Add New Facebook "Like" button to your threads
Mod Version: 1.2, by ericgtr
| vB Version: 4.0.2 | Rating:  (32 votes - 4.84 average) |
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| Released: 22 Apr 2010 | Last Update: 23 Apr 2010 | Downloads: 1046 |
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Facebook has just launched their latest "Like" button to developers to use on any site. What this does is utilizes the Advertising module to add the "Like" button to the first post of each thread. Please see screenshots to get an idea.
In your Admin CP go to Advertising > New Ad > Choose "Thread" from the dropdown and then select the first thread box. Give it a title (I called mine FB Like) leave "First Post Content" at default and paste in this code:
Be sure to change YOURSITE.com to your URL including your forum.
The VBSEO team has instructions on how to make this work for their product here http://www.vbseo.com/f2/facebook-like-button-vbulletin-42695/#post265997
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Option 2 (different from above, do not use together) will show at top, see screenshot #3
In Postbit (or legacy) find:
Add this after:
For additional information on this button and different parameters please visit https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like
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For those who have asked, here is the modification adds both the "Like" button and comments to a users profile Add Facebook comments to user profile
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Additional locations to place this code:
For CMS, in vbcms_content_article_page add the code below this:
For pictures, in template album_pictureview add the code below this:
For Blog, in template blog_show_entry add at the very top.
Facebook has just launched their latest "Like" button to developers to use on any site. What this does is utilizes the Advertising module to add the "Like" button to the first post of each thread. Please see screenshots to get an idea.
In your Admin CP go to Advertising > New Ad > Choose "Thread" from the dropdown and then select the first thread box. Give it a title (I called mine FB Like) leave "First Post Content" at default and paste in this code:
HTML Code:
<!-- Facebook Like --> <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.YOURSITE.com/{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}, {vb:raw pageinfo_post}}#post{vb:raw post.postid}&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:px"></iframe> <!-- / Facebook Like -->
The VBSEO team has instructions on how to make this work for their product here http://www.vbseo.com/f2/facebook-like-button-vbulletin-42695/#post265997
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Option 2 (different from above, do not use together) will show at top, see screenshot #3
In Postbit (or legacy) find:
Code:
{vb:raw ad_location.thread_first_post_content}
Code:
<vb:if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT == showthread) AND ($post[postcount] == '1')"
<!-- Facebook Like -->
<iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://www.YOURSITE.com/{vb:link thread, {vb:raw thread}}&layout=standard&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font=tahoma&colorscheme=light" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:75px"></iframe>
<!-- / Facebook Like -->
</vb:if>
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For those who have asked, here is the modification adds both the "Like" button and comments to a users profile Add Facebook comments to user profile
=================================================
Additional locations to place this code:
For CMS, in vbcms_content_article_page add the code below this:
Code:
{vb:raw comment_block}
Code:
{vb:raw picturecomment_commentarea}
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fb_like.txt (946 Bytes, 1068 downloads)
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