When you are using Facebook as a fan page, you can’t tag people in a post on your own page or on any other page. You can tag other pages in a post or in a picture. You can tag people in a picture, but only your friends. What is strange to me, is that you can tag a friend in a comment on a post, just not in the original post. The best workaround is to make the post without any tagging, then immediately add a comment to your post with the tags.
You can tag people in a post on a fan page you own only if you are using facebook as yourself and not as your page. You probably have the pages you own set to always post and comment as the page instead of as yourself.
Click on the edit page button at the top right of your page, then click on your settings at the top of the left column. This will show your posting preferences and your email notifications. If always post and comment as your page name is checked, you can’t tag people in posts. If you make a change, don’t forget to click on save changes.
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How can I adapt this to the new timeline? You are the first person to give me hope. I can tag strangers and companies but not family and friends. I can tag photos as usual but not posts on my wall or any wall…except for strangers.
It’s pretty much the same, except that edit page is now in the manage drop-down menu on the admin panel. If your admin panel is not showing at the top of your page, click on the small admin panel button at the top right of the screen.
I have the same comment as above – have the new timeline fan page… but cannot tag any of the people who have liked the page in anything. I have removed the setting…”always post and comment as…” but still no luck. Any tips or tricks would be much appreciated – really need some help!
Are you sure you’re using Facebook as yourself and not as the page? To verify, check the profile thumbnail at the top, right of the screen, if not, use the home drop-down menu to change to yourself. It worked for me. I just tested it. You can see for yourself here: http://www.facebook.com/DebsAnswers
It does look like they closed the loophole of being pages being able to tag people in comments.
This was very helpful. It was easy to read and take the steps to make the adjustments on my page. Thank you for sharing.
You’re welcome! Thanks for letting me know.
Thanks this article was very helpful but i was wondering if you know of a way that you can tag companies or people in album descriptions? When i try taggig using the @ sign nothing happens. I want to do this because when the Album is posted it shows up on the timeline with the description above it and i want to be able to tag all of the companies who are in the photo album in the description so that fans can see them.
Not that I know of. You can still list the companies in the description, the names just won’t be links or show in the timelines of the companies like they would if you could tag them and of course you would have to key in the full names instead of selecting them. Then you can still tag them in the individual pictures.
Thanks for the help i guess that’s what I’ll have to do then.
You’re welcome.
Thank you for this explanation. I have been trying to figure out a way to work around this problem. I do find it somewhat silly that you can not tag followers as your page name – there seems to be little logic in that.
You’re welcome. I think part of the problem is that they keep changing things; they don’t seem to be able to predict the impact of changes before they’re implemented.
hi I can’t tag and pages in my photos on my Facebook fan page is anyone having this problem too? Or did Facebook do something can use some help thanks.
Pages can only tag pages, not people. You can tag people when posting as yourself on a page, but not when posting as your page.
I can’t tag pages as my page or as my self I like the page as my self and my page I’m trying to tag
What do you get when you type in @ and the first letter of a page in a post or when you click on tag photo and click on a face?
Ok if I try and tag the page in the photo it just doesn’t come up but they did last week but if I but the @ before it when writing about the photo it comes up in the same post
OK, I found this in the help on facebook:
I don’t know when this was changed and it does only seem to apply to photos and not posts.
I also found this:
the pages i’m trying to tag are people as I said it worked last week they are fan pages of athletes I saw people have tagged them last friday in a photo could this be a bug in Facebook or something else
You have to be posting as yourself, not as a page to tag people. Make sure your profile picture thumbnail is showing at the top right of the screen when you are tagging people.
He’s wasn’t trying to tag people. He wanted to tag a FANPAGE of a person. I have also had the same issue of finding fanpages saying ‘send your photos tagged with (fanpage name)’ – I go to my photos in my personal page and as my fanpage and try to tag and I can’t find that fanpage.
Are other people successfully tagging the page in their photos?
I am my self not my page when I’m trying to do the tagging
I don’t know what else to tell you. It’s working fine for me. I tested it today. Make sure you don’t have “always post and comment as your page name” checked.
ok ill check that how do I check that out? Thanks for all your help. So it looks its just me having the problem could it be a bug on Facebook or something like that i thought they did something as they want you to pay to promote post now
Click on the edit page button at the top right of your page, then click on your settings at the top of the left column. This will show your posting preferences and your email notifications. If always post and comment as your page name is checked, you can’t tag people in posts. If you make a change, don’t forget to click on save changes.
when I did what you said it only had email notifications no posting preferences
Looks like they changed that a few days ago. Now, just click on voice (between your name and home at top right) and it will let you toggle back and forth.
See this post: http://allfacebook.com/page-administrators-change-post-names_b93241
i do that but when I am as my self I can’t tag pages in photos like lets say a ufc fighter in a photo of him self but if I’m writing about the photo I can tag him in that with the @ before his name
now if am signed in as my page I can tag my friends in photos but not pages any chance this could be a bug on Facebook or a mess up from all the cheats they are doing to pages
now if I’m signed in as my page i can tag my friends from my personal page in a photo put no pages
Very helpful and right on. Thanks for the info
You’re welcome. Thanks for commenting
I’m trying to “share” a comment left on my Page’s timeline to my timeline. I’ve seen other pages do it and include original poster. When I copy the url from the post it does not show the thumbnail from the link just the link.
Don’t copy it, share it by clicking on the word share under the link. The default is on your own timeline, but you can change it to on your page.
The share button is not present…it’s only there when there is a picture. If you take a look at my page and look at the comments that are left on the page…you will see that there is no share option.
I think the only way what you want works is when sharing is available.
hi I can’t tag and pages in my photos on my Facebook fan page is anyone having this problem too? Or did Facebook do something can use some help thanks
They have made some changes recently. You can only tag people when you’re posting as yourself. Only certain types of pages can be tagged. Posts, notes, and photos may even have different rules.
i can not tag my name using @ beforehand on any competitions or my account. whilst on my partners account he can tag his name and mine. why can i not tag my own name on my own page? my name is not in the drop down menu that show up of names.
So, how you can explain this? This page is categorized as Company and the owner is able to tag people. Note he is not as himself, he always post as page.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Delart-Est%C3%BAdios-Cinematogr%C3%A1ficos/154831177931440
I don’t know. Why don’t you ask him?
I have been having the same problem and a friend of mine has their own page and can tagg as their page. The difference in this is that they have not made their page under their private profile on facebook but have rather made the page from the login facebook page. So they are using their page as a loose standing facebook account. I made the mistake of making my Company page while looged in to my private account and now the two are connected to each other. I hate the fact that I have to use my page as myself in order to tagg someone. This is a huge infringment of my private facebook account and because of this i refuse to tagg ppl. Hopefully facebook will catch a wake up shortly and fix this.
Hi there – I have a fan page where if I am posting as my personal page I can tag my own friends to a picture, which is fine, but I need to tag people who are not my personal friend, and it seems there is no way to do that. If I show as my fan page I seem to be able to only tag other fan pages/companies and not the people who have liked my page. I clicked the box on to say people can tag but it still doesn’t work. Any tips?
That’s correct. All you can do is let people know that they can tag themselves.
how do i tag a liked page in a check in?
Are you talking about a specific app? Does @ and the name not work?
Thank YOU! – I was having a hard time figuring out why I could tag certain posts and not others.
You’re welcome!
When posting as myself (not the page), I can tag someone in a post, but not a comment. Is there anyway to get it to work in a comment?
I just tested it and it worked for me. Exactly what is it doing when you type @ and the first letter of the name? I get a list of suggestions as soon as I type the first letter.
1. I go to my page.
2. In the gray bar, it says: “You are posting, commenting, and liking as My Page” I click on the thing to the right that says: “Change to Steven”
3. I go to the top post on the page (which I posted as “My Page”), and click on the “Write a comment…” box.
4. I type @D.
Nothing happens. It still says “@D” in the comment box, even though I have several friends named “Dave”.
Perhaps it has something to do with the way I set up the page. It’s a “Local Business” / “Attractions/Things to do”.
Thanks for the info! The inability to tag posts with a fanpage is really detrimental to press work. Damn!
You’re welcome and thanks for commenting.
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I am facing a problem with ‘posts by others’ in FB Page. The same problem is described in details here – http://www.communicateandhowe.com/2012/07/18/how-to-add-posts-by-others-to-your-facebook-page/ (I came across this while Googling for solution). Any clue how to make posts by others visble on the timeline by default?
Under manage permissions, check the box to show the posts by others and default to allow on page.
I did that.Still the same. So, in the activity log it shows – ‘allow (default)” but it doesn’t allow. Even the link that i shared talks about the same problem.
hello friend i want to know how i tag some one who liked my page…
i can tag people when i use as myself but want to tag as by page…
hope you are understand what i mean…excuse for english..
You can’t.
On my Page, I can tag SOME people in comments to posts, when I post as “myself” ( = page admin, but not posting as Page). But in many cases I can’t tag people even in comments, even if they’re my (personal fb) friends. I really don’t get it.
It may be their settings. Do they allow friends to post on their wall?
AFAICS yes, but on closer inspection it seems to depend on the number of preceding comments. For example if my comment is the 1st comment to the post, then tagging doesn’t work. But if it’s the 2nd comment or further downstream, _and_ the first comment was not made by myself, THEN tagging mostly seem to be possible.
Then maybe you should report it as a bug through the Facebook Help Center, giving them all of this information.
This is quite a bad feature in facebook and i find no utility in it whatsoever. Why wouldn’t facebook allow page admins to tag people in posts. It is quite essential and facebook should allow it instead of a workaround like this, which is however good. Nice post anyway.
It’s to prevent spam. Lots of people wouldn’t want every brand or company they liked to make posts that would show on their timeline.
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I was tagged in a post by a friend of mine and I accepted the tag, but it didn’t show up on my timeline. My security is set for friends. Why didn’t it show up?
There’s a separate setting for tagged posted and photos, you might need to verify that it’s set to friends.
This is copied from Facebook help text:
To choose who can see posts you’ve been tagged in after they appear on your timeline:
Click at the top right of any Facebook page and select Account Settings
In the left-hand column, click Timeline and Tagging
Look for the setting Who can see posts you’ve been tagged in on your timeline? and click Edit to the far right
Choose an audience from the dropdown menu
You can review photos and posts you’re tagged in before they appear on your timeline by turning on timeline review. Keep in mind, photos and posts you hide from your timeline are visible to the audience they’re shared with other places on Facebook, such as in News Feed and search.
Hi Deb,
My settings are as you suggested. They’re all set to “friends”
In my activity log, I’ve “allowed on Timeline”. I see the image and tag on his timeline but not on mine.
Any other ideas as to why its not showing up on mine?
Thanks for your input, my friends and coworkers are stumped with this one too.
Thanks, Karen
No, I don’t know why, but will the activity log let you change it from allowed on timeline to show on timeline?
No, the activity log choices are “allowed on timeline” and “delete”