Stories about everyday lifemy playground

Google Buzz plugin for WordPress allows you to get latest Buzzes (is this correct way to say it in plural ?) for your Blog.

Besides setting username for fetching feeds, you can setup caching and response time.

If caching is turned on your feed will check every X minutes for updates and your blog will run fast without need to load data from remote server. If caching time is expired new version of feed will be downloaded to your server and used for later processing.

Also you can setup number of seconds to wait for response, and if you don’t get response in that period of time local feed will be displayed automatically and your user want see downtime of remote server.

Installation

You can download Google Buzz plugin from:  WordPress plugin directory

1. Unpack it and copy buzz.php file to your plugins directory (wp-content/plugins)

2. Go to your Plugin administration and Activate it

3. After activation, inside Plugins menu you will see “Buzz configuration”. Click on it and set up details: Google Buzz Username, Caching in minutes (for default set 1) and response time in seconds (5 for default)

4. To display it go to Appereance->Widgets and from there drag Google Buzz Widget where you want to display feeds (note that here you can also setup Buzz plugin)

And that is all.

from V 1.1

If you want you can call <?php addgooglebuzz(‘google-username’); ?> from your templates to get latest posts from your Buzz profile

from V 1.2

Limit number of posts to display

FAQ ?

Is it possible to get only LIs without starting and ending UL?

Yes, it is possible.  addgooglebuzz function accepts 4 parametars addgooglebuzz(‘googelusername’, cache_time, responsetime, returnUl). If you want to get only LIs than you should call it like addgooglebuzz(‘googelusername’, 2, 5, false);

Can i use username which I have configured in administration with this function?

You can do it also, just pass empty string as first parameter or don’t pass any parameter to function. Example:  <?php addgooglebuzz(); ?>

If you find some bugs or want some new features please write in comments.