Show Thread Enhancements - Add New Facebook "Like" button to your threads

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Facebook has just launched their latest "Like" button to developers to use on any site. What this does is utilizes the Advertising module to add the "Like" button to the first post of each thread. Please see screenshots to get an idea.

In your Admin CP go to Advertising > New Ad > Choose "Thread" from the dropdown and then select the first thread box. Give it a title (I called mine FB Like) leave "First Post Content" at default and paste in this code:

<!-- Facebook Like -->
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.YOURSITE.com/{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_post}}#post{vb:raw post.postid}&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:px"></iframe>
<!-- / Facebook Like -->

Be sure to change YOURSITE.com to your URL including your forum.

The VBSEO team has instructions on how to make this work for their product here http://www.vbseo.com/f2/facebook-lik...95/#post265997

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Option 2 (different from above, do not use together) will show at top, see screenshot #3

In Postbit (or legacy) find:

{vb:raw ad_location.thread_first_post_content}

Add this after:

<vb:if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == showthread) AND ($post[postcount] == '1')"
<!-- Facebook Like -->
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.YOURSITE.com/{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}}&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=tahoma&amp;colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:75px"></iframe>
<!-- / Facebook Like -->
</vb:if>

For additional information on this button and different parameters please visit http://developers.facebook.com/docs/...e/plugins/like

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For those who have asked, here is the modification adds both the "Like" button and comments to a users profile https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=239424

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Additional locations to place this code:

For CMS, in vbcms_content_article_page add the code below this:

{vb:raw comment_block}

For pictures, in template album_pictureview add the code below this:

{vb:raw picturecomment_commentarea}

For Blog, in template blog_show_entry add at the very top.

[SonicGT]

Originally Posted by gobears20

I have the same problem. I get an error because it's looking for www.domain.com/showthread when it should be www.domain.com/forums/showthread. I have the full url in the href parameter but facebook is not getting it right. Any fix?

I too am getting this same error message, I also changed the show_faces to false and it doesn't seem to make a difference

[gobears20]

Here's the fix that seems to have worked for me.

In the SHOWTHREAD template, edit the following line:

From this:
<link rel="canonical" href="{vb:raw thread_url}" />

To this:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain.com/forums/{vb:raw thread_url}" />

Even though you pass a url to facebook, they still scrape the page to get the url apparently. This fixes it.

[bagh1]

Originally Posted by gobears20

Here's the fix that seems to have worked for me.

In the SHOWTHREAD template, edit the following line:

From this:
<link rel="canonical" href="{vb:raw thread_url}" />

To this:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain.com/forums/{vb:raw thread_url}" />

Even though you pass a url to facebook, they still scrape the page to get the url apparently. This fixes it.

Thank you very much! This fixed the problem for me as well. Is there a way to add a like button per post instead of per thread?

[Nocturnal222]

Hello,

i notice that it doesnt work when your forum is on sub directory of your host like test.com/forum1

it only takes test.com/showthread..etc..

any advice?

Thanks

[SM_Rob]

When I "like" something on our site it just appears on facebook as "...likes yourdomain.com at yourdomain.com" rather than the specific title such as "...likes apples thread at yourdomain.com" - is this a permissions issue? The links are correct if you click them but the titles in facebook are all the main site title rather than the thread title?

[MAdotcom]

Thank you :up:

[tykesplace]

Created the ad. Changed the url to our site and forum as in http://site.com/Forum
Left as First Post. Left all display buttons off. Tried changing the size to 50 also.
Like button doesn't appear anywhere in any posts.

[meissenation]

I tried editing the showthread template as described but for the life of me I can not get this to work. I viewed the source and the source code clearly shows the correct URL but it still strips my directory out of the URL... Great idea, just wish it worked!

[gregory_clayton]

having the same problem with my forum being in a sub directory off /forum and facebook can not direct to the actual thread.

****Edit****

Here is my error

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The page at http://www.wwehq.com/forumshowthread...evin-Nash&amp; could not be reached.
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For some reason it is missing the / before showthread.php. Tried editing the SHOWTHREAD but no luck.

[Winter Sonata]

To all ppl, this works like a charm https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....32&postcount=2