Adding a Facebook Fan Box to your Site
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Advertise your desire for Facebook fans!
Facebook Fan Boxes provide a way of connecting your site to your organization's Facebook page.
If you've already created a Facebook page for your organization, adding a Facebook Fan Box to your site is a simple, two-step process.
- Find your Facebook page's ID. To do this, click on the logo (wall picture) in the upper left of the page. Now, look in the address bar for something like:
https://www.facebook.com/album.php?profile=1&id=264362359098
- Your page's id is the number following "id=". Now, go to the top page of your organization's SimpleSite. Log in and choose the edit tab. Fill in your API Key in the Facebook page ID in the Facebook Page ID field. Save the web form.
This How-to applies to: Any version.
Nothing missing
Posted by
mcmahon
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02-26-2011 05:59 PM
Facebook updated this mechanism to only require a page id. SimpleSites were updated to match, but the documentation was not. The doc (above) is an updated version and only mentions the page id.
New Facebook page id
Posted by
davisparentsdo
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05-25-2011 11:00 AM
Here is a sample of the new page id that comes up on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/media/set/?set=pa.227104183972165
I have been entering the # at the end without any other symbols on the admin page as my facebook id but no facebook box appears on our page. Am I entering something incorrectly?
Very last part
Posted by
mcmahon
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05-25-2011 02:03 PM
Your Facebook ID is the very last part of that page: 227104183972165. It will show more clearly when you look at the group page itself.
Your Fan Box instructions indicate 2 things are needed: API key field and page ID but the YC PAWS Admin section has only Facebook Page ID. Am I missing something?