=== Plugin Name ===
Contributors: mabujo
Donate link: http://plusdevs.com/donate
Tags: google+, widget, sidebar, google, social
Requires at least: 3
Tested up to: 3.2
Stable tag: trunk,

A simple plugin that adds a google+ widget for linking to your google+ profile and showing your number of followers

== Description ==

Adds a widget to your blog that will display a link to your google+ profile so people can add you to a circle (follow you). It also displays your name, profile picture and the number of people who have you in circles.


The plugin uses caching to store your google+ profile data to eliminate checking google+ on every page load.
For the caching to work, your web-server needs to be able to write to wp-content. (a lot of plugins require this so it should be fine).
If the plugin cannot cache it will still work, but will store the data in the database instead. If caching is working you should see a file called plus_card.txt in /wp-content/cache/.


== Installation ==

1. Download googleCards.zip and unzip
2. Upload the unzipped googleCards folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Go to the 'Widgets' menu in Wordpress and add the widget to your sidebar.
5. Choose a title for the widget and input your google+ id. (You can find your google+ id by going to your profile, it is the 21 digit number e.g. plus.google.com/YOUR_ID_IS_HERE).


== Screenshots ==

1. googleCards widget in the sidebar

== Changelog ==
= 0.4 =
* Added file_get_contents as a backup for curl and use the transients API if we cant use a cache file. Tell curl not to verify https. Some minor css stuff.

= 0.3.1 =
* Some css fixes for people with big names and small sidebars.

= 0.3 =
* Fix for lowercase names in wordpress plugin directory

= 0.2 =
* Fixed some caching and css problems

= 0.1 =
* Initial release

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 0.4 =
googleCards no longer requires a cache file to work and should be much more reliable in fetching your data from google+. If you were having problems before please upgrade and try this new version.