How to Add / Install the Google +1 Plusone button to WordPress Blog?

The PlusOne +1 recommendation tool by Google is quite popular these days and every blogger wants to add the +1 button in their blog posts for more social sharing and exposure, indirectly more traffic. This may be considered as one of the factors for Google to decide whether the page has some quality content, based on peoples’ votes. Some would still like to use this, just because they like their pages being voted always, and have lots of visitors liking and sharing their pages on Facebook and other social media sites already. The PlusOne button can be placed on a wordpress self hosted blogs, by using the wordpress plugins. If you have not used any social media plugin already and want to have just the +1 button, the plugin is “Google +1 Button“, which can be downloaded from here.

The Google +1 Button is a simple plugin which would keep you away from trying to use some javascript code in the php section and waste your time. The plugin just would ask you to select one of the sizes for the button and you are done. The alignment can be changed according to your wish. You can even choose the display the plugin on the homepage, apart from the post pages.

Digg Digg Social Media Plugin – Using this plugin is another way of integrating the +1 button but the advantage is that you can use the other social media sharing options like the Facebook Like, Facebook Share, Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Reddit etc. along with the Google +1 option. Installing and making the plugin work is pretty easy, and you can select the social media sharing options. The weightage can be set and this would be changing the position of the button above or below the other buttons. The plugin can be downloaded from here.