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TabPress: Discontinued!

March 18, 2011 By Tim Ware 152 Comments

We are discontinuing the free TabPress Facebook Tab App as of April 1, 2012.

If you are currently using our app, you’ll need to transition to another Facebook custom-tab creator. I recommend Static HTML — if you’re looking for an app similar to TabPress where you can simply paste code into boxes.

And there are many, many other free iFrame apps.

Cheers!

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Charlie

Is there any way to use TabPress in a way that it is the only page users can see until they like the page, ie, they can’t see the wall until they click like? The App is really useful. Many thanks

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

The only content you can “hide” from non-fans is custom tab content. You can’t hide the Wall or Info or any other default Facebook tabs.

Glenn

Thanks Tim, you guys do an awesome job, I really like your stuff.
I know you have covered this, but I did just want to be sure I understand…
“When your custom tab loads, your video or photo gallery can autoplay if it’s set to do that.”Is a user interaction required for a slideshow to begin?
And what about a Flash banner?
Thanks again.
Charlie

Hi, great app, makes it so much easier. Just a quick question, It works fine that when someone clicks on the page it displays my ‘non fans content’ page but when the user clicks on ‘like’ it redirects them to the ‘wall’ rarther than the ‘fan content’ page I created. Am i doing something wrong or is there any way to get around this? Cheers

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

This is a known bug, Charlies. You can track it, and vote for it, here: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=19778

David Luster

Tim, Thanks for pointing this bug out… I have been scratching my head tring to figure out why I could not get the likes to go to the fan page after liking. Charlie’s problem of gating to the wall was the same exact issue I have.

tom

How do you view results after someone has surveyed in a facebook page? Thanks!
Gcashloans

how many tabpress can i put in a specific page

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

One, at this time.

Bob

Great App, works like a charm for me. I’ll be thinking about the multi tab version
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Arni

I’m trying to remove scrollbars but the app isn’t showing up on facebook developers section. Anyone else have this bug?
Non-english

Useless app, cannot work with non-english characters…

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

Yes, definitely useless for non-English. The good news is we’re fixing this in v.2 which should be rolled out in the next month.

http://www.facebook.com/jassinemenor Jassine Menor

saan ko matatagpuan ang Fbml
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VKWRY6V6YPFM3NJVHLD25AVG3U Ashleigh Herst

is online backup safe

I dont recall iframe being still feasible in designing websites.
Karen Leslie

I keep hearing that SSL certificates will be needed on certain facebook pages from October 1st. Will SSL certificates be needed for facebook pages that use tabpress? As far as I’m aware everything is kept within facebook so I don’t see why SSL is needed.

Thanks for your help,
Karen

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

No, Karen. TabPress is already securely hosted under HTTPS with its own security certificate.
The secure hosting requirement is for application canvas pages and custom iframe page tabs created from scratch.
Nothing to worry about.

Tim

http://www.facebook.com/people/Shannon-Nolte/100000944462585 Shannon Nolte

Can I make a paypal donation button show up on the left, or must it be the “Welcome?”

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

You can change the tab name on the left via “Edit Page > Apps > TabPress > Edit settings”

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1325485950 Donald Kurz

Anyone know of a good shoutcast stream player to embed on the fan content section?
http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

Janine, If you need help with your custom tab, we offer this service, either hourly consulting or project based. Just use our contact form to get in touch.
Tim
http://www.facebook.com/bryanlanning Bryan Hollister Lanning

Everytime I hit “save” and go to preview, there’s nothing there. Just blank space. Also, when I hit “save” all my hard work that I put in the boxes just disappears. Quite annoying.

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

It’s hard to know what’s happening there, Bryan. We’ve not had a report about this. My advice is to save your hard work to a text file, then copy and paste it into the TabPress fields.
But as I said, I’m have no idea why that would be happening.

Anonymous

Nice app. I created a non fan welcome (like us) page and a reveal page with an offer. It worked perfectly. Non fans “liked” us and the reveal page with an offer showed. The offer was good for a week so I had to take that part down. I deleted the code in the second box. Non fans still saw the “like us” page BUT when they liked us it didn’t go to the Wall but back to the “like” us page again. Any thoughts on what is going on? I want it to show the Wall after they “like” us.

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

Here’s our tutorial on redirecting fans to the Wall.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3K6R33NZNHTZP7NTFUG7QWXEWE Julianne

I agree, this is a great app. I was wondering if this bug has been fixed? When I’m a visitor, I can see the custom landing page. But if I’m a fan, it takes me straight to the wall.

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

Yes, Julianne, it was a Facebook bug and it’s been fixed. The reason your fans go straight to the Wall is because you can only set a tab other than the Wall for non-fans; fans will always default to the Wall. Facebook wants it that way because once someone becomes a fan, social engagement happens on the Wall, not on custom promotional tabs.
Facebook is getting rid of the Discussions tab for the same reason … to encourage users to use the Wall for conversation.

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

I don’t think so. Pretty sure it can’t be done. You might be able to hide or show content on a custom tab based on language, but we’ve not done that.
http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

You specify your default landing tab in your Page admin area (the “Edit Page” button in the top right corner of your Page when on your Wall tab).
You should see “Manage Permissions” in the left column when in the editing area. Click that and you should see “Default Landing Tab” in the main area. Just set it to “Wall”.
I’ve heard lots of reports from users who don’t see this option. If you don’t, it’s a Facebook bug.
http://www.facebook.com/benmataakama Ben Mataakama

Hi Tim! Awesome app! I just installed yesterday and works great! Just like Charlie, same thing. I’m hoping that when non fans click like they get taken to the fan content then click on the pic to redirect them to the wall. Is this possible?

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

That’s definitely how it’s supposed to work, if I understand you. User lands on your Welcome tab, clicks “Like” and stays on your Welcome tab.
We also have an article here on redirecting users after they Like your Page.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1172501354 Theresa Sheridan

The install seems to not be working. When I click the link that says CLICK HERE, it just opens a new tab that is the exact same page. The “Add to my Page” link never appears. I’ve installed this several times before with no problem, can someone look into this please?

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

Try it now, Theresa. If something isn’t working, please let me know exactly where the page is and what exactly isn’t working. Thanks!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1172501354 Theresa Sheridan

Sorry, it’s a Monday….
I click on TabPress link above in this post, which takes me to this URL, http://apps.facebook.com/tabpress/. There is a paragraph on the page and within that it says to CLICK HERE in orange and then click the Add to My Page link in the left column of the screen. That page with the column never comes up, it just takes me back to the same initial URL. Screenshot of the page that I can’t seem to get away from is attached.

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

Hi Theresa,

OK, I see the issue, which has to do with Facebook’s removing of App Profile Pages.
Here’s the correct link to TabPress, and I’ve also fixed it in this post.
https://www.facebook.com/tabpress2

Anonymous

I got the app to work with an image on a non-SSL server. (There was a mixed security content message in the IE browser.)
Everything worked well for a time, then at some point only half an image showed up when I reached the nonfan tab.
I recopied the code > hit Save > and got this message :
“Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2)”
The code has disappeared and of course no picture shows up. Every time I recopy the code the same thing happens (even after computer restart).
Here is the code I am using:

FOR NON FANSFOR FANSif (top != self) top.window.location = ‘https://www.facebook.com/MifneAutism?sk=wall’;

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

You can’t use PHP in TabPress.

Tim Ware
t1mware@HyperArts.com
(510) 339-6084
http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

We had database spikes beginning on Jan 27. We’ve had to migrate our databases to another, more scalable server. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you!

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

You’ll have to host the image on a secure server.
http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

You’d have to purchase our TabPress White Label to customize the icon and other elements of the app:

Anonymous

Thanks for getting back to me – I’ll have a look at that

Jeremy Mustard

Do you know if you can use the multitab solution in HTML static? I am having no luck. have you also discontinued the whitelabel? I can’t find it on your site.

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

The White Label is still available.

The multi-tab template should work fine in Static HTML. You just have to check to make sure the URLs are absolute instead of relative.

http://www.facebook.com/davidb1aise David Blaise

So sorry to see you go! Received notification that we need to remove TabPress from our page before April 7, 2012, but no instructions on how to remove it. Can you please advise?

http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/ Tim Ware

Just make sure you’ve copied all the content you’ve input into the app and save it locally. Then just delete the app from your account and add a new app with similar functionality, like Static HTML.

TabPress: Discontinued!

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