Facebook Sharing is a simple way of letting people bring content from your website or mobile app to Facebook. Sharing is triggered when someone clicks a social plugin like the Share or Send button. This launches the corresponding Share or Message dialog.
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Graduation Badges
Mesa Community College has had Graduation celebration badges on their website since 2013can be shared from your website using Facebook Sharing. The purpose is to allow prospective graduates the ability to post or share their desired graduation badge on their Facebook timeline. This allows the students to celebrate their accomplishments with their friends and family. Example graduation badge page for 2023: https://www.mesacc.edu/graduation/graduation-2023 There are 3 badges available each year:
Graduation cap with a specific year
Graduation sash with a specific year
MCC Clock Tower with no year
The badge sharing is accomplished using Facebook share buttons that point to this page.
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Sharing Debugger (need to be logged into Facebook): https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
The MCC page itself is a standard You can create a Drupal page with a custom theme template just for this specific node (e.g. html--node--2103.tpl.php). This specific template allows us to insert unique meta tags specific to Facebook.
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The Share counts on each button are tabulated by each unique page URL, and these unique URLs are also used inside each Share button.
Each year, MCC updates this page to use the new year (e.g. graduation-2022, graduation-2023, graduation-2024). This resets the share counts each year. Behind the scenes we have a redirect that always sends older links to the current year.
In addition, we also have pre-rendered and uploaded future year badges so we can update this page to use the current year’s badges.