Install Facebook LIKE BOX to Your Blogger & Wordpress Blogs

Everyone brand / product / service / website essentially have a Facebook Page these days. Placing a Facebook LIKE BOX at a key spot on your Blog or site is the nice way to create access for visitors to stay tuned with your offerings.

Here's how to add Facebook LIKE BOX on your blog. (I have mentioned for both Wordpress & Blogger below, Take your Pick)

Remember, It's only possible on Self hosted Wordpress blogs,  blogger and websites. Don't waste time looking to place it on Wordpress.com free hosting. Whether or not you have a unique URL.. It's essential that the WP blog is self hosted to place the like box. You can't install a facebook like box in wordpress.com

Common Steps for Both - 

Go to http://developers.facebook.com/plugins. There is an alternate way to do it by going through Edit page of Facebook, but I find this much easier.

Select "Like Box" from the menu on right column (Please Note there is a difference between LIKE BOX and LIKE BUTTON, so don't confuse yourself)

Now you need to enter your page details and preferences on the form.

1. Facebook Page ID - These are the unique numbers assigned to your page. To find your Page ID - Go to your facebook page, Click on your profile picture and in the Navigation Toolbar (Where you write the URL's) look for a long number code. Copy and Paste it on the Form

2. Set your preferences in terms of size, no. of fans to show, not show etc and hit GET CODE.

Now Copy the Iframes or Xfbml Code (as preferable on your site). For Blogger choose the Iframes Code.

Install Facebook Like Box on Blogger

Paste the iframe code on your HTML/Java box in blogger through page elements.

Install Facebook Like Box to Your Wordpress (Selfhosted) blog
1.Go to Widgets under Appearance
2. Find TEXT widget and Drag it to your side bar
3. Paste the Iframe Code to it, and Save.

I hope that's helpful, Let me know if any problems.

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How to Auto Publish from Blogger to Facebook Page

Well - that was my search query a couple of months back "how to auto publish from blogger to facebook page" - thought it was worth sharing!

So how do you do it?

Step 1 - Go to EDIT PAGE right under your page profile picture.
Step 2 - Scroll Down and look for NOTES

Step 3 - On Notes, Hit the EDIT Link

Step 4 - Scroll down to the bottom again and look for EDIT IMPORT SETTINGS

Step 5 - On the Next Page, Fill in your RSS Feed link in the space provided, check the authorization box and Hit it!

Now your posts on blogger will be Auto Published every time you put a new one! This will save you some extra minutes everyday + if you have already integrated the Facebook with Twitter, one more step will be saved!

Important: While auto publishing, to make sure that your feeds are published on the WALL for sure , on your EDIT PAGE > Under NOTES > Click 'APPLICATION SETTINGS and see that the 'Publish Content to my wall' is checked or not checked, as per what you desire.

Once you have integrated these settings all your earlier posts will get published all at once on the wall. So make sure you have either disabled the 'Publish to Wall' first or instead go and manually remove the feeds on the wall that you don't want to flood the page with.

Wordpress users can also follow same steps to auto publish blog posts from wordpress to facebook page.

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