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Author: David Artiss

The code for Simple Facebook Link should be added to the bottom of appropriate post/page templates within your theme (and in the case of posts, within the loop).

Simple Facebook Link simply returns a URL - this URL is a link to Facebook with your post/page URL and blog title within it. It can even use TinyURL and other URL shortening services to make the link passed to Facebook even more convenient.

Here's an example.

<a href="<?php simple_facebook_link(''); ?>">Share on Facebook</a>

This will display the text "Share on Facebook" on your page/post. However, when clicked on it will take you to Facebook, where it will have your blog post/page details and will give the current user an option to add a comment before sharing it with their Facebook community.

In the case of this example, no parameters were passed and, hence, no URL shortening service was used. If, however, you'd like to use a such a service, simply add one of the following as a parameter...

bit.ly tinyurl is.gd snipr su.pr tr.im

If there are any others that you'd like to see added, please let me know.

The following is an example of how it could be used, with a function_exists check so that it doesn't cause problems if the plugin is not active...

<?php if (function_exists('simple_facebook_link')) : ?>
<a href="<?php simple_facebook_link('tinyurl'); ?>">Share on Facebook</a>
<?php endif; ?>

This also requests TinyURL to be used to shorten the URL.