googleCards WordPress Plugin
A simple plugin that adds a google+ widget for linking to your google+ profile and showing your number of followers
googleCards is a google+ wordpress plugin. It adds a widget to your blog that will display a link to your google+ profile so people can add you to a circle (follow you). It also displays your name, profile picture and the number of people who have you in circles.
The plugin uses caching to store your google plus profile data to eliminate checking google+ on every page load. For the caching to work, your web-server needs to be able to write to wp-content. (a lot of plugins require this so it should be fine). If the plugin cannot cache it will still work, but will store the data in the database instead. If caching is working you should see a file called plus_card.txt in /wp-content/cache/. As of version 0.4, caching will also failback to using transients to store your scraped google plus data.
Plugin page : +1 google google +1 google plus sidebar social stats widget
Sites running googleCards, click to open one
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Usage of googleCards over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 121 to 82 — down 39 (-32.2%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 82 | -6 |
| June 2024 | 88 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 90 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 90 | -2 |
| March 2024 | 92 | -12 |
| February 2024 | 104 | -2 |
| January 2024 | 106 | -5 |
| December 2023 | 111 | -3 |
| November 2023 | 114 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 114 | -5 |
| September 2023 | 119 | -1 |
| August 2023 | 120 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 120 | -1 |
| June 2023 | 121 | — |
Themes used with googleCards
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis |
| 2 | Twentyfifteen |
| 3 | Twentyten |
| 4 | Thesis_182 |
| 5 | Twentyeleven |
| 6 | Easel |
| 7 | Thesis |
| 8 | Serenity |
| 9 | Twentytwelve |
| 10 | Prose |
| 11 | Sahifa |
| 12 | Freshboldydsf |
| 13 | Arthemia-premium |
| 14 | Inkthemetrust |
| 15 | Office1.02 |
| 16 | Crystal |
| 17 | Sprout |
| 18 | Gopress |
| 19 | Thesource_kamo |
| 20 | Convergence |
Sites running googleCards
All sites in the collection82 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
