Wordpress Wednesdays: Digg Integrator
Posted on July 18th, 2007
Most Internet savvy users will tell you that Digg.com can be one of the greatest sources of traffic if you can get one of your stories “dugg” and onto the front page. You can receive so much traffic, in fact, that it may crash your server will all those people visiting (but thankfully, if your blog is hosted on BlueFur, you should be able to “survive a Digg” without too much trouble). But have you ever wondered how some Wordpress blogs can have a little “Digg” button for each and every post, making it incredibly easy for readers to submit their articles?
I’ve tried other plug-ins — like Digg This — but I could never get them to work properly. One of the coolest things that I want to have on my blog is the ability to show, in real time, how many Diggs a particular post has received. After digging around the web (no pun intended), I came across the Digg Integrator Wordpress plug-in. It comes with a fair bit of customization, and the way that I have it set up on my blog, the Digg count doesn’t show up until the story has actually been dugg.
All you have to do is insert a short line of code in your single.php and/or your index.php files and the plug-in will take care of the rest. Well, you have to write great content and get people to Digg it… the plug-in can’t do that for you.
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Great resource, I’m going to have to try it out!
BTW, the url to the Digg Integrator doesn’t seem to be working.
Correct url: Digg Integrator
Thanks! I updated the link in the post.
Just a note on that plugin, I experienced a problem that if the title of your post was too long it would cause an error in the plugin. I’m not sure if the latest version has addressed that problem or not.
A few weeks ago I had a post hit the front page of digg and receive over 900 diggs. My account here at BlueFur handled it almost flawlessly except for a period where my account was suspended until I notified support that the CPU spike was a result of being dugg.
I hope it happens again so I can give my BlueFur account another test!