Title: GPlus Author: dpchiesa Published: Me 20, 2012 Last modified: Metheven 21, 2012 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/gplus/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=561454) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/gplus_c8a49f.svg) # GPlus By [dpchiesa](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dpchiesa/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gplus.2012.06.20.zip) * [Details](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/gplus/#description) * [Reviews](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/gplus/#reviews) * [Installation](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/gplus/#installation) * [Development](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/gplus/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gplus/) ## Description gplus is a WordPress Plugin. It provides a WordPress Widget that displays a list of your recent Google+ activities in the sidebar. The plugin uses the Google+ API, and authenticates via an API key that YOU (the installer) acquire via the Google API Console. Because it uses the public REST API of Google+ that Google documents and supports, this plugin is very reliable and simple. (Other WordPress widgets that say they show Google+ activity have relied on screen-scraping, which makes them brittle and unreliable.) ### Dependencies This plugin depends on and uses the published google-api-php-client, available at http://code.google.com/p/google-api-php-client/ . Rather than requires the installer to download this code, it is packaged within the plugin. The Google API php client library is licensed independently from the gplus WordPress plugin; The former is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. ### Thanks Thanks for your interest! You can make a donation at http://cheeso.members.winisp.net/GplusWidgetDonate.aspx Check out all my plugins: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=dpchiesa -Dino Chiesa ## Screenshots * [[ * This shows the rendering of the Widget in the sidebar of a WP blog. * [[ * This shows how to activate gplus in the Plugins menu in the WP Admin backend * [[ * Configuring the settings for the gplus widget in the WP Admin backend. ## Installation 1. Download gplus-wp-plugin.zip and unzip into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. 2. From the WordPress admin backend, Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu. 3. From the WordPress admin backend, in the Widgets menu, drag-and-drop the widget to your sidebar. You can place it in any position you like. 4. Specify the settings for the widget: Title, Google+ ID, API Key, the maximum number of items to show, and the cache lifetime. That’s it ! ## FAQ Why do I need an API Key? You need an API key from Google so that the requests that your wordpress page sends to Google, will be authorized and allowed. Every time the page loads, it sends out a request to Google, and gets the list of activities. Google wants to know who’s asking for this information, and the API key lets them track that. Where do I get an API Key? To get an API Key, you need to visit. https://code.google.com/apis/console and click “API Access” on the right-hand-=side navigation menu. Copy and paste the API Key to the appropriate place in the Widget configuration menu. Will I be charged by Google for the requests? No. The API key is free to get; you don’t even need to ask for it. In fact Google will just display the API key when you login to the API Console. I don’t speak for Google, but it seems to me they use the key only for tracking purposes. Google may throttle the level of requests if you use this plugin on a heavily loaded site. In that case you may need to use OAuth2.0, which I have not yet builtin to the plugin. But I could be convinced, for the right price. 😉 How do I get my Google+ ID? You can get it by examining a particular URL when you login to Google+. First, you need to be on Google+. Go to https://plus.google.com and login or sign up. It’s free to signup. (But you already knew that, because you are on Google+, otherwise why would you want a G+ widget?) Then, click the link for your profile. It will go to a URL like this: https://plus.google.com/u/0/77373737273737373737/posts Your id is the long string of digits in the middle there. Can I set the visual style of the widget from the admin backend? No, I haven’t built that capability into this simple plugin, just yet. Let me know if you have strong requirements in this area. You can “manually” apply css styling to the list. The css class name used for the UL that holds the list of Google+ activities is ‘gplus’. Does the plugin cache the results of its queries? Yes. You can set the cache lifetime in the widgets panel of the admin UI. What does it mean, “cache lifetime”? The term “cache lifetime” refers to the time period that the widget will re-use results from the Google+ Activity query. When rendering itself on a page, if the Widget has requested and received a list of activities from Google within the cache lifetime (say, within the past 10 minutes), then the widget will re-use those results. If the Widget has no saved results, or the saved results are older than the configured cache lifetime, then the widget will send a new request to Google to get the information. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “GPlus” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ dpchiesa ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dpchiesa/) [Translate “GPlus” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gplus) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gplus/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gplus/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gplus/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gplus/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2012.06.20 * optionally display the google+ logo in the widget #### 2012.06.19 * refactored to render the form via a view php file. #### 2012.06.14 * more intelligent handling of whitespace in activity strings. This fixes an issue with ragged left margins when some activities were rendered in HTML. #### 2012.06.05 * add caching #### 2012.6.4 * fix some messages * add donation button #### 2012.5.19 * minor refactoring in php module * first checkin to svn #### 2012.5.15 * GPLv3 license. * Tighten up some documentation. #### 2012.5.12 * initial release ## Meta * Version **2012.06.20** * Last updated **14 years ago** * Active installations **10+** * WordPress version ** 3.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.2.1** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gplus/) * Tags * [google](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google/)[social](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social/) [widget](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/) * [Advanced View](https://cor.wordpress.org/plugins/gplus/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gplus/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gplus/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ dpchiesa ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dpchiesa/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gplus/) ## Donate Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin? [ Donate to this plugin ](http://cheeso.members.winisp.net/GplusWidgetDonate.aspx)