Social bookmarking allows users to submit, comment on, and “promote” websites. The Gregarious plugin supersedes the Digg This Reloaded Plugin and allows for seamless integration between your Wordpress Blog and social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit and more. Requiring no editing of templates, and a simple point and click interface, Gregarious is the ultimate social bookmarking plugin for Wordpress.
Due to time constraints, I cannot guarantee support for this plugin.
Not compatible with WP 2.5.
Dynamic Buttons
I’m Diggin’ it
Gregarious uses the brand new Digg APIs to generate a dynamic ‘Digg It’ button on your post that shows the number of Diggs and allows the user to Digg post. No manual work is needed - the plugin knows when a post has been ‘dugg’ and sticks the button onto your post with no effort, leaving you free to write quality content. That’s right. Just activate it, and watch your traffic shoot through the roof.
Have you reddit?
Another great social bookmarking site that features dynamic buttons is Reddit. Again, integration is no hassle. Just turn on the Reddit button from the Gregarious options page, and you’re laughing. No manual labor, no long and complicated PHP scripts, and no coding. One click and you’re away!
More Features
Wow, could Gregarious possibly have more features? You betcha! As well as merely adding Digg and Reddit buttons, Gregarious has the following nifty additions:
General Features
- Complete admin interface with options regarding all configurable aspects of plugin including styles, display options (show on post, page, home, etc.) Digg link style (button, image or text link), and more.
- Check for updates automatically so you’re never out of date.
- No template customizations or coding knowledge necessary as the plugin handles everything for you, and then some.
- Choose the position of the buttons. Do you want them before or after your post content?
Digg related features
- Uses the brand new Digg API to generate dynamic buttons.
- Gregarious automatically knows if your post has been “Dugg” using DiggDetect™.
- You decide what to show for posts which have been Dugg or those which are yet to be Dugg. You can customize the links, show a dynamic or compact badge, an image - or choose not show anything.
- Configurable “What’s this?” link, so your users know exactly what they’re up against.
- Ease up on the bandwidth by using a text link instead of an image or Digg button if you need to.
Reddit integration
- Choose between three styles of buttons, from the eye-candy laden to the minimalistic.
- Customize the position of the button easily from the options page.
- Easy to use with no work required.
Other social bookmarking sites
- Submit your post to heaps of bookmarking sites with Alex Kings’s Share This plugin built right into Gregarious (it comes integrated - no further installation needed).
- Take advantage of further customization with options for Share This in the Gregarious admin panel.
- Add, remove, edit or rearrange social sites for the Share This plugin - an indispensable feature.
Download
Version 1.9.xx
Gregarious can be downloaded from the WordPress.org Gregarious page. (The link below points to the download from that page)
Installation and Usage
How do you install Gregarious, the ultimate social bookmarking plugin for Wordpress? It couldn’t be easier. After downloading the package, Unzip. Upload. Activate.
The options menu should show up in your administration under Options -> Gregarious. Here’s a screenshot:
If you wish to add social sites for Share This, you’ll need to CHMOD the akst.js and akst.css files to 777. Don’t worry if you don’t know what this means or can’t do this - Gregarious has alternative methods to cope.
Configuration
The plugin will work fine immediately after activation, but you may want to change some options to customize it. Gregarious can be configured from the Options tab of the administration panel in Wordpress. Just click on the Gregarious Options link. As mentioned earlier, there are a plethora of options and choices available, so feel free to tweak it to your needs.
Frequently Asked Questions
I installed and activated Gregarious, but the Digg button / Share link isn’t showing on my posts.
Gregarious uses different modules to provide all the features for your site. The PostBadge
module is the one that appends content to your posts. If there isn’t anything showing on your posts, make sure that the PostBadge module is turned on, as well as the modules for whatever features you want. (For example, the Share This module shows the Share link, and the Digg button module shows the Digg button or link). Activating a module will also add options to the Gregarious options page so you can configure it.
The Share This link takes me to a separate page. How do I get the popup dialog to show?
To show the Share This
popup on your site rather than linking to a Share This page, you need to ensure:
- That there is a
<?php wp_footer(); ?>call somewhere in the footer.php file of your template. - That there are no javascript errors on your site (due to your template or theme).
- That there is a
<?php wp_head(); ?>call somewhere in the header.php file of your template. And that you’re either running WordPress 2.1 or above or have prototype.js referenced in theGregarious no longer requires prototype.js<head>section of the page.
Generally, it’s the lack or misplacement of the <?php wp_footer(); ?> call that causes the popup not to show. If you still can’t get it working, ask me.
Template Integration
Currently, Gregarious’ feature-set includes various template tags that have been set up to be easy to use and integrate into any theme. Whether you’re a WordPress theme developer, or interested in more precise integration of social bookmarking to your blog, ask me about it.
Copyright © 2006-07 Ankur Kothari. All rights reserved.
1219 Comments so far
Leave a commentPages: « 1 … 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 [41] Show All
I second that question. I tried the digg badge plug-in without success. What is working for people?
The “share this” plugin which is great, highly recommended by moi, but I need a good digg button solution.
proclaimed by Ben on April 3, 2008 12:14 pm | Permalink
Most other plugins check referrers, etc. which is not ideal. You could theoretically (if you know php) extract the Digg button code from Gregarious and make it into a separate plugin. The advantage is that it uses the Digg API so it’s more accurate and you get few, if any, false results or “spam diggs”.
disclosed by Ankur on April 3, 2008 12:37 pm | Permalink
Thanks Ankur. I am not that php savvy unfortunately. I had read about the Digg API advantage, the plug-in rules man. I hope that a compatible digg button comes out soon that utilizes the Digg API also.
recorded by Ben on April 3, 2008 1:04 pm | Permalink
Thanks! Great plugin!
uttered by T9000 on April 3, 2008 3:34 pm | Permalink
All this work and no one can use this now for a year?
Seems a big shame.
proclaimed by Dean on April 11, 2008 7:58 pm | Permalink
Agreed. Most all of my sites incorporate this plugin and it’s sad that I’m going to have to find a new solution.
uttered by Dustin on April 13, 2008 3:58 am | Permalink
This plug-in looks great. I can’t wait to give it a g. Thanks as this plugin would come very handy.
uttered by Mister Coffee Maker on April 13, 2008 10:14 pm | Permalink
I just posted a “quick fix” on how to insert the digg badge back into your site. It doesn’t give you all the gregarious capabilities, but at least you’ll have your badges back. Check out http://weblog.bosslogic.com/2008/04/wordpress-25-and-gregarious for details.
recorded by Zacharias Beckman on April 19, 2008 3:40 am | Permalink
Trying to load this plugin on wp 2.5 an it says:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Any ideas why?
written by HM2K on April 22, 2008 11:53 pm | Permalink
Not compatible with WP 2.5.
recorded by Ankur on April 23, 2008 8:29 am | Permalink
When you get time to maintain Gregarious agian, I’d like to see Add to Any integration:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/
I prefer it over share this for a bunch of reasons, but I think it’d be fine to include both. On 2.5, Add to Any works perfect, but it obviously doesn’t have the digg/reddit features of Gregarious.
expressed by Paul on April 24, 2008 8:12 am | Permalink
CRAP! It was working in an environment that was upgraded to 2.5, but I deactivated it. Now it won’t reactivate without the same errors others are receiving.
Damn! If it works, don’t f*ck with it!
You’d think I’d have learned that after 50 years.
Anybody know a good replacement?
proclaimed by Bobski on May 9, 2008 1:30 pm | Permalink
Not that this will necessarily help anybody, but I found this entry in my /var/log/httpd/error_log after trying to activate the plugin. At least I’m going to try to figure this out. Screw the author and his “time constraints.”
[Thu May 08 23:06:42 2008] [error] [client 192.168.0.1] WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '( timestamp int(15) NOT NULL default '0', userid int(10) NOT NULL default '0', u' at line 1 for query CREATE TABLE ( timestamp int(15) NOT NULL default '0', userid int(10) NOT NULL default '0', username varchar(20) NOT NULL default '', displayname varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', useragent varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', ip varchar(40) NOT NULL default '', location varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', url varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', type enum('member','guest','bot') NOT NULL default 'guest', referral varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', UNIQUE KEY useronline_id (timestamp,username,ip,useragent)); made by maybe_create_table, referer: http://www.domainname.net/~user/wp-admin/plugins.php?activate=truethe [domainname] and [user] are my substitutions.
reasonded by Bobski on May 9, 2008 2:14 pm | Permalink
has anyone been playing with the source to fix this plugin? If there is a fix, please share it. If there isn’t a fix but you’ve narrowed down the problem, please share that too so that maybe someone else can fix it.
divulged by Anonymous on May 17, 2008 4:07 am | Permalink
Thanks! Great plugin!
composed by abel on May 30, 2008 9:28 am | Permalink
For those of you looking for a 2.5-compatible replacement, check out AddThis: http://addthis.com . It’s not a WP plugin, but doesn’t need to be. Super easy to use, and seems to have virtually the same functionality.
recorded by Scot Hacker on June 13, 2008 8:48 am | Permalink
Thanks! Great plugin
spoken by benden kaçmaz on June 15, 2008 6:58 am | Permalink
Fantastic and awesome plugin.
Thanks!!
Matt
announced by Matthew on July 22, 2008 3:54 pm | Permalink
Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for.
reasonded by Philix on July 24, 2008 12:24 am | Permalink
one of the best plugins used on wp…
uttered by Nadim Khan on August 4, 2008 8:37 am | Permalink
I’m diggin it.
mentioned by Andy Tabb on August 5, 2008 7:52 pm | Permalink
This is a great plugin and I love the way the badges look. With WP 2.6 out, I may have to take it off my main blog so I look forward to the next revision. I wish you the best and thanks for a great tool!
written by Dave Saunders on August 5, 2008 8:55 pm | Permalink
People should be sharing more free things like this. Its what keeps the Internet buzzin’.
composed by Freelocale on August 6, 2008 11:44 am | Permalink
Using Add This until Gregarious comes back online.
announced by Rich on August 8, 2008 8:45 pm | Permalink
lets all donate to get this plugin back online. I havent seen anything else like this out there. Let all donate a small amaount to try and get the gears goin on this once great project..
If you havent noticed he has a paypal donate button on the bottom of the page of his projects page..
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=ankz%2ekothari%40gmail%2ecom&item_name=Support%20Vacuous%20Virtuoso&no_shipping=0&no_note=1&tax=0¤cy_code=USD&lc=US&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&charset=UTF%2d8
how much will it take to get this goin again? I am willing to donate.
Cheers,
composed by Graham on August 18, 2008 6:26 pm | Permalink
I apologize again for the incompatibility with the latest version of WordPress. I have a lot lined up (including exams), but I will work on (and maintain) this plugin starting from about two months from now.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
expressed by Ankur on August 18, 2008 9:47 pm | Permalink
Plugin best of the best! Good plugin!
professed by malder on August 28, 2008 10:34 am | Permalink
thank for the plug ins!
you did a great job!
mentioned by downloader on August 29, 2008 6:09 am | Permalink
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Any help?
disclosed by fresh-warez.blogspot.com on September 12, 2008 6:15 am | Permalink
Cool man, I love it!
recorded by ahmike on September 16, 2008 3:49 pm | Permalink
Pages: « 1 … 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 [41] Show All
Leave a comment