This doc is for WordPress administrators who wishes to install the plugin on their blogs.
Installation and configuration
- Go to http://www.google.com/friendconnect/ and signup for your site if you haven't already. Continue until you finish the wizard and get your site ID. Save this number, will be required later.
| Get your site id from the url |
- Download the plugin here
- Login to WordPress as administrator and go to Plugins > Add New
- In the "Install Plugins" section select the "Upload" option form the top menu and upload the previously downloaded zip file
- In the plugins list, look for the newly installed plugin and activate it by clicking the Activate link
- Notice that a new section labeled "FriendConnect" appears within the "Settings" section at the bottom of the left menu.
- Click the option "FriendConnect" and enter your site id (see step 1), and save.
Settings
Comments
If you leave the Enable Google Friend Connect Comments: option unchecked, the users will be able to login to your site using their external account, and leave comments using the regular Worpress comments mechanism.
Otherwise, if you choose to enable Google Friend Connect Comments, the WordPress comments mechanism is replaced by the friendConnect Comments Gadget.
Now if you choose to override WordPress comments mechanism, this is how the comments look like.
You can customize the gadget size and color to fit your current theme styling at the administrator panel > settings > friendConnect
In this section you can set the width, number of comments per page, the comments section header, with the option to include the current post title by adding [post_title] this works as a place holder for the post title.
Below, you can find the color scheme to be applied to Google Friend Connect gadgets.
Not all colors are used at the comments gadget, but later in this document you will find how to add more Friend Connect gadgets to your site.
Social Bar
To enable FC Social bar, just click the option at Settings > FriendConnect
You can choose to place the bar at the top or bottom of the site.
Optional social gadgets
This plugin provide a set of social gadgets such as:
- Members Gadget
- Recommendations gadget
- Site wide comments gadget
To add these gadgets, just go to the Widgets section of the administrator panel and drag the widgets to the desired sidebar.
Each gadget has its own configuration parameters accessible via standard WordPress mechanisms.
Members
And this is how it looks like when placed at the sidebar.
Recommendations
Apart from adding this widget to a sidebar, you need to enable the recommendation button from settings > FriendConnect
Site wide comments
This widget allows your visitors to make comments not necessarily associated with a particular post.
Newsletter
This widget allows your visitors to suscribe to your newsletter mailing lists, for more details, visit Google Friend Connect.
Polls
This widget gets you to know your members by asking them questions. See Google Friend Connect
Featured Content
Using Google site search, this gadget will automatically display content that matches the interests expressed by your site's visitors.
- Enter widget administration section and and click the config link for the adsense widget
- Link your adsense account with your friendconnect account if you haven't already.
- Now skip step 2 and go to step 3 and generate the code.
- From the generated code, copy the values to the drupal config as shown in the picture below
Is there a PHP code for this? My theme doesn't support widgets.
This plugin made the sidebar & footer disappear. I uninstalled it.
WP v2.8.6 Theme: tried with default, This Just In! 3.4, Atahualpa 3.4.4
I can't seem to get this working. When I insert the Widgets I just get the "Explorer cannot find this page" showing on my webpage where the widget is? I'm using the latest wordpress on an externally hosted domain.
Using word press 2.9.1 I am unable to get a connection to google friend finder. Error "We're sorry...
This gadget is configured incorrectly. Webmaster hint: Please ensure that "Friend Connect Settings - Home URL" matches the URL of this site." If confirmed the site and the site are correct yet the error persist.
Help here, Regina Bradley http://reginabradley.com
THEWATIKAM
I use it and it is so great. but in receive a error message when i post a comment or publish a post: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in C:\hshome\host name\maysam.allahdad.com\wp-content\plugins\googlefriendconnect\osapi\osapi.php on line 53
Friend Connect Settings - Home URL mistake? how to setup?
can't we have both WP coment system and Google Friend Connect comment system???
can't we have both WP coment system and Google Friend Connect comment system???
Is there a way just to provide the button and nothing more?
As i've been using a plugin but haven't figure out how to change the button to sign in with google.
And hoping I can do it with htis one but it seems like it might still be out of my reach?
it's only for wordpress.org, or it can be use as well at wordpress.com?
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Not working for me, widgets dont display anything, already read and done 3 times the instructions/installation
我已经启用这个插件，不得不说他棒极了。
Hey! I figured this out and it put Google Friend connect on my WordPress? page. Thank you so much!
NICE
love it
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Hi! In my blog the avatar printed in the comments is different from my image of the google account. What should I do to be equal?
Any idea on how to get this to work with Wordpress 3.1.3? It was working on an older version of wordpress but when I updated to wordpress 3.1.3 it just has a white box showing nothing :(
add <script> window.JSON = { parse: function(st){ return st.evalJSON(); }, stringify: function(obj){ return Object.toJSON(obj); } }; </script>
before you GFC code :)
And now any advice on getting this to work on Wordpress 3.2? Since the upgrade getting lots of javascript errors and the window does not widget does not populate with any google info.