Hi guys,

    I've been quite busy lately with setting up a wordpress-blog that is to be used as a promotional website for my main website. At this moment I'm struggling with implementing a like button on the article page view. I have followed the steps on the facebook developer page and its pretty basic, but after I click the like button it does not customize the like-text to the text of the article (with the og:description and og:title tags I've placed in the head-seaction). The url redirects to the correct article-url, but the like-title, like-image and like-text are taken from the main website description. I've placed all the og:field tags in the head, but I see no difference.

    I've read somewhere that facebook crawls the article page and gathers the open-graph data, is that correct? This might explain why the like-data is very general, since the wordpress blog is still on a private development server. However, when I set the server available to public the like texts are still taken from the general website description.

    Does anyone know what might cause this?


    Kind regards,


    Michiel
     
    michiel, Nov 22, 2011 IP