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Facebook Social Plugins Pt. 4: The Like Box

Posted: by Karl Kranich from Media for Ministry
Tags: blog, blogging, facebook, facebook for ministry, fan page, how to, howto, like box, like button, online training, social plugin, tips, tutorial, wordpress, wordpress help

In the previous 3 parts of our series on the Facebook (FB) social plugins, we’ve shown you

In this last tutorial, we’ll show you how to install the Like Box, which is like a small window to your FB Page. It shows visitors to your blog a quick snapshot of the activity on your FB page, and which of their friends are already fans of it. The best part is that if they’re not already a fan of your FB page, they can become one by clicking on the Like button inside the Like Box.

This plugin gives you an easy way to integrate the content and audiences of your website and your FB world. Now your Facebook page has another avenue of gaining viral popularity as the popularity of your website goes up.

For this tutorial, we’ll show you two different ways to get plugin to show up on your site. We’re also assuming that you’re using version 2.9 or later of WordPress...

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Installing the Facebook Like Button Part 2: Make the Button Work

Posted: by Karl Kranich from Media for Ministry
Tags: blog, blogging, facebook, facebook for ministry, fan page, how to, howto, like button, online training, tips, tutorial, wordpress, wordpress help

In part 1 of our series on the Facebook Social Plugins, we showed you how to prep your site for all of the FB social plugins by installing the JavaScript SDK. From here on, using the Facebook Social Plugins on your blog is pretty easy. This tutorial will show you how to make the Like Button appear in a couple different places on your site.

For this tutorial, we’re assuming that you’re using version 2.9 or later of Wordpress and version 1.7 or later of the Thesis Theme, and that you’ve gone through the steps in part one of this series.

We’ll also be editing the Thesis Custom_Functions.php file again. Check out part 1 of this series for more details on how to do that.

In both cases below, you can customize what the button looks like, and what it does, with the different parameters. For example, if you change Show Faces to false, visitors to your site won’t be able to see the profile pictures of their Facebook friends who have already clicked on the Like Button. This might be useful to keep your home page fr...

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