Nowadays everyone and every techblogs are talking about Facebook and Facebook on the net. Recently Facebook has just released a new feature called "Like", which allows users to "Like" any pieces of content on an outside site with one click (via button or widget enabled website). Those likes are then transferred back to Facebook and integrated into users’ profiles.
This is definitely another good feature from Facebook to glue your website and Facebook millions users.
Facebook Like Box is a social plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website. And quoted from Facebook website, Like Box enables users to: * See how many users already like this page, and which of their friends like it too * Read recent posts from the page * Like the page with one click, without needing to visit the page
You can download a Joomla version and Wordpress below, included tutorial guides you through the installation.
Login to your Facebook account and you will need to create a New Facebook Page for your website, the fastest way is to click on "Search" field and start typing : Create New Facebook Page and enter.
On "Create a Page" page, you can select to create an Official Page or Community Page. Fill neccessaries information for your page and click on "Create Official Page" or "Create Community Page"
On the Left side, click on "Edit Page"
and on your browser URL bar, you will need to write it down the page id for the page you have just created:
Install Facebook Like Box for Joomla or Wordpress which you have downloaded.
For Facebook Page ID, you can fill it with the same page id you have created on your Facebook page.
For the rest of fields are quite self explanatory.
The Like box works great on one of my sites, but on another, I'm just getting 'Could not retrieve id for the specified page. Please verify correct href was passed in.' I have tried a couple of different FB accounts and it didn't work. Any suggestions? Do I need to change a permission on FB?
Thanks
thx for this easy to use module. One day after a succesful installation - the likebox are only showing the error message: "The page you are trying to access is restricted or unavailable"
I followed the instructions and it worked yesterday. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
Hi guys, I have installed this widget on Wordpress which works perfectly, on our Spanish blog. Now I would like the widget to be displayed in Spanish instead of English.
Normally when you change this piece of code http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1 to http://connect.facebook.net/es_ES/all.js#xfbml=1 that should work though now I don't see anything change, any advise? I'm editing the plugin PHP code
After I installed it and put my Facebook ID in I just get a white box and at the top of it a facebook logo that says go to facebook.com...what did I do wrong.
Also, do you have the plug in that I can put a like on the article I posted so people click like and it likes it on there facebook.
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I really would like to change the css of the module. I tried what you have suggested, but unfortunately I'm not to good with CSS. It would be great if you could let me know a bit more in details how I could change the .css file to have more control over the module.
Hey faazz,
I wanted also add a css class suffix to the module. I solved this by adding a plus line in the *.xml file.
In the mod_facebook_like_box.xml, before the closing </params> tag, I added this:
Code:
<param name="moduleclass_sfx" type="text" default="" label="Module Class Suffix" description="A suffix to be applied to the css class of the module (table.moduletable), this allows individual module styling" />
It works perfectly.
I have a question. I have seen that the little thumbnails of the Facebook fans disappeared from the module box (also on vivociti.com). Is this a problem of my browser/network/etc.. or is it a global bug? Thank you forward for the answer.
have not played much with the css yet and maybe you can find it from facebook if there is a way to customize the css for your own.
i have quoted some part as an example (using Firebug), as you can see , is controlled by UIStory_Message class comes directly from Facebook.
<span class="UIStory_Message">Memberships are now due!! .... </span>
the Joomla mod itself is very plain and no css hardcoded and this is going to be even more cool if you can customize its css directly from your facebook page.
is there a way to change the colour of the text in the updates box? as you can see on my page, the dark grey text is very hard to read
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thanks
brad.
i think you are planning to install the same module but for different page ?
if that the case is not weird
you can try following steps but pls take note that I havent tried it out:
1. login to back end
2. go to Module section and select Facebook LIke Box module and click on Copy button
3. Joomla will create a copy of the same module, you can rename etc.
4. Click on the copied module and maybe you can set the Page ID to a different page.
Is there a way I can install multiple Like Boxes on one web page? I know it's a strange question, just want to know if it's possible and if it is, how?
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