Plugins
WP AutoBuzz
This plugin automatically adds a ‘me’ link to your pages so you can associate your site with your Buzz account. That means your posts will automatically be added to your Buzz. This plugin is unique in the fact that it allows each individual author the ability to add a link to their google profile as well as a separate profile link to the main site feed as well.
Installation
Extract the contents of the zip file to your wp-contents/plugins directory. Go to your installed plugins folder in WordPress and activate it.
Setup
Select WP Autobuzz in the settings menu, and enter the Google user name for the main feed. If you want to allow authors to connect their feed to their own Google profile, check the “Allow per author profile” box.
Each author will need to edit their own Google settings on their profile page.
Once the setup is complete, edit your Google profile page and add a link to either the main site or the author posts page under “Add custom links to my profile”. Once it is added, on the right side click the edit link next to the new link and check the “This is a profile page about me” button.
Examples:
http://example.com/
(Main site feed)
http://example.com/author/username
(Author feed)
http://example.com/?author=1
(Author feed. Number at end is user ID number)
If you don’t want to wait until Google crawls your site next, once it is submitted you can go to the SGAPI Recrawl Tool and press the recrawl button next to the link to your site. In a few seconds, you will now be able to add your site to your connected sites in Google Buzz.
How it works
WP AutoBuzz is extremely simple. It adds a hidden rel=”me” link pointing to your Google account to the header of your website. When Google sees this link, it knows that you are the owner of the page, and allows you to add it to your Buzz.
You could add this link yourself, but for many people, that would mean editing the code of their template, and this just makes it easier for people that may not want to do that.
Translations
WP Autobuzz has been set up for localization. If you would like to add translations to the small amount of text in the plugin, feel free to send them to me at godlesson2@gmail.com so that I can add them to future releases.
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Is there a way to use this plugin to tell Google Buzz that certain pages belong to different authors? Example: http://www.domainname.com/author/bob goes to Bob's Google Buzz account while http://www.domainname.com/author/jane goes to Jane's Google Buzz. Putting user specific link/rel in the author templates manually did not seem to work with Google Buzz
You know, I never thought about that. I only have 1 author here, and nobody has asked me for that feature yet. I'm sure I can figure out a way to do that, since there are different feeds for different authors. That's a good idea. I'll get right on it.
Thanks for the fast reply. It was something I banged my head against for quite a while when trying to do it manually. Google seems determined to only recognize site content on a site-wide level (not even subdomains). I hope its just a matter of my poor implementation, rather than a design limitation of Buzz.
No problem. I'm researching it right now. I am not sure if it is a limitation of google buzz yet, but if it is possible, I'll figure it out. Luckily I'm having a lazy day today. I was looking for something to do.
I think I've figured it out. It may take a bit for me to test it. If you want to try it, I have updated the trunk at the repository with the most recent version. If you don't know how to access the trunk, I can send you a copy if you want to try it.
I'm thinking that the user's author page can be used as their main page in their google profile, and I have made it so that each author has a field on their profile page that they can update with their google ID and whether or not they want to associate their author page with their google profile. As long as the template follows normal specs, their feed should be available from there to google.
I haven't documented it yet, so if you want to try it, and you can't figure it out, you can email me.
Right now it does what I want it to, but I rescanned my site too much today, so it won't rescan my site till tomorrow for me to test it.
Anyway, I'm fairly confident it will work. Thanks for the idea.
Okay, I've tested it, and it works. I have just updated the SVN with version 1.1.0 of this plugin. If it is not showing now, it will be soon. Each author can add their google profile to their personal profile page, and they each need to either use the recrawl tool or wait until Google recrawls he site.
Wow, nice work! I'll DL a copy and see if I can't get my implementation straightened and let you know what happens.
It takes a while for the repository to update, and I just barely updated the local copy, so if you downloaded it already, it probably is the old version. The link here should work now though. Make sure it's version 1.1.0
Okay, I've tested it, and it works. I have just updated the SVN with version 1.1.0 of this plugin. If it is not showing now, it will be soon. Each author can add their google profile to their personal profile page, and they each need to either use the recrawl tool or wait until Google recrawls he site.
Wow, nice work! I'll DL a copy and see if I can't get my implementation straightened and let you know what happens.
It takes a while for the repository to update, and I just barely updated the local copy, so if you downloaded it already, it probably is the old version. The link here should work now though. Make sure it's version 1.1.0
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