If you noticed that my posting was a little light yesterday that was because I finally sat down to create my first WordPress plug-in. It isn’t anything extravagant but it saves me some time and a lot of headache.
I cleverly named the plug-in Digg Button because that is exactly what it is. It makes it easy to insert the Digg API code into your WordPress post wherever you would like. You can then style the button using CSS if you choose to.
The plug-in that I made is not like the “Digg This” one which is great for some people. That plug-in automatically recognizes when someone has submitted your story and will display the button on your site. That didn’t work good for me because I didn’t want the button displayed on every post that gets submitted. In my opinion that would add too much clutter to the site.
There was also a WordPress “hack” available to make the Digg API work but it wasn’t compatible for every browser. The Digg button would display fine in Firefox but would show nothing in Internet Explorer. Up until this point if you have never seen the Digg button on this site then you are probably an Internet Explorer user. 
If you want more details on how the plug-in works go ahead and checkout the homepage I have started for it.
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We can see that this website is not a simply WordPress website. You did a great job for customize it! Keep up the good work and… after plugin 1… should come plugin 2, 3… 100. Happy coding!
I’ve tried to make this work but it does not show up in any way. I’ve followed all your instructions and I’m using WP latest version. THis does not work.
I’m not sure why this isn’t working for you because it has worked for other people. You have followed the instructions that I listed on the plug-in’s homepage?
Nice work. I posted it on my blog.
Off-topic: How do you get the cool spam protection?
To bad Digg banned you. Do you still have this enabled? Also, you should work a little harder on getting rid of that “middleman” status. If you pushed hard enough and proved you have original content (like this post ;)), I’m sure they would eventually revoke the ban.
Yep, the plug-in is still enabled otherwise the “Digg This” button wouldn’t show up.
While getting the Digg traffic is nice I think that we would constantly be marked as spam no matter what. There are just some Diggers, unfortunately many of them, who view any blog as being spam. It wouldn’t be an issue if our articles were only submitted once in awhile but people submit nearly every single one…which I believe is the cause of us getting banned in the first place.
Am I disappointed with that? Actually not that much because I realize that we have enough readers that enjoy our material that they felt it was worth submitting to Digg. I’m very confident that our community will continue to grow and maybe at some point Digg will rethink their banning policy, but right now I don’t think they will be making exceptions.
thanks for sharing this plugin. We bloggers have people like you to thank. I don’t know what i would do without plugins produced by people like you.
Glad you found it useful!