Remove Google+

Google+ is being shutdown on April 2, 2019. Social sharing buttong, comment provider, and author link configs have been removed from the theme.

ref: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9195133

_config.yml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ masthead_title           : # overrides the website title displayed in the masthe
 # breadcrumbs            : false # true, false (default)
 words_per_minute         : 200
 comments:
-  provider               : # false (default), "disqus", "discourse", "facebook", "google-plus", "staticman", "staticman_v2", "utterances", "custom"
+  provider               : # false (default), "disqus", "discourse", "facebook", "staticman", "staticman_v2", "utterances", "custom"
   disqus:
     shortname            : # https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466208-what-s-a-shortname-
   discourse:

_includes/author-profile.html

@@ -97,14 +97,6 @@
         </li>
       {% endif %}
 
-      {% if author.google_plus %}
-        <li>
-          <a href="https://plus.google.com/{{ author.google_plus }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">
-            <i class="fab fa-fw fa-google-plus-square" aria-hidden="true"></i> Google+
-          </a>
-        </li>
-      {% endif %}
-
       {% if author.linkedin %}
         <li>
           <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/{{ author.linkedin }}" itemprop="sameAs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">

_includes/comments-providers/google-plus.html

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-<script async type="text/javascript" src="//apis.google.com/js/plusone.js?callback=gpcb"></script>
-<noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="https://plus.google.com/">comments powered by Google+.</a></noscript>

_includes/comments-providers/scripts.html

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
     {% include /comments-providers/discourse.html %}
   {% when "facebook" %}
     {% include /comments-providers/facebook.html %}
-  {% when "google-plus" %}
-    {% include /comments-providers/google-plus.html %}
   {% when "staticman" %}
     {% include /comments-providers/staticman.html %}
   {% when "staticman_v2" %}

_includes/comments.html

@@ -10,21 +10,6 @@
     {% when "facebook" %}
       <h4 class="page__comments-title">{{ comments_label }}</h4>
       <section class="fb-comments" data-href="{{ page.url | absolute_url }}" data-mobile="true" data-num-posts="{{ site.comments.facebook.num_posts | default: 5 }}" data-width="100%" data-colorscheme="{{ site.comments.facebook.colorscheme | default: 'light' }}"></section>
-    {% when "google-plus" %}
-      <h4 class="page__comments-title">{{ comments_label }}</h4>
-      <section id="g-comments" class="g-comments">Loading Google+ Comments ...</section>
-      <script>
-        function initComment() {
-          gapi.comments.render("g-comments", {
-            href: "{{ page.url | absolute_url }}",
-            width: "624",
-            first_party_property: "BLOGGER",
-            view_type: "FILTERED_POSTMOD"
-          })
-        }
-      </script>
-      <script async type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js" onload="initComment()" />
-      <noscript>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href="https://plus.google.com/">comments powered by Google+.</a></noscript>-->
     {% when "staticman_v2" %}
       <section id="static-comments">
         {% if site.repository and site.staticman.branch %}

_includes/social-share.html

@@ -7,7 +7,5 @@
 
   <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u={{ page.url | absolute_url | url_encode }}" class="btn btn--facebook" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'window', 'left=20,top=20,width=500,height=500,toolbar=1,resizable=0'); return false;" title="{{ site.data.ui-text[site.locale].share_on_label | default: 'Share on' }} Facebook"><i class="fab fa-fw fa-facebook" aria-hidden="true"></i><span> Facebook</span></a>
 
-  <a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url={{ page.url | absolute_url | url_encode }}" class="btn btn--google-plus" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'window', 'left=20,top=20,width=500,height=500,toolbar=1,resizable=0'); return false;" title="{{ site.data.ui-text[site.locale].share_on_label | default: 'Share on' }} Google Plus"><i class="fab fa-fw fa-google-plus" aria-hidden="true"></i><span> Google+</span></a>
-
   <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url={{ page.url | absolute_url | url_encode }}" class="btn btn--linkedin" onclick="window.open(this.href, 'window', 'left=20,top=20,width=500,height=500,toolbar=1,resizable=0'); return false;" title="{{ site.data.ui-text[site.locale].share_on_label | default: 'Share on' }} LinkedIn"><i class="fab fa-fw fa-linkedin" aria-hidden="true"></i><span> LinkedIn</span></a>
 </section>

_sass/minimal-mistakes/_buttons.scss

@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
   (info, $info-color),
   (facebook, $facebook-color),
   (twitter, $twitter-color),
-  (google-plus, $google-plus-color),
   (linkedin, $linkedin-color);
 
   @each $buttoncolor, $color in $buttoncolors {

_sass/minimal-mistakes/_utilities.scss

@@ -228,12 +228,6 @@ body:hover .visually-hidden button {
     color: $gitlab-color;
   }
 
-  .fa-google-plus,
-  .fa-google-plus-square,
-  .fa-google-plus-g {
-    color: $google-plus-color;
-  }
-
   .fa-instagram {
     color: $instagram-color;
   }

_sass/minimal-mistakes/_variables.scss

@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ $flickr-color: #ff0084 !default;
 $foursquare-color: #0072b1 !default;
 $github-color: #171516 !default;
 $gitlab-color: #e24329 !default;
-$google-plus-color: #dd4b39 !default;
 $instagram-color: #517fa4 !default;
 $lastfm-color: #d51007 !default;
 $linkedin-color: #007bb6 !default;

docs/_config.yml

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ masthead_title           : # overrides the website title displayed in the masthe
 # breadcrumbs            : false # true, false (default)
 words_per_minute         : 200
 comments:
-  provider               : "false" # false (default), "disqus", "discourse", "facebook", "google-plus", "staticman_v2", "staticman", "utterances", "custom"
+  provider               : "false" # false (default), "disqus", "discourse", "facebook", "staticman_v2", "staticman", "utterances", "custom"
   disqus:
     shortname            :
   discourse:

docs/_data/authors.yml

@@ -2,17 +2,27 @@
 
 Billy Rick:
   name        : "Billy Rick"
-  uri         : "http://thewhip.com"
-  email       : "billy@rick.com"
   bio         : "What do you want, jewels? I am a very extravagant man."
   avatar      : "/assets/images/bio-photo-2.jpg"
-  twitter     : "extravagantman"
+  links:
-  google_plus : "BillyRick"
+    - label: "Email"
+      icon: "fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"
+      url: "mailto:billyrick@rick.com"
+    - label: "Website"
+      icon: "fas fa-fw fa-link"
+      url: "https://thewhip.com"
+    - label: "Twitter"
+      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
+      url: "https://twitter.com/extravagantman"
 
 Cornelius Fiddlebone:
   name        : "Cornelius Fiddlebone"
-  email       : "cornelius@thewhip.com"
   bio         : "I ordered what?"
   avatar      : "/assets/images/bio-photo.jpg"
-  twitter     : "rhymeswithsackit"
+  links:
-  google_plus : "CorneliusFiddlebone"
+    - label: "Email"
+      icon: "fas fa-fw fa-envelope-square"
+      url: "mailto:cornelius@thewhip.com"
+    - label: "Twitter"
+      icon: "fab fa-fw fa-twitter-square"
+      url: "https://twitter.com/rhymeswithsackit"

docs/_docs/05-configuration.md

@@ -281,14 +281,13 @@ To disable reading time for a post, add `read_time: false` its YAML Front Matter
 
 ### Comments
 
-[**Disqus**](https://disqus.com/), [**Discourse**](https://www.discourse.org/), [**Facebook**](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments), **Google+**, [**utterances**](https://utteranc.es/), and static-based commenting via [**Staticman**](https://staticman.net/) are built into the theme. First set the comment provider you'd like to use:
+[**Disqus**](https://disqus.com/), [**Discourse**](https://www.discourse.org/), [**Facebook**](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments), [**utterances**](https://utteranc.es/), and static-based commenting via [**Staticman**](https://staticman.net/) are built into the theme. First set the comment provider you'd like to use:
 
 | Name             | Comment Provider          |
 | ---------------- | ------------------------- |
 | **disqus**       | Disqus                    |
 | **discourse**    | Discourse                 |
 | **facebook**     | Facebook Comments         |
-| **google-plus**  | Google+ Comments          |
 | **staticman_v2** | Staticman v2              |
 | **staticman**    | Staticman v1 (deprecated) |
 | **utterances**   | utterances                |

docs/_docs/10-layouts.md

@@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ author:
       url: "https://instagram.com/mmistakes"
 ```
 
-**Note:** Depending on the icon and theme skin used, colors may not be used. Popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, etc. have the appropriate brand color set in CSS. To change or add missing colors edit [`_utilities.scss`](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_utilities.scss) in `<site root>/_sass/minimal-mistakes/`.
+**Note:** Depending on the icon and theme skin used, colors may not be used. Popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. have the appropriate brand color set in CSS. To change or add missing colors edit [`_utilities.scss`](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_sass/minimal-mistakes/_utilities.scss) in `<site root>/_sass/minimal-mistakes/`.
 {: .notice--info}
 
 For example, to color a Reddit icon, simply add a `color` declaration and the corresponding hex code like so:
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ defaults:
 
 ## Social sharing links
 
-The `single` layout has an option to enable social links at the bottom of posts for sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Similar to the links found in the author sidebar, the theme ships with defaults for the most common social networks.
+The `single` layout has an option to enable social links at the bottom of posts for sharing on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Similar to the links found in the author sidebar, the theme ships with defaults for the most common social networks.
 
 ![default social share link buttons]({{ "/assets/images/mm-social-share-links-default.png" | relative_url }})
 
@@ -709,7 +709,7 @@ To enable these links add `share: true` to a post or page's YAML Front Matter or
 
 If you'd like to add, remove, or change the order of these default links you can do so by editing [`_includes/social-share.html`](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/blob/master/_includes/social-share.html).
 
-Let's say you wanted to replace the Google+ button with a Reddit one. Simply replace the HTML with the following:
+Let's say you wanted to replace the LinkedIn button with a Reddit one. Simply replace the HTML with the following:
 
 ```html
 {% raw %}<a href="https://www.reddit.com/submit?url={{ page.url | absolute_url | url_encode }}&title={{ page.title }}" class="btn" title="{{ site.data.ui-text[site.locale].share_on_label }} Reddit"><i class="fab fa-fw fa-reddit" aria-hidden="true"></i><span> Reddit</span></a>{% endraw %}
@@ -732,7 +732,6 @@ Under the `$social` color map in `assets/_scss/_buttons.scss` simply add a name
 $social:
 (facebook, $facebook-color),
 (twitter, $twitter-color),
-(google-plus, $google-plus-color),
 (linkedin, $linkedin-color);
 (reddit, #ff4500;)
 ```

docs/_pages/about.md

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Minimal Mistakes is a flexible two-column Jekyll theme. Perfect for hosting your
 - Several responsive layout options (single, archive index, search, splash, and paginated home page).
 - Optimized for search engines with support for [Twitter Cards](https://dev.twitter.com/cards/overview) and [Open Graph](http://ogp.me/) data
 - Optional [header images](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/layouts/#headers), [custom sidebars](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/layouts/#sidebars), [table of contents](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/helpers/#table-of-contents), [galleries](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/helpers/#gallery), related posts, [breadcrumb links](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/configuration/#breadcrumb-navigation-beta), [navigation lists](https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/docs/helpers/#navigation-list), and more.
-- Commenting support (powered by [Disqus](https://disqus.com/), [Facebook](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments), Google+, [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/), [utterances](https://utteranc.es/), static-based via [Staticman v1 and v2](https://staticman.net/), and custom).
+- Commenting support (powered by [Disqus](https://disqus.com/), [Facebook](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments), [Discourse](https://www.discourse.org/), [utterances](https://utteranc.es/), static-based via [Staticman v1 and v2](https://staticman.net/), and custom).
 - [Google Analytics](https://www.google.com/analytics/) support.
 - UI localized text in English (default), Brazilian Portuguese (Português brasileiro), Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French (Français), German (Deutsch), Greek, Hindi (हिंदी), Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian (Italiano), Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Nepali (Nepalese), Persian (فارسی), Polish, Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Español), Swedish, Turkish (Türkçe), and Vietnamese.
 

test/_config.yml

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ masthead_title           : "Custom Title" # overrides the website title displaye
 # breadcrumbs            : false # true, false (default)
 words_per_minute         : 200
 comments:
-  provider               : # false (default), "disqus", "discourse", "facebook", "google-plus", "staticman", "utterances", "custom"
+  provider               : # false (default), "disqus", "discourse", "facebook", "staticman", "utterances", "custom"
   disqus:
     shortname            : # https://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466208-what-s-a-shortname-
   discourse: