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- Check for updates automatically so you’re never out of date.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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First and foremost THANKS!!! Are you aware of any conflicts with the all in one SEO pack and Gregarious? My recent Digg links are not linking correctly. Instead of digg.com/category/title it’s going to a post within the category that has the same title as the category so it’s digg.com/category/category. I recently installed the All in one SEO pack and of course Digg has altered their look, but that’s all I can think of that’s changed. http://knightknetwork.com
EDIT: I have a DiggData custom field and the href for digg.com shows as digg.com//blah instead of digg.com/blah so I can manually fix this but still curoius as to what might cause it, thanks
written by David Knight on August 29, 2007 5:16 am | Permalink
How do I remove the [?] link in the postbadge, with the link to here? I’m really enjoying this plugin, but this annoyance keeps me from fully using it… thanks in advance.
recorded by Marco Garcês on August 29, 2007 9:16 am | Permalink
David Knight, I’ll have a look at the code and see if I can work out what could be causing this.
Marco, search for and delete the “[?]” from modules/digg-button/digg-button.php.
divulged by Ankur on August 29, 2007 2:07 pm | Permalink
If you’re getting the Digg button pointing to
http://digg.com/category/category, (where category is, well, the name of a category), this is due to a bug in the Digg API. I have emailed Digg about it, so it should be fixed soon, but if you’re facing this problem, edit the affected post and in the “custom fields” section find the DiggData key. In the value change thehttp://digg.com//…to have only one slash after the.com.expressed by Ankur on August 29, 2007 2:36 pm | Permalink
Tank you for your help… I’ve removed the [?] in the code.. =)
recorded by Marco Garcês on August 29, 2007 11:27 pm | Permalink
I have installed this extension according to the simple directions. The only button showing up is “share this,” while the DIGG! button is marked with an error.. click on the error and you get “The URL does not have a propertly formed hostname.” The problem is that there are so many pages to look through, and that the site is not live to provide a link.
Have I done something wrong? Is it a bad install? Where do I find the link to attempt a correction?
composed by Caroline on August 30, 2007 2:27 am | Permalink
Now I’ve re-installed everything and there is absolutely nothing showing up. Also have all-in-one-seo and ultimate google analyzer as well as calendar
composed by Caroline on August 30, 2007 7:15 am | Permalink
Hey, this plugin is awesome! I have one problem tho,
when i publish a new post, the Post Badge doesn’t show up. Eventually after I go and update gregarious, and sometime reformat it, the post badge will show up. Is there any way to keep me from have to go and update gregarious every single time? The only module I have working is the feedburner flare,
%CONTENT%
%FLARE%
so..?
spoken by Zach on August 31, 2007 11:26 pm | Permalink
oh, actually it’s more of a delay; it does show up on its on after a while, but why the delay?
stated by Zach on August 31, 2007 11:37 pm | Permalink
Caroline, edit the post and delete the DiggData and / or DiggUrl custom keys.
Zach, the delay is due to FeedBurner - they can only provide FeedFlare once they’ve updated your feed with the new post. You can reduce the delay by pinging FeedBurner when you publish a new post.
posted by Ankur on September 1, 2007 8:30 am | Permalink
Every time I activate the plugin every thing go white and nothing appear and I mean nothing the page just go white and at finally I have to delete it through ftp from my site and then every thing come back ok.please tell me what to do because I really like this plugin.
reported by John on September 3, 2007 11:24 am | Permalink
There’s no place to:
“delete the DiggData and / or DiggUrl custom keys.”
on the post edit screen. Nothings showing up at all. Its like I didn’t even install Gregarious.
mentioned by Caroline on September 5, 2007 1:18 am | Permalink
Caroline, there’s a “custom fields” section whether you’ve installed Gregarious or not - its part of the WordPress post screen and it looks like the trackbacks / excerpt boxes. You may need to scroll down a bit.
John, it’s a PHP error. I’ll investigate, but if you can tell me what the error is it’d save a lot of time.
Thanks.
recorded by Ankur on September 6, 2007 7:22 pm | Permalink
Ok. I found the spot you specified. There are no custom digg/urls in there. All I have for custom fields are keywords, title and description.
expressed by Caroline on September 8, 2007 1:58 am | Permalink
Caroline, could you provide an example link of where the error is occurring?
revealed by Ankur on September 8, 2007 9:05 am | Permalink
Unfortuntaely not yet as the blog is not live. Its being developed on a private server set to go live sometime within 3-6 weeks.
stated by Caroline on September 11, 2007 12:33 am | Permalink
hi there. can someone tell me how to remove the border around the digg image icon [little dude]. i’m sure it’s possible, but i’m a bit of a hack and i don’t want to screw things up. much appreciated.
professed by Craig on September 12, 2007 5:38 am | Permalink
Craig,
It’ll be due to the CSS stylesheet of your theme. Use the following rule to remove the border from the image:
div.diggWrap img { border: 0 }It may not work if your theme uses a more specific rule to add the border.
uttered by Ankur on September 12, 2007 6:13 pm | Permalink
ANKUR,
Many Thanks.
posted by Craig on September 13, 2007 4:06 am | Permalink
I want to remove the little question mark beside the Digg button. I have no problem with giving you credit on my site, but that question mark is both distracting and unprofessional.
Can it be done?
http://www.therecshow.com
reported by Ray on September 13, 2007 4:37 am | Permalink
Ray,
Search for and remove the
[?]from modules/digg-button/digg-button.php.stated by Ankur on September 13, 2007 5:24 pm | Permalink
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