How to Add a Facebook Like/Fan box to Blogger

Facebook replaced the input Facebook Page ID with Facebook Page URL. This tutorial has been revised accordingly.

Here is a tutorial on adding a Facebook Like box (formerly a Fan box) to Blogger/blogspot. It’s a good way to promote your Facebook page. A Like box lets your readers:

• See how many users already Liked your page.

Like your Facebook page with just one click, without having to visit the page. 

• Read your page’s recent posts (if you choose to display them).
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• (Looking for Like button instead? Learn how to Add Facebook Like button here)
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Now let’s proceed shall we?

• I) Get your Facebook page ID URL
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• Copy the Id URL from your browser’s address bar. It’s at the end of the url. Trim the URL until you get something like this:
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• Now paste your page ID URL inside the Facebook Page ID URL text box.
  Set other parameters such as width, height and stream. The Preview on the right will update itself as you enter the changes.

Click Get Code button when done. You’ll be given two codes, titled iframe and XFBML. You only need the iframe code.

The iframe code should look more or less like this (do not copy this code): <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FBlogger-Sentral%2F115496238467364&amp;width=292&amp;connections=10&amp;stream=false&amp;header=true&amp;height=280" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:292px; height:280px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FBlogger-Sentral%2F115496238467364&amp;width=292&amp;connections=10&amp;stream=false&amp;header=true&amp;height=280" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:292px; height:280px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>

• Copy the code (the code provided by Facebook, not the code in no.5).
• In Blogger, go to Design > Page Elements and click an Add-A-Gadget link. Select HTML/Javascript gadget and paste the code in the content box.
• Save and view your blog.
• Enjoy!
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