Someone asked me recently, I forget who, how to put those handy dandy Facebook badges and social plug-ins on the side of your blog that pull Facebook info directly to your blog. I have one to the side (are you looking to your right?) for The Write Advice Facebook page. See it? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.Well, it's easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy as my daughter would say.
For badges...
- Profile badge that shares your FB info on other websites
- Photo badge that shares your FB photos
- Like badge that shows off your favorite FB pages
- Page badge that shares your FB page on other websites
For social plug-ins...
- Like button lets a user share your content with friends on Facebook (this is the button over there to the right above The Write Advice stuff)
- Send button allows readers to easily send your content to others (also to the right)
- Comments button allows readers to comment on your site
- Activity feed displays the most interesting recent activity taking place on your site
- Like box enables FB page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website (The Write Advice box to your right)
- Recommendations shows personalized recommendations to your users
- Registration allows users to easily sign up for your website with their Facebook account
- Facepile displays the FB pics of people who have liked your page
- Live stream lets users visiting your site or application share activity and comment in real time
Word of warning: many of these badges and plug-ins are so cool you'll think you need to add them all. Don't do it! You will totally clutter your site. Think stream-lined.
So which cool FB badges have you added/or are you adding? What about the social plug-ins? Or do you think they're all just too much Facebook (cuz that's cool too)?
5 comments:
Is it the same process for the twitter badge?
No, Amber, good question though. Here's a link for Twitter badges: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets
Hope that helps!
I wish someone would do the same for Wordpress as some of their plugins and widgets are much more complex to install #sigh but this is very useful for Blogger ;)
Joanna, each of these badges and plug-ins should work on wordpress or any website because the links just generate HtML code to insert on your site. But yes, wordpress is a little more difficult to add these things to.
Laura, what a great post; thank you! For now I'm using the page badge instead of the like box. I've also tried adding the like/send buttons, but I'm not able to receive FB's text message with the confirmation code, which will enable me to do so. Ah well, you can't have everything!
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