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Add Facebook Like Button to Blogger Posts

To add Facebook Like button to your blogger blog posts simple follow the below steps:

1- Login to your Blogger Account and go to Design > Edit HTML and click on the check box which says "Expand Widget Templates
2- inside the html code look for the tag: <data:post.body/> Directly after this tag add the below code:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div>
<script src='http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1'/><fb:like layout='button_count'/>
</div>
</b:if>
3- Save changes


You may change the feel and look of your like button by changing and adding attributes to the fb:like tag, those attributes are:




  • layout - there are three options.
    • standard - displays social text to the right of the button and friends' profile photos below. Minimum width: 225 pixels. Default width: 450 pixels. Height: 35 pixels (without photos) or 80 pixels (with photos).
    • button_count - displays the total number of likes to the right of the button. Minimum width: 90 pixels. Default width: 90 pixels. Height: 20 pixels.
    • box_count - displays the total number of likes above the button. Minimum width: 55 pixels. Default width: 55 pixels. Height: 65 pixels




  • show_faces - specifies whether to display profile photos below the button (standard layout only)



  • width - the width of the Like button.



  • action - the verb to display on the button. Options: 'like', 'recommend'



  • font - the font to display in the button. Options: 'arial', 'lucida grande', 'segoe ui', 'tahoma', 'trebuchet ms', 'verdana'



  • colorscheme - the color scheme for the like button. Options: 'light', 'dark'



  • ref - a label for tracking referrals; must be less than 50 characters and can contain alphanumeric characters and some punctuation (currently +/=-.:_). The ref attribute causes two parameters to be added to the referrer URL when a user clicks a link from a stream story about a Like action:
    • fb_ref - the ref parameter
    • fb_source - the stream type ('home', 'profile', 'search', 'other') in which the click occurred and the story type ('oneline' or 'multiline'), concatenated with an underscore.
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