Embed your Google+ posts into your WordPress – helpful article
Google+ has rolled out a new feature that makes it possible for bloggers and content creators to embed Google+ posts on other sites. The functionality had previously been tested on a number of accounts from select publications – National Geographic, Sports Illustrated etc – but yesterday it became available to all users.
Embedding a Google+ post on your website is fairly straightforward – simply click the ‘Embed Post’ button from the drop-down menu on an individual post to obtain the necessary code. Embedding a Googe+ post on WordPress.com is slightly different, but is easily done.
When you are presented with the embed code, only copy from the post link itself – eg https://plus.google.com/104580270311111171846/posts/SEzDPDsqonF. Then simply paste the link into your writing pane, adding the following prefix and brackets:
Your selected Google+ post, along with the option to +1 the post and leave a Comment, will appear as…
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I will be using this feature as GPlus is my main social network. It was bizarre that GPlus was behind the other networks on this. Usually they roll out features and then the others follow. Hopefully they continue to be pioneers. Thanks for the article Detlev!