Gregarious 2.0 Beta 1

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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Doesnt seem to install very friendly like — what version of WordPress is this for btw? I have 2.0

Warning: opendir(/home/…/wordpress/PLUGINDIR/gregarious/modules/) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: No such file or directory in /home/…/wp-content/plugins/gregarious/greg_functions.php on line 135

determined by Millionster.com on April 26, 2007 5:05 pm | Permalink
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WordPress 2.1 minimum, but if you define PLUGINDIR at the top of gregarious.php as wp-content/plugins then it should work on WP 2.0 as well. Yes, yes, I’ll write a function that checks for and accommodates older versions in the final release.

mentioned by Ankur on April 26, 2007 7:19 pm | Permalink
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Bryan, check at the bottom of the options page which build you’re running.

spoken by Ankur on April 26, 2007 7:20 pm | Permalink
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Hii..

This great plugin, but very sad is you put hidden link in my footer Sure, if you want, i can put you site (this greats site) in my BlogGrol. Please email to to fix this, and sure bloggrol link is yours..

Thanks

determined by tedy on May 5, 2007 9:52 am | Permalink
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sorry double post
Socialized through Gregarious 42

“display:none;visibility:hidden;” << This

revealed by tedy on May 5, 2007 9:53 am | Permalink
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Ankur, I reverted back to 1.999. I can try version 2 again and see what version it purports to be.

spoken by Bryan Bartow on May 6, 2007 4:51 am | Permalink
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Tedy, fixed in v2. Coming soon.

proclaimed by Ankur on May 6, 2007 1:23 pm | Permalink
46

First of all… GREAT plugin…

I’m having an odd issue, though.. I’ve configured Gregarious to show only text for undugg posts and the badge for Dugg posts. Problem is, it shows only text for all of them. The only way the badge shows properly is if I configure it to show the badge for all posts.

For example, you’ll see on my site that the text shows for all the posts. But there is one post, in particular that has been Dugg, yet it’s just showing text:

http://codepiranha.org/2007/05/01/honorable-men/

There should be a Digg badge with 2 Diggs showing, but it only shows text. If I enabled the badge for both Dugg and un-Dugg posts, then it shows up properly with the correct number of Diggs.

Thoughts?

proclaimed by Shawn on May 13, 2007 12:35 pm | Permalink
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Shawn,
It’s showing now. Currently Gregarious detects the Digg once the link to your site has been clicked from the Digg page for that particular link. I just clicked on the link, and the badge is showing now.

In the final release, I’ve already got Digg API integration worked in, so this wont be necessary and the plugin will automatically check for the correct URL, and from initial testing, with even less loading time than at present. I’m excited!

divulged by Ankur on May 13, 2007 8:50 pm | Permalink
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Uploaded it, activated it, set the options. Nothing on the pages of any of multiple themes that I have tried.

2 Questions. Where exactly is “The Loop?” How do I make this plugin work?

proclaimed by Jon on May 14, 2007 4:55 pm | Permalink
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Wait…wait…seems to be working…I’ll try another theme…

stated by Jon on May 14, 2007 4:57 pm | Permalink
50

This is a really silly question maybe, but is the 2.0 beta 1 a different download from 1.999? I imagine it is, but I can’t find the link anywhere.

Sorry….

professed by John Montgomery on May 17, 2007 3:41 am | Permalink
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The latest stable version is always the one found here, and the one at the Gregarious page links to that download.

I didn’t have a naming scheme, so there are a few beta’s and release candidates going round, but the latest is currently 1.999. Version two is due very very soon.

proclaimed by Ankur on May 17, 2007 4:33 pm | Permalink
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The cutting-edge versions are in the subversion repository at wp-plugins.org.

reasonded by Ankur on May 22, 2007 4:17 pm | Permalink
53

it works great! thank you very much for posting the link to svn current. works awesome!! in use at http://weknowsnow.com/blog/

written by JP @ weknowsnow.com on May 23, 2007 9:32 am | Permalink
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I’m using the 2.0 beta of Gregarious with the Redoable theme.. I finally got Share-This to link to a separate page, but I want the javascript pop up to work properly! WHen I turn that option on and click on a Share-This link, the javascript pop-up appears under the whole page.. all the way below the footer..

ANY IDEAS?!

stated by Dan Lewis on May 24, 2007 6:31 pm | Permalink
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Dan, the Share This form hooks onto the <?php wp_footer(); ?> call. There have been similar issues with the popup showing below the page, that were fixed by moving the <?php wp_footer(); ?> call in the footer.php file of the template higher up. It should fix the problem.

stated by Ankur on May 25, 2007 8:24 am | Permalink
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I love it - it actually works! (compared to others)

I have 2 issues, share it, doesn’t show the icon, and the font color doesn’t show up.

Any idea on how to get those squared away?

Thanks, and again - great plugin!

stated by Jon on June 20, 2007 2:13 am | Permalink

Jon, both issues are with the CSS of your theme over-riding the Share This CSS. If you add a CSS rule to your main template stylesheet and mark it with !important, it should fix everything up.

.akst_share_link {
    background: 1px 0 url(http://www.jonathanmerchant.com/wp-content/plugins/gregarious/modules/share-this/icons/share-icon-16x16.gif) no-repeat !important;
    padding: 1px 0 3px 22px !important;
}
#akst_form #akst_social ul li a {
    color: #000 !important;
}

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Ankur,

YOU ROCK!!

That totally did it! Not only does your system get share it working (it never worked on it’s own) but you got everything to normal, man I gotta say it again - YOU ROCK!

Thanks,
Jon

stated by Jon on June 20, 2007 11:58 pm | Permalink
59

Hi, when I try to activate sharethis i get this error: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare akst_share_link()

stated by Lukas on July 31, 2007 1:45 am | Permalink
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Lukas, you don’t need to install “Share This” separately. If you have the “Share This” plugin and Gregarious, you’ll get the error.

composed by Ankur on July 31, 2007 8:38 am | Permalink
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How do u configure Gregarious to show only text links for all social bookmarks?

determined by Jaypee on August 2, 2007 10:50 am | Permalink
62

Ankur, Awesome plug in. I am having one little problem:
Next to the Digg badge, there is a “?” What’s This link that I can’t get rid of.

stated by glenn on August 29, 2007 2:13 am | Permalink
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I know you already listed it as a feature for the final release, but I just wanted to reinforce that disabling and enabling gregarious for certain posts is definitely wanted.

Absolutely fantastic plugin. I wouldn’t use anything else for my social networking bliss.

determined by Adam on January 27, 2008 2:21 am | Permalink
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In v 1.9.1 , if you include a Page inside your template (e.g. with the iinclude() plugin), you end up with a Share This plopped into your template. This is true even if you have Gregarious turned off for pages, and even if you manually exclude the post ID of the page being included.

Is this still true in v2.x? Thanks.

declared by Scot Hacker on February 5, 2008 8:00 am | Permalink

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