Facebook Page Like Widget

27. March 2011 20:06 by rtur.net in Widgets  //  Tags: ,   //   Comments (8)

Not been a Facebook junkie, I ran into this post in Portuguese (thanks Bing translator) and found that people apparently like to add pages to Facebook and share them with friends. Not my cup of tea but hey, we should celebrate our differences, right? So I checked out that widget and ended up improving it a little bit.

For people like me who have no clue, here how it works. You get Facebook account and then go to pages section and click “create page” button in the top right corner. Facebook will generate template for you that looks something like this:

newpage

 

See that page name and key in the address bar circled in red? Take a note, you’ll need it later. The idea is that you add content to the page and over time it looks more interesting. I don’t have mine, so I used Blog Engine Wall as an example, hope no one gets mad at me for doing this.

wall

Now you have your page and want to link it to your blog, and that’s where we need a widget do the job. The way it works you add widget to the blog and it becomes sort of a window from your blog to that page.

FBwidgets

There are few settings you can change in the edit widget screen, like title, width and few others, so you can match it to your blog’s theme. Nothing special but it makes it easier to use. Important fields are page name and key – check out first picture in this post, you can always get both from address bar of your page right after “/pages/”.

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You can download widget from dnbegallery.org

In-depth on setting up Facebook page

Comments (8) -

blogenginewall
blogenginewall
3/28/2011 1:29:32 AM #

Hi @Ruslan,

Thanks for choosing and liking the blogEngineWall FB page -
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blog-Engine-Wall/201501709867816
for your post. Its an honour for us.

Suzuki
Suzuki
3/28/2011 9:28:18 PM #

Hello,
I am really happy for this. I remember when I tried to find this widget for blogEngine without success. Then I did my (very simple).
I am new with blogEngine, then I will learn your widget to improve my skills.
Sorry by the post in Portuguese, but we don't have much good things to learn in Portuguese then I try to pass something. But thanks God we have web translators, and many people of many languanges can understand us.
To finish this comment: Cheers! Go BlogEngine.Net.

Camila Schroeder
Camila Schroeder
4/9/2011 11:58:18 PM #

I`ll put one of this on my blog right now! Thanks a lot!

Kumar
Kumar
5/31/2011 10:20:26 PM #


thanks for the widget,

i tried to use on my blog gives me the following error.



Widget FBpageLikeBox not found.

Unable to cast object of type 'ASP.widgets_fbpagelikebox_widget_ascx' to type 'App_Code.Controls.WidgetBase'.X

please help

Das, Kumar

Tagesmütter Wien
Tagesmütter Wien
7/28/2011 6:26:09 PM #

Ich würde mal suchen, z.B. unter Tagesmütter Wien. Da findet man gute Babysitter und Tagesmütter.

FanpageMAX
FanpageMAX
8/21/2011 1:59:09 AM #

Thanks for this. I will incorporate this to my blog. Thanks!

Thomas Dean
Thomas Dean
9/13/2011 7:40:20 AM #

Thanks for sharing interesting idea and We should make unique title of facebook page and After read your post, I became knowledgeable of make facebook page...

Michael
Michael
9/21/2011 12:34:57 PM #

This is a nice implementation. Hopefully it generates web traffic since that is the point.

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