Comments on: "Page Not Found" - Linking Wordpress to Facebook is not as easy as it seems.

Question: "Page Not Found" - Linking Wordpress to Facebook is not as easy as it seems.

anastasiav — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:23:22 -0800

Wordpress + Facebook = Fail. Help.

I have a Wordpress blog, which uses the Presswork theme. My blog also has a Facebook page. Wordpress offers a fancy little social media widget into which I'm supposed to put my Facebook username, and that will produce a FB icon that links to my FB page at the top-right of every page on my blog.

Except it doesn't work.

I have a "pages" page for my blog (not a personal FB page). Is this part of the problem? I've tried the entire FB url, the url from "pages" forward, just my UserID, just the numbers following my UserID, every combination I can think of, and it always, always creates a link to a "Page Not Found" link on FB.

Any thoughts as to what I'm doing wrong? I posted a query to the Presswork help forums a few weeks ago but have never gotten a response. I've probably spent ten hours over the course of several weeks trying to debug this, but to no avail.

Help?

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:56:28 -0800

Do you have a screenshot of the admin page where you enter the url?

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:58:17 -0800

Also, could you please tell us the name of your Presswork theme? I suspect this is a theme specific feature

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:13:05 -0800

Wait, you created a Pages FB account? I did the same thing and realized that this type of FB account isn't compatible with key wordpress plugins such as Simple Facebook Connect! Maybe the theme you are using assumes that you have an "usual" FB account? Curses. I haven't found a solution to this, other than creating a new FB account using a new email, but maybe FB support can help you reset your account to the default type?

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:21:24 -0800

Apologies for all these comments but here's more on why FB business accounts suck in comparison to personal accounts.

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:20:10 -0800

Have you tried registering a web address for your Page instead of using the numeric user ID? Perhaps it would work with a straightforward, all-letters URL/username; it's possible that the numbers are throwing it off for some stupid reason.

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:42:59 -0800

mykescipark's advice fixed it! Thank you!