How to Setup a Facebook Fan Box Widget on WordPress

I think that having a Facebook page for your business is an absolute must. I think that a Facebook page is much more productive and offers real benefits when it comes about building a community and creating an interaction with people that are really interested in your services/products than other social networks.

Promote your Facebook Page – Spread the Word

Now, just because you create a Facebook page doesn’t mean that automatically people will discover you and become your fans. You have to spread the word about it on all the channels you already use for your business.

And one of those channels is your own website or blog. You can promote your Facebook page just like you promote your Twitter account or YouTube account: with a social icon that links to your Facebook page. It’s nothing wrong in doing it like this.

However you have a second option that offers much more information about your Facebook page and that is using a Facebook Fan Box. If you watch the video from the beginning of the article you’ll learn all that you need but I also decided to write some lines about it.

Here are the simple steps on how to do it

1. Log in to your Facebook page
2. Click the Edit link
3. In the right side of your screen you’ll find Promote With a Fan Box link
4. Click the link and setup your Fan Box (in a simple visual way)
5. Copy the code and use it on your blog
6. If you have a WordPress blog you can use the script in two ways:
   1. Place it in a Text Widget
   2. Place it directly in your theme sidebar code. The down side of this second method is that when you change the theme you’ll also have to insert the code into the new theme
      NOTE: the script has a parameter called width. The minimum should be about 300px so that the Fan Box will look ok. You might need to adjust it to fit your sidebar. My advice is not to place it in a narrow style sidebar

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