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Setting Up Fan Pages for Offline Clients

by DailyHealthBlitz
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Hi,
I am wondering how others set up Facebook fan pages that they create for their offline clients, especially those with no website. I know I need to create and host their fan page on my secure site, but am fuzzy on the details. Do I set up each fan page in it's own subdirectory? And if so, do I need to install Worpress on each of those subdirectories? (I am still learning WP). And if I am hosting their stuff, how should I charge them? Thanks!
Doug
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  • Profile picture of the author sitehero
    Originally Posted by DailyHealthBlitz View Post

    Hi,
    I am wondering how others set up Facebook fan pages that they create for their offline clients, especially those with no website. I know I need to create and host their fan page on my secure site, but am fuzzy on the details. Do I set up each fan page in it's own subdirectory? And if so, do I need to install Worpress on each of those subdirectories? (I am still learning WP). And if I am hosting their stuff, how should I charge them? Thanks!
    Doug

    Don't Facebook host fan pages?
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    • Profile picture of the author DailyHealthBlitz
      Facebook hosts the basic pages, but if you want to do something supercool and out-of-the-box you need to create something on an outside site and set up a Facebook app to iFrame your page.

      Here's an example I am working on (not done yet).
      Daily Health Blitz - Welcome | Facebook
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      • Profile picture of the author sitehero
        Originally Posted by DailyHealthBlitz View Post

        Facebook hosts the basic pages, but if you want to do something supercool and out-of-the-box you need to create something on an outside site and set up a Facebook app to iFrame your page.

        Here's an example I am working on (not done yet).
        Daily Health Blitz - Welcome | Facebook
        So is that facebook page an external iframed page embeded into facebook via an app?

        I looked at the source but its made up of scripts. :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Baker
    I'm not 100% certain, but wouldn't you just link to a particular page on your Wordpress site to pull the content to the Facebook Page?
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  • Profile picture of the author Wilco de Kreij
    You can simply use WordPress multi-site function, if the plugin is compatible with that. That way you don't have to create new WP installs anymore, you can simply create new fan pages with one WP install.

    WP4FB(.com) is compatible with that, and has a video guide on how to set it up in its members area.
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    • Profile picture of the author sitehero
      Originally Posted by wdekreij View Post

      You can simply use WordPress multi-site function, if the plugin is compatible with that. That way you don't have to create new WP installs anymore, you can simply create new fan pages with one WP install.

      WP4FB(.com) is compatible with that, and has a video guide on how to set it up in its members area.

      If I've understood the concept correctly of external fan page hosting, it would be absolutly pointless to build a wordpress MU site just to host one page of secure content for each client.
      The method mentioned previously where each client page is hosted in its own directory is by far the most logical way to do it. I mean what would be the point of having untold multi-user blog installs just for one little bit of content. Plus, I'm not sure if SSL encription is passed accross a whole WPMU network or if its just stays with the root blog! Thinking about it more, it probably does get passed across because you can use directories or sub-domains for each MU install however I still don't think WPMU is the best option for what the OP is after.

      OP, I'd definatly go with the seperate directories for each client, that makes the most logical sense to me. Although as you've probably guessed, I've got very little experience of FB fan pages and I've never offered them as a service....yet!.
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