How to add a Follow Me on Google button
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Not sure why this is so difficult to do…maybe there’s a riff between WordPress and Google. In any event, it’s easy to add the necessary code for a follow button for amost any social media site or profile on the planet…except Google+.
All of Google’s code includes JavaScript, which won’t work in a text widget. All I want to do is add a simple button that links to the URL of my Google+ page. I don’t need the interactivity of automatically adding to circles, etc. Just a basic “click on the button to go to my Google+ page” will be fine.
I’ve searched the internet for this as well as these forums….nothing that I can find. Thanks for any help.
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Why not just add the HTML link to go to your google+ page?
Add google+ image in widget and make image click-able using HTML link.
If you want people to share it on their google+ use
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Well, I’d thought about doing that but finding a static “Follow Me on Google+” button isn’t as easy as it seems. All the buttons on Google+ developer resources are code generated, and the few I’ve found aren’t conducive to adding to my other follow me buttons on my blog.
It’s nice, simple way to host a blog (WordPress.com) but I’m starting to have second thoughts. Perhaps I should have just went with an ISP that is WordPress enabled so I’d have more flexibility in things like this. I understand why I can’t add JS here…but sometimes I feel they should at least make widgets for all the primary social media sites. That’s something every blogger wants to display.
Thanks for your help…I’ll go search some more for a static image.
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Lots of previous discussion on this subject https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/google-plus
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Thanks, JustJennifer. I’ll read through these again…but most are about a Google+ button. I want a “Follow on Google+”…but would be fine with a “Follow & Plus”. If I could use JavaScript it wouldn’t be an issue.
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@larrymcjunkin – Even the twitter “Follow Me” button available to WordPress.com users only brings site visitors to your twitter stream. If they want to follow you they have to log in (or be logged in) and then click on the Follow button on twitter.
Being such a long-time user of WordPress.com, you are probably aware of the code restrictions we have. So what are you hoping will work differently here? (Honest question, not intended as a criticism.)
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No offense taken :-) Actually, I’m a long-time member, but just started blogging recently, so my experience doesn’t match my membership time <lol>. But yes, I am aware of the code restrictions and certainly have no issues with them.
I am looking to simply have an “official” button for “Follow on Google+” but simply have that button linked to my Google+ page. That part is simple…getting an official button is not, as on google.com the resource buttons are automatically generated…and even say “Larry McJunkin on Google+”, but the button is not an image I can grab. I suppose I could take a screenshot and then make a button out of it. But even being in technology all my life I hate working with images :-(
I’ll probably just settle for some image I find on Google Images and then link it to my homepage. But in a perfect world I’d like to have the option of using one of the buttons (and code) from the following page:
https://developers.google.com/+/web/+1button/
…but I know that’s not possible. Thanks, Jennifer :-)
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Now I’m confused. The buttons you linked to are for sharing content on Google+ and we can already do that through the Sharing options in Settings. Indeed you have that enabled on your site.
Did you mean these? https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/
Here’s an earlier discussion about adding the G+ symbol to your sidebar. Yes, it is an image in a text widget with a link to your G+ profile.
FWIW the “follow me” and add to a circle dropdown demonstrated on the Google Developers page only worked when I was logged in to Google. Logged out, clicking on that button brought me to a G+ log-in page. See my note about twitter above. :)
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No…they’re not ALL for sharing. There is one section that is only for “Follow Me on Google+” which is all I’m trying to do. Each of my posts has a share button for Google+ (and everything else imagineable)…I don’t care about sharing my posts or my blog on Google+.
All I want is a button that says either “Follow on Google+” or “Larry McJunkin on Google+”. I can easily get the later on that Google resource page I linked to, BUT…it has to be inserted with JavaScript…which I know I can’t do.
Forget everything to this point :-) All I want is a button on my blog that will link people with my Google+ page. I know the code to do that…no problem. What I don’t have is the “static” button…the image itself, to add to WP Media and then put into the existing Text Widget that has my other Follow buttons. Again…no code necessary…just need the button, but I’m not finding it. I can find a gazillion red “G+” buttons…but I want one like is automatically generated by the Google JavaScript that is for “Following”…not for “Sharing”.
Hope I didn’t confuse things more. Thanks!
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https://developers.google.com/+/web/badge/ = all JavaScript produced buttons…no real images to grab.
However, the forum thread contained some code that I modified and it seems to be working for me. Still not quite what I wanted as it’s not really a “Follow Me” button, but it will work until I find the button I want. Then I can just use the modified code I have to make it work with the new button.
Thanks so much for this recommendation!!
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