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How To Create Iframe Reveal / Fan-Gate Tab on Facebook Fan Pages

7 Sep 2011 | 5 Comments | posted by Flewid Inc. | in News

We’ve all seen them. You go to Facebook, and you hit a page of your favourite band, t-shirt company or whatever it may be and you see a big graphic telling you to click the ‘like’ button before you can view their fan page, or a special offer of some sort.

This is actually a bit of a falsity, as you can clearly click the ‘wall’ on the left and still see the wall of the fan page. However, you cannot post to it, or comment on it, unless you ‘like’ the page. At least from what I have found in my research there is no way to completely hide everything until like is pressed.

That’s okay though, because we can just incentivise the initial graphic the users see, telling them that they’ll receive some sort of coupon or deal or something equally special if they click like. That’s the important part to get fans for our page.

Below we’re going to outline the steps, as with recent changes Facebook have enabled it can get quite confusing finding the right information without digging through multiple documents on the Facebook developer website.

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