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- Check for updates automatically so you’re never out of date.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.
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Hey Ankur,
New question for your wonderful plugin. And wonderful is an understatement.
In any of my blog’s (in my name) single posts, I somewhat customized Gregarious’ options to hyperlink (Bookmark Or Email This To A Friend!) instead of using the button. Notice it’s displaying after another plugin to buy me a cup of coffee, which also inputs itself without need to edit code like Gregarious does.
So far I’ve played around with your plugin to try to position it after the coffee thing, yet no luck. I realize this is practically asking for technical help that might be beyond what you’re prepared to handle, but I’m just wondering if you have any suggestions how I could possibly make that happen with Gregarious based on what I’ve stated so far.
Just now, I tried to modify using code from the coffee plugin to show up below yours. No dice.
Any help? Thanks.
posted by David on March 27, 2008 12:15 am | Permalink
Hey Ankur,
Don’t know if my most recent comment showed up here, but I asked about how to get Gregarious to show up, say, before or after my coffee-tip link. Eventually I got it resolved.
Been months since I used your plugin. And what can I say except it beats out others personally?
recorded by David on March 27, 2008 1:22 am | Permalink
Thanks David. Glad you got it sorted.
published by Ankur on March 27, 2008 10:39 am | Permalink
Quick Question - Will you be updating this plugin to work w/ Wordpress 2.5?
When I go to activate it, I get a fatal error.
It worked fine on 2.3.3
Thanks!
voiced by Patrick Curl (There's a Blog In My Soup) on March 30, 2008 9:37 am | Permalink
Patrick, due to time constraints I will not be updating this plugin. Sorry.
recorded by Ankur on March 30, 2008 10:04 am | Permalink
Just to confirm… you are never going to be updating this plugin at all for 2.5?
spoken by Jacob Cass on March 30, 2008 9:21 pm | Permalink
I won’t have time to work on this until (at least) next year. However when I do, I’ll probably rewrite the plugin from scratch for 2.5 (or whatever the latest version is then). Gregarious has had 30,000+ downloads so there’s obviously a market.
written by Ankur on March 31, 2008 8:26 am | Permalink
Thankx !
expressed by Net ve Web on April 2, 2008 12:17 am | Permalink
Getting the same fatal error message, but I understand your position, Ankur. Just a shame I won’t be able to use it for a long time, it seems.
Thanks also.
voiced by David on April 2, 2008 1:55 pm | Permalink
Great plugin - sad to hear it won’t be updated for a while. Can you or anyone else reading this suggest a substitute for 2.5 blogs?
recorded by ret on April 3, 2008 2:41 am | Permalink
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.
published 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”.
voiced 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.
reasonded by Ben on April 3, 2008 1:04 pm | Permalink
Thanks! Great plugin!
disclosed 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.
uttered 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.
stated 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.
recorded 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.
disclosed 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?
recorded by HM2K on April 22, 2008 11:53 pm | Permalink
Not compatible with WP 2.5.
divulged 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?
determined 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.
written 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.
stated by Anonymous on May 17, 2008 4:07 am | Permalink
Thanks! Great plugin!
reported 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.
revealed by Scot Hacker on June 13, 2008 8:48 am | Permalink
Thanks! Great plugin
stated by benden kaçmaz on June 15, 2008 6:58 am | Permalink
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