WP Plugin: Gregarious


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

Digg iframe button

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  • Check for updates automatically so you’re never out of date.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.Digg Icon
  • 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)

Direct Download

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:

Gregarious options 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:

  1. That there is a <?php wp_footer(); ?> call somewhere in the footer.php file of your template.
  2. That there are no javascript errors on your site (due to your template or theme).
  3. That there is a <?php wp_head(); ?> call somewhere in the header.php file of your template.
  4. And that you’re either running WordPress 2.1 or above or have prototype.js referenced in the <head> section of the page.Gregarious no longer requires prototype.js

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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  1. 978

    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.

  2. 979

    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.

  3. 980

    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

  4. 981

    Please ignore comment 979. It turns out that I isolated the problem. It was a different plugin entirely.

  5. 982

    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.

  6. 983

    I retract the question. CHMOD’d 2 .php files and got my “share this” icons to appear.

  7. 984

    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.

  8. 985

    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.

  9. 986

    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?

  10. 987

    Sorry.

    Yeah I click Ok and it doesn’t add it. The popup goes away and nothing happens.

  11. 988

    Which browser are you using?

  12. 989

    Firefox 2.0.0.7

    I just tried it in IE and I don’t even get the popup.

  13. 990

    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?

  14. 991

    It works on my site I’m running 2.2

  15. 992

    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.

  16. 993

    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.

  17. 994

    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.

  18. 995

    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?

  19. 996

    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…

  20. 997

    Aha! I didn’t realize I had to activate the plugin AND activate the post badge. Thanks.

  21. 998

    Gregarious plugin is great, it is very helpful thing

  22. 999

    So now that WP 2.3 is out and has broken gregarious, any plans for an update?

  23. 1000

    Works great, as soon as it’s activated. Wouldn’t change a thing.

  24. 1001

    Thanks!

    Bobski, I’m running 2.3 and Gregarious just fine.

  25. 1002

    I’m getting extra <’s and >’s all over each post, even with the default theme.

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