How to create and embed a Like Widget for a Facebook Fan Page

November 24, 2012 Sorin Adam Matei

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A simple tutorial on how to generate the code needed to embed a Facebook Fan Page Like Widget into your website. The example is customized for a WordPress based side, Kidnect.us. For other sites, simply dump the code into your html code. The URL for the interface to create Facebook Like Widgets is https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box/. When you get there you need to have the URL of your page handy (copied in the clipboard through control + V).

Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

Sorin Adam Matei

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