Should it just work?

Hi Martin. Where I can see the issue?

Well, it should be displaying on https://www.cooney.com.au/tidy-up-and-rid-all-those-useless-facebook-friends but I don’t see anything.

Did you activate it?

Did you go to the settings page and checked the location to show it?

Well, from what I saw, there is a tick box to show before comments which I left unticked since I’d prefer to show them after WP comments.

I’m presuming that you’re explaining this tick box NEEDS to be ticked for the plugin to work, yes?

SO I’ve now ticked that box to show above comments however it’s got this nasty big lot of whitespace – https://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac244/Rastarr/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20martinsmac/Shades-5_zps7cb56fc9.jpg or check the post referenced above.

Second question is shouldn’t G+ comments currently show for comment made on this post that are already in G+ as well because I know that post has a comment in G+ but I don’t see that reflected on that WP Post

So it works.

The problem with white space is on google+ side.
There’s no way to reduce the space.

If you want to add it after comments you can use the php function inside your theme.

<?php if (function_exists('andrea_google_plus_comments')) { andrea_google_plus_comments();} ?>

the plugin seems to “work” with all boxes checked… but on https://pinnaclenetworking.com it seems to have taken the post and stripped it out… meaning no post to actually comment on

No you shouldn’t check all the box.

Check only the comment one cause the other depends on how your themes use the post content.

nothing showed with only the one checked….

all the plugin does is remove post content….

Probably your theme has some unexpected behaviour.

Try using the function, but before I see the comments appearing correctly on your blog.
<?php if (function_exists('andrea_google_plus_comments')) { andrea_google_plus_comments();} ?>