Place your Book Widget on Facebook

A widget on your Facebook fanpage is a great addition for your users and makes your fanpage much more interactive and fun to use. Follow these steps exactly to add a a widget to your fanpage .

Step 1 – Go to the Developers site on Facebook

In order to add the flipbook to your page, you will need to create an app. Go to the following URL and login with your Facebook login information that is the administrator of your Fan page: https://developers.facebook.com/apps

Step 2 – Create a new App ID

This will serve as your App’s display name.

Make sure to enter your email address. Once done, click on the Create App ID button.

Step 3. Go to Settings

A. Under the Privacy Policy URL enter the url of your Book Widget that is hosted on CrossLink’s website. It will be something like https://www.crosslinkpublishing.com/bookwidgets/you-book-title.  It should be in the email we sent you.

Please note that you would need to enter the secured website url (https://)

B. Under Category please select “Apps for Pages”

Make sure that your email address is entered in the contact email field.

Step 4 – Click on +Add Platform

And choose Page Tab

Step 5 – Page Tab

Enter the Secure Page Tab URL. You must use the secured URL of your flipbook (Must start with https://)

Click on Save Changes

Step 6 – Go to App Review

Slide over the option under “Make Public?” To Yes. This will allow your App to be available to the Public.

Step 7 – Adding the app to your Fan page

Go to https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID&next=YOUR_URL

Replace “YOUR_APP_ID” with your App ID and “YOUR_URL” with the URL to your flipbook. Please note that you would need to input the Secure URL (https://)

The App ID can be located in the Dashboard or at the upper left corner of the page

Select your Facebook Fanpage and click on Add Page Tab