Yesterday Google announced new service, Google Buzz, a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. Today you can have Google Buzz posts on your WordPress site.
Google Buzz Er is WordPress plugin for showing public Google Buzz posts for selected Google account. All you have to do is to set Google account username and optionally number of posts. From 1.2 version Google Buzz Er have sidebar widget.
Features
* Custom title
* Showing images from post
* Sidebar widget
* Custom color scheme
How to install
In header of your site add following line of code:
<?php include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/google-buzz-er/google-buzz-er.php'); ?>
1. Upload google-buzz-er to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Drag widget on your sidebar – or –
On place where you want Google Buzz ER to be shown put:
<?php GoogleBuzzEr(); ?>
After that go on Google Buzz ER settings page and set your Google account username (without ‘@gmail.com’) . It’s simple like that.
Changelog
1.1
* Sorting posts by publishing time
1.2
* Added sidebar widget feature
* Removed include for header section
1.3
* Custom title in header
* Option for showing images from posts
* Width for images from posts
1.4
* Using curl for getting Google Buzz data
* Check if there are posts
* Set box, posts, links color from admin page
* Choose if Google Buzz logos will be displayed
Can you please address why the error is appearing – seems I’m not alone in my issues. Looks simple enough but it’s not.
Entered user name without gmail bit. How hard can this be?
Argh!!
nice, thanks for this
Great! Images import In version 1.3 🙂
Hm… Seems like import of links are not always working.
By the way, how come the code for it goes everywhere except ? I don’t think it really matters, but I was just curious.
(Wish I could edit posts.)
Pretty awesome! I gave it a big spot up front on my blog!
I wish it were easier to customise though, I’m having some trouble with it right now. It’d be great if you could include some colour options and stuff like that in the settings page.
Great work though!
@Michael Livingston @Bill Masson @Zhilinsky
Thanks for suggestions, guys. Some of them will be implemented in next release.
@Kate Foy @Jason
Check smurftech’s comment above, maybe that will help you.
Nice work! Can you import in this widget also some media from Buzz? Images and video, for example. Like here: http://fieldjournal.co.uk/?p=189 . Thanx.
I’m having problems getting it to work,
My profile is fine, however no matter what I try, it gives the same old “Error getting data” message.
Thanks anyway!
I’m excited by the potential for this plugin for a ‘lifestream feed’ on my blog page. Try as I might, however (read all the comments above, deactivated then reactivated the plugin/widget etc.) I continue to get the error message: “error loading google buzz data” … frustrated! Any thoughts out there? Yes, my Google user name is correct, and has been inserted without the “@gmail.com”
Perhaps it’s another plug-in on my site causing the issue … though there is not the usual php error when this happens.
Great plugin and works a charm, it would be nice to expand the admin editing options for the plugin to include font colours for links and images.Looking forward to your next update.
A great plugin in a short period of time. I’m impressed.
If you’ll be continuing to work on this, one thought might be to add some more display options in the settings. I was able to manually change some of the font sizes and colors in the coding, along with the “title” displayed (having my name for the title seems redundant), but a lot of folks don’t have that ability. It’d also be nice not to have to redo those changes every time you upgrade the plugin (I’ve not redone them on my site since your last upgrade).
You wouldn’t need to go quite so far, but I’ve always really appreciated the customization of plugins like WPaudioplayer.
@eof
Unfortunately Google Buzz API doesn’t support shared images yet. Regarding your second suggestion, I’ll see what I can do.
Thanks for sharing your ideas
another wp plugin: http://arpitshah.com/plugins/wp-google-buzz/
Oh~ I have traced the cause of the problem.
I didn’t save my profile URL.
Thank you!