Lucas Cobb Design

Facebook recently rolled out quite a few new features for social media interaction and my favorite of these updates is the New Facebook Like Button. Unfortunately Facebook overlooked the millions of WordPress users out there and developed the functionality for this Like Feature into Typepad. I have developed the Facebook Like Button functionality into a WordPress Plugin that can be downloaded here (hosted in the WordPress Plugin repository).

Installation of this plugin is a snap
1. Download this .zip file if you haven’t already.
2. Unpack and upload the folder to ‘/wp-content/plugins/’.
3. Head to your dashboard and activate the plugin.
4. Configure your options under the settings tab and the plugin is ready to go!

The plugin will look like this on your page:

Changelog

• 2.0
• Added options configuration page.
• Minor bug fixes.
• 1.0
• First stable release

If you have any questions or features for future releases please let me know in the comments.

Not as many design blogs have gone the route of Facebook as gone the route of Twitter, but I went ahead and compiled a list of design blogs on Facebook that you should be following anyway. Facebook allows you to interact with your subscribers so much more than through RSS and even Twitter. Along with pictures and status updates, through Facebook you can share video, flash, events, news and even integrate your status updates with Twitter so you kill two birds with one stone. It may take some getting used too, but Facebook is by far the best social resource for marketing you blog and/or business. Enjoy the compilation and if I missed any let me know in the comments.

Lucas Cobb Design – Facebook

Colorburned – Web | Facebook

Vital Design – Web | Facebook

VectorTuts – Web| Facebook

Design Juices – Web | Facebook

VecTips – Web | Facebook

Smashing Magazine – Web | Facebook

Social Media Examiner – Web | Facebook

Vecteezy – Web | Facebook

PDSTuts – Web | Facebook

Pro Blog Design – Web | Facebook

GoMedia – Web | Facebook

Fuel Your Creativity – Web | Facebook

Fudge Graphics – Web | Facebook

From The Couch – Web | Facebook

Design You Trust – Web | Facebook

Design Shard – Web | Facebook

Design Observer – Web | Facebook

Abduzeedo – Web | Facebook

Well I’m one of the lucky ones who have the Facebook rollout before everyone else. I’ll go into some of the features below so you can drool over the brand spankin’ new Facebook layout.

New Homepage
The new homepage design has moved your friends, messages and notifications up to the logo pane. Seems a better position than down in the bottom right corner.

Events
The events are all laid out nicely and you can see everything all lined up on the left side.

Photos
All the photos are displayed in a nice grid format and each folder is displayed on one page.

Applications
Look at all the apps and their big icons. Looking good.

Messages
Messages are now up by the logo and are an easy read.

Chat
Your chat list is still in the bottom right but is also conveniently in the list on the left. Slight change but they might be dumping the bottom right all together in the future.

If you find any new features leave them in the comments. Thanks.