Everyday is a new day. To make it more interesting, many social bookmarking site as well as others well known social networking sites comes with a user  friendly features like icons and widgets to make surfing and sharing made easier.  As for now, Facebook just released its new sharing feature for people to share what they like and interested in while surfing and reading a blog post : “Like button”.

This Facebook Like button enables users to make connections to your pages and share the content back to their friends on Facebook with only one click. Unlike any others sharing option, Like button only need you to Like it or Recommend the post once. You will not bother by any annoying pop ups or request to get permission to access the website.

There are a number of options for the Like button, including the option to include the names and profile pictures of the user's friends who have liked the page. You may also change the colors and the button types.





Here is a demo Like button for this site :

For standard Like button


Or Like button_count

standard light recommend button

Or standard dark recommend button | Suitable for dark theme

This guide will walk you through the basics step to install this application to your blog with some of the features.

Step 0 : In your Blogger dashboard Click 'Layout' ► 'Edit Html' ► 'Expand Widget Templates'. Don't forget to backup your template by download it first.

Step 1 : Ctrl + F and find the following code in your blog Html

<data:post.body/>

Step 2 : Paste the code below after the above code

<!-- facebook like this -->

<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp; font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:60px;'/>

<!-- /facebook like this -->

Step 3 : Now, to make some changes to the Like Button, these are some adjustment that you can make..

layout = standard / button_count  [choose layout]
show_faces = true / false              [show picture]
action = like / recommend            [option : Like or Recommended button]
colorscheme = light / dark            [color]
height: 60px                                 [adjust height]

Final Step : Save your template.

Refer to this post for widget placement :
Control your Widget Placement with Conditional Tags

For more information, visit these site
[http://developers.facebook.com/docs/guides/web]
[http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like]

Happy blogging and have a nice day..

Updates Oct 3rd 2010 : How To Add Facebook Box Count Like Button To Blogger
Updates May 20 2011 : How to Add Facebook Send Button on Blogger + Facebook Like (in XFBML)



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