When do I need a fb app id or fb admins

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The doc for the facebook like button says    When your Web page represents a real-world entity  things like movies  sports teams  celebrities  and restaurants  use the Open Graph protocol to specify information about the entity    I m adding like buttons to a blog posts videos articles which aren t really entities  Right  So I don t need fb app id or fb admins  But then in step 2 of creating a like button is says   Get Open Graph Tags  and when I use Linter to validate my like buttons without fb admins and fb app id I get a  fb admins and fb app id tags are missing    If it turns out that I need fb admins and fb app id tags do I need to have a Facebook like page to find them    Also is it fb admins AND fb app id or fb admins OR fb app id  I can t tell if I need both or not   And in the graph facebook somepage it gives an id  but what id is that  For example  How to get fb app id for facebook meta

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Including the fb app id tag in your HTML HEAD will allow the Facebook scraper to associate the Open Graph entity for that URL with an application  This will allow any admins of that app to view Insights about that URL and any social plugins connected with it   The fb admins tag is similar  but allows you to just specify each user ID that you would like to give the permission to do the above    You can include either of these tags or both  depending on how many people you want to admin the Insights  etc  A single as fb admins is pretty much a minimum requirement  The rest of the Open Graph tags will still be picked up when people share and like your URL  however it may cause problems in the future  so please include one of the above   fb admins is specified like this   lt meta property  fb admins  content  USER ID   gt  OR  lt meta property  fb admins  content  USER ID USER ID2 USER ID3   gt     and fb app id like this   lt meta property  fb app id  content  APPID   gt

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I think the documentation is reasonably helpful   If you read it again  it says that adding open graph elements on your website will make your website act as a facebook page and you ll get the ability to publish updates to them etc   So I think it s up to you - you can either just have a page with no OG elements  which is less work but also less  rewarding  for you   If you do use og  then set type to  blog  Finally  fb admins or fb app id - A comma-separated list of either the Facebook IDs of page administrators or a Facebook Platform application ID  At a minimum  include only your own Facebook ID   So just put your own fbid in there  As a tip  you can easily get this by looking at the url of your profile photo on facebook

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To use the Like Button and have the Open Graph inspect your website  you need an application   So you need to associate the Like Button with a fb app id  If you want other users to see the administration page for your website on Facebook you add fb admins  So if you are the developer of the application and the website owner there is no need to add fb admins

[facebook] When do I need a fb:app_id or fb:admins?

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