Are you looking for a way to create a shortcode that embeds a Google Trends graph in posts and pages? This Google Trends shortcode will embed a graph of any comma separated query you enter to display a trend over time.
Instructions:
- Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin.
- Be sure to add a
+sign between multiple words that are part of a single query. - By default, the geolocation is set to the United States, so be sure to change the
geoattribute if you need it to be set to another location. - Here is an example shortcode:
[trends h="450" w="500" q="wordpress,+wordpress+theme,+wordpress+plugin,+wordpress+snippets" geo="US"]
function wps_trend($atts){
extract( shortcode_atts( array(
'w' => '500', // width
'h' => '330', // height
'q' => '', // query
'geo' => 'US', // geolocation
), $atts ) );
//format input
$h=(int)$h;
$w=(int)$w;
$q=esc_attr($q);
$geo=esc_attr($geo);
ob_start();
?>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/trends/embed.js?hl=en-US&q=<?php echo $q;?>&geo=<?php echo $geo;?>&cmpt=q&content=1&cid=TIMESERIES_GRAPH_0&export=5&w=<?php echo $w;?>&h=<?php echo $h;?>"></script>
<?php
return ob_get_clean();
}
add_shortcode("trends","wps_trend");
Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.
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Can you update this to work with Trends update?
I’ve been trying, but it is annoying.
Also so that you can use it twice on one wp post/page, which seems to be a problem.
Hello Debjit, thank you for the tutorial. It really helps!
However, is there any way to only providing trends statistic for the past 5 years?
Any help would be appreciated!
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Could you please provide more details about what you are trying to do?
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