Add Google+ Comments to a WordPress Blog -

Recently, the Google Operating System posted instructions on how to Add Google+ Comments to Any Website. Well, I tried it right off the bat on a WodPress site will no luck. Took some hacking around but I finally found a good way to make this work in a WordPress theme where it was OUTSIDE the loop:

<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>

<div class="g-comments" 
	data-href="<?php echo "http://" . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"  
	data-width="642"  
	data-first_party_property="BLOGGER" 
	data-view_type="FILTERED_POSTMOD">
</div>

Of course the script call was called in the header and I placed the g-comments div where I wanted it in the template but it seems to work great. Will this allow comments on your page to show up in Google+ streams (if the person leaving the comment decides to) but it will also pull in comments to your website that have been made on Google+ that link to the same web page! Pretty darn cool as it allows conversations to happen in both locations at once…

If you wanted to embed this into your theme and have the g-comments div inside your loop, you could replace it with the following:

<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<div class="g-comments" 
	data-href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"  
	data-width="642"  
	data-first_party_property="BLOGGER" 
	data-view_type="FILTERED_POSTMOD">
</div>

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I'm a technologist at heart, assisting companies best utilize the Internet to market themselves and sell their products and services online. This includes organizations as large as Google and as small as one or two individuals.
At Over The Top and Exhibit A Communications, I've programmed solutions for Google as well as at least one other company that was later acquired by Google.

I've been CTO of an Internet SaaS company and spent my time pretty evenly between guiding the future technical strategy of the company, architecting software solutions for my dev teams, designing and running a data center to service our clients world-wide as well as being a technical evangalist/sales engineer to our media clients large and small.

I've also been Chief Photographer of the Daily Sun/Post newspaper back when it was a 5-day a week daily newspaper.

I also spent a great many years as a beach lifeguardfor the City of San Clemente as well as Jr. Lifeguard instructor and then as it's program coordinator.
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