Wordpress Plugin: Digg & Reddit Me
This is another useful and very simple Wordpress plugin like others but different in the usage.
It places a Digg, Reddit or both button on the page or post you want without modifying templates or php files.
Just activate it and go to modify the page or the post you want add the button(s) and in the visual editor insert one of the following “activation-tag”:
- [ digg-me ] displays the Digg button
- [ reddit-me ] displays the Reddit button
- [ digg-reddit-me ] displays both buttons overlapped (Digg above, Reddit below)
Each activation-tag goes without spaces (I had to put spaces otherwise it converts them into buttons :)
The buttons are displayed, always, on the left where you position them, at the moment the aren’t other options to change positioning or anything else, just drop the activation-tag and display it.
Make attention, the buttons are displayed only when you are in the single page or single post, it will be override on the main loop, category pages, archives, etc…
Requirements:
WordPress 2.x or later (I think it works in 1.5 too but I didn’t test it).
Installation:
- Download the Wordpress plugin Digg & Reddit Me
- uncompress it with your preferred unzip/untar program or use the command line: tar xzvf digg-reddit-me.tar.gz
- copy the file digg-reddit-me.php in your plugins directory at your wordpress blog (/wp-content/plugins)
- activate the Digg & Reddit Me Wordpress plugin at your Plugins admin page
Usage & Screenshots:
Modify a page or a post to insert the button you like:
This is right (it places the Digg button, replace [ digg-me ] with [ reddit-me ] to get the Reddit button)
This is right too (it places both the buttons)
This is wrong
Changelog:
- 0.1 Initial release
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15:18 on November 18th, 2007
Hi Michele
Thanks for this. I just tested on one two of our posts. When I used [digg-me] it worked fine:
http://www.celsias.com/2007/11/07/eco-nemo/
But when I used [digg-reddit-me] the reddit icon doesn’t show:
http://www.celsias.com/2007/11/12/the-drip-that-saves/
Any ideas?
Thanks in adance! If we can get this to work, expect a donation!! (as we’ll be able to get rid of the digg/reddit icons at top of our posts, which are damned ugly).
Kind regards
Craig
01:45 on February 21st, 2008
Worked amazingly when I first use this plug in. After switching webhosts and starting fresh it does not work. Not sure what changed but I wish I had this back. It is the only good digg/reddit plug in I can find.
15:21 on March 21st, 2008
Working very good. Can you modify the plugin to automatically insert buttons to visual editor?
07:04 on April 8th, 2008
Great work, compatible with 2.5?
19:51 on April 8th, 2008
It works, thank you for the tip
08:55 on May 9th, 2008
Was looking for Social Bookmarking plugins for my blog … this also seems to b a cool one .. Thanx
21:22 on June 5th, 2008
Do you have any picture or a demo blog with the plugin installed?
22:56 on June 13th, 2008
Shows an error now (in console)
invalid label
[Break on this error] digg_url = http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-95-final-released/ ;
23:02 on June 13th, 2008
Fixed.
Changed
digg_url = ‘.get_permalink().’;
to
digg_url = “‘.get_permalink().’”;
00:35 on July 2nd, 2008
How does this stack up against a hosted site such as AddToAny?
07:43 on July 31st, 2008
Just tested this on the new version of wordpress 2.6 and it works fine, yay
21:46 on September 12th, 2008
yup i agree WP 2.6 is workin fine, even with non default template at http://info.biofircenter.com
13:08 on October 2nd, 2008
This is really pushing the boundaries, very innovative…
06:35 on October 6th, 2008
[...] Digg and Reddit Button - You have seen this on other people blogs (and at the top of this one). This allows people to see how many DIGG and Reddit votes this blog post has. And allows you vote for this blog post. [...]
06:22 on October 10th, 2008
Thanks for such an important articles about shopping. This is a very needed info about shopping sites.
Thanks
07:04 on October 11th, 2008
Thanks for providing information and prices of different variety of shopping product. I need this info because i am using online shopping services.
Thanks
19:33 on October 12th, 2008
отличный пост. Столько интересной, полезной, а главное, актуальной информации, что придется добавить ВАс в закладки.