The plugin uses Google+ API, and authenticates via API key that YOU acquire via the.
Because it uses the public REST API of Google+ that Google documents and supports, this plugin is very reliable and simple..
The Google API php library is licensed independently from the gplus WordPress plugin The former is licensed under Apache 2.0 license..
This shows the rendering of the Widget in the sidebar of WP blog..
Title, Google+ ID, API Key, the number of items to show, and the cache lifetime...
Copy and paste API Key to the appropriate place in the Widget configuration menu...
The term cache lifetime refers to the period that the widget will re-use results from Google+ Activity query.
When rendering itself on page, if the Widget has requested and received list of activities from Google within the lifetime, then the widget will re-use those results.
If the Widget has no saved results, or the saved results are older than the configured cache lifetime, then the widget will send new request to Google to get the information...
Changelog 2012.06.20 display the google+ logo in the widget. 2012.06.19 refactored to render the form via view php file.. 2012.06.14 more intelligent handling of whitespace activity strings.
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