Here it is… As any of you watching yesterdays keynote from Facebook’s F8 conference CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Universal Like Button – 1 Billion sites served daily! Now that’s a bold statement… but we thought we’d help out. Actually I thought WP plugin guys would have been all over this like a fat chick on a twinkie, they weren’t! So I complained a few times on Twitter… still nothing 
So as with anything else in life – if you want it done right, you’re gonna have to do it yourself!
That being said… I contacted two of my favorite guys in Lancaster, Pa. (the owners of Mind Development & Design Zim & Chad) 3 hours later, as you can see at the top of this post, the Universal Like Button is a wordpress plugin! It’s not been approved by WP yet but we’re running the latest version 2.9.2 (as of the date of this post) and it works like a champ. Just go download the Facebook Universal Like Button <— there upload it to your wp-content ==> plugins folder. Log into your admin panel, go to plugins ==>activate the plugin ===> go to ‘Settings’ (put in your settings, for example I have mine set to top left & show avatars) adjust yours as you wish…. then simply start using it!
I’d also like to say – if you are not currently one of my buddies on Facebook then you probably won’t see the avatars at the top of this post. So you can go and add me http://facebook.com/SEO-101 and please hit the Like button on this post so that we can continue to show / help any of the newb’s that want to use this on their wordpress site!
The next part of Facebook’s “Like” expansion, according to various reports, will be bringing the “Like” button to the rest of the Web. The as-of-yet unconfirmed plans could allow third-party news and blog sites to place Facebook “Like” buttons on their own story pages.
That’s what PC World had to say about it yesterday… it’s like a thing that like lets you like things your friends like and then like you become a valley girl! OH NO! All kidding aside, go use this plugin – now – do not pass go… do not collect $200 – do it! And once you do, if you wouldn’t mind… post a link below in the comment section (THIS TIME ONLY I WILL ALLOW LINKS TO ANYTHING IN THE COMMENT SECTION) ***please read don’t spam me but this is too cool not to see how it’s being used… I will personally approve all links in the comment section using the plugin.
Looking forward,
David Brown / @neoblog
FYI if any of your facebook buddies hit the like button at the top of the post you should also see their avatars at the top of each post they liked… take some time and think about how this is going to throw social a curve…
pretty.freaking.amazing.
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I wrote a plugin that offers a live preview in the wordpress settings while you play with the different options. http://bit.ly/awqa5C
Hi! Thanks so much for this post. I added the plug-in to our site, but it’s only showing up at the bottom of each post. How do we get it to show up at the top like yours? Thanks!!
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Hey Jess, Thanks for checking out the plugin and great site btw!
Just go to Settings > FB WP like button > and set it to the top… left / right. your choice I think…
Keep in mind we’ve done 4 updates to it in the 24 hrs it’s been released…. once WordPress actually picks up our plugin it’ll be an auto update…
It’s through folks like you that ask questions that we make it better…thanks for checking it out and I’ll have our dev in geek get back to you!
Best,
DB
I’ve got this installed on my WPMU site and it works brilliantly!
Here’s the site…
http://allthingsquilting.com.au
and
http://thequiltersstash.allthingsquilting.com.au/
I was hoping it would automatically work for the existing blogs on the site – but it seems I have to activate it for each one. Ah well – it’s a brilliant plugin – thanks so much
Stef
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haha I take it back – it’s there! Bloody Brilliant!!
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At least some body is there to help us here. I think that we all should be thankful to Mr. David Brown for his informative article and contribution to the cyber world. I will definitely add him at the Face Book get the max benefits out of it.
Excellent article and glad you made a difference! Will be using this myself.
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Looks like an amazing plugin. It Wiil be on my next site.
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The reason I have to disagree with your belief that I don’t know what I’m talking about technically is because you’re stuck on the technical aspects of SEO that so many people get trapped in.
I’ve asked this question many many times on various boards with no answers. Please help.
Is it possible to have this “like” button show on all my comments? No pages or posts. If it is, how or where would I put the code to do this?
Please, if more information is needed let me know and I will provide it.
Thanks.