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Question about Facebook Like feature

by Doolder
4 replies
Hey guys,

I have a question for you, there might be a very simple answer to it but I'm not sure.

When somebody "likes" (facebook likes) one of your pages, it appears on his wall with a title, a description and a small picture. The picture is taken directly from your page, but as far as I know it's random. Is there a way to tell facebook which picture you want to use when somebody likes your page? Like a tag or something?

I'm sorry if there's an obvious answer to this, but all the facebook stuff is not my specialty yet!

By the way, I'm using Wordpress.

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author m30jake
    It's not random, is your groups main picture
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  • Profile picture of the author aandersen
    Yes. Facebook implements the Open Graph protocol and can be controlled by using a handful of meta tags on your pages.

    You can read up on facebook-specific Open Graph info here
    Open Graph protocol - Facebook Developers

    and general Open Graph info here
    The Open Graph Protocol

    If your site is powered by Wordpress you can simply hook into wp_head and have at it. Alternatively, if you're not into php, there are a handful of plugins that will handle all this for you. Just do a plugin search for "open graph"

    Good luck.

    Edit: Almost forgot... Facebook has this annoying problem with caching your OG data after liking it the first time. If you already like it with picture number 1, then use OG to change to picture number 2, it will still keep pulling #1.

    You can fix this little issue with the Facebook URL Linter, here
    http://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint/
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  • Profile picture of the author kingprince999
    google +1 will be far more advantages than facebook like .. when a person likes it appears on his news feed and wall so all his friends can see but as time goes there are other news coming up so your like fades aways , in google +1 its the opposite when you +1 something its always there on your profile so your friend or anyone seeing your profile can view it any time
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    • Profile picture of the author Doolder
      Yes. Facebook implements the Open Graph protocol and can be controlled by using a handful of meta tags on your pages.

      You can read up on facebook-specific Open Graph info here
      Open Graph protocol - Facebook Developers

      and general Open Graph info here
      The Open Graph Protocol

      If your site is powered by Wordpress you can simply hook into wp_head and have at it. Alternatively, if you're not into php, there are a handful of plugins that will handle all this for you. Just do a plugin search for "open graph"

      Good luck.

      Edit: Almost forgot... Facebook has this annoying problem with caching your OG data after liking it the first time. If you already like it with picture number 1, then use OG to change to picture number 2, it will still keep pulling #1.

      You can fix this little issue with the Facebook URL Linter, here
      URL Linter - Facebook Developers
      Thanks you for your help! I'll try that.
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