Google rolled out Google+ Comments box for blogger to compete with Facebook comment box. The new comment box has superb and amazing look. Unfortunately it will not working for custom blogger templates by default. Let we see how to enable this new Google+ comment box on custom blogger templates.

Google+ Comments lets you bring the following conversations together in one place, right under your blog post:

• Comments made on your Blogger blog post
• Comments on the blog post that you’ve shared to Google+
• Shared content on Google+ that links to your blog post

Features of Google+ Comments

Google+ Comments look similar to traditional Blogger comments, but have some important differences. For example:

• When you leave a comment on a blog, you'll see the option, checked by default, to also share that comment to Google+.
• Google+ posts that link to blog posts will show up as a comment underneath those blog posts
• If original comment is shared to Google+, replies to the comment on the blog will show up in Google+ and vice versa, but only to the people that the original comment was shared with
• If a comment is not shared with the blog author, the blog author will not be able to see the comment in either location
• As the author of a post, you’ll receive Google+ notifications when readers comment on or share your blog post.

If you use Blogger’s commenting platform, existing Blogger comments will stay on your blog, and you’ll continue to have the option to delete or mark them as spam.First you should use Google+ profile instead Blogger Profile.

First you should use Google+ profile instead Blogger Profile.

1. Goto Blogger Dashboard => Google+ Tab

2. Check the box near Use Google+ Comments on this blog

Thats it! Google+ comment box will be enabled for most of blogs.

If Gomment box not showing on custom blogger templates, then do the following,

1. Goto Blogger Dashboard => Template

2. Backup your template

3. Click Edit Html

4. Search the below code

<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>

5. Before that code, paste the following code

<div class='cmt_iframe_holder'
expr:data-href='data:post.canonicalUrl'
expr:data-viewtype='data:post.viewType'/>

It the step 4 code occurs more than once, add the step 5 code before all that codes.

6. Save Template

Thats it!

One disadvantage of this new Google plus comments box is, you can only reply to Google+ comments, but You can't reply other comments. Hope google will enable that soon. I liked this new comment design, what about you?