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Static Title and Description

Thread began 11/04/2011 1:45 am by Daryl | Last modified 11/04/2011 10:43 am by Daryl | 1673 views | 4 replies |

DarylBeta Tester

Static Title and Description

Is there a way to add a static title and description to a share button?

I have a static site with multiple products on the same page.

I was trying to think of a way that I could add a share button under each product that would share the page that the products are on with an anchor tag for that product (which I believe is possible), but is there a way for the facebook share button to specify a Title and description rather than being retrieved from the page header?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

facebook does not offer a way to change the description, but you can set the tiitle.

in href portion of the like code:

href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php echo urlencode('http://yourdomain.co/page.php'); ?>"


you can add a t url variable to pass the title:

href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php echo urlencode('http://yourdomain.co/page.php&t=your title here'); ?>"



facebook share documentation can be found here:
share/

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DarylBeta Tester

Thanks Jason.

I have tried to do this, but it seems to be picking up the page title.

Does this look right?

<a name="fb_share" type="icon" href="#" onclick="window.open('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php echo urlencode(((!empty($_SERVER["HTTPS"])) ? "https://" : "http://") . $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]); ?>&t=Set%20of%203%20Christmas%20Decoration', 'Facebook', 'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436'); return false;" title="Facebook">
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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

yes that looks correct, not sure why that would not work based on the face book documentation.


the reality is, they like button is targeted at the page, it is the page you are liking, not certain elements of the page.

to like specific products, you would be better of adding the like buttons to the product details page.

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DarylBeta Tester

Thanks Jason

Thats what I would like to have done, but clients eh!

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