Google Buzz Plugin Review
Google Buzz has continued to grow in many ways and the number of plugins available has been increasing quickly. I set out to go through some of the more popular ones and see how hard or easy they were to set up and which seemed to work best.
To start I only tested the plugins that rated 3 stars or better when I searched for Buzz in new plugins.
Buzz This – Need to edit the theme to make it work and it comes with 2 images and very little instructions to help someone install it. Not a good choice for new people to add to their blog. Just adds a buzz this button where you designate it.
Google Buzz ER – Easy to set up and add a widget that can be dropped in your sidebar to show the latest buzz from your feed. Very easy to use and easy to configure.
Simple Buzz – Requires you to add code into your theme with your profile. No settings page and can only be manually set up.
Google Buzz – Easy to add feed but the formatting left a lot to be desired on the Flexibility theme and did not take the time to look and see why it was not working properly.Did have some neat caching available to minimize the draw on resources.
Google Buzz Button For WordPress – Easy to set up but did not end up showing a button but a link to Google Buzz. Could be set up without any tweaks and could set it before or after your content.
Google buzz this Button – Easy to set up can be set for before, after or both or you may edit the theme and have it show exactly where you want it to show.
Google Buzz Feed – Requires you to edit the plugin manually to be able to add your feed to your blog. Not a viable option for most.
Simple Buzz Link – Another plugin that will require you to manually edit the code and input it into your theme.
WP Google-buzz 2.7.5 – Definitely the cream of the crop if you are not technical and want to add a Buzz button to your blog. A wide variety of choices and more settings than any of the other plugins I tried.
So after testing all of these if you are looking to add your feed from Buzz to your blog I would useGoogle Buzz ER and the best by far for adding a buzz this to your blog is WP Google-buzz 2.7.5 for anyone that is not technical and wants to be able to customize it.
Will be talking more about Buzz and adding some of this to my free Buzz report which will probably be updated by the 15th. You can grab the report here and that will get you the updates as they are made too.
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8 comments
Luca Di Nicola
Twitter: rsonline
on March 2, 2010 at 10:48 am
Thanks for the great review on Buzz WP plugins. Since I really do hate playing around with code it looks like your Google Buzz ER and WP Google Buzz are for me.
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Herschel Lawhorn
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on March 2, 2010 at 11:12 am
Thanks Mike for all this good information. You have saved me a lot of work. I had just start doing the research for Google Buzz plugins when I got your email about this post. Talk about good timing, that was it.
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Wayne Harvey on March 2, 2010 at 11:34 am
Mike – When installng WP Google-Buzz on 2 WP 2.9.2 blogs the following message appears: Incompatible archive PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature
I wonder if the plug-in has a problem? or why it is not compatable?
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Mike Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Not sure what is happening worked fine on 2.9.2 on my testing blog. Would try to uninstall and then re install it as may have not gotten it all.
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Chris Guthrie on March 2, 2010 at 7:16 pm
Thanks for the list of Google Buzz plugins. I personally haven’t installed any yet because I was so annoyed / disgusted with all the privacy violations they had surrounding the launch. With that said, everyone knows you can’t ignore Google and I may as well jump on the behemoth anyway.
Chris
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Doug Champigny
Twitter: Mentoring4U
on March 2, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Couldn’t agree with you more on WP Google Buzz Mike – have added it to all our blogs this month with no issues on any of them, regardless of theme or WP version.
Haven’t tried any of the plugins to post Buzz to my blogs/sidebars, but your recommendation for Google Buzz ER is good enough for me – you’ve never steered anyone wrong yet!
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Andre Arnett on March 2, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Some good information you have shared here Mike. And now especially with Buzz being the latest rage it is good to have some of these tools available and already tested. Thanks.
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Wayne Harvey on March 3, 2010 at 10:11 am
@Mike – Downloaded it again from the Author’s site and now it works fine. When using the float right/left option you need to use a – sign to make your number a negative to move the icon into the left/right position desired.
Thanks again for the information you provide.
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