How To Change your Google+ Buttons Language to English in Blogger

Blogger blogging platform seems to be one of the best free blogging platforms which we have arround, and many blogger even pro blogger still use this platform. The flexibility of blogger blogging platform is ample, and a lot of beautiful templates have been created to suite your niche.

Sometimes after uploading a chosen template to your blog on blogger blogging platform, you probably may notice that the follow and follower buttons are not written in English but in the designers’ language. This glitch is common with malaysian bloggers templates such as the mas sugeng’s templates. In the malaysian templates, you will see “Ikuti” instead of “Follow” and “pengikut” instead of “Follower”.

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I had “Ikuti” showing on my blog after modifying and uploading my template. I looked for “Ikuti” in my template but didn’t find it and I bet you won’t find it either in your template if you search for it. So I searched for “how to change Ikuti to Follow” via google but no tutorial came up. Later on, I searched for “how to change my blog language” and eventually figured it out through google’s support posts. Without much addo, let me tell you how to fix this and change “Ikuti” to “Follow” in your google+ follow widget on your blog.

How To Change Google+ Buttons Language to English in Blogger

The change is done by a javascript in the template which converts the English “follow” to the language specified on the code. Let’s see how it’s being done.

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Backup your template.
– Open your template and search for “gcfg” or “apis.google.com/js/plusone.js” . You can also search for any other unique tag in the code below incase “gcfg and apis.google.com/js/plusone.js” wasn’t found. You should see a javascript code like the one highlighted below.

window.___gcfg = {lang: 'id'};
(function() {
var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;
po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';
var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);
})();

– Select the javascript code and delete it. Then, save your template. That should help your Google+ widgets revert to the default language – English.

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Just in case you didn’t see that big chunk of code above, then you may see something like the codes below:

Code 1:

window.___gcfg = {
lang: ‘ab-XY,
parsetags: ‘onload’
};

Code 2:

window.___gcfg = {‘lang’: ‘ab‘};

‘ab’ is the country language while ‘XY’ is the country. You have two options:
1) Delete it as stated above.
2) Change the language in the code (in red) to en-US (if template have like first code) or just en (if template have like second code).
Save your template.

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Note: This will change the language to English.

To change to other languages, see https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/supported-languages.
Finish. You don’t really need any magic to do this by yourself.

In like manner, If your twitter widgets (buttons) is not written in English, find the code below in your template and delete it as well if available.

!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

You can ask questions or make contributions by comments below. Happy blogging. 🙂