Simple Google Connect

You have to modify your theme to use the comments plugin. (Note: If you have WordPress 3.0 and a theme using the new comment_form() method, then this step is not necessary). In your comments.php file (or wherever your comments form is), you need to do the following.

1. Find the three inputs for the author, email, and url information. They need to have those ID's on the inputs (author, email, url). This is what the default theme and all standardized themes use, but some may be slightly different. You'll have to alter them to have these ID's in that case.
2. Just before the first input, add this code: [div id="comment-user-details"] [?php do_action('alt_comment_login'); ?]

1. Just below the last input (not the comment text area, just the name/email/url inputs, add this: [/div]

Google's avatars use slightly different code than other avatars. They should style the same, but not all themes will have this working properly, due to various theme designs and such. However, it is almost always possible to correct this with some simple CSS adjustments. For this reason, they are given an "google-avatar" class, for you to use to style them as you need. Just use .fbavatar in your CSS and add styling rules to correct those specific avatars.

(This is untested. You have been warned.) Many people want to set up a "network" of sites, and enable SGC across all of them. Furthermore, they'd like people to stay "connected" across them all, and to only use one Google Application to connect their users. This is entirely possible with a bit of setup. First, create your Google Application. It should use the base domain field as well as the normal fields. No subdirectories or subdomains anywhere. For this example, we'll use "example.com". Next, you can add these to your site's wp-config: define('SGC_APP_SECRET', 'xxxxx'); define('SGC_APP_ID', 'xxxxx'); These are the exact same settings as on the normal SGC base configuration screen, and they will override those settings for the entire network of sites. In fact, when those are defined, the corresponding settings options won't even appear. This may look odd at first. With this setup, SGC should work across all your subdomains and subdirectories. So it'll work on example.com or blog.example.com or otto.example.com or whatever. It should also work on example.com/blog. Notes:

• If you use other domains with domain mapping, those domains will need have their oauth Redirect URIs added to the Project in the Google API Console before they will work.

The Comments module will automatically use Google avatars for users that leave comments using Google.