How To Transfer Google Friend Connect

This is a quick how to on transferring Google Friends Connect to a new site/blog.  It will work whether you are moving from blogger to wordpress or to a new domain all together.  So here it is:

Log in to Google friendsconnect

Go to your site and find site settings, change home url and save settings

Go to Members Gadgets and get code.  Put into text/html widget in your new blog

Done!

If you can’t find the site settings:

log in to friendconnect, look at the address, it will look like this:

http://www.google.com/friendconnect/admin/site/overview?id=1234567890

change overview to settings, it will look like this:

http://www.google.com/friendconnect/admin/site/settings?id=1234567890

Then you should be able to follow the directions above!

3 Comments

  1. 3
    Kate says:

    In your settings will be the code for the widget, simply cut and paste the code into a text widget box in your wp dashboard.

  2. 2

    Thanks, Kate! Your instructions worked like a charm when I transferred from Blogger to WP.

  3. 1
    Eve says:

    How do you add google friend connect to a wordpress blog?

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