John R. Houk
© February 7, 2019
If you blog, read blogs, spend time on social media and/or
share what you read on social media; then you are probably aware Google is
shutting down its social media program Google-Plus (G+} in April. If you didn’t
know – SURPRISE, it’s happening.
The reason I think I read is Google believes there is a lack of traffic. Another
possible reason I heard is G+ had a hack breach and Google
doesn’t want to deal with the issue. Since I tend to lean toward conspiracy
reasoning, I have a suspicion most G+ users are of a Conservative nature and
Google does more than lean Left, Google almost falls on its face leftward
because it leans so far Left. At any rate, I received this announcement from
Blogger (owned by Google) about G+
social sharing:
Following
the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number
of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February
2019.
Google+ widgets: Support for the “+1 Button”, “Google+ Followers” and “Google+ Badge” widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog.
+1 buttons: The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed.
Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for advice.
Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog.
Google+ widgets: Support for the “+1 Button”, “Google+ Followers” and “Google+ Badge” widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog.
+1 buttons: The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed.
Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for advice.
Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog.
Those buttons have disappeared on Blogger usage on SlantRight
2.0. I found this annoying because my “Like Button” disappeared
as well, meaning the Facebook social media are prevented from liking posts. I’m
going to try and figure on placing a “Like Button” back on the blog, but I’m
not really tech-savvy so it might take awhile to figure that out.
JRH 2/7/19
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The Google Doc link in the "Unknown" comment above is to a lengthy plan involving around "veterans business plan". Is it a fake, a scam or for real? I don't have time to check. I didn't read to the end myself. I advise you to be DARN SURE before you invest your money.
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