Google Buzz Plugin for WordPress

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.

18 Responses to “Google Buzz Plugin for WordPress”

  1. Tinh says:
    February 11, 2010 at 10:53

    Can i make it appear in the single or homepage like retweet? Thanks

  2. Haris Čusto says:
    February 11, 2010 at 11:31

    Yes, you can. But first download 1.1 version (if you haven’t) and in your templates add

    < ?php addgooglebuzz('google-username'); ?>

    Regards, Haris

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    February 11, 2010 at 11:43

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  4. Emanuel Blagonic says:
    February 11, 2010 at 12:00

    Nice one!

  5. Ali says:
    February 15, 2010 at 21:28

    very good, cant wait to use with my blog. well done

  6. Σχολή Χορού says:
    February 15, 2010 at 21:43

    Just downloaded and installed it to my blog http://www.fuentedance.gr/ and it works great. Thank you for posting

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    February 16, 2010 at 20:01

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  11. error says:
    February 23, 2010 at 01:18

    It does’nt work at all for me. The widget says impossible to get buzz, and the code line, blows the site. my wp is 2.9.2. don’t understand, none of the buzz plugin’s worked for me.

  12. Haris Čusto says:
    February 23, 2010 at 08:29

    Hi Kwassa,
    can you provide more details, what kind of error do you get and on which line ?

    Plugin uses CURL to fetch feed and Simplexml to process it. Check that your server have these options enabled.

  13. cichlid says:
    February 26, 2010 at 22:04

    Perfecto!! Was looking for a plugin like this the other day and couldn’t find one. Thank you!

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  16. Jason says:
    March 12, 2010 at 07:54

    I have an error also, which is too bad because this is the only plugin of this kind that includes the whole buzz instead fo just the title. I think it has to do with a Curl problem when PHP is in “safe mode.”

    Warning: fopen(wp-content/plugins/http___buzz.googleapis.com_feeds____fmcblog____public_posted) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/jasonwha/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-buzz-feed/buzz.php on line 211

    Warning: curl_setopt(): supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /home/mysite/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-buzz-feed/buzz.php on line 212

    Warning: curl_setopt() [function.curl-setopt]: CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when in safe_mode or an open_basedir is set in /home/mysite/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/google-buzz-feed/buzz.php on line 214

  17. Haris Čusto says:
    March 12, 2010 at 08:30

    Hi Jason, I’ll contact you on email to find out what is the problem, and post here solution.

    Haris

  18. Tom says:
    March 15, 2010 at 02:35

    This plugin is awesome. It is very useful.
    Cheers!

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