Adding Google’s +1 To Your Thesis Themed Site

Eric Nagel

13 years ago

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Google announced the availability of +1 today, and gives you the code to add +1 to your website. But if you’re using Thesis, how can you add it to your posts?

I have buttons to Tweet my posts, like them on Facebook, and Stumble them, and I wanted to add +1.

Within /wp-content/themes/thesis_18/custom edit custom_functions.php, and add:

function social_sharing() {
	if (is_single()) {
	?>
	<table border="0">
		<tr>
			<td><a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="<? echo((get_permalink($post->ID))) ?>" data-text="<? echo((get_the_title($post->ID))) ?>" data-count="horizontal" data-via="YOURUSERNAME">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></td>
			<td><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=<? echo(urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID))) ?>&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=trebuchet+ms&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></td>
			<td><g:plusone size="medium"></g:plusone></td>
			<td><script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=1&r=<? echo(urlencode(get_permalink($post->ID))) ?>"></script></td>
		</tr>
	</table>
	<?php
	} // ends if (is_single())
} // ends function social_sharing()

add_action('thesis_hook_before_post', 'social_sharing');

Make sure you change YOURUSERNAME to your Twitter username

Then in Thesis Site Options, the Stat and Tracking Scripts field, add

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>

Make sure you Specify The Thumbnail Image When Sharing A Link On Facebook From Your Thesis Site to make Facebook’s Like button work nicely.