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In order to keeping busy visitors on our blogs finally we got the plugin which we have been waiting from long time,recently facebook has launched their "Recommendation Bar" in beta version,the Recommendation Bar is a plugin which shows a number of some recommended articles for your readers or visitors and you can set number of recommended articles,when any visitor visits to your any post,after some specific time the plugin pop ups at the right/left corner of your blog with the recommended articles,thats why its helps you to keep busy your visitors on your blog.The plugin contains title of your post,thumbnail and number of likes just below of that post and the plugin shows the only those articles which are previously liked or shared on facebook.If you want more such plugins then I am listing some similar widgets and plugins -

Now lets see how to add facebook recommendations bar to blogger?

How To Add Facebook Recommendations Bar To Blogger?

For better understanding I am dividing this post in two parts and they are as below,

Creating new Facebook App
Adding Facebook Recommendations Bar To Blogger

Part 1 : Creating new Facebook App

To create Facebook app for your Recommendation Bar follow below steps,

First go to Facebook Apps and login with your Facebook account
Click on Create New App button at top right corner

As soon as you hit Create New App button a pop up box will appear.In App Name field fill Recommend Bar and keep all it is and hit Continue button.

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Enter the captcha as shown in image and hit Submit button

Now you will redirect to an another page.Scroll down and click on Website with Facebook Login tab and inside the box input your blog URL.Now leave all fields as it is and click Save Changes

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Now copy your App ID and paste it into notepad,we will need it later.

Great,you have created your App.Now lets see how to add Recommendations Bar to blogger.

Part 2 : Adding Facebook Recommendations Bar To Blogger

Go to Blogger Dashboard > Template
Download a copy of your template
Click on Edit HTML
Hit Proceed button
Now search for below code in your template

<html

replace it with below code,

<html xmlns:fb='http://ogp.me/ns/fb#'

Now find for below code,

<body>

just below of it paste following code,

Note - If you are using default blogger templates then search for <body tag instead of above code.

<div id='fb-root'/> 
<script> 
//Facebook Recommendation bar by http://www.helperblogger.com/
//this notice must stay intact for legal use
//For more visit http://www.helperblogger.com/
//<![CDATA[
(function(d, s, id) { 
  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; 
  if (d.getElementById(id)) return; 
  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; 
  js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=YOUR APP ID HERE"; 
  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); 
}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));
//]]> 
</script> 
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != &quot;static_page&quot;'><div style='z-index:999999; position:absolute;'> 
<fb:recommendations-bar action='like' max_age='0' num_recommendations='3' read_time='10' side='right' site='http://www.helperblogger.com/' trigger='40%'/></div> 
</b:if></b:if>

Replace APP ID HERE with your APP ID which you have created in first part
Replace http://www.helperblogger.com/ with your blog URL.
The widget will only appear on post pages and not on homepage or static pages. To display it on all pages, then simply delete the lines in red color.
If you want to change number of recommendations then simply change the value 3
If you don't want to show your old articles then edit the value max_age='0',you can set it to 1-180.But if you don't want to take age into account then let it be 0 as default.
If you want to change position of bar to right to left then simply replace right with left.
When any visitor comes to your blog,after specific time the bar expand.I have set the time to 10 seconds to chnage it just change value 10.

Finally save your template and visit your post pages.

The installation of this plugin is longer but it is easy.If are getting any problem then feel free to post it via comment form.I'll glad to help you :)

New Facebook Popout Likebox Version 2 for Blogger

Hi, Here is the New Updated Facebook Popout Likebox Gadget of Version 2 for Blogger. This is Updated Release Comes with Highly Customizable options. Many of Readers asking How change the position from right to left, Width and Height. With this Updated version you can customize those options as well as Background Colors and Facebook Badge Color also.

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Click here for Live Demo

How to Install Facebook Popout Likebox Version 2 ?

First you need to have a jQuery Plugin in your Blog template.
This Step is Required, If your Blog already have this plugin then Ignore this Step.
If your Blog Don’t have this Plugin, Install the jQuery Plugin.
Add the below line of code before </head> tag.

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

Click the Widget Generator Button
Customize the Settings as you need
Click on Generate button and add widget to your Blog

Some Instructions to Newbies

Likebox is for Facebook Pages. Some New Bloggers are using Their Profile Url and try to Installing the Facebook Likebox. But it gives Error!!.
For Example, Way2Blogging’s FB page is http://facebook.com/way2blogging and you should see the Like Button in this Facebook Page.
where as in Facebook profile you should see the +1 Add Friend button.
That is the small Difference you can identify in the FB Page. Good Luck!