Embedding in Facebook woes

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cyberneddy
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Hi there,
I need to embed into Facebook so that a click in the preview window opens the interactive 360 (or tour) in the Facebook timeline, i.e., no other tab or window opening. This used to be possible, but now, nothing I try works.

I am not that great at coding, but I've given it a try many times - all to no avail. I
've checked the tutorials, the documentation, the forum, and the Facebook Debugger. Other than reporting the lack of the fb:ap_id, the debugger returns no errors.
The preview image shows up, but clicking on it opens another tab. My client insists that staying within the Facebook page is essential to their business. I've spent way too long on this without success. I hope someone can steer me in the right direction. Thanks, mb
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Hi cyberneddy,
We are and still at the mercy of the forever changing goal posts that is Facebook.
At my last test it was working with the exception of getting that error and having to manually add in the post a link to the hosted version.
I guess obvious questions are is your hosting secure and do you select this in the template?
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Just for edification: I think ... secure hosting means the website you are using should be referred to as https://

I tried secure hosting and found upon doing so my home page advertising slider failed to work.
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For the business pages on Facebook - this concept is better than placing on the timeline
https://www.facebook.com/astanacapitala ... e_internal
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cyberneddy
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I did check secure hosting and I do have secure (https) hosting.
Thanks, @Gumir, you may well be right. I will suggest using a tab; I am aware of that option but I guess I got sucked into the business owner's mindset. I'll work on it. Thanks.

It would be great to have the ggnome pkg work, though, I appreciate the problem with the Facebook API.
Thanks,
mb
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