Facebook Like WordPress Plugin
Mitch Canter of studionashvegas came out with a cool WordPress plugin that places a facebook “like” button on the bottom of your posts. When someone likes your post, their facebook avatar shows underneath the button and it sends your link to their activity stream.
I installed this plugin today and it was super cool. The only problem was that it was auto insert and I use posts for my portfolio, apps and homepage, but didn’t want to have the button there.
So I decided to play with the plugin a bit, and ended up customizing it so that you can choose in the admin whether to have it auto inserted, or manually inserted, along with a function that allows you to put the button anywhere you choose. I ended up sending the files back to Mitch, who loved it sooo much, he updated the official plugin with it.
You can see the working plugin below. So download his awesome plugin, with my mods, in the offical WordPress repository and let us know what you think. (I want us to do more!)
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Amber Weinberg specializes in clean and semantic XHTML, CSS and WordPress development. She has over 10 years of coding experience and is pretty cool to work with. Amber is available for freelance work, so why not hire her for your next project?
No doubt similar modules will be made and released for Drupal. I’m actually very mixed about all of this Facebook integration. I understand it’s their attempt to avoid the fate of Friendster/Myspace and stay relevant, but there’s a divided camp out there regarding how much this might impede privacy while “Facebookizing” the web. I’m sure making sites “Facebook Compliant” is going to become a fad.
I’m not really sure what you mean about facebook compliant or how this would impede on privacy. All this does is share the link just like the regular share button does.
This will be great for some users, but it’s extremely easy to add this manually to a WordPress theme with just a couple lines of code.
I’m sure we’ll see some crazy WordPress implementations of Facebook and Twitter’s new developer features soon though.
Yea but every plugin is usually easy to implement with just a few lines of code. Plugins are normally meant for use by none developers or people with not enough time to code
Pretty sweet! I am going to give it a shot!
Thanks for co-creating this handy plug in!!
Nice work, Amber! That is a very useful little plugin because on Facebook people tend to respond to things very fast – mostly due to how intuitive the interface is with little buttons like this!
Nice! I just added it to my site http://flickthis.tv
Now, my question is can we modify it to include a share box the way the like button works on CNN.com? see this link for an example, try clicking on it… http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/29/cashmore.google.facebook/index.html