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Adding a Facebook Like Button to your WordPress Website

April 21, 2010

Earlier today during the F8 Conference, Facebook announced some of their new social plugins that can be used through any website. I instantly got excited about this because now I can enable my websites with a Facebook Plugin that will allow viewers to not only share the specific page on my website they were viewing but also “like” it as well.

Installing this plugin on a static HTML website is quite easy, but installing it to work on a WordPress website, such as the website you are reading this blog post on, is a bit more tricky. I am sure that someone will quickly release a nifty plugin for WordPress that will make adding this functionality even easier but for now you can watch my tutorial and get it done yourself.

Items you will need:
A self hosted version of WordPress – http://wordpress.org
A FTP Client (Mac: Cyberduck, PC: Firezilla)

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: facebook, iFrame, Like, Like Button, social media 10 Comments

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  1. Daryl says

    April 22, 2010 at 5:28 am

    Hello, thanks to this tutorial, I was able to place the ‘Like’ button on my blog posts. Now, I was wondering, how am I going to monitor those who ‘Liked’ my blogpost?

  2. Joanna Paterson says

    April 22, 2010 at 5:51 am

    That’s really helpful thanks… and it works 🙂

  3. Adam says

    April 22, 2010 at 7:51 am

    Awesome! Thank you so much!

  4. Adam says

    April 22, 2010 at 8:16 am

    Here’s a question, how come it doesn’t allow somebody who “likes” my article to be able to write a comment to share on Facebook as well?
    For instance on CNN.com when you select “recommend” a box opens up and allows you to comment on it before posting it.

    Any thoughts?

  5. Kelvin Lee says

    May 2, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    Great video! Learned a few tricks 🙂

    It is actually quite simple to add that piece of code in a regular theme, however it is very tricky to add that piece of code in a child theme however. Still trying to figure it out without luck. Anyone got it working with a child theme?

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