Chapter 15
Integrating Facebook Features into Your Website with Social Plugins
In This Chapter
Using Facebook Social Plugins
Getting Facebook friends’ recommendations and comments
Connecting with buttons and plug-ins
Showing visitors’ Facebook profile pictures with Facepile
Facebook offers ten ways of integrating users’ social activities with your website. These ways — called Facebook Social Plugins — allow you to set up your website so that whenever a reader interacts with your site, such as by leaving a comment on a blog post, a story about that action appears on that person’s timeline.
Facebook’s Social Plugins can personalize the content that your visitors see, display the names of Facebook friends who have visited the site, or allow visitors to engage with their Facebook friends without having to log in to your website. By integrating these plug-ins with your website, you essentially give your website the capability to engage Facebook users, increase website traffic, increase brand awareness, and even build your Facebook fan base.
In this chapter, you find out about the different ...
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