Add Facebook Style “Like Unlike” Button To Your WordPress Blog

Facebook is one of the most popular social networking website. Facebook is more popular with its better user interface and features. Facebook is also one of the most popular networking website for blogger as one can easily drive good traffic from Facebook. As a blogger I used to write my latest post on facebook wall or fan page.Facebook offers users to express their like or dislike about the post or anything written on the wall using “Like/ Dislike” button on Facebook.

Facebook “Like/Unlike” button for wordpress blog

Likebot has created a wordpress plugin to offer similar functionality of Facebook on a wordpress blog. Such “Like/ Dislike” button will not only increase the conversation between blog owner and reader but it will also allow blog owner to read the mind of readers. Using such button readers can easily express their feeling about the post. Blog owner will also come to know about the readers mind and based on this blogger can write more topic on specific niche.

Likebot is a decentralized like system which provides a simple integration of the wordpress plugins within a blog. Users do not need to sign up to vote nor they need any authentication. It is a simple way to know whether your readers like your post/content or not. By default Likebot wordpress plugin automatically injects the like/dislike button on the bottom right hand side of the post. There are three buttons to chose from. A simple thumb button is a default one, text link ans square buttons are also provided with the latest wordpress plugin.

How To Use Facebook Like/ Unlike Button WordPress plugin Manually In The WordPress Blog

Alternatively you can copy below code and paste it to single.php file in your wordpress theme

<a class="LikeBotButton" />
 <script  src="http://i.likebot.com/button.js"  type="text/javascript"></script>
</a> 

Steps to install Facebook like button on wordpresss blog- Likebot wordpress plugin

#1 Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/likebot/ and download the plugin or manually search for “likebot” from your wordpress dashboard.

#2 Unzip the plugin and copy it to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. If you are installing from the wordpress dashboard then click on “install” button.

#3 From the plugin directory activate the plugin.

#4 Apply the appropriate settings to make it work as per your need.

That’s it.Now your likebot wordpress plugin is ready to use. You can change the plugin settings under “Plugins” directory in your dashboard.