Copy Google+ Posts to WordPress Using Google+Blog

Copy Google+ Posts to WordPress Using Google+Blog
We all have some friends who avoid joining *another social networking site" or assume that all social sites have privacy issues, but nearly everyone feels comfortable visiting a blog.  Blog posts can also contain more photos and can implement new features, and you can also consolidate content from multiple sites onto a blog, to have it be your "one stop shop" for all of your posts and content.  

If you have a WordPress blog posted on your own URL, the Google+Blog plug-in for WordPress can keep your G+ content flowing to your blog daily, and update the blog entries as you receive comments and other activity.  I migrated my old Blogger blog posts there as well, so now a healthy percentage of what I've posted in recent years is in one place.

Next I'm trying migrating the G+ and Blogger posts consolidated on WordPress posts over to Tumblr.  More on that in the next post...

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Useful Google+ Add-Ons From Daniel Treadwell
Thanks to the Google+ API, Daniel Treadwell has been able to implement some cool features to make your G+ experience easier:

Google+Timing A site to find the best time for you to post on Google+ based on the performance of your historical posts. [http://timing.minimali.se/]

Extended Comments Follow the engagement of your posts across reshares by seeing all comments on a single page. [http://ec.minimali.se/]

Google+Blog for WordPress A plugin that allows you to automatically import your G+ posts and their comments to Wordpress, allowing you to use G+ as the launchpad for your content. [http://www.minimali.se/google+blog/]

Fotostat Currently in testing, this will become a central hub for photographers to manage their presence online as well as track how well their photos are performing across multiple networks. Sign up to be an early tester. [http://www.fotost.at/] 

Hopefully the API will be extended soon to include write access, to enable Daniel's tools to make a photo post, and to track photo views and +1s.  The screen capture below is from Fotost.  Like most professional photographers I actively produce new work, so I mainly post my latest photos from a given week on G+.  Using this tool, I can see at a glance the portfolio images which were most popular on networks I was more active on at some point in the past 6 years, and quickly see which of those images haven't gotten a good run on G+ yet. That's very cool, and very useful.  

Hopefully the Google+ API will gain write access soon, and will show photo views and +1s, so my G+ images will have access to all the features of tools such as this.  A particularly promising feature is the ability to automate new photo uploading, and the scheduling of the timing of new posts.