Rather than using a new theme I decided to strip virtually everything out of TwentyEleven, set it as One-column with no sidebar, remove all the header text and search box, set SEO Weasel as the header image, install All in one SEO, set up Google Authorship and include Google+ Comments on selected posts.

I dare say most people will say it’s too plain, too narrow and not taking advantage of field estate, but personally I love it.

This is especially important if you intend using a WordPress Plugin.

1. You have very little control of who comments (no pre-moderation)

2. The Google+ Comment system displays Shares too

3. The Google+ Comment System is retrospective (any share made since day 1 of Google+ may appear on your site)

4. People can add anything to your site and you will receive no notification.
Are you prepared to let total strangers add anything to your web pages without knowing what they have written and where they have written it?

5. This could happen to any post you have ever made on your Wordpess site

6. You will have to carefully monitor every single page that you have the Google+ Comments system on.

7. When people comment they like to receive a reply, you will receive comments without even knowing, so how can you reply?

8. If you are replacing an existing comments system you may be removing comments from your posts, if any of these were keyword rich you may start losing rankings (especially for long tail searches)

9. If you leave your existing comment system on the page people will get confused

10. Your WordPress theme will probably tell people your post has x number of comments, but these will be your original comment system comments and have no bearing to the Google+ Comments

11. The way multiple threads appear on the page is just too confusing to use as a comment system to a blog post.

12. It will be easy to post something you expect to just appear in one place appear in multiple places

13. When someone makes a direct comment to one of your posts and shares it on Google+ the comment appears in the commenters stream, included with the comment is an image from the site they commented on (this only shows after they have commented) If they don’t like the image and delete it, it removes the comment from the post and they probably won’t notice.

14. Crafty and manipulative commenters will use comments to deflect people away from the original post to their Google+ Profile where the conversation will continue.

15. Anonymous Google+ Pages can comment on your posts.

16. Comment forms for any website can be placed anywhere, you may think you are commenting on one thing, but may be commenting on something completely different.

17. If for any reason you change your URL or permalink structure all your comments will be lost.

18. Google+ Comments isn’t a comment system.

19. If you receive a bad or spam comment and Mute it, you may think no one else is seeing it when in fact they are and also any replies to the Muted comment.

20. When you report a comment as abuse it appears to be instantly removed and you won’t see it again whilst signed in. Log out of Google+ and return to the post and you will see everyone else still sees the comment even though you think it has been removed.

Please feel free to add to this list if you find anything else that concerns or annoys you about using Google+ Comments on WordPress.

BE VERY CAREFUL IF USING GOOGLE+ COMMENTS ON YOUR OWN WEBSITE

Post a Comment Using Google+

If you do not have a Google+ Account please use the old comment system at bottom of page (it may take a few hours before I approve it though)

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Aston Villa Shirt 2013 2014

Note: Aston Villa nPower Championship shirt temporarily delayed until 2014/15

OK, OK, I admit it’s only a mock up – If you want a real football shirt visit here http://goo.gl/EWp3L

Latest News on New Aston Villa Kit

The latest news on the 2013/14 Villa kit is that the shirt is to be a retro style with a vintage vision, which probably means 1982 style as that’s the year most Villa fans appear to be obsessed by and the year they are still living in.

Let us know what you think of the new Aston Villa shirt by using the comment system lower down this page

Rating 1 stars from 5 Reviews

£1.13 In stock

New Aston Villa Home Shirt 2013 2014

Reviews of Aston Villa Shirt 2013 2014

Review by: P Tait on 14-05-13

I could find a use for it

Rating 1 out of 5

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Review by: M O’Neil on 12-05-13

Glad I don’t have to wear this vile shirt

Rating 1 out of 5

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Review by: R Martinez on 12-05-13

I wouldn’t be seen dead in that.

Rating 1 out of 5

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Review by: P Withe on 12-05-13

Dull, boring, tacky, cheap probably only last 12 months

Rating 1 out of 5

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Review by: P McGrath on 12-05-13

Only fit to clean the Blues players boots with

Rating 1 out of 5

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This was to be the new Aston Villa Kit for the 2013 2014 season which was leaked before they stunned everyone by not getting relegated

The 2013 2014 Aston Villa home shirt was going to have the nPower Championship logo on the front and sleeves replacing the Premier League logos.

They are now having to quickly (and temporarily) redesign the Villa kit for another 12 months in the Premier League in 14

If the bookies are anything to go by, the Villa nPower Championship Shirt will be required for the start of the 2014 2015 season as they have Villa down as 2nd favourites to be relegated in 2013 14

 

Update: I had cleared my Google Cookies and was receiving a message about google.co.uk using Cookies, once I OK’d the cookie message the number of estimated results returned.

I set this little example up for Hanging House Signs last night, made one post about Hanging House Signs in Slate or Stone which also appears in my Google+ Stream here - https://plus.google.com/112857241378524270340/posts

With the product page set up I now have the option to leave it as a single product page or simply add more posts about hanging house signs.

Do the people using GlobalSign know this is happening?

A typical example is on the Pegasus Health site at http://www.pegasushealth.com/ if you view a text only Google cached snapshot of the page you will see the link at the top – http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.pegasushealth.com/&hl=en-GB&rlz=1T4GUEA_enGB503GB503&strip=1

Matt Cutts says Penguin 2.0 is live

#__sid=0 currently affects a small number of websites but appears to be growing all the time.

Some big sites that are affected include The Guardian and Fox News

As of 21/05.2013 Google are aware of the #__sid=0 and are looking in to it.

If your website has the #__sid=0 problem please comment below

Note: It is not just __sid=0 that Google is tagging on the end of links, sometimes they use the name of a div id on the web page affected.

Basically if you see a link which has had a # tagged on the end this could be the Google+ bug.

Update 23/05/2013:

It was a bug in Google+ that determined the represented URL used when sharing a page.

Read some of the last comments to this Google+ post – https://plus.google.com/107547897649550914425/posts/U66AsMMHCja

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