The following instructions explain how to add a Facebook badge as a left widget to your website.
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First go to the Facebook Badges webpage and select Page Badge. You should see a list of the pages for which you have administrative control
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Click Edit this badge for the appropriate page, make the changes you want and click Save. For a left hand widget you should make sure the badge is vertical.
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Next click Other and below a box entitled Copy the code below and paste it on your website appears
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Copy all of the code in the Copy the code below and paste it on your website appears box. The code you have just copied is the embed code for the Facebook badge
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Login to the Hammerhead CMS Control Panel and select Site, Left Widgets from the menus
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Click New o create a new widget and select Embedded, then click Next
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Enter a widget name such as Facebook, paste the embed code into the Embed Code box and click Execute
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Adjust the order of your left widgets and finally refresh your site cache
Yu should now see a Facebook badge on your homepage. If you see any strange code on your homepage above or below the new widget then you haven't copied all of the required embed code from Facebook, so go back to Facebook and re-copy the code, then edit the widget to paste in the new code.
There are many website offering embed code for other useful services, like weather widgets, live chat widgets, news widgets, etc. The process for adding them to your website is the same as above only you might want to create a specific page is the embedded control is too large to fit as a left widget - check out the following webpage Adding a widget to your website for more details.
If you have any questions about these instructions please e-mail support@hammerheadtechnologies.com