Google Buzz Button WordPress Plugin
Google Buzz is launched and many publishers, webmaster and web addicts has already started using that. If you are having a WordPress site then you can add “Google Buzz Button” thru a simple wordpress plugin to let other people share your posts on their Buzz. Google didn’t release any official button yet but we have released a WordPress plugin to add a button on a post/page. Once your visitor will click on this button, they will be taken to a page where they can add some note on your post’s link and title and share that on their Buzz. This way your post/page’s reach will increase by huge amount.
What is Google Buzz Button
Share your posts or pages and let other share that on their buzz account thru Google Buzz Button.
How to Install Google Buzz Button
- Download Google Buzz Button WordPress Plugin from WordPress Plugin Repository
- Upload in wp-content/plugins folder on your server
- Activate the plugin from Plugin Dashboard
- Done! A new Google Buzz Button will start appearing after the post content on each single page. You can customize the location of Buzz Button.
Usage of Google Buzz Button Plugin
On Google Buzz Button plugin settings panel, you can change the location of button. For example, you can place the button after or before the content of the post or page.
1. If you have selected ‘Manual Insertion’ from the Google Buzz Button settings page, then insert the below code in the WordPress Loop wherever you want
if ( function_exists( ‘add_google_buzz_button’ ) ) {
add_google_buzz_button();}
2. If you have selected ‘Before Content’ as the location of the button, which is default, then the Google Buzz button will be automatically inserted on all the posts and pages after the title and before the content.
3. If you have selected ‘After Content’ as the location of the button, which is default, then the Google Buzz button will be automatically inserted on all the posts and pages after the content.
4. The anchor tag has the class attribute as ‘google_buzz’, you can customize it with any CSS styles thru your theme template style sheet.
We had submitted this plugin on WordPress Directory for approval. It has been approved and now you can directly download the plugin from WordPress Plugin Repository.
Credits
1. Mashable : For designing very first Google Buzz Button that we have included in this plugin. Thank you Pete Cashmore of Mashable.com
That’s awesome. Works great. The only glitch I’m seeing now is that the link title shows up as ‘null’. Just added it to my blog at http://saotomeblog.com/
Thanks for this!
Do you know how to go in and edit the code so the buzz this button shows up in the upper right on every post? Right now all the choices I have are before and after; neither of which I care for.
Thanks for any help in advance!
Google Buzz! for blogger blog…I have written a step by step guide to have a Buzz this button below every post in blogger blog.
Add Google Buzz to Blogger blog
Nice Thanks!
How to insert this code in wordpress loop?
if ( function_exists( ‘add_google_buzz_button’ ) ) {
add_google_buzz_button();}
what u mean by wordpress loop? give me the full code.. not working in ma site
It doesn’t save settings.
Sorry, my bad – it was my typo.
I hacked it to have a button on the right, like diggIt does
http://victorsergienko.com/files/google-buzz-button-1.1.zip
Nice plugin to share in buzz.
Thanks, just searched
Thanks a lot for making this plugin, I was searching for this plugin did not know that you all had made this one
It would be even better if you could have made an option for floating the plugin to the left or right. But still awesome share thanks 
This is a great site with even greater content! Thanks for sharing guys! I’m going to install this on my site momentarily!
Best regards,
Eric
it would be great to have a compact icon and a counter that says the number of times it has been Buzzd, like techmeme. thanks!
The image to show Google Buzz logo is broken. When I look it up it shows the link to http://bisma.net/tutorial/wp-content/plugins/images/google-buzz.png which did not exist. So I just made new folder inside plugins folder and put the image there. Now it working perfectly.
this does not work on wordpress 2.6 or 2.7 – i thought it almost broke my blog. will wait for another release until it is on the wordpress plugins site.
I found something that I wanted you to be aware of, and there might not be anything you can do to remedy the issue, but once I installed your plugin I went to test it on a post that was titled “#RefreshCA GeoSocial Showdown (Updated)” – here’s the link: http://www.cottonrohrscheib.com/blog/2010/02/12/refreshca-geosocial-showdown-update/
What I noticed was that none of my Blog Posts that had hash tags starting out the title would carry the title through to the post page for adding it to Google Buzz. I had to manually enter in the title. Just wanted you to be aware of this.
Thanks for the plugin though, it works nicely other than that one bug. Thanks for contributing it to the wordpress community.
Many many thanks for this plugin
Not working on wordpress 2.7
Giving error when I try to install
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare pclziputilpathreduction() (previously declared in …./plugins/wordpress-automatic-upgrade/lib/pclzip.lib.php:5421) in …./etechbuzz/wp-admin/includes/class-pclzip.php on line 5498
When wordpress.com will get this service…………..
Doesn’t work for me in Firefox, Chrome or Safari.
Just shows up as ‘Google Buzz’ as text, no image plugin.
Try this.
<?php if ( function_exists( ‘add_google_buzz_button’ ) ) {
add_google_buzz_button();} ?>
Thanks to admin for this plug in.
Glad to have found this site. There’s so much banter going on about Google Buzz, I was a bit leery of installing just any ole Buzz button code. Luckily, a guy I trust Facebook provided the link and since he’s using it on his blog, I am also am good to go vs.Ready. Fire, Aim – Neil
Nice button. I wish wordpress.com adds it soon like digg buttons.
Sanjeev,
I was able to install your plug-in just fine (but) when I attempted to access the plug-in to edit where the icon / button appears, I am not able to view these functions? Are others having this issue?
Thanks,
Neil
Nice Plugin to post to Google Buzz
Nice One thanks for sharing !!
where can i get such a widget for my blogger blog !!
I got this link through the smooth slider which i saw in a wordpress blog .Smooth slider makes a awesome look for projecting the featured posts !! Thanks alot
Thanks for the button … i been searching and thought to create my own.
You saved my time
More optimization would be great.. so please bring some update on this as soon as possible brother.
Congrats ! Your plugin got featured on Mashable
Ill implement it on my blog too, thanks for posting
TY, I Just Added It To My Blog @ http://ChadVanNorman.com
How can i make the button align to the right?
Great plugin – having the ability to choose right or left placement would a nice addition…
How do you place the icon before the post and to the right so that it can align with other social media buttons like tweetmeme, digg or facebook? Does anyone know. Also. I do all my customization myself, but I am not a programmer and I do not know exactly where “in the loop is”
what do you mean with “in the wordpress loop”. if you provide a howto, please explain it as a how to…
Great Plugin , can you remove it from the home page and just add it on single page by default.
Thanks plugin G Buzz
Thanks a lot everyone for using Google Buzz plugin. We are in the process of proving an upgrade for the same. I hope that the upgrade will release in next few days. Regards, Sanjeev and Tejaswini
Hi Girish,
If you are showing the full content on your home, then this Google Buzz button will appear over there. But if you are showing only excerpt then this button will not appear. We are going to release an upgrade for Buzz Button with more options and features and there you will find more control on the button.
“In the wordpress loop” means the while loop on the template files which retrieves the different posts (title and content) from the database. You can see this while loop on index.php and single.php files of template. Sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Hi Tracey,
Sorry for the inconvenience caused. If you need assistance on putting Buzz Button on your site on a specific location then we will be happy to do the same for you. You can contact us thru the contact form at the bottom of the page or thru contact us page. Anyway, our Skype ID is “clickonf5″. You can contact us at any point of time.
Regards
We are going to release an upgrade for this plugin very soon. That will have this feature for sure.
Thanks for pointing it over here. Yes, we got space on Mashable and thanked Pete Cashmore and team for featuring our plugin.
Yes Robin, we are in the process of releasing an upgrade for this plugin. You will see an update very soon.
Hi Neil,
The default setting for this plugin is such that the button will appear at the bottom of the content on the post URL. If you are not getting that then you can contact us thru Skype, we will be happy to help you in this regard. Our Skype ID is “clickonf5″.
Regards
We have tested this plugin on these browsers and it works perfectly. I think your setup is having some issue, you can send us your details. We will look into that and will try to resolve that on ASAP.
Thank you for good way to add Google Buzz into WordPress, I have find some day ago and get this. Good job
Thanks for the Google Buzz button. Most handy. I see that many articles are getting a fair few buzzes on Mashable. Not as many as each tweet or FB share but getting up there.
Your blog is amazing, i first landed to another post but then get interested and thought, i will just look a little more arround to see what else i can find out about best plugins arround.
You can add Google buzz to ur wordpress blog manually,
Login to your WordPress dashboard.
Now go to Theme editor and open the single.php file.
Copy and paste the following code in single.php file where you want the button to appear :
<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=&title=&srcURL=” target=”_blank” rel=”nofollow external”>
Click on Update file button.
Thanks great plugin!
Hi there! Love the Google Buzz plugin, and believe I’ve found a way to make it appear in the correct spot on my blog. However, When I click the “BUZZ THIS” button, it shows up in my Reader as from “null,” even though the link does go to my site. Any ideas on how I can include my blog title there instead? Many thanks.
Thank you for great tips to make Google Buzz into wordpress.
wrap it in a div and set div property to float:right
Great…any plans for adding the counter as well?
Thx!
After activation of plagin I see the following message:
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_setting() in /home/vipupru/public_html/seoformat.ru/wp-content/plugins/google-buzz-button-for-wordpress/google_buzz.php on line 179″
What does it mean?
Hello Sanjeev,
I wish to remove the border around the buzz icon. Plz let me know how to do
Best Regards
Kaushal
Just a heads up, the image link is broken, you have;
/images/google-buzz.pngand it should be:
/google-buzz-button-for-wordpress/images/google-buzz.pngAlso, for those that want to align it left or right, just add this to your stylesheet:
a.google_buzz{float:right}Here’s how I’m using it on my blog and an example page:
a.google_buzz{float:right; margin-top:-68px}http://www.bryanhadaway.com/a-z-of-web-business-mistakes/
Thanks, Bryan
I am going to try it
This is related to Bryan Hadaways post above.
You have an error in the function google_buzz_url ()
On my installation it’s missing the /google-buzz-button-for-wordpress/ from the path and therefore not forming the correct IMG SRC path.
return plugins_url( $path, __FILE__ ); does not result in /google-buzz-button-for-wordpress/ being included in the path and ends up with
It should of course be
Note: My WP installation is in a sub-folder under the main public_html install. Not sure if that effects it, but from my initial look at your code, it shouldn’t.
I’ve not had a chance to dig in to this with any detail yet and I’ll try and take a look later on.
Instead of using Google Reader the plugin should be using the official Buzz share/post link.
Until the plugin is updated users can fix this now my simply editing the plugin in the Plugin Editor;
1. Ctrl + F and search:
http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=
2. And replace with:
http://www.google.com/buzz/post?url=
Thanks, Bryan
yes i agree with Eric Miltsch
Cool plugin, I just added it in my blog…
Just a question though, how can i align with with tweetmeme, and facebook share icons?
Thank you for your explanation. There really useful information.
it’s good & thanks
hi
I am using free wordpress blog and wanto add Buzz button on my blog.
pls suggest me a way to do it.
thanks
Anuj
Great job! Thanks for sharing this with us! Keep up the good work!
Wish this worked for wordpress.com
Good Resouce, Wish this worked for wordpress.com
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