Add Google Buzz to the WordPress Plugin “Sociable”

You can’t help but notice all ofthe buzz (no pun intended) overGoogle’s latest foray into the crowded Social Networking arena. So I was looking for away to add Google Buzz to the popular Wordpress plugin“Sociable” that I have at the bottom of all my posts. Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything so I decided to take a stab at it myself. After a little fiddling this is what I came up with. I’m in a hurry so I won’t bother making this into a detailed tutorial with pretty pictures. I’m also assuming you have some rudimentary knowledge working around your Wordpress dashboard and cPanel. If however enough people request it, I will consider expanding on this post into a full-blown tutorial. But for now this will have to do. 1. First of all you will need a cute Google Buzz icon. Here is one that I’ve already optimized for you. Just right-click and download it to your desktop(please don’t hotlink off my web host’s bandwidth … thanks). 2. Secondly, upload your new Google Buzz icon via FTP to your Sociable plugin images directory on your web space. 3. Next, look for the following array code in your sociable.php file. (But before you do that be sure you have temporarily disabled your Sociable plugin or it might set off alarm bells. You also need to write-enable it’s file attributes to 666). ‘GoogleBuzz‘ => Array ( ‘favicon‘ => ‘googlebuzzicon.png‘, ‘url‘ => ‘http://www.google.com/reader/link?op=edit&bkmk=PERMALINK&title=TITLE‘ ), 5. Next you will need to add your Google Buzz icon. Look for the following code: $sociable_files = Array( Scroll down until you find images/googlebookmark.png. Copy and pastethe following code immediately after it: ‘images/googlebuzzicon.png’, And you’re done! Have I missed anything? Enjoy.. P.s.: Much thanks to my good friend Jaffer who sent me a cached snapshot of this post (that was lost in a corrupt database) from his RSS newsfeed. Be sure to follow him @Twitter too.

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2010 Marks the Beginning of the End for Quality Content

The BIG NEWS for 2010 is Google is dumbing-down it’s algorithms to accomodate the idle chit-chat of Social Media. Google is ringing in the New Year with a PageRank shakeup that will be earth-shaking. A new trend is unfolding that will give Social Network accounts like Twitter and Facebook a better Page Rank than Blogs!  Last evening I wrote on Twitter: With Google’s […]

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Welcome to Better Blog Tips and the New Media by Blog Bloke!

Not Your Average Bloke! BLOGBloke is the original Blog Tips and Social Media guide. Informative blogging tips and entertaining commentary on the New Media to help you be a better blogger. Take your blog to the next level with the original Blogging Bloke. Got a question about Blogging or Social Media? Then you should be reading BLOGBloke. Hi there! I’m the […]

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Bloke’s Picks for 2008-08-10

Chinese Olympic Games organisers say they are blocking Internet sites to protect Chinese youngsters. Really? http://tinyurl.com/5t2s8u # US military computer science prof warns the trend to push “cloud computing,” software exacerbates privacy risks http://tinyurl.com/58oxu3 # Medical blogs are threatening patient privacy http://tinyurl.com/5m8bvp # The ISpyPhone: Hacked iPhone scans for nearby wireless connections http://tinyurl.com/6k5lwz #

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