Prerequisite: Creating a LAMP server with Ubuntu 16.04
Create and configure MySQL database for WordPress
mysql -u root -pCreating a LAMP server with Ubuntu 16.04
Here are some of the guides and resources I used to get my site working the way that I wanted.
Install a LAMP server (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) as a prerequisite for installing WordPress.
https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Ubuntu 16.04
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.confHow to Add the GooglePlus +1 Button to Your WordPress Posts
Google +1 Webmaster Dev Page
Certain code snippets need changed slightly to add to a wordpress site.
Edit theme footer.php and insert the following just before the closing body tag:
This calls the Google Analytics tracker into play. Now open your theme Single Post single.php and add the following snippet:
size can equal small, medium, tall or leave out all together for standard
count equals true shows the number of +1 votes, equals false hides that from your page
callback adds site tracking analytic data for Google +1 clicks that can be viewed in Google Analytics.