How to change facebook sharing address to homepage?

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  stretchingminds · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 3:35 am

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  My posts are successfully posting to facebook. When facebook people click the link it only opens that one post and not the whole homepage. Is there a way to make the facebook link refer back to the homepage instead of just that one post?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 4:13 am

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  The sharing icons below your posts are specific to the posts. They are operating exactly the way they are meant to work. If you wish to have a Facebook badge in your sidebar then see here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-badge/

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  stretchingminds · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 4:18 am

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  Thank you for your reply! But I don’t think I did a good job of explaining my question.

  It isn’t the little facebook sharing buttons that I am asking about. When I make a new post it automatically posts this post to facebook so my facebook friends can see it.

  Thats good. It works.

  When they click the link in their facebook pages it opens “my post” and not “my homepage”. I would like for it open my homepage instead of just that one post when they click the link from facebook.

  Is it possible to change this referring address so that it will open my homepage instead of just that one post?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 4, 2011 at 7:37 am

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  No, it is not possible to change it. If it makes you feel better, the way it’s functioning now is bound to be more popular with readers AND will help your blog far more in search engine standings. Links to the blog in general don’t count nearly as much as links to specific posts.

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  stretchingminds · Member · Mar 5, 2011 at 6:08 am

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  Ok thank you raincoaster. How do I put a little button in each post that says “home page” so that they have the option to click on it and go to the homepage? They can click the header but its not obvious that the header is a link.

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  oneskeinwonderwoman · Member · Mar 14, 2011 at 1:16 am

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  I have a similar issue. I have a facebook profile page and an additional page I made to post only blog entries. Right now my WordPress blog posts are auto updating on my profile page, and I’d like to change that to the separate page I created for my blog (called “one skein wonderwoman” on facebook)

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  airodyssey · Member · Mar 14, 2011 at 1:22 am

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  @oneskeinwonderwoman: Here are some alternatives
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/updates-directly-to-facebook-page?replies=14

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 14, 2011 at 1:31 am

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  @stretchingminds That’s easy. Just put in a text link like any link you’d put in your blog.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/