Sharing WordPress Posts on Google Buzz without a Plugin
Last week, Google released Google Buzz to the social media world. With Google Buzz, you can update your status, share links, photos, videos and more. It integrates directly with gmail and connects to sites like Twitter and Flickr to make sharing even easier. With this new sharing tool comes new code that you may want to put on your blog.
As a followup to my previous post Adding Social Media Links to WordPress Without Using a Plugin, here is new code that you can use for Google Buzz:
http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&srcURL=<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>
And the addition to the code that we use on this site (which is shown in my previous post) just adds a new list item to the existing links:
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&srcURL=<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" title="Share with Google Buzz">Buzz</a></li>
Note that Buzz uses Google Reader to share links. In order for this to show up on your Buzz, you have to make sure that Reader is connected with your Buzz.