Title: google toolbar button plugin?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# google toolbar button plugin?

 *  [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/)
 * (@buskerdog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/)
 * I can’t finda plugin that creates a google toolbar button and keeps it up to 
   date. I remember one from Movable Type that used atom.xml to keep the button 
   up to date. What’s the WP version?

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 *  [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/)
 * (@golddave)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499837)
 * Do you mean a button that will reside in the Google toolbar that will pull up
   an RSS feed of your blog?
 *  Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/)
 * (@buskerdog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499850)
 * Yeah, that’s what I mean.
 *  [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/)
 * (@golddave)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499863)
 * I don’t think it exists yet but I can do it. I’ll let you know when I have something.
 *  Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/)
 * (@buskerdog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499866)
 * Wow! Cool. Thanks!
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499871)
 * Hmm.. This has some interesting potential. Not only can you create a button dropdown
   that gets updated via an RSS feed, but you can change the feed to have icons 
   for each entry, descriptions for the hover, even allow them to do searches on
   the site via the toolbar.
 * Could be a neat plugin.
 *  [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/)
 * (@golddave)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499895)
 * I have a very basic plugin now that generates the needed XML file. I’ll have 
   more on this tomorrow. Stay tuned.
 *  [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/)
 * (@golddave)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499941)
 * There is a working version of this plugin available now at my website:
    [http://nothing.golddave.com/?page_id=78](http://nothing.golddave.com/?page_id=78)
 * That page has instructions for how to use it. If you have any questions, comments
   or suggestions either put them here or post a comment there.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499942)
 * The link to the ZIP file on your page does not work.
 *  [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/)
 * (@golddave)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499943)
 * Sorry about that. It’s fixed now. Please try again.
 *  Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/)
 * (@buskerdog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499945)
 * I’m trying to get it going. The function file_put_contents seems to already be
   taken by something else. I tried changing it to file_put_contents_toolbar but
   I’m having trouble regardless and I’m not sure if that’s the cause. Also, do 
   you know what could be done to put a custom image in there somewhere? I remeber
   having to use this site to translate the image into code in order to include 
   it in the MT plugin: [http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp](http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp)
 * Regardless, thanks a lot for developing this!
 * Oh yeah, here’s where I have it installed (it’s the little Add to google toolbar
   link near the top. The one below is for the old toolbar. [http://tinyurl.com/yklcge](http://tinyurl.com/yklcge)
 * EDIT: I manually added my logo to the plugin. You might want to add a link to
   the image processing site I posted in your site!
 *  Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/)
 * (@buskerdog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499947)
 * Got it working. I swapped out wpurl with url in the plugin everywhere I saw <?
   php bloginfo(‘wpurl’) That could just be because of how my blog is set up. I 
   also put the logo in manually. Works great! Thanks!
 *  [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/)
 * (@golddave)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499948)
 * What version of WordPress are you using?
 * I first wanted to have the most basic thing working and then add the extras. 
   I plan on adding some options when I have something stable enough to build on(
   in other words when I have enough feedback from people that what I have now is
   reliable). Images will be a bit tricky because they need to be in base64 format.
   I’d like to add that as part of the plugin so if anybody has any ideas of on 
   how to integrate base64 conversion into the plugin I’ll be grateful.
 *  Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/)
 * (@buskerdog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499949)
 * I’m still on 2.0.3 for that site. The only change I made to get it to work was
   to change wpurl to url. I also changed the name of the file to toolber_button.
   xml in a failed attempt to get my old button to automatically pick up on the 
   new one (it would need to appear in the root directory but appears in wp-content)
   and adding the base64 image in was purely aesthetic. But if you follow the tinyurl
   link above you’ll find that it works!
 *  [golddave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/golddave/)
 * (@golddave)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499951)
 * I followed that URL and know it works but it doesn’t give me any information 
   on how. That’s ok, though.
 * As you noticed, I defaulted the directory of the XML file to wp-content. I plan
   on adding an option to change the directory the file can be found in. I also 
   plan an option to change the default file name (currently is the name of your
   blog with spaces replaced by underscores).
 * I made 2 changes to the plugin. One was to integrate your change to use url instead
   of wpurl. The other was to check to see if the XML file already exists before
   it runs the code to generate it. (Previously it was regenerating the file every
   time a page was loaded. The file check will cut down on page load time.) Both
   of these changes can be found in version 0.2 currently available at my website(
   [http://nothing.golddave.com/?page_id=78](http://nothing.golddave.com/?page_id=78)).
 *  Thread Starter [buskerdog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buskerdog/)
 * (@buskerdog)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-toolbar-button-plugin/#post-499959)
 * You’re the man. This should become a hot plugin since every WP user can find 
   a use in it.

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