How to add Facebook Like/Fan Box to Blogger

A Facebook Fan Box or Like Box is a great plugin that allows blog visitors to subscribe to your blog updates via their Facebook accounts, without leaving your blog. Once subscribing (by pressing the like button), visitors will receive your most recent blog updates on their Facebook page. This box also displays faces of the "likers" on your blog. Before creating a fan box, you should already have a Facebook fan page. If you haven't yet created, click here to learn How to Create a Facebook Fan Page.

facebook like box
Create a Facebook Like Box
1. Find out your Facebook fan page URL by visiting your Facebook fan page and copy the URL in the address bar - you can see how your URL should look like in this screenshot:

facebook page address

2. Then visit this page: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like-box

3. Paste your URL into the Facebook Page URL field, as it is shown below:

create facebook fan box

4. Once you are satisfied with the looks of the Like Box, click on the "Get Code" button

5. You'll be given two codes, titled HTML 5, XFBML and IFRAME. The one we need is the 'iframe' code. Select it and copy the code generated in this box, as it is shown in the example below:

facebook iframe code

Add the Facebook Fan Box to Blogger
6. Log in to your Blogger account, go to 'Layout' > click on the 'Add a Gadget' link

blogger layout, add a gadget

7. From the pop-up window, scroll down and select the 'HTML/JavaScript' gadget:

html / javascript, blogger gadget

8. Paste the code in the empty HTML box:

javascript html gadget

9. Click Save and you're done.