Wave This Widget for WordPress

May 20, 2010 by Screenbeard

Announcing the Wave This Widget for WordPress. Install this widget, add it to your sidebar and let your visitors share your posts easily on Google Wave!

The Google Wave “Wave This” function takes the title of a post and a short description and starts a new wave for you to add users to. It uses the “Wave This” API.

Wave This!

This sidebar widget adds a button to individual post pages that sends the post title and exerpt to Wave. If you haven’t set an exerpt the widget uses the default one generated by WordPress for each post. The default button is 300px wide to allow for larger sidebars. Please resize the button using the widget options.

Update 16−06−10: Added the official button options from Google.

Latest Version

Version 0.3

Known Issues

  • Settings are not persistent across updates. I’ll try to build this in soon.
  • Does not use the official “Wave This” buttons from the API page. The official buttons can be linked though using the custom image feature. Fixed: see update 16−06−10
  • Does not support Wave for domains other than the Google Wave Preview.

Support

If you need help with the Wave This Widget, leave a message here, or on the WordPress Support Forum. At the risk of fragmenting the support, you can also get in touch with me on Google Wave[1], or leave a message on the official plugin wave (embedded here).

Warranty

No warranty is given for this plugin.

Footnotes
  1. it is a Wave plugin after all! ↩
The Wave This Widget for WordPress by Joshua Nunn, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.

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  • http://www.stenyak.com/ stenyak

    Will it support adding the “wave this” icons on footer/header of posts, instead of only in sidebar (which may or may not be present in single-post pages)?
    Thanks!

  • http://nunnone.com/ joshnunn

    At the moment it doesn’t support anything but a button in the sidebar. I’ll look in to adding such a feature. Until then, if you’re ok with adding code to the posts.php file you could add a variation of the code here to the post.

    Hope that helps!

  • http://nunnone.com/ joshnunn

    At the moment it doesn’t support anything but a button in the sidebar. I’ll look in to adding such a feature. Until then, if you’re ok with adding code to the posts.php file you could add a variation of the code here to the post.

    Hope that helps!

  • http://www.facebook.com/daybead David Alviz

    Really nice work, Josh!

  • http://nunnone.com/ Screenbeard

    Thanks David! Thank you for your testing and feedback!

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