Adding a Facebook like button to my Wordpress blog
In case you haven’t heard the news yet, Facebook wants to take over the world. Well, eventually. For now, they’ll settle for just taking over the internet. At the keynote for this year’s f8 conference (Facebook’s developer conference), Zuckerberg announced a few changes to Facebook that will essentially allow users to carry their social networks wherever they go, and have the interactions they take part in around the web logged back to their Facebook profiles. One of the key parts of this is the new ‘like’ button. The like button is an iframe that can be added to any page, pure html, that will allow a user to like content on that page. The key thing here is that the user doesn’t need to connect to the site, and and the site will not need any of the user’s personal information. As long as the user is logged into facebook on that browser, the ‘like’ just works. No extra steps. No permissions needed. *In theory* more likes, since it’s a single quick click.
A fundamental part of this change is that it’s supposed to be much easier for developers to work with the facebook platform, so I thought I’d put that to the test and add a like button to this blog (It should be visible on that left column). Hit the read link for details of this endeavour.
