Another New Floating Facebook Like Box For WordPress

by Ammar Ali on May 11, 2012 · 24 comments

facebook like box widgetRecently we shared simple yet stylish floating facebook like box widget. Now we came with Another New Floating Facebook Like Box Widget For WordPress ! This will Floating Facebook Button when to move your cursor on it it pop out with stylish floating facebook like box. Its widget for WordPress. You can find floating facebook like box here.  Now lets move to how you can add this in blogger I will show you How You Can Add Another New Floating Facebook Like Box Widget To WordPress?

Add Floating Facebook Like Box Widget To WordPress !

  1. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Available Widgets.
  2. Drag Text widget into a sidebar.
  3. Paste in the code.
  4. Save.
<script type="text/javascript">
 /*<![CDATA[*/
 jQuery(document).ready(function() {jQuery(".abtlikebox").hover(function() {jQuery(this).stop().animate({right: "0"}, "medium");}, function() {jQuery(this).stop().animate({right: "-250"}, "medium");}, 500);});
 /*]]>*/
 </script>
 <style type="text/css">
 .abtlikebox{background: url("http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mMtB2ANqowQ/T6es-PuSR2I/AAAAAAAAAjM/LDamrUnMJJc/s320/fb1-right.png") no-repeat scroll left center transparent !important; float: right;height: 270px;padding: 0 5px 0 46px;width: 245px;z-index:  99999;position:fixed;right:-250px;top:20%;}
.abtlikebox div{ padding: 0; margin-right:-8px; border:4px solid  #3b5998; background:#fafafa;}
.abtlikebox span{bottom: 4px;font: 8px "lucida grande",tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;position: absolute;right: 6px;text-align: right;z-index: 99999;}
 .abtlikebox span a{color: gray;text-decoration:none;}
 .abtlikebox span a:hover{text-decoration:underline;}
}
</style>
 <div class="abtlikebox" style="">
     <div>
     <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/likebox.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Fallbloggingtips&amp;width=245&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;show_faces=true&amp;border_color=white&amp;connections=9&amp;stream=false&amp;header=false&amp;height=270" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border: white; overflow: hidden; height: 270px; width: 245px;background:#fafafa;"></iframe><span>Widget by :<a href="http://www.AllBloggingTips.com"> All Blogging Tips</a></span>
     </div>
 </div>

5. Click on Save button and done !

Note:-Replace allbloggingtips With Your Facebook User name.

5. Save your widget.

Now this is most important part. If you missed it the widget will not works.

6. Goto Appearance > Editor

7. Than goto > Header.php

8. Now Place below code just before <head>

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

9. Click Save.

Now Visit your blog to see it that its working :D . Hope you enjoy the post.

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1 Bharat Chowdary May 13, 2012 at 12:30 pm

Really like this like box, will there be any effect on page loading speed if we add this ?

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2 Ammar Ali May 13, 2012 at 1:03 pm

Not so much ;)

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3 Chuck May 14, 2012 at 10:28 pm

Thanks for the code, I have been wanting a floating box but haven’t been able to find one I like.

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4 Naser May 14, 2012 at 11:10 pm

Thanks for the share Ammar. Can we use HTML 5 like box in that code?

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5 Ammar Ali May 14, 2012 at 11:12 pm

I am not sure about that :( But you can test it and see yourself it works or not

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6 Rahul May 18, 2012 at 7:37 pm

Really impressed by watching your improvement,when you published(25/01/2012) your first slide out facebook like box the number of your facebook fans was 66 and now(11/05/2012) on this version it is 364.Keep going bro.Best of luck….

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7 Ammar Ali May 18, 2012 at 8:10 pm

Yeah ! Glad to know that ;) BTW now total facebook likes are 400+ :P

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8 NGOCHUY1991 June 1, 2012 at 3:02 pm

It’s look like arscode-social-slider-free plugins!

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9 Scott June 24, 2012 at 8:27 am

Thank you for sharing good practices. Good advice is always good to take. Great article, I will try to increase my ranking on Google with these tips.

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10 Masroor Aijaz July 14, 2012 at 2:29 pm

I even didn’t add the header code but still my floating facebook like box works.
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11 Gautam July 19, 2012 at 1:09 pm

hi Ammar i liked your way for this facebook like box without plugin so out hosting a/c not much load for other java scripts.
thanks for this code.
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12 Ammar Ali July 19, 2012 at 1:18 pm

You are right bro..

Thanks for visiting and commenting.. :)

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13 dika July 26, 2012 at 2:02 am

i’ve put it on my website, and it’s work.. thanks
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14 Adil September 7, 2012 at 4:12 am

please specify how to put in facebook user name. whenever i am putting in my page name.its generating an error

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15 Ammar Ali September 7, 2012 at 11:36 am

Let me know whats your facebook page username? I’ll give you new code for this! :)

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16 Andrew September 30, 2012 at 9:48 pm

I think I discovered why it stopped working but would love a work around. I really love your code. I made a post that contained a youtube video and it stopped working. After i removed the post it started working again.
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17 Patrick October 10, 2012 at 4:02 am

Hi. I saw that you have done exactly the same as I did over 1 year ago that is already adapted for WP, please take a look http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/be-it-facebook-sidetab/ if you guys still have problems with this.

Regards

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18 Phil M January 10, 2013 at 3:10 am

Great tutorial Ali,
Was easy to follow and looks great on my blog !
Thanks
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19 rakesh kumar January 18, 2013 at 10:52 am

Hello Ammar, if i am not wrong this code was originally belong to bloggers. You just customized it for wordpress. Am i right ? This really create an awesome feelings.
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20 Ammar Ali January 18, 2013 at 3:12 pm

This widget was only available for blospot users. But I converted in to WP as well.. Now This is available for both. You can see the blogger version here.

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21 rakesh kumar January 18, 2013 at 9:52 pm

It means i was quite right in this case. Your basically come on wordpress from blogger. its really awesome progress, Congratulation.. for this growth.

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22 Nirav January 18, 2013 at 11:10 am

Thanks , it`s working good. But i want to put left side of my blog. Where should i changed in code.

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23 Ammar Ali January 18, 2013 at 3:10 pm

Search for “float : right” in above code and replace it with left. :)

Let me know if you still face any issue!

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24 Donah February 22, 2013 at 12:43 am

Hi Ammar! Wow this is so awesome. I think I like the feel of this widget compare to the ones I saw before. I’m not code savvy but this post is super helpful! Thanks so much! Just put it on my blog.

xx Donah
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