Best Practices

This section contains best practices, guidelines, and design patterns. The purpose of these documents is to help product managers and developers understand the most effective ways to integrate with the Facebook Platform. Our goal is to complement our developer documentation by answering common questions and highlighting important aspects of the platform. These documents are both conceptual (how to think about building social experiences) and tactical (how to implement).

We will be continuously adding and updating these documents and cover additions in the weekly Platform Updates on the Developer Blog.

Open Graph

Actions + Objects

Guide: Creating Open Graph Stories

Create simple, clear, engaging stories with actions and objects.

Guide: Working With Multiple Objects

Define multiple objects to create more interesting stories and more frequent aggregations in news feed.

Guide: Working with Custom Properties

Create more compelling stories and aggregations using custom properties.

Aggregations

Guide: Creating Timeline Aggregations

Create aggregations that people find interesting.

Optimization

Guide: Complete the loop to grow your app with Open Graph

Activate an existing user base and create high quality stories that drive discovery by new users.

Tips: Open Graph

General tips on implementing Open Graph.