Facebook Like Box

Put the below code in your portlet to make working facebook like-box.
Also you can configure height,width and account-URL from liferay configuration.
See below screen shots :

<fb:like-box href="<%=faceBookURL!=null ? faceBookURL : PortletProps.get("default.url") %>" width="<%=width!=null ? width : PortletProps.get("default.width") %>" height="<%=height!=null ? height : PortletProps.get("default.height") %>" show_faces="true" stream="false" header="true"> </fb:like-box>

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Twitter portlet in Liferay

I have create twitter widget in liferay for showing the timeline (tweets)
if you need more information put the comment.
Please see below image for twitter timeline update integration with liferay :

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Get portlet preference

In many cases we need to find portlet preferences.
Below is the code which can help to find portlet preferences.


PortletPreferences preferences = renderRequest.getPreferences();
String portletResource = ParamUtil.getString(request, "portletResource");
if (Validator.isNotNull(portletResource)) {
preferences = PortletPreferencesFactoryUtil.getPortletSetup(request, portletResource);
}

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