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I know the bulk of you are coders and likely can figure this out on your own but for those who are not, I thought I'd throw this solution in here just in case someone else has a need for it. I created a simple widget-google-plus.php file for those who want to add a Google Plus widget to their sidebar (or elsewhere) in Processwire. To use, simply upload the attached widget, changing the profile URL to yours and add the CSS / tweak as needed. I've no clue how to build a module so I am doing this as a tutorial. First the logic: If you are anything like me, you crave customization. I hated the fact that Google wouldn't let me remove the border from around their google plus badge so I decided to create a solution of my own. Here's how it looks straight from Google: To get rid of this obnoxious border, I created a new widget (attached) with this code: <div id="googleplus_widget"> <span> <div class="g-plus" data-width="275" data-height="69" data-theme="light" data-href="https://plus.google.com/your-profile-id-goes-here"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); </script> </span> </div> As you can see, it's wrapped in divs which I then styled with the following CSS: #googleplus_widget{ width: 280px; height: 50px; } #googleplus_widget span{ width: 200px; height: 50px; float: left; overflow: hidden; background: #fff; } #googleplus_widget span div{ margin: -1px 0 0 -1px !important; position: relative; } To use, simply modify the attached widget-google-plus.php with your google plus profile URL, upload to your ProcessWire installations /site/templates directory and go to Setup and then Templates within the back end of your install. The new widget php file should show up under the "Templates found in /site/templates/*.php" , check it off, click add template and then add it to your sidebar if you choose to do so. That's it. Hope that helps someone. I know it's a minor contribution but at the very least, this is recorded for me to reference later when / if I forget BTW. If there's an easy way to make this into a module, I'd love to be able to do so even if just for myself and future newbs. widget-google-plus.php

I'm not big on hiding with CSS either, the issue of course being that it executes code unnecessarily. Your solution definitely seems to work without a hitch.

You are a legend among men sir! Works perfect, thanks for the quick response and assistance.

Fabulous! Worked like a charm, thank you! Actually, one problem is that now it shows: Posts 1 to 1 of 1 at the top of the posts on the home page. Anyways to prevent this? Obviously it's useful on archive pages, search results, etc but not on the home page. See http://thatcriticguy.com(work in progress) to see what I mean.

I'm stuck on one thing in the blog profile (otherwise, it's been fantastic so far and I'm enjoying using it.) I added a summary field to the blog posts but can't figure out how to make it so that the home page only shows the summary and not the complete body of my posts? I'm looking to use the summary field for excerpts for instance.. I added the field "summary" to the "post" template and everything shows up fine there and I went to modify the template for "home" assuming that I'd be able to find the answer but removing "body" doesn't seem to do anything. Can someone point me to which template I should be modifying so that it just shows the summary?

Purchased, awesome module. thank you

For the access rights bit, can you tell me which line in my review you are referring to so I can change it? Thanks!

I just wanted to share that I just published a ProcessWire review on CMS Critic. If you have anything to contribute as to why you love ProcessWire, please share in the comments. Thanks guys!

Just a quick note to say that I'm going to attempt to set up my "online visibility / seo" business site (thatcriticguy.com) using this profile / processwire. I'll likely be back offering my suggestions soon. Might even slap up a review on CMS Critic while i'm at it.

Personally, I have to say I'm quite surprised as to how many votes everyone is getting, but we've got lots of time. Something worth pointing out is that some people are voting multiple times using different accounts (they might vote once with facebook, once with linkedin, once with twitter and once with google+) and it will make the votes look padded but when I do the final tally, those 4 votes will only count for 1. You can see who votes and the duplicates by clicking on the number beside the thumbs up. So regardless of what the numbers really look like, there will be some corrections. This is one of the reasons I am using list.ly is it makes people log in to vote. I think everyone will find it fair in the long run.

Normally they are voting contests yes but as I mentioned, I'm doing this in two ways .. One for People's Choice in which case, voting counts and another which is Critic's Choice in which the judges will decide and votes won't matter. I'm not looking to become another Packt Open Source Awards type deal. That's one of the reasons I started these, so smaller systems or communities have equal chances.

Polls fixed. This time it requires logging in via twitter, google+, facebook or linkedin. Using list.ly. Sorry for the confusion, please resubmit your votes.

I am pulling down the existing polls and redoing them with list.ly. Will be back up in a moment. You will need to resubmit your votes. Apologies for the inconvenience. Votes count for the people's choice segment, not for the critic's choice ones. I created two so that community size wasn't a factor.

Just a quick heads up. This is the last day for nominations (they close at 3pm MT) and voting begins tomorrow morning at 8 AM MT, so check back to see if you've been short listed. From what I can see so far in the nominations, ProcessWire has been well represented so far, so keep getting those nominations in.