It’s been quite a while since we all started using Google Wave. Many said it’s over-hyped, many found it as a chat client, many said they don’t have anyone to wave with & many stopped logging into wave saying it’s no longer interesting. But I don’t know what’s with me! I keep finding new & interesting new stuff on Google wave. This post shows how you can embed a fully functional Google Wave into any wordpress blog! It also shows how powerful Google Wave is & amazing possibilities of it.

To embed wave into Wordpress blog, I used a plugin called “Embed Wave”. All you need to do is install this plugin & use embed shortcode in your posts or pages to embed wave. Sample wave shortcode looks like [wave id="waveID"], just placing this tag anywhere inside your blog post or page will embed that particular wave! So, let's see how can you get ID of a particular wave. Open the wave which you want to embed & you can see URL something similar to this one https://wave.google.com/wave/#restored:wave:googlewave.com!w%252BuZyfqdMVC.3. Let's take the part after !w, which is %252BuZyfqdMVC.3. In this, %252B represents '+' symbol in HTML, so let's remove that & also remove the .3, I don't know what it represents. Remaining is uZyfqdMVC which is the wave ID I should use.

So, If I write [wave id="uZyfqdMVC"] inside my blogpost or page, that particular wave gets embedded. Embed Wave plugin allows to embed multiple waves into one blogpost. If you wish, you can make this particular wave public to enable access to anyone having wave account. Otherwise, even if you embed it outside the Google Wave, only the ones who are participants of that wave will be able to see it.

There is one more WP plugin called WP-Wave-Shortcodes which gives you more options like, to select height & width of the embed etc. For whatever reason it didn't work for me. If you find this entire process tough, you can refer to embeddy bot which makes it really simple.

Embeddy generates embed code for a wave & lets you embed the wave into any web page. Just add Embeddy to the wave which you want to generate embed code. Embeddy loads a gadget inside wave giving you options to select dimensions & colors of the embed. Once done, just copy paste the generated embed code to any web page to display this wave. The embedded wave will be live, I mean you can see people typing! But those who don’t have Google Wave account can’t see this embedded wave.

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