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- Check for updates automatically so you’re never out of date.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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Actually almost all tags are accepted. The way you were using the HTML caused the error as
codeis an inline tag - what you posted would break on *all* wordpress blogs.You can use the following shortcuts for posting code if you’re not going to encode entities in your code:
`code`)stated by Ankur on October 12, 2007 4:57 pm | Permalink
Caroline, that looks like it’s working. You can get other buttons to display by activating the relevant modules then adding the tags to the PostBadge code ( a list of available tags will show up ).
uttered by Ankur on October 12, 2007 5:03 pm | Permalink
Hi TheDonSansone
Followed your html and added the float right to my css and it works great!
Thanks for helping me out, btw how do you get the date to appear like a calendar?
recorded by Totally on October 12, 2007 7:45 pm | Permalink
I understand the self-marketing thing, but I really don’t want to include the ugly question mark that takes me over to this site.
Is there a way to take it off?
Thanks.
published by Seravi on October 13, 2007 1:49 pm | Permalink
Well, how truly odd. Right after I added that comment, I returned to my site to futz and suddenly the question mark isn’t there. Am I going crazy?
revealed by Seravi on October 13, 2007 1:55 pm | Permalink
Hi TOTALLY, not sure where you mean about the date appearing like a calendar! I have looked at http://200blogs.co.uk to see if it was in there that you were looking! but I don’t think so. The only calendar style date I know is at http://www.joomlart.com/templates_demo.php?template=ja_teline
revealed by TheDonSansone on October 14, 2007 12:50 am | Permalink
I’ve just looked at Caroline’s Beaver Creek site that she links to, and that has a nifty little calendar style date !
reasonded by TheDonSansone on October 14, 2007 1:27 am | Permalink
Hello.
I just wanted to say that i’m giving up trying to make this work on my blog. It works fine in another blog that i’m admin, but no luck in my own xD
Already tried this:
Disable all plugins
Changed to default theme
checked for and
changed back and forth the id=”post-” tag
tried Share This, Compartelo!, and your plugin. None worked.
Story of my life. Everything works for other people but when i try to use for myself it gets fucked xDD jaja.
The Share This link takes me to a separate page no matter what i do. :/
Thanks anyway. This plugin works like wonder on my fathers blog.
Silla!
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EDIT: Damn it! It Worked! xDDD
My Solution:
It somehow stupid, but this setting was disabled “Use javascript dialog” xDD I Wonder when it would work with this shut down? xDDD
And Also, if you use WP-CACHE, enable it, flush the cached files, disable it and then check again your blog….
Damn it again!.. xDDDD Im Happy as hell xDD
Greetings From Chile
disclosed by Scyfox on October 14, 2007 4:02 am | Permalink
Hi -
I’ve been trying to get the digg badge and the “share this” aligned right with suggestions from TheDonSansone, but I just can’t seem to get it to work. There is already a class .right like this
.right {
float: right;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right: 10px;
}
so what can i do here?
i’ve already tried the postbadge like this
it just doesn’t seem to work. thanks in advance!
composed by andy on October 14, 2007 8:53 pm | Permalink
Glad it’s working, Scyfox
You’ve got the .right css rule, Andy. Try wrapping the
%DIGG%and%SHARE%tags in separate divs.Seravi, you can search for and remove the
[?]frommodules/digg-button/digg-button.php.posted by Ankur on October 14, 2007 9:17 pm | Permalink
Andy - I got my Digg/Share tag working by using the DIV’s like the following (remember extra DIV tags need the closing DIV too):
<div class='right'><div class='diggWrap'>%DIGG%</div>%SHARE%</div>
%CONTENT%
So the opening DIV is our float fight div, and the diggWrap div is nested inside our float right div and our closing float right div is closed after the SHARE tag - This works a treat!
mentioned by TheDonSansone on October 15, 2007 3:15 am | Permalink
THANK YOU both! It works now! here’s the next question: now the ajax window seems to be so far from the actual “share this” button… how would i fix that? i am also trying to see if i can take down the “share this” font a notch. ideas? thanks again for your help!
recorded by andy on October 15, 2007 2:16 pm | Permalink
It’s probably my fault for trying to use this while on 2.3, but I just can’t get rid of the plugin. Check out my page http://www.birthpangs.com in both mozilla firefox and Internet explorer. The ’share this’ feature shows up at the bottom. First I tried turning every thing off. Then I tried deleting the plugin and reinstalling. Then I tried purging the database. No matter what I do, the ’share this’ information (least, I think that’s what it is, but given its persistent appearance, I’m open for other ideas) continues to show. If it weren’t causing such big problems on IE I’d let it go. Thoughts, ideas? Btw, at this point the plugin is deleted, every reference to it in the database has been purged… and yet it shows… somehow.
voiced by AR on October 16, 2007 4:23 am | Permalink
To remove the question mark from underneath the Digg Button icon, open the digg-button.php file and look for the “What’s this link?” and comment out the following:
// What’s this link?
// if($result)
// $result .= ”
//
// [?]
// “;
if($echo) echo $result; else return $result;
}
written by NosferatusCoffin on October 16, 2007 5:44 am | Permalink
Ar,
The plugin should be compatible with 2.3
It is the “Share This” dialog, but it’s definitely not from Gregarious. If you look at the source, it has an ID of “wpsc_akst_form” and it also uses jQuery (the Gregarious version is self-contained). Does “wpsc” ring any bells? It could be another plugin with similar functionality.
reasonded by Ankur on October 16, 2007 7:32 am | Permalink
Andy,
That’ll be something to do with the location of the
<?php wp_footer() ?>call in your template.CSS
font-size: 90%or similardisclosed by Ankur on October 16, 2007 7:35 am | Permalink
Hi, thanks Ankur. It didn’t occur to me that some other plugin might be using the share this feature. I almost feel bad for purging gregarious, now.
It was the wp e-commerce plugin, and over there they are talking about it as being some library conflict. So, I apologize for not blaming the right plugin.
written by AR on October 16, 2007 8:15 am | Permalink
Thanks Ankur -
The thing is - I’ve already placed the call on the very top of the footer… so what else can I do here?
published by andy on October 17, 2007 3:55 am | Permalink
Hey Ankur -
Just as an fyi - here’s the footer code:
< !– Begin #footer –>
< ?php wp_footer(); ?>
< div id=”footer”>
< /div>
< !– End #footer –>
< /div>
< /body>
< /html>
< !– End #footer –>
< p>< /p>
< p>
< /p>
spoken by andy on October 17, 2007 7:48 am | Permalink
I’m having the same issue with the Share It pop up showing miles away from the actual link. I noticed it works ok in themes that already have the callin, but it won’t work properly when you manually put it in the footer.
Yeh, location ‘could’ be the problem, but I have tried it in numerous different locations and it still doesn’t call the box to display under the Share It link.
It’s unfortunate because it means most of the time if someone clicks on the shareit button, they wont see the pop up.
Gregarious is a great plugin by the way and thanks for making it available and the support you continue to offer us.
published by Nicky on October 18, 2007 11:02 pm | Permalink
Hi, I’ve been using this for a while, but for some reason on one of my articles, I have the diggs for someone elses article shown.
Is this a known issue?
posted by Sarah on October 20, 2007 5:23 am | Permalink
Andy, try the wp_footer call inside the div#footer?
Nicky, it’s certainly a problem; theme designers should be using wp_footer() in their themes. You could disable the popup so the user is taken to the separate “Share This” page.
Sarah, this is probably caused by a little flaw in the Digg API (which has since been fixed). To fix this issue, you can edit the post, scroll down and find the “Custom Fields” section, then edit the “DiggData” field to contain the correct URLs.
divulged by Ankur on October 20, 2007 11:33 am | Permalink
FYI: wpsc_akst is relative to the eCommerce Lite or eCommerce Gold shopping cart plug-in from Instinct.
Another reason I uninstalled that plug-in and went with another solution…
stated by Daniel on October 21, 2007 6:49 am | Permalink
Hi Ankur -
I changed it so that it looks like this, but it still doesn’t work. Any more ideas? The other thing is that each time that I update the footer, for some reason the first click on “share this” always goes to that separate “share this” page… any idea as to why that is so?
Lastly - like Nicky said, thank you for a great plugin!
< !– Begin #footer –>
< div id=”footer”>
< ?php wp_footer(); ?>
content copyright 2007 by metrosnapshot. all rights reserved.
< /div>
< !– End #footer –>
< /div>
< /body>
< /html>
expressed by Andy on October 22, 2007 9:10 am | Permalink
Although successfully installed on this site (sans feedflare) when I installed it on this site and activated feedflare, it broke. Seems there’s a bug in feed-flare.php
It tells me the error is on line 104. Even after re-installation, it remains broke.
Alas. Let me know when you debug this one because I like it on my other site.
professed by Seravi on October 25, 2007 3:24 am | Permalink
Seravi, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong near line 104. Are you sure it’s in feed-flare.php?
Andy, I think it’s to do with your CSS - if it was the positioning of the wp_footer it would be way off, if it was a javascript error it wouldn’t run at all. Use something like CSSEdit (Mac) or Xray (web-based) to check what’s going on.
declared by Ankur on October 25, 2007 4:38 pm | Permalink
Hi, I have Gregarious (Build 61) installed on WPMU (1.2.5).
Everything works fine, except I cannot add another site to the Share This module. Firefox is silent but doesn’t do anything after the two pop-ups that ask for the name and the URL. IE throws a bunch of errors.
Could I perhaps hard-code the Slashdot link? I tried adding it to share-this.php but that doesn’t seem to help.
Thanks!
uttered by RollingR on October 27, 2007 12:56 am | Permalink
hello,
I have not checked your site for quite a while now, and was looking if my version was still uptodate. I am currently using: Version: 2.0 RC 1 is this the latest RC? do you have a link for a mroe recent version?
expressed by ovidiu on October 27, 2007 10:03 pm | Permalink
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