Introducing the Facebook Like Plugin for Wordpress

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Introducing the Facebook Like Plugin for Wordpress

Here’s some fantastic news for WordPress users: inspired by yesterday’s announcement at F8 about the Open Graph, we are introducing a new plugin that you can use for your WordPress site!

You can easily add the Facebook like widget to your blog with this download: wordpress-facebook-like-0.2

Please feel free to send us your feedback! How exciting!

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Tags: #F8, Facebook Plugin, Like Plugin, Open Graph, WordPress Facebook Like Plugin

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Marcus | ADMAX says:

July 2, 2010 at 6:47 pm

Oops – I found it! LOL m

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Aaron Simpson says:

July 5, 2010 at 9:16 pm

How do you adjust the font color? It is a bit dark for my color scheme and can’t figure it out!

Thanx in advance!

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Tommie says:

July 9, 2010 at 12:21 am

Check out likebot.com if you want a like-button without the Facebook-connections.

WP plugin here:
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/likebot/

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Art Weeks says:

July 19, 2010 at 11:23 pm

Is there a way to control which pages display the like button?

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Greg Downing says:

July 20, 2010 at 10:43 am

Great plugin guys! I am pretty impressed when I go to a website and see pictures of my friends that “liked” a site, I am so much more likely to use the like button.

I have experienced one problem though, I used the plugin on my site and it is not always using the title of my post in facebook. For instance when I liked this article, www.xrez.com/blog/siggraph-2010-talk/ is shows up as “Greg likes xRez Studio on xRez Studio.” instead of using the name of the article “Siggraph 2010 Presentation: DIY Time-Lapse Motion-Control Systems”. Any ideas?

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- Richard says:
  
  July 30, 2010 at 4:50 pm
  
  Hi Greg,
  
  Try updating your Wordpress template so it includes the page name in the tag. Unfortunately Facebook has their own code that grabs the page title and it uses the html tags to get it.
Andrei says:

August 2, 2010 at 3:02 pm

Hello,
I have some problems with the ilike button. It appears in every page. Pages like about and contact us and I don’t want them there.
Does anyone know how to remove the ilike button only from the about page and the contact us page.
Thank you,
Andrei

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RamEEz says:

August 13, 2010 at 7:33 am

Hi
I want the LIKE button to show in Categories as well. how can i do that?
plus is there a way to edit the setting of Permalinks?
thanks

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- Leslie says:
  
  October 4, 2010 at 8:23 am
  
  Did you ever figure this out? I also need the Like button to show up on the category pages. Thanks.
Amanda says:

August 17, 2010 at 1:53 am

I have added the plugin (which is fab) but due to the spacing of my blog not being standard it appears too far to the left. Is there a way of shifting the position of the Like towards the right?

To take a look of what I mean visit www.papture.com/blog

Thanks,

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- Todd says:
  
  August 18, 2010 at 10:20 am
  
  We have submitted an updated version of the plugin version 0.3. Once wordpress.org approves it into their repository, each br will have a class=”wordpress_facebook_like” so you may use css to add a margin to the left of the br.
  br.wordpress_facebook_like {
  margin-left: 30px;
  }
  
  If there are any other issues please let use know and if you are happy with the plugin, don’t forget to give us a rating at wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-facebook-like/
Ed Nelson says:

August 24, 2010 at 6:57 am

Thank you for the easy “Like” button plug in!!
I tried another that required a lengthy, manual install…yours couldn’t be easier and cleaner.

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- Richard says:
  
  August 26, 2010 at 8:43 am
  
  Thanks for the feedback, Ed!
  
  If you have time, please give us a rating at wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-facebook-like/
Greg Denny says:

August 24, 2010 at 12:59 pm

I’m having an issue that I can’t figure out – when someone clicks ‘Like’, and then also leaves a ‘Comment’ – it posts to their facebook page showing only a Facebook Button as the Image beside their posting… so 2 questions:
1) How do I assign the correct page image to the plugin?
and/or
2) Can I deactivate the ability to leave a ‘Comment’ all together?

Thank you.
gd

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- Todd says:
  
  August 26, 2010 at 11:38 am
  
  Hi Greg,
  
  1. Unfortunately Facebook has their own algorithm that picks an image on the page it is not currently selected by the plugin.
  
  2. Disabling comments is a wordpress feature. In the dashboard under options -> discussion there is a checkbox to allow people to post comments…
  
  Hope this helps!
Ed Nelson says:

August 24, 2010 at 2:40 pm

When someone ‘likes’ one of my blog posts, it posts it to Facebook as intended, but it grabs my Yahoo IM online (or off line status) icon as the snapshot of my blog. It does that for every blog entry.

Any idea how to keep it from grabbing the Yahoo IM widget icon as the snapshot?

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Al Mechler says:

September 2, 2010 at 10:56 pm

educate me.

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kleinermann says:

September 4, 2010 at 6:24 pm

Hi there,
Thanks so much for this plugin. It works great on my site www.lovemysalad.com.au

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Rand HOPPE says:

September 8, 2010 at 7:51 am

Will v0.3 allow my sites to validate by putting scrolling, frameborder and allowtransparency in CSS on the class=”wordpress_facebook_like?”

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rolando says:

September 8, 2010 at 9:57 pm

I’ve been using this plugin for about a month, latest version of WP, Buddypress, etc., and just today, without making any changes to the site, I noticed that it doesn’t work if it’s set to the standard display mode without user images. If I turn on user images, it works just fine. If I change it button mode, it works fine, it just quit working on standard display mode without faces. Not sure what is up? Ideas? I went ahead and changed it to button mode for now so it will work. Thanks, rg.

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Weerasak.com » เพิ่มปุ่ม Facebook Like ในเวบ says:

October 14, 2010 at 6:58 am

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Lorenzo Hillin says:

November 23, 2010 at 8:52 am

some really nice and useful info on this site, likewise I think the design and style contains superb features.

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Garin says:

December 5, 2010 at 6:35 pm

Great plugin Thank YOU! I’ve set the plugin so that it appears at the bottom of my blog posts. But, it’s creating a large space both on the both and if I change the position to the top. Is there a fix for this? Thanks!

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Bridgeport locksmith says:

January 3, 2011 at 3:46 pm

Enjoyable read. I wish I could make myself write such good posts onto my own blog. It is not easy.

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Dave K. says:

January 11, 2011 at 8:25 am

Hi. The plugin seems to work, but it doesn’t appear in “settings” or “plugins” and doesn’t show when I list plugins via FTP. So I’m unable to adjust anything or uninstall. Any ideas?

Thanks.

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hp personal media drive says:

February 6, 2011 at 12:33 pm

I got what you mean , regards for posting .

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Dan says:

February 9, 2011 at 3:20 pm

Hello, the plugin is no longer working…just wanted to let you know. An error message is given when trying to Like/Recommend a blog post on a Wordpress site using the plugin. Any chance you could look into this?

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RJB » Blog Archiv » Customising WordPress says:

February 10, 2011 at 5:13 am

[...] a working one. In my attempts to add a Facebook stream i have installed a plugin allowing users of Facebook to like blogs on my page. As i continue i will integrate Facebook into my blog further. admin [...]

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Pol says:

February 11, 2011 at 12:52 pm

I noticed that now that FB has added the “log in as page” feature that when you are logged in as page the like button out side of FB doesn’t show up. Is that just me?

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efka says:

February 19, 2011 at 10:12 am

Hi!

I