First off, this is what I did:

• Set up my Facebook application
• Installed the Simple Facebook Connect plugin
• Activated plugin “Simple Facebook Connect – Base”
• Configured the plugin with the Facebook API key, Facebook Application Secret, and Facebook Application ID I got from setting up the Facebook app
• Activated the plugin “SFC – Like Button”
• Activated the plugin “SFC – Share Button”

The site showed the Facebook Like button but would not show the Facebook Share button. If you viewed the page source, the html xfbml code was present. This really threw me!

Finally, after much unproductive searching on the web, I used the Firefox Firebug add-on to see if I could find out anything. As a part of the page makeup I saw an iframe with an error about a url not being present. Since I had just recently set up the Facebook application, something clicked in my memory. When you are logged in to Facebook to see your application, under “Edit Settings” and then “Website” there are two settings, “Site URL” and “Site Domain”. I had set up the “Site URL” with “http://www.mysite.com/” and I did not have anything entered in the “Site Domain” field.

“Site URL” is your site’s address, simple enough. However, I entered it with the preceding “www” and my WordPress blog lists all my pages as “http://mysite.com” – without the “www” at the beginning. Guessed it yet?

If you look at the help text to the side of the “Site Domain” field, it says, “If set, Facebook will enable authentication on all subdomains (e.g., “example.com” will enable *.example.com)”.

So, I set “Site URL” to “http://mysite.com/” and set “Site Domain” to “mysite.com”.

I refreshed my blog and, voila! The Facebook Share button was now showing.

I realize that Facebook changes the specs and their edit screens for logging in and editing your applications often, but I hope the basic logic of this post is still helpful if you have this problem. Please leave a comment if this helped you out, or if there is anything additional to add. If I’m still set up with a Facebook Like, show me some love.

Search WordPress plugins for “LibXML2 Fix”. Install and activate. Was using WP 8.2 and when I tried posting from my Droid using wpToGo, images would not post correctly. All < and > characters were being stripped out. All fixed now!

The cake is *not* a lie.

I was modifying the Vader.css for a site. I could not figure out how to change the text color for the posts. The style “right out of the box” has a gray text color on a black background which, in my opinion, is uncomfortable to read. I’m not a big fan of light text on a dark background anyway, but the default text color in Vader is really bad.

As it turns out, the text color is coming from style.css and not being changed by vader.css at all.

Add this to vader.css to change the text color:

.entry-content {
color: #999999;
}

“#999999″ works well or you can go lighter yet – just play with it. Hope this helps if you are exasperated and out searching. Leave me a comment if you found this post helpful.

*** addendum May 18th, 2006 ***

Okay, geez, people! I put up this post to test the “subscribe to comments” feature and work on adding avatars users can add to their comments. I end up getting as many comments for a two word “test post” as I do on other *real* posts! What a bunch of comedians you are! So, it stays.

“scary commercials” – 93 searches
What’s up with this??? I think there must be a college project or something… If anyone knows, please tell me. I’m dying of curiousity.

“scott cramer” or variations of my name – 21 searches

“amazing race” related – 17 searches

bootyville – 4 searches
Thanks Keith… This one is all your fault! But you are right. Bootyville just makes a person smile.

ups overload – 4 searches

stripperella – 4 searches

ransackery – 2 searches

stop vomiting now – 2 searches

snatch poker kit – 4 searches

educational value dora – 2 searches
Hehehe! I bet they were surprised to end up here of all places!

1440 x 900 – 2 searches

“flava flav” related – 4 searches
That’s right folks! Looks like I’m branching into the hip-hop audiences.

“screaming flying monkeys” – 4 searches

petting sharks – 2 searches

working dazewho wrote soylent green

top ten tv series august 2002

who wrote the wedding march
It *certainly* wasn’t me.

“doctor steven greer” related – 2 searches

simindiana

inxs

permanent marker wrong side of cd-r

sam`s club playhouse

white and pasty guys
Somebody actually searched for this… On purpose. Eww.

anti-crime technology sprint ad

pop goes the weasel tivo

band-aid bandages theme song
There’s a theme song???

frat business guy

miami vice don johnson wrist watch
There’s a wrist watch? And somebody *wants* it???

fcc radio playlist feed

how to half pop popcorn

tivo partial problem

who wrote 2001

wrote do you want fries with that

pokemon championship team

windows trademark lindows linspire

the television are the negative or postive affect on people`s lives
That’s just silly. Television isn’t negative. Geez.

spank soap mother
Umm… Okay… Weird.

sister & brother show other how other s body is under panties
I’m not even sure I *want* to know. Gotta love the internet.

linspire rant

who wrote friends in low places?

who wrote the poem sleep

bio of jeff foxworthy

who wrote young love

trouble with breasts
And they ended up at my site… Plus, what trouble???

laptop photoshop dreamweaver

junkyard wars show airs

red neck police

sister & brother see other in colored panties
Okay, it’s scary when I start seeing a theme with this.

my brain`s full

tribute to mom

tivo pop goes the weasel

headlights turn themselves off

ebay sucks blog

watch my girlfriend

frat boy tied up

i know my brother wears my panties
If you’re counting, that’s, like, 3 similar to this. Eww. Keith, is there something weird you’d like to tell the rest of the family???

scott long skid marks
This must be another Keith rumor. That’s all I can figure. Curse you brother!

how to seem unattainable dating

speed buggy cartoon

cigarette sandwich
Okay. Really. YUCK!

My stats for the day… about 25 visitors.

Her stats for the day… about 2100 visitors!

AND she has my TiVo now. Tomorrow I lock up the family jewels.

I can’t program lately.
But I can still blog. Thank God for that.

I’m sure my clients will understand.

I’ve been thinking about David’s post throughout the day today. The idea of the blog as a journal or diary or even a column is not new or revolutionary. However, although it *is* in many cases journal, diary, or column, the blog – which is really just a web based form of all of these – actually does become a lot more *because* of the blog’s ease of publication, wide reach, and permanence.

Ease of publication.
I’m sure there’s no argument from anyone on this. With services like Radio and Blogger (to name just two) you write, click, and publish. I think it would take me more effort to find where I put a paper journal, then find a working pen, open the cover, and actually start the manual process of writing. These days, at least for me, I type faster than I write and the tennis elbow actually prefers to avoid the strain of using a pen. Heck, without blogs, I’d never be replying to Dave’s idea and this conversation wouldn’t exist – especially if his article was in a printed publication. I’m not really a “letter to the editor” kind of guy.

Wide reach.
The Internet vs. a paper journal on my bedside table. I’m not sure I’m zoned for that much traffic through my bedroom. No comments from the peanut gallery, please.

Permanence.
Historians are going to have a field day with all the archived blog material – even within the next generation. Think about what we have from the World War II era. We have popular media in the form of newspaper articles and newsreels for the most part. Part of the problem with that is the very essence of popular media is, well, it’s POPULAR media. Remember that, on the whole, history is written by the victors and everything else gets buried. Aside from the popular media, we go absolutely gaga when we come across written personal accounts – caches of letters, memos, and soldier’s diaries, for example. Can you say Anne Frank’s diary? Just imagine if we had archived blogs from around the world from this time period!

It sounds kind of silly but all of us who blog have become in some way social historians. What we write is commentary on our life and times. Yes, even the inane stuff – which is kind of the equivalent of pottery shards to archaeologists, I suppose.

At first I kind of agreed with Dave on pooh-poohing the revolution and just wanted to point out the merits of blogging on writing, reading, and learning. But then I started thinking, what is a revolution? I did the lazy man’s Google-definition and got the following:

“Revolution: a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving.”

The very stats Dave presented on how many blogs there are and how quickly they are being created is pretty extreme and quite a force if you consider the sheer amount of words and ideas being pushed out for public consumption. “Extreme” and “forceful”, if you do another Google definition, are the words that come up when you define “drastic”. So far as “far-reaching” – I’m writing to an Internet crowd, so come on, no contest. When it comes to “thinking and behaving” – once again I point to the stats. With the sheer number of blogs in existence and so many being created every day, I’d say there’s a definite affect on thought and behavior.

I think Dave and I and a lot of the people we know are pretty jaded when it comes to tech and we especially don’t buy into a lot of media dogma on matters in our own backyard. Not to mention it feels silly to me, at least, to walk around talking about a “revolution”. I feel like grabbing a loaf of French bread and talking about the bourgeois and proletariat. To our savvy group, the internet plus writing is kind of a “duh” concept. However, after considerable thought on this topic, I’m left with one thing.

Viva la revolution!

In network terms, that means something is going away and they’re not telling you it’s not coming back until it’s been so long that you don’t care anymore.

Last I checked, I’m not a network. I hope.

See you after the hiatus!

But, I’ve still got time.