I’ve been searching around for a while for a really good Digg Wordpress Plugin and haven’t been having much luck finding one that works well and is easily configurable. The other day I just happened upon a nifty little plugin called "digg IT" from the design company Tuggo (http://www.tuggo.org). The plugin allows visitors to your blog to submit posts to Digg.com or to digg them if they have already been submitted and it also displays the number of times a post has been dugg. Below you’ll find a link to download the plugin…
digg IT - The Digg Wordpress Plugin
Quoted from the site:
| By installing this plugin, it allows your visitors to easily submit your stories to digg, the popular social news networking website, or vote for your articles by “digging” them if they have already been submitted by someone else. Installing and customizing is easy. |
The plugin installation is extremely simple. Just unzip it in your Wordpress /plugins directory and activate it in the plugins section of your Wordpress dashboard. Customization is a snap as the plugin allows the user to supply background colors as well as CSS values for the plugin. The plugin aligns itself using a “float:right” value for the DIV the plugin shows in but it’s simple to edit the source code to change the value to float the plugin to the left hand side of posts as I’ve done here.
My only complaint with this plugin is it breaks XHTML validation rules because it uses a javascript to call an iFrame with the Digg details in it. This is easily remedied by adding a CDATA section before and after calling the plugin.
While this Digg plugin for Wordpress is far easier to use and more customizable than others I’ve tried using, it is still lacking some basic necessities and extensibility. I’m going to hack a more complete version of this seeing as the license is open source GPL (GNU General Public License). I’ll update here when the completed, upgraded version of this plugin is finished.
Hi,
I read a post a while ago (can’t find the link) about a guy who experimented with these digg boxes. What he did is this. First, he wrote an interesting (digg-able) article and inserted the digg box only at the beginning of the article, much like your posts. The he dugg it and recorded the diggs and visits and so on.
Then, he added the digg box at the beginning and at the end of another digg-able article and he dugg it and recorded the diggs and other stuff again.
The second article was about 60% or so more dugg that the first article, and it’s just because of the second digg box at the end of the post.
So, it’s good to keep that in mind.
Hey, great to see some people writing about the plugin. I am glad to hear that you like it and I see that you are using it. If you have any suggestions just let me know. Any changes that you make that others might like, send me an email. We may be able to work something out so that some of your changes can benefit everyone! Thanks for trying it!
Paul
TUGGO