It’s finally here… The first Beta of the next generation Wordpress social bookmarking plugin - with more features, options and functionality than ever before. The whole system has been (almost) re-written from scratch. That’s a spinning head, tired brain, and over 1500 lines of code.
New features include:
- Drastically improved UI, organized structure to the admin page
- PostBadge: unlimited control over the Digg button / Share This link placement, without touching the template
- Extremely cool “check for updates” feature
- Addition of template tags digg_button() and share_this()
- Dynamic overview (pictured above) lets you know the critical details
- Completely automated alerts and messaging system. The plugin will tell you when something’s wrong. It’s alive!
- Sweetened up interface using javascript effects, and fam-fam-fam’s silk icons.
Who says Wordpress can’t handle Digg?
A big thank you to all the other Digg plugins out there. The half-implementations, buggy, or just plain annoying plugins were the inspiration behind Gregarious. Alex King deserves a round of applause for his Share This plugin, which comes bundled with (more like merged with) Gregarious. Some of the javascript and CSS from the interface was borrowed from RapidWeaver’s placeholder, and the insertAtCursor function is courtesy of phpMyAdmin.
Plans for the final release include adding a page to view a list of Dugg posts, enabling / disabling the Digg button for certain posts, documentation, built-in help system (for the whole mass of options) and a few more surprises.
This is a Beta test, so it is a condition of usage that you provide feedback, whether it be bug reports, feature suggestions or opinions and desires.
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Good plugin! Brilliant!
uttered by Ivan Minic on January 31, 2007 11:22 pm | Permalink
Thanks for a great-looking plugin. The admin area is gregariously-gorgeous!
Looks like some things aren’t working correctly for me. The digg stuff in particular. It’s not detecting incoming diggs. The “digg this” icon isn’t showing up either.
Here’s a link to a posting with mad diggage, but gregarious cannot see it: http://www.creativecomponent.com/2007/01/26/interview-with-daniel-burka-from-diggcom/
Any help would be muchly appreciated!
divulged by Alan H. on February 1, 2007 3:46 am | Permalink
Michipu: Digg haven’t updated their API to work with videos yet, so it wont function correctly. You can turn the button off for that post under the “Dugg Posts” tab until Digg.com get their act together regarding videos.
Alan: The Digg button seems to be showing.
revealed by Ankur on February 1, 2007 3:17 pm | Permalink
Hello, and thank you for a fantastic plugin. It’s beautiful, and it is tremendously useful and feature rich.
I’m having a problem with the Digg part of the plugin. It is not detecting incoming Diggs. Do I need to store my Digg login info somewhere? I have several Dugg posts, see them 1. here and 2. here.
As you can see…they’re both Dugg. My Gregarious is saying that I have, “1 posts and pages have been Dugg” on the Overview, but on the Dugg Posts section it says, “Sorry! No posts or pages have been Dugg yet.”
Can you help me?
Here’s the link to my website, eJabs.com
And here’s the link to my to posts in question, respectively:
post 1 and post 2.
Again, thanks for your great plug-in. Hopefully we can get it working on eJabs! Between now & when I hear back from you, I’ll try reinstalling the plugin.
Thanks,
Matthew Jabs
http://www.eJabs.com
uttered by Matthew Jabs on February 2, 2007 5:29 am | Permalink
Matt,
The Digg buttons are showing, which means that Diggs are being detected. However, I’ll look once more at the code to see if anything could have caused the Dugg post count to have malfunctioned. Do let me know if it sorts itself out.
revealed by Ankur on February 2, 2007 3:35 pm | Permalink
Yeah…I ended up figuring it out.
I placed the digg_button() code in, the visited the Digg URL of my Dugg posts. Once I did that, everything worked great!
Thanks Ankur, great plugin!
Matthew Jabs
http://www.eJabs.com
mentioned by Matthew Jabs on February 2, 2007 4:31 pm | Permalink
Thanks. I realized that diggs weren’t being noticed, unless I FORCE-DUGG them using Gregarious. Not sure if a handshake was needed, but all is gold now. GRRRRREAT Plugin!
declared by Alan H. on February 2, 2007 11:39 pm | Permalink
Ummm…
Is this like the digg button plugin combined with Alex King’s Share This plugin?
Am I missing something else?
mentioned by Alister Cameron, Blog Consultant on February 8, 2007 11:53 am | Permalink
Alister, while the Gregarious plugin does integrate Alex King’s Share This plugin, I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s .
Gregarious is in fact almost a complete social networking solution. Not only are you able to show the Digg badge, but you can position it to your liking, enable or disable it on certain posts, or choose whether you’d like to show an image or text link. Gregarious also provides options to setup the Share This plugin, which is combined into the package. Again, a plethora of choices are available to ensure that your social site submission process is smooth, and your traffic increases. Did I mention there’s no template editing involved?
stated by Ankur on February 8, 2007 3:18 pm | Permalink
Hey I installed the plugin, but when I went to activate the plugin in, I got the following error. Now my blog won’t open unless I delete the plugin. I’m using ReDoable 1.1 as theme on WP 2.1
Error is as follows :
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare digg_admin_head() in /home/blogrunn/domains/blogrunn.com/public_html/alokshenoy/wp-content/plugins/gregarious/gregarious.php on line 622
composed by Alok on February 15, 2007 7:46 pm | Permalink
Alok, you’ve either got Gregarious installed twice, or another plugin is using the declaring the same function.
Anyway, I’ve changed the function name to “gregarios_admin_head” so you can re-download it, and it should work fine.
voiced by Ankur on February 15, 2007 9:43 pm | Permalink
Wow that was fast.. thanks a lot. Doing it right now.
proclaimed by Alok on February 15, 2007 9:56 pm | Permalink
No problem. Let me know if you have any more trouble.
disclosed by Ankur on February 15, 2007 10:00 pm | Permalink
Hi,
i have just upgraded the Gregarious plugin, and i seem to have hit a problem.
as soon as i activate it i get this error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/public_html/ctrlf5/wp-content/plugins/gregarious/gregarious.php on line 1531
the only way i can get back into my site is to rename the gregarious folder.
I had no problems with the previous version, could it be my PHP setup?
proclaimed by adickt on February 19, 2007 10:31 pm | Permalink
Hi,
I am not able to get the Share this Icon on the Main page… whereas the rest works quite well for the following pages… Please let me know y if possible
Menon
stated by Menon on February 21, 2007 5:58 am | Permalink
The old version did work fine just before i updated it…
proclaimed by Menon on February 21, 2007 5:59 am | Permalink
Just checked with Internet explorer…. just to check how it was and works perfectly fine there… Now i am wondering y… Sorry abt the flood
professed by Menon on February 21, 2007 6:02 am | Permalink
Started working fine… Not sure how… Thanks anyways for a great plugin
stated by Menon on February 21, 2007 3:10 pm | Permalink
Glad it started working. It could have been the cache - Firefox is always lazy about reloading images.
stated by Ankur on February 21, 2007 3:14 pm | Permalink
for the Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/public_html/ctrlf5/wp-content/plugins/gregarious/gregarious.php on line 1531
error.. i fixed it..
the is some code that ended up under comment tags
they look like this //
if you get a programmers notebook or something like that you can identify them by color(in dreamweaver they are orangy/yellow), and there 3 likes that got to be fix
professed by phil on March 7, 2007 2:45 pm | Permalink
Man, I cannot get this to show anything on any of my pages.
Am I doing something wrong?
I mean shoudln’t it just work without any tweaking?
help
Chonk
stated by chonk on March 21, 2007 12:04 pm | Permalink
Chonk: it does. What specifically is the error you’re getting?
divulged by Ankur on March 21, 2007 12:41 pm | Permalink
I’ll chime in for Chonk
I’ve installed 1.999, I activated it, switched on the Dig Button module and the Share This module, but my posts show no social skills what-so-ever 
I’m guessing it’s to do with the specific k2 theme that I’m using (trueblue)? But I haven’t looked deeply yet.
Any pointers as to where I should look?
Thanks for your great work! (I mean, it looks great from what I’m reading, looking forward to using it!)
written by Michael on April 16, 2007 9:35 pm | Permalink
Everything is working correctly, except as you said, the links and badges in the posts. I would guess that it’s to do with the
the_contentfilter perhaps not being used or being over-ridden somehow. Could you check in the theme ifthe_content()is being called inside The Loop?determined by Ankur on April 16, 2007 9:42 pm | Permalink
Strange, it doesn’t seem to be related to the theme. I running a local version here on my computer with the same gregarious setup… I can change the theme to Wordpress Default 1.6, and there’s still no sign of the links/badges in the posts.
Yep, index.php of the Wordpress Default 1.6 theme, as well as page.php of the K2 theme both include a call to the_content().
If, in the Wordpress Default 1.6 them I explicitely put a call to digg_button() directly after the_content(), it works as expected. Just not sure why it’s not being added automatically by the plugin.
Thanks again!
voiced by Michael on April 17, 2007 3:13 pm | Permalink
I just installed 2.0 Beta 1. I get the following error after activating the plugin and clicking on the Gregarious options panel:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/bryanbar/public_html/wp-content/plugins/gregarious/gregarious.php on line 374I’m running on WP 2.1. Any thoughts or ideas on how I can get this to work?
professed by Bryan Bartow on April 18, 2007 4:56 am | Permalink
If the Digg button isn’t showing, make sure you have the PostBadge module is enabled, and the appropriate tags are included.
As for the foreach error, I have no idea. I’ll investigate.
reasonded by Ankur on April 18, 2007 8:42 am | Permalink
It’s not the Digg button. I can’t get to any modules in the first place. All I see when I click on the Gragarious options panel is that error. By the way, I’m using the Cordobo Green Park theme, if that helps.
proclaimed by Bryan Bartow on April 18, 2007 1:40 pm | Permalink
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