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The Facebook Fan Box plugin is the easy way to add a Facebook Like Box to your sidebar.
3 Reasons Why You Need the Facebook Fan Box Plugin
- If you want “Likes” of your Facebook Business Page, a Facebook Like Box is essential
- Facebook provides you with a Wizard to help you setup a Facebook Like Box, but if you want to change the dimensions or settings later you’ll have to keep going back to Facebook and restarting the wizard, which is a pain.
- It’s pretty easy to set up, and easy to tweak to get it looking perfect
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How To Set Up The WordPress Plugin: Facebook Fan Box
- Once you’ve installed the plugin, just add it to your side bar as a Widget (that’s where you configure it)
- Title: I leave this blank because its obvious at a glance that it’s a Facebook Fan Box
- API Key: You can get an API key or leave it blank (it still works!)
- Profile ID: This is the ID for your Business Page. The easiest way to find it is Login to Facebook, find your Business Page and click on “Edit Page”. Copy/paste the 12 digit number in url – this is your Profile ID
- Stream: Un-tick this box. If checked it would show your status updates which looks messy
- Connections: The more the better. I like to display lots like 3 rows of 11 = 33 connections. It takes up about 980px in height. This motivates people to “Like” you because they see that they have a good chance of seeing their own profile photo in this panel
- Width/Height: This takes a bit of fiddling to get it looking right. Keep at it until you are happy
- CSS. Leave this blank
- iFrame. Tick this box
- Logo. Tick this box. But if it looks naff just un-tick it. Facebook does a poor job of automatically resizing your logo so it’s up to you to decide if it looks ok
- Language. Leave as default “en_US”
3 Things I Like About Facebook Fan Box
- You can turn off the stream and everything else so your web visitors see what they really want to see – their own profile photo!
- Web visitors can “like” you with one click
- Web visitors can visit your Facebook Business page with one click
Screenshots of the Interface
Screenshot of the finished Facebook Fan Box
Screenshot of widget configuration panel for Facebook Fan Box
What’s Next?
- Install it and have a play
- Don’t have a Facebook Business Page yet? Here’s how to set one up
- Have you found a WordPress plugin for Facebook that’s even better? Tell us in the comments below
- Have you used Facebook Fan Box? Tell us what you think about it in the comments below
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