Google Plus Shutdown - Affects on Blogger Platform ~ Ofuran

Google Plus Shutdown - Affects on Blogger Platform

Google is going to close Google Plus on April 2, 2019. So every google account user received an email for this. 



And the Blogger platform users also see a notification that a number of change will be made to Blogger's Google+ integration on 4th February, 2019.

Google+ widgets, +1 Button, Google followers button and Google Badge widgets will no longer available now.

+1 Buttons/ G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed. 

Google+ Comments will be turned down and all blogs that uses Google plus comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. But Google plus comments posted as Google+ comments can not be migrated and will not appear on your blog.

Following the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February 2019. 

Google+ widgets: Support for the “+1 Button”, “Google+ Followers” and “Google+ Badge” widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog. 

+1 buttons: The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed. 

Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for advice. 

Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog. 
  
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