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  • Check for updates automatically so you’re never out of date.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. 1100

    Why does this plugin insert hidden code into the footer of every page? Thanks to that, my email address has been openly listed in my page code.

    This is not made clear in the options or documentation for this plugin - I will not be using at any more…

  2. 1101

    “Me”: The plugin does not insert ‘hidden code’ that shows your email address. The Share This dialog is inserted into the footer of every page so it can pop up when the user clicks it. The email address shown in it is the same as the one shown when you leave a comment. No one else can see it.

  3. 1102

    Me: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out bucko!

  4. 1103

    Matthew Jurmann, are you using any other plugins that change your feed? Gregarious will only add the link to the end of your feed, but in your case, it’s showing at the start.

  5. 1104

    I’m using a Feedburner plugin for Wordpress - would that have anything to do with it?

  6. 1105

    Pretty sure there is a bug possibly related to rotated monitors and or resolutions other than standard. The dialog box often will not appear or appears way at the bottom of the page.

    Has anyone else seen this behavior?

  7. 1106

    Matt J, does it disappear if you disable Gregarious?

    Mark M, that has occurred to some users, but it’s related to your template. Fiddling with the placing of the wp_footer() call has helped some users, but it could just be a javascript or css conflict.

  8. 1107

    Hey, I was trying to remove the link from the [?] that appears next to the digg button, but everytime I removed anything from digg button.php the entire site didn’t load up because of the error. Do you have any suggestions what exactly I have to remove so the [?] doesn’t show up?

  9. 1108

    Hey - I just wanted to let you know that the SHARE THIS issue I was having (Share This was showing up in my RSS feed before the text and making it annoying to read) has fixed itself. It is no longer a problem, and I have no idea what happened to fix it, but I don’t care. :)

    Thanks for your help and follow up. Nice tech support on your product. I wish you success.

  10. 1109

    anyone tried using this with wpmu?
    I get this error when trying to activate:

    Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /var/www/web5/web/wp-content/plugins/gregarious/modules/digg-button/digg-button.php on line 42

  11. 1110

    Hi there

    I started writing my own theme - but Gregarious does not work - it just does not show up… no matter what options I use. Where shall I start debugging and digging? Here’s the URL:

    http://www.hobbes.ch

  12. 1111

    I would like to ask if it is possible to make the “Share This” link visible only in the full post, because I use the “more” tag in all my posts and would like nothing to appear after the “continue reading” link.

    I apologize for taking more of your time if this question has already been asked and answered before.

    Thank you very much for your help.

    Elijah.

  13. 1112

    Ankur, first: thanks for the fantastic plugin. Just installed it and set it up… I just need to get one issue ironed out.

    I activated the Digg module to display a Digg badge before the content in any post that’s been Dugg. The PostBadge is activated and this is the code:

    %DIGG%
    %CONTENT%
    %SHARE%

    As you can see, everything looks in order, but the Digg badge is not showing up on my Dugg posts. E.g.:

    http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2007/11/28/stormtrooper-star-wars-cake/

    I’ve also tried the %DIGG% without the DIV tags.

    For what it’s worth, in the settings for the Digg module, when I select “For Dugg posts, show: Digg badge”, no image of a badge is displayed below the drop-down. The Compact badge doesn’t display on the settings page, either. I thought that was strange.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,

    Mike

  14. 1113

    Oops, I inserted the PostBadge code without commenting it out:

    %DIGG%
    %CONTENT%
    %SHARE%

  15. 1114

    Just wanted to let you know that I couldn’t open this page with Firefox due to an error.

  16. 1115

    I couldn’t open this page with Firefox due to an error.

    Thanks Dustin - it was due to an ill-formed comment being posted. I’ll have to get / write a parser to make sure this doesn’t happen. It’s very annoying. Thanks for pointing it out.

  17. 1116

    As you can see, this plugin has become extremely popular. Thank you to everyone who has used it and provided feedback. With the increased user-base, I’m getting a lot of support queries for Gregarious. Unfortunately, as much as I’d love to, I just don’t have the time to provide help to everyone. I will formally resume answering support queries when I finally get the next version of the plugin released. But don’t hold your breath.

  18. 1117

    Glad I could help.

  19. 1118

    Can’t wait to use it.

  20. 1119

    Hi Great Plugin

    2 noob questions :-)

    1. how do i put some more space between the digg button and the share this link?

    2. i would only like the dynamic digg button to show so without the second digg this text one.
      how do i do that?

    Thanks upfront

  21. 1120

    How can I add Mixx to the list of supported bookmarking services to Gregarious?

  22. 1121

    thanks so much for this great and easy to use tool!!!

  23. 1122

    very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
    Idetrorce

  24. 1123

    The Postbadge code has the following:

    %DIGG%

    %SHARE%

    But I get a white square with the word “Error” and a question mark inside.

    When I click on the ?, a dialog box pops up with the following message:

    http://digg.com
    Digg.com Digg This Button Error

    The code implemented by the creator of this page has the following problem:

    The URL does not appear to be a properly formed hostname.

    Visit http://digg.com/tools/integrate for more help in debugging.

    Do I need to do anything else to get the Digg badge to show up?

  25. 1124

    Kristof, 1. CSS 2. Gregarious Options -> PostBadge -> PostBadge code.

    Maxim, there’s a list of services in the options page (click the second Share This icon). You can add them there.

    Jimmeh, have you got a URL I can take a look at? Otherwise, view source and search for ‘digg’ until you find some script tags and check the link there.

  26. 1125

    Cool dear…,
    Will definitly try this in my Wp blog.

  27. 1126

    Nice plugin. Works well; no problems with installation and use. Thanks.

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