Tag Archives: wordpress

Adding Facebook Like button to WordPress blog

You Like?

I’ve added some new plugins into the blog which you may notice including the Facebook Like button.

I have wanted to add this since Facebook introduced this feature a few months ago. It allows you to “like” a webpage and notify your facebook friends. Its great because its a personal recommendation and so easy for users to undertake this action.

I thought that I needed to paste some code into the css/html settings. However, the wordpress open source community has created an easy plugin that only requires a few clicks. The thing I love about WordPress hosted blogs is the access to the treasure trove of plugins which do not require any technical ability to install. I’ve long been an advocate of simple, easy and low tech solutions.

Adding the Facebook Like button


These instructions are only for wordpress hosted blogs (as this is what I use). These are the blogs that have been installed onto a server. For example, it does not include the ones that end in “.wordpress.com”.

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Guy Kawasaki on Twitter

One of the social media guru’s on Twitter – saw it on the Brightkit blog.

Also, are you looking at starting up a blog? Or already have one and re-evaluating your blogging platform? Check out this guide from problogger.

And this is the craziest thing I have seen all day, wait…. for a while. Geeks getting tatts of Mac’s, RSS, Zelda and HTML Code.

I’m out like getting a tattoo of HTML code,

Matthew Ho.

Slideshare test

I’m testing docstoc v slideshare at the moment, and whether they can be posted to blogs.

Both these applications are social media platforms for sharing documents. Basically, like Youtube for documents. Docstoc is geared more towards professionals, whereas slideshare is more towards general powerpoint slide sharing. Docstoc contains legal precedents, business agreements, presentations. Slideshare contains slides on just about anything. Both platforms allow you to post up .ppt, .pdf, word, etc..

So here goes my test for embedding slideshare:

Update: It works. So you can embed, you just have to do it slightly differently. Follow these instructions and click on the words “customize” to get a special wordpress HTML code.

Docstoc looks like a different beast. I’ll have to figure out how to embed that. This guy could do it. I think its a security issue, that’s why you can’t embed stuff and you need special wordpress code.