Works great – once the docs get fixed

I ran across this plugin and it seemed to be exactly what I was looking for – an easy way to publish graphs on my WP site and have the data management take place on Google Drive. This way, I can have users who have access to Drive, but have no business mucking around in the bowels of WP update the data that drives the graphs, and my WP site is automatically updated to stay current with the Drive data.

When I first installed the plugin and created a shortcode, NOTHING HAPPENED – what a disappointment! I played around with it for a while and couldn’t figure out what was wrong, so I left a note on the developer’s blog. He responded very quickly and after the exchange of a couple of emails and him posting some working examples, we figured out what was wrong.

The documentation read:

Gid is the page of your spreadsheet, so if it is on the first page it is “1”, if it is on the second it is “two” and so on and so forth.

Well … that’s not exactly correct. The gid is a zero-relative number, so the first page of the spreadsheet is “0”, the second is “1”, etc. Once I updated my shortcode with the zero-relative gid, everything works.

FYI: you can find the gid for your spreadsheet page in the address bar. It’s tacked on to the end of the URL like this: “#gid=2”

I’m giving five stars for a simple plugin that does one thing and does it well – coupled with stellar support from the developer.

My one suggestion: Add a shortcode builder to make it easier for a novice to build the shortcode. It’s not complicated, but it’s not something I would want someone with no coding experience to have to try to figure out.