Hi.
The Facebook button registers Likes on your business page, you can check your Likes number seeing your business page as a visitor.
Yes, the popup doesn’t show because it creates a cookie when the user closes the popup. You need to set the cookie time to 0, so the popup will open always.
edit popup > settings > Cookies/Close > Closing cookie duration
If you need the popup will open only to the new visitors (the first time), you can use the ruler “User did not arrive via another page on your site”
edit popup > Display Rules
Regards
Thank you. I am not sure why it was failing my tests. I am, however, a very naive user. A few follow ups, if you don’t mind:
1) to confirm: what I should do is just paste in the short code within the content section of WP Popups called “Facebook Button”
2) I have the Display rules configured so that it only triggers if referrer is “Facebook.com” Does that sound like a reasonable way to make sure it only shows on inbound transits from facebook? Would that capture mobile app traffic, etc? It appears to. Given that is how I have it set, do I need the setting “User did not arrive via another page on your site?” I am fine if it triggers every time a reader comes from Facebook (or at least however often I dictate with the closing cookie duration) but I am not fine if it triggers on every page as they traverse around my site.
3) Can you tell me the difference between Test mode and regular mode, by any chance? If a pop up is in test mode, will users see it? Or just me?
4) Is there an easy way I’m missing to format the FB button? I’m not talking about anything complicated. But I’d like to maybe center it, at least.
Oh, and yet another two-part question: Not specific to the Popup, but it is all related for me:
1) is there a difference between Like and Follow? What I am really looking for is for people to “Follow” my page on FB, since I think that means they see all of my Posts, not just the ones the algorithm suggests. I’d live with a Like button, but I’d prefer a Follow button. Does anyone know if there is one?
2) Is it safe to assume that a user clicking on the Like button in my popup (or Follow if I can have one, per #1 above) will just have that action registered by FB and be able to close the pop up and continue to my site? There isn’t a chance this button is going to take them back to FB and to my FB page, is there? I don’t want that.
Again, thanks for ANY help anyone can offer. Really appreciate it.
Hi.
Here the answers
1) Yes. The shortcode must be inside of the popup content.
2) I recommend verify if the referer ruler, using to Facebook as value, works, because it uses the HTTP_REFERER variable from PHP and this is not a mandatory HTTP header. Many sites spoof/remove it. In most of the time the referer ruler will work but is better to have a plan B, maybe using the “User did not arrive via another page on your site?” ruler
3) In test mode, the cookie is not saved, so the popup always will open. Yes, the user will be able to see it.
4) The shortcode has a param called “align” and his values are: left, center and right.
5) Yes, you can use another shortcode: [spu-facebook-page href="" name="" show_faces="" hide_cover="" width=""]
6) If the user clicks on the like or Follow button, the popups won’t close.
Regards
