Showing your social presence matters a lot for your business, website or any other marketing work. In this social world Facebook has leading role which can’t be denied by anyone. To give a way to your readers you have to add Facebook like box to your website. For a WordPress website this can be done easily. A question arises in the mind of beginners as how to add Facebook like box to their website? I have encountered with few of them. Even I was also seeking for Facebook widget for WordPress when I started my website.
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You may use Facebook for your personal use but when it comes to your website then you need to show your readers about your presence on Facebook. For which you need to show the page you want people to like at your website which can be done by adding Facebook widget for WordPress. The question-“how to add Facebook like box” has the answer and you can implement it at your website.
There are some simple steps to follow after which you website will be enabled with a Facebook like box which will show some lovely and smiling faces of the people who have liked your page. There will show the like button by which visitors of your website can like the page. Now I am going to show you the relevant steps which you need to follow if you wish to add Facebook page to website.
Step 1:- Open your Facebook account and copy the URL of the Facebook page of your website which you want people to like. I don’t think I need to tell you how to copy? Still just select it by ctrl+a and copy it using ctrl+c.
Step 2:- You have logged in to your Facebook account and now you need to visit Facebook Like Box Plugin Page which has created by Facebook developers. The Like Box widget has filtered into social plugins category which is the way to add Facebook like box to your website.
Step 3:- After visiting the required page you will show many information has to be filled by you. But there is nothing to worry about, you just need to paste the URL you have copied of your Facebook page in the space given under “Facebook Page URL“. You can see many options are there to choose.
You can adjust the size of the box by your own choice. You can enable to show the smiling faces of the people who have liked the Facebook page. There are options by which you can show header or border to the like box. You may have noticed that after adding the URL of your Facebook page in the require field you could see a Facebook like box which will be shown to your website. After filling the required details you need to click at “Get Code” button.
Step 4:- A new screen will appear in front of you in which you will see four option to select like-XFBML, URL and else. From all you have to select “IFRAME”. You will be provided with the code which you need to copy.
Step 5:- This is the final step after which you don’t need to ask as how to add Facebook widget for WordPress? Now login to your WordPress admin panel and go to appearance->widgets. Select the “text box” and drag it to the widget where you want to show the Facebook box. After placing the simple text widget in to the specific widget you have to paste the code which you have selected provided by Facebook to you in step 4.
From here you can adjust the width, height of the like box. You can adjust the appearance of the like button. The color scheme, border color and many else. There are some integrated option which can be used by you if you want to show them to your website.
Add Facebook Page To Website For Increasing Social Value
You have successfully added Facebook like box to your website and you can see it there showing no. of likes and smiling faces of your friends. As I have mentioned earlier that Facebook has really good social value so it’s a positive point for your website when you add Facebook page to website.
You have your own thoughts as if you have any widget to add in the sidebar or not? Do you want to increase your social value using Facebook? Be social via Facebook and make people aware about it. Though I am not a regular user of it but still we can’t deny it’s importance for our website or any other business.
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