If you have requested for an invitation for Google plus 1 and your site is good enough to be considered by Google for their plus 1 button,they might have sent you an invitation for their plus 1 button which might become Facebook like killer in the near future . Read our previous post on Google plus 1 button .
How to add plus 1 button to wordpress homepage :
- Add this code on your header of the site,just open the header.php and paste the code between the head tags .
<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>- Now, for inserting the plus 1 button on your homepage or any other page in wordpress, you will need to just put the following code in the theme file :
<g:plusone href="<?php echo get_permalink($postid); ?>"></g:plusone>
We have previously written about how to add Twitter button on your homepage and how to add official digg button with plugin ,you can check that too .
I just added it meself to my site; you can also hack plugins you use to have it show up correctly. Should be interesting to see how it flies….
I think this is great, another great feature that has a viral element to it
hey .. great article :)
i want to add this button im my blog thanks for sharing this information .
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Thanks so much, the updated code <g:plusone size="medium" href="”>
fixed the issue I was having…great idea to include the permalink to the post thank you!!!
Nate.