News feed width

Hi Mirja

Thank you for your kind words. It is very much appreciated.

Unfortunately, Facebook have specified in their documentation (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/page-plugin) that the width of the plugin can only be between 280 and 500 pixels. It may be possible to change it with some of your own CSS/JavaScript so I will investigate that for you to see if it possible.

The documentation only states a minimum height of 130 pixels, so there shouldn’t be a problem with making the height 1200. In your shortcode there you’ve made a typo and stated “hight” instead of “height” so that could be the problem.

It is possible to remove the cover photo, simply change the cover attribute to “false” instead of true. However it is unlikely that you will be unable to get your feed to appear the same as your example as unfortunately they are using the Facebook Like Box, which will be depreciated on the 23rd of June this year. However I will do some experimenting to see if I can make it appear as close to it as possible.

Thanks for your enquiry and if you have any other questions please don’t hesitate to ask

Thanks,
Cameron

Hi Cameron,

Thank you very much for your answer! So nice of you to help me out.

Great that you noticed my typo. Now I changed “hight” to “height”, but the height at the website stays the same whether I write height=”300″ or height=”1200″ or basically any other number. What could be the reason for that? This is how my shortcode looks like now: [facebook-page-plugin href=”mirjaklippel” width=”1400″ height=”1200″ posts=”true” cover=”false” facepile=”false”]

I can take the cover picture away by writing cover=”false” like you mentioned, but the outlining box still persists above. Also I’d like to take away the “share” button, change the gray background behind it to white and take away the shadow line under “like” and “share” buttons, just like on the example page I sent. These are really tiny details that I can live without, so don’t loose your sleep because of them ?? But if you can find a way around the width issue,
that would be awesome!

Many thanks,

Mirja

Hi Mirja,

I’ve just discovered a bug that was causing the plugin to ignore the height setting, so thank you bringing this up otherwise I might not have found it. I’m releasing a fix now. Also, I’m about 1/3 through a workaround for the width limit so hopefully I should be able to get that to you sometime next week.

Thanks,
Cameron

Hi Cameron,

That’s good to hear!
Thanks again for helping ??

Until next week,
Mirja

Hi Mirja,

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I’ve had a busy week and haven’t had much to investigate.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to set the Facebook feed wider than 500px. This is set by an element inside the iframe that embeds the Facebook Page Plugin, which cannot be modified for security reasons due to same origin policy.

To achieve what you’re aiming for, you would be best implementing the Facebook SDK, however I have no experience in this so I can’t really help you, but it should be possible.

Sorry I wasn’t able to help more, and if you have any other questions please don’t hesitate to ask

Thanks,
Cameron