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- Check for updates automatically so you’re never out of date.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, 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..?
posted 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?
voiced 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.
stated 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.
voiced 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.
written 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.
divulged 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.
disclosed by Caroline on September 8, 2007 1:58 am | Permalink
Caroline, could you provide an example link of where the error is occurring?
expressed 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.
announced 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.
mentioned by Ankur on September 12, 2007 6:13 pm | Permalink
ANKUR,
Many Thanks.
voiced 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
I can’t get the popup to work no matter what. But for reference, the Sphere It! widget does pop up. Both Gregarious and Sphere being in the article meta.
professed by FurrTrap on September 14, 2007 3:08 am | Permalink
I keep getting this DB error:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘database_name.wp_wpv_display_option’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT post_id, column_count, display_text, display_thumbnail, display_align, display_vertical_align, target_thumbnail_size, target_image_size, display_table_border_color, display_table_border_style, display_table_border_width, cell_background_color, cell_background_color_hover, border_color, border_color_hover, border_width, name_font_size, name_font_bold, name_font_color, name_font_underline, comment_font_color, comment_font_size, image_display_background_color, image_display_border_color, image_display_font_color, image_display_name_font_size, display_table_width, display_table_width_unit, display_table_location, display_status FROM wp_wpv_display_option WHERE post_id = 9
This continues even after deactivating + uninstalling the plugin. It happens 100% of the time with the digg module or post badge unenabled. It also happens on the page that comes up when you click on the post. Any reccomendations on how to remove the plugin cleanly? Thank you in advance.
stated by snailian on September 14, 2007 9:18 pm | Permalink
I wrote earlier about the options not displaying in my admin area. I think I have identified the conflicting plug-in but I would love to get some confirmation.
The plugin that I think is conflicting is called ImageManager, located here: http://www.soderlind.no/archives/2006/01/03/imagemanager-20/
Could someone test and let me know if when Imagemanager is active, the Gregarious options in admin don’t show?
Thanks,
HTD
professed by HighTechDad on September 15, 2007 6:36 am | Permalink
Please ignore comment 979. It turns out that I isolated the problem. It was a different plugin entirely.
reported by snailian on September 16, 2007 4:54 am | Permalink
noobie question… just installed this great plugin, but for some reason, none of the icons are showing up (i.e. the “share this” cion, and all of the icons that should appear when you click “share this”
any tips? great site. thanks.
expressed by kstar on September 19, 2007 5:57 am | Permalink
I retract the question. CHMOD’d 2 .php files and got my “share this” icons to appear.
reported by kstar on September 19, 2007 7:19 am | Permalink
I installed the plugin and all is working great except I can’t seem to add any other links. At the bottom of the options page in wordpress admin I click the Add a social site link and I get a javascript popup that asks for the site then the link. When I click on the link nothing happens.
The link I’m trying to add is facebook.
I put Facebook for the name and the url as: http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={url}
I believe this is the correct format looking at the links. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.
mentioned by basstech on September 20, 2007 2:37 pm | Permalink
Sorry typo the line: “When I click on the link nothing happens.” in my previous comment should read
When I click Ok on the link nothing happens.
written by basstech on September 20, 2007 2:39 pm | Permalink
Furrtrap, it’s probably a Javascript error caused by a conflict with something else.
Hightechdad, the image manager plugin is causing the conflict. I have written to the plugin author to request that they only add their scripts to the admin head when needed (ie. not in options pages), but I haven’t received a reply.
Basstech, do you mean the extra link doesn’t get added onto the list after you’ve clicked “ok”? Or does that work, but the link is not saving?
announced by Ankur on September 20, 2007 2:47 pm | Permalink
Sorry.
Yeah I click Ok and it doesn’t add it. The popup goes away and nothing happens.
posted by basstech on September 20, 2007 2:49 pm | Permalink
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