The Facebook Like button lets a user share the content with friends on Facebook. When a user clicks the Like button on your site, a story appears in the user's friends' News Feed with a link back to your website.
When your Web page represents a real-world entity, things like movies, sports teams, celebrities, and restaurants, you can use the
Open Graph protocol to specify information about the entity.
This Facebook Like Widget for AbleCommerce allows you to include the Open Graph tags so that your page becomes equivalent to a Facebook page. This means when a user clicks a Like button on your page, a connection is made between your page and the user. Your page will appear in the "Likes and Interests" section of the user's profile, and you have the ability to publish updates to the user. Your page will show up in same places that Facebook pages show up around the site (e.g. search), and you can target ads to people who like your content.
Using Facebook Like Widget
Facebook Like Widget can be used in the scriptlets as follows
[[ConLib:Plugables/FBLike]]
There are a number of parameters that can be used with FBLike control. These parameters are described below.
- UseOpenGraph
Indicates whether to use Open Graph meta tags in header or not. Default value is "true".
- FBAdmins
A comma-separated list of either Facebook user IDs or a Facebook Platform application ID that administers this page. Default value is empty string.
- CatalogNodeType
Type of catalog node. Could be "Product", "Category" or "WebPage". Default value is "Product"
- PageTitle
Page title to use if the page is not a product, category or webpage. Default title is the store name.
- PageImage
Page image to use if the page is not a product, category or webpage. Default is no image.
- PageUrl
Page URL to use if the page is not a product, category or webpage. Default value is the current page URL.
- BtnLayout
Layout of the facebook like button. Options are standard and button_count
- BtnText
Button text to use. For example 'like' or 'recommend'
- Width
Width of the facebook like button
- Height
Height of the facebook like button
You can see the Facebook Like Widget in action at various pages on this website including this page.