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- Check for updates automatically so you’re never out of date.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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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.
stated 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?
stated 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.
proclaimed by basstech on September 20, 2007 2:49 pm | Permalink
Which browser are you using?
revealed by Ankur on September 20, 2007 3:52 pm | Permalink
Firefox 2.0.0.7
I just tried it in IE and I don’t even get the popup.
uttered by basstech on September 20, 2007 3:55 pm | Permalink
Share this’ e-mail function works with WordPress 2.1 but not with 2.2.1 or later. Has this been fixed? Will it be working with WordPress 2.3?
uttered by MC on September 24, 2007 4:43 am | Permalink
It works on my site I’m running 2.2
professed by basstech on September 24, 2007 8:01 am | Permalink
Basstech, do you have any other plugins installed? There could be a javascript conflict.
MC, the emaiing works on most servers, but on some it doesn’t. I’m not sure why.
reported by Ankur on September 24, 2007 8:28 am | Permalink
Here is a list of the plugins I have installed:
30Boxes Buddy Cards 29.0
AdSense Manager 2.4
Akismet 2.0.2
All in One SEO Pack 1.2.6.4
Comment Authorization 2.1
Contact Form 7 1.4.3
Digg Popularity (Diggularity) widget Free
FireStats 1.3.6-stable
Gregarious 1.9.10c
Hello Dolly 1.5
MyBlogLog Widget 2.0
MyDashboard 0.2.6
Subscribe To Comments 2.1.1
TFS Core (Text Filter Suite) 1.1
TFS Pirate 1.1
TrustMeter widget 0.2
WordPress.com Stats 1.1.1
WP Grins 1.5
WP GuestMap 1.0 beta 3
I hope this helps somehow.
reasonded by basstech on September 24, 2007 11:49 am | Permalink
Thanks for comment on Javascript. I think it may be due to div design in my theme… I’m still looking into it.
Regarding link text. Can I add to the wishlist to have different versions of link text for HTML and RSS feeds. I ask this because if you have a digifingerprint appended to RSS feed, the ‘Share This’ text needs to be space padded. This looks odd on a webpage, but the link needs to be offset in RSS.
recorded by FurrTrap on September 25, 2007 3:03 am | Permalink
After installing the plugin, nothing is showing up in the posts. Will it only show up on posts created after installing the plugin?
I had the sharethis plugin installed previously and it was working fine, but I uninstalled it because it didn’t play well with the gregarious plugin (I then did a reinstall of gregarious, so that’s not the problem).
Any ideas?
stated by Travis on September 25, 2007 3:23 pm | Permalink
Furrtrap,
you can edit the source file to get the different texts.
Travis,
(Gregarious includes the “Share This” plugin, so it’s not advisable to have both on at the same time).
If nothing is showing, make sure you’ve enabled the “PostBadge” module in the Gregarious options page, and also whichever modules you want you use - eg. Digg button, Share This, Reddit button…
stated by Ankur on September 25, 2007 5:06 pm | Permalink
Aha! I didn’t realize I had to activate the plugin AND activate the post badge. Thanks.
mentioned by Travis on September 25, 2007 9:49 pm | Permalink
Gregarious plugin is great, it is very helpful thing
recorded by David on September 26, 2007 3:39 am | Permalink
So now that WP 2.3 is out and has broken gregarious, any plans for an update?
determined by Bobski on September 27, 2007 9:07 am | Permalink
Works great, as soon as it’s activated. Wouldn’t change a thing.
professed by paul on September 27, 2007 9:25 am | Permalink
Thanks!
Bobski, I’m running 2.3 and Gregarious just fine.
recorded by Ankur on September 27, 2007 9:45 am | Permalink
I’m getting extra <’s and >’s all over each post, even with the default theme.
recorded by Bobski on September 27, 2007 10:56 am | Permalink
Bobski, fix up your PostBadge code in the options page - you probably have some modules turned off but the tags still present.
recorded by Ankur on September 27, 2007 7:02 pm | Permalink
Ankur, thank you! That did it. Though I’m not sure why this would suddenly happen after the upgrade. But never-the-less your suggestion worked!
Thanks a million for your help and your plugin! (I just wish I could convert those million thanks to currency, you deserve it).
recorded by Bobski on September 27, 2007 10:28 pm | Permalink
Strange problem, with the “share this” box not showing and it going to a new page. Adding the footer call doesn’t fix it, but breaks it worse. when added if actually causes text links for all the social sites and a form for the email this to show at the bottom of the page. I’m using this on several sites, only one of which has this problem. I’m sure its in the template somewhere, but I’ve tried using the snippet in everyplace in the footer to no avail. Could the problem code be outside the footer? What could cause this?
composed by Clifford VanMeter on September 29, 2007 10:50 am | Permalink
Clifford, get any javascript errors on your site?
composed by Ankur on September 29, 2007 11:22 am | Permalink
Yes, there are some. I’ve temporarily removed the two sources of the errors and it didn’t help. One is a plug-in (Event Calendar 2), the other is from Etsy.
posted by Clifford VanMeter on September 29, 2007 2:09 pm | Permalink
I had the same problem as Bobski, if newly installing the plugin on a 2.3 installation, it does not even show up in the plugins list.
Interestingly, when I upgraded a blog, leaving Gregarious installed, it worked fine.
By the way, this plugin is awesome. Thanks so much for the effort that you have put into this.
[UPDATE] I just realized the problem was with my FTP program, it failed to transfer some of the files, and I had to do them manually, one at a time.
declared by Terry Pearson on September 29, 2007 11:52 pm | Permalink
Just fyi, I’m getting the same trouble as basstech where it seems no matter what additional link as I put in, it resolves the link to simple my blog’s URL and trailing #, like the link was anchor to the homepage.
Not sure if my list of pluggins helps but here’s mine to cross check with basstech (it’s not as many).
AdSense Manager
Askimet
All in One SEO Pack
Get Recent Comments
Google Sitemaps
Gregarious
Subscribe to Comments
Text Link Ads
That’s it.
written by Web Marketing Consultant on October 1, 2007 4:09 pm | Permalink
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