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DiggBadger

Abstract

DiggBadger integrates the Digg tools “Digg This” button with dynamic data from WordPress to add a Digg badge to posts and pages in WordPress 2.x or greater. Stories already submitted will show how many times they have been dugg and stories not yet submitted will post to the submit story page with information pre-populated.

Purpose

After searching and trying several Digg link implementations for WordPress and discussing the pros and cons of each with my friends, I realized that there wasn’t a plugin that was easy to use and met all my requirements for function and ease of use. I originally created this as just a block of code and wrote and article about using it, but after creating PicasaWebScraper, I realized that this was a perfect candidate for a plugin.

Solution

Utilizing the Javascript calls from Digg and pulling dynamic data from WordPress (and some more voodoo trickery), I was able to get all the dynamic data, including the first 350 characters (cleanly) from the post for first-time submission form pre-population.

Demo

See it in action on my own site, even on this page at the bottom.

Download:

DiggBadger
WordPress Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/diggbadger/
Version: 1.1
Release Date: 08/29/2007
Requirements: WordPress 2.0 or greater, may work under older versions of WordPress
License: GNU General Public License Version 3
References: http://www.digg.com/tools/integrate
Installation: 1. Download DiggBadger

2. Upload PicasaWebScraper.php to ~/wp_contents/plugins/

3. Activate DiggBadger plugin
Usage: 1. On the theme file where you would like to add DiggBadger, locate the line containing the_content() and place the following code immediately before or after that line:

<?php getDiggBadger(); ?>

2. Save theme file.

3. Optionally, add a class to your stylesheet to style DiggBadger. The class needs to be named .diggBadger. Here’s a sample style:

.diggBadger
{
   float: right;
   margin-bottom: 4px;
   margin-left: 4px;
}

v1.1: You can now provide a second parameter that specifies the CSS class to use. The default CSS class is .diggBadger, but you can declare one or more classes ach time this function is called.

getDiggBadger([string $defaultTopic, [string $cssClass]])

defaultTopic
- Optional. Default: ”. Specify the default topic for your posts. Valid strings can be found here: http://www.digg.com/tools/integrate#topics

cssClass (Added in 1.1)
- Optional. Default: ‘diggBadger’. Specifies the CSS class to use for styling the outer DIV. To disable styling, pass an unused class name, such as ‘DoNotStyle’.
Uninstallation: To remove DiggBadger, not that you would ever want to, simply follow these instructions:

1. Edit the theme files containing the call: <?php getDiggBadger(); ?> and delete the code

2. Save the theme files3. Deactivate the DiggBadger plugin

4. Delete diggbadger.php from ~/wp_contents/plugins/

Change Log

1.1 8/29/2007 Added optional parameter cssClass to specify CSS class to use in wrapping DIV.

Roadmap

I plan to add an optional parameter to allow for use of the smaller badge provided by the Digg API.

Questions/Support

If you have any questions, please post a comment to this page and I will do my best to answer it or perhaps someone else can as well.

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3 Responses to “DiggBadger”

  1. How To Tutorials Says:
    Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 10:34 am

    DiggBader has suddenly stopped displaying the Digg button on my posts. Any idea why? For now, I’ll disable the plugin and try to use the code.

  2. How to place a ‘Digg It’ button in your blog posts | HowToTuts.com Says:
    Sunday, January 27th, 2008 at 11:17 pm

    […] can also accomplish this using a plugin called DiggBadger and placing the following above the the_content function, and then styling it to align […]

  3. scriptygoddess » Blog Archive » Wordpress meetup & Digging (more than just snow) Says:
    Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    […] with the snow storm that rolled through here, and nothing else to do this morning - I finally got DiggBadger installed. So now my posts can be dugg if you feel so inclined… Sphere: Related Content […]

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