72 Responses to “diggZ-Et – digg WordPress Plugin”

1. Thom Says:
   May 30th, 2008 at 11:12 PM

   This is a GREAT plug-in! I have tried others and they are junk. This one WORKS AND Works WELL!

   Have a few suggestions:

   1) Add an option for the Digg tag to appear on the Right OR Left side of Post.

   2) MOST of my posts fall into the “Media” type of “News” so I have this set as default. SOME of my posts are Videos and are not going to post correctly due to the way the current “Media” option works. I suggest leaving the option like it is BUT adding a scan to look for a TAG in the post to change the “Media” type for that one post ONLY. A tag might look like this:

   Thank You for your effort on this and keep up the GREAT work!

2. Thom Says:
   May 30th, 2008 at 11:17 PM

   My tag did not show in the last comment I am altering it so it will be visiable here. I suggest using the standard HTML “Comment” tage format. For this example [ = .

   A tag might look like this:

   [!--digg_media=video--]

   Thanks

3. Gorkfu Says:
   May 30th, 2008 at 11:30 PM

   Thanks for the suggestions Thom. They are really good suggestions. I will add them to my todo list.

4. John Says:
   June 2nd, 2008 at 5:37 PM

   1.1.0 is great, thanks for adding turning off digg on pages!

5. Thom Says:
   June 3rd, 2008 at 4:23 PM

   Great job on the update. Works well and LOVE the new options. Still have the Media Type Issue. I am sure your working on it.

6. Gorkfu Says:
   June 4th, 2008 at 7:39 PM

   The media type tag fix will be available in the next version. Should be released in a day or two.

7. Anon Says:
   June 6th, 2008 at 4:11 PM

   Thanks! It works now, it was the YARPP plugin.

   “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 1.5.1

   Returns a list of the related entries based on keyword matches, limited by a certain relatedness threshold. Like the tried and true Related Posts plugins—just better! By mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine).
   Inactive Activate | Edit”

8. Gorkfu Says:
   June 6th, 2008 at 4:37 PM

   Ok, thanks for that info I’ll have to look into that and see what’s causing the issue.

9. Nikitas Says:
   June 15th, 2008 at 12:32 PM

   This plug-in is FANTASTIC! Question, though: would there be any way to have the button placed on the BOTTOM of a post. This makes a bit more sense to me, since it’s when reaching the end of a post that someone decides whether or not to digg it.

10. Gorkfu Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 2:41 PM

    I can add that in to the next version. I was thinking about that before. Do you think it should be at the bottom below all the text or positioned left or right at the bottom just as the top is? I mean I could just add in all 3 of those options, but I’m curious.

11. Nikitas Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:41 PM

    I was thinking just either left or right, just like at the top, only now allowing for those position options at the bottom.

12. Nikitas Says:
    June 17th, 2008 at 12:47 PM

    … see if you look at a typical post on my site (http://www.vinikitas.com/blog/2008/06/villa-venezia/), I format it in a certain way: subtitle, then photo, then text body. Placing the full Digg button, regardless of the side, at the top of my posts would throw off alignment altogether and ruin the aesthetics. Right now, I’m using the compact version that sits in alignment with the subtitle, and doesn’t throw off alignment of the either the photo or the text body. However, I’d much prefer to use the full button.

13. Gorkfu Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 12:58 PM

    I didn’t know it was picked up in the Google news section. I think some blogs do get picked up into Google news if they are considered news. Although, I didn’t see any of my blog postings in Google News when I did a search after reading your comment.

14. Will Young Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 1:22 PM

    Definitely can not wait to be able to put it at the bottom of the post. Otherwise this is a GREAT plug-in, thank you for your contribution.

15. metroknow Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 1:02 PM

    This plugin is great – so much easier than handcrafting it as I was doing before.

    I did have one odd behavior though that I thought you might be interested in seeing — check out my post here: http://almostfit.com/2008/06/18/20-tactics-to-kill-the-fast-food-habit/

    In both FF3 and IE6x I get double digg buttons (two) generated automatically within an individual post. Not sure why – Any ideas? The code looks identical for each button so I’m thinking it must be something inside the script, but not sure.

    Thanks!

16. Gorkfu Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 1:47 PM

    Two others had this issue in the past with other plugins being the culprit. Try deactivating all other plugins and leave diggZ-Et activated and see if the problem still exists. If another plugin is causing the problem please post which so I can look into it, thanks.

17. metroknow Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 2:02 PM

    @Gorkfu: Cool – I found it. Problem goes away when I disable Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP), which is from these guys: http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/

    Now I just need to find, er, yet ANOTHER related posts plugin….

18. Gorkfu Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 5:40 PM

    @metroknow: Thanks, I found the problem. It’s bizarre that it only showed up on one of my servers though. The problem lies with the option, “Automatically display related posts?”. If that is checked it causes WordPress to loop twice which in essence is an incorrect way to do a plugin. It essentially loads the post’s content on the first loop and then searches through on the second loop to find related posts.” In effect causing two Digg buttons to appear.

19. metroknow Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 10:28 PM

    Awesome – glad to help. It’s a great plugin.

    Best –
    Metroknow
    http://www.almostfit.com

20. Nikitas Says:
    June 21st, 2008 at 2:29 PM

    @Gorkfu: I just today had the chance to check back here, to discover you’d released a new version allowing the bottoms now at the bottom of the post. You are AWESOME! Thanks so much! I understand the complexities of wrapping text around the button; no biggie. I’m VERY happy now to be able to have the buttons on the bottom now! Thanks again! Yay!

21. Gorkfu Says:
    June 21st, 2008 at 5:23 PM

    @Nikitas: No problem, I’m just glad people are getting good use out of it.

22. Jeff Says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 8:44 PM

    Hey Gorkfu, like everyone else, I’m going to echo “Great plugin”!

    I submitted my first post to DIGG tonight and the auto-generated summary was all messed up. Like it included %2c or something everwhere I had made an edit (read: Typo and hit backspace) as part of the description. Strange.

    Anybody else seen or reported this?

23. Gorkfu Says:
    June 29th, 2008 at 9:18 PM

    That is URL encoding. It shouldn’t be showing URL encoded characters. It is only suppose to be passed as URL encoded and then converted to ASCII coding. I’ll check it out tomorrow and see if I can see what’s going on.

24. Arthur Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 1:18 PM

    I tried deactivating each of the others one-at-a-time while leaving diggZ-et on and the same problem happened. It’s not my blog so I’ll have to go into the site late at night and turn everything off and turn this one back on to see what happens. I’ll let you know.

25. Gorkfu Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 9:09 PM

    Now with the new release of WordPress 2.6 if you find any bugs with diggZ-Et please post about it here. I’ll do some testing on my own, but it doesn’t look like they changed much let alone anything with the plugin system.

26. Gorkfu Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 2:35 PM

    I would like to note that the new version of the YARPP plug-in no longer causes any known issues with diggZ-Et. You can get YARPP 2.0 here.

27. Gorkfu Says:
    July 21st, 2008 at 7:28 PM

    For those that requested it, I’ll be releasing plugins very soon for reddit and dZone buttons.

28. Philix Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 AM

    Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for.

29. james Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 PM

    do you really want to encourage digg users onto wordpress sites? on digg wordpress is a synonym for ‘cannot establish connection to database’

30. Gorkfu Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 12:47 PM

    I’m not trying to encourage anyone to do anything. I’ve created this plugin because there was a need. That is the only reason.

31. Chris Giovagnoni Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 3:32 PM

    I like your plug-in. It worked well for me, but I had to deactivate it because it was inserting lots of code into my Feedburner RSS feed. Can you eliminate that?

    Also, when I used the compact icon at the end of the blog post it would show up in the right place sometime and in the middle of a post at other times. Multiple users reported this and it only seemed to happen in IE, not Firefox.

32. Gorkfu Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 4:57 PM

    @Chris; Thanks for the feedback. It shouldn’t be inserting code into feedburner anymore, that looked fixed when I tested it last, I’ll recheck that though.

    I’ll be sure to fix the icon problem too.

33. Gorkfu Says:
    July 29th, 2008 at 12:19 AM

    The JavaScript problem has been fixed and will be in the next release for tomorrow. I forgot about the IE6 bug with absolute positioning and will fix that also.

34. Sir Robbie Rob Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 10:56 AM

    Hey There, I love your plugin.

    I have been having some problems I want to share with you. Maybe you can help me with a solution.

    The first one, after I digg the first post the digg buttons for the next two post link to the first digg. So if I digg post #1, post #2 and #3 digg links go to post #1 digg address. The digg results also reflect post #1.

    The second issue, I specify to change the background of default digg icon but it never changes.

    Thanks

35. Gorkfu Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 11:17 AM

    @Sir Robbie Rob;

    1. I looked at your blog and it really is messed up with the buttons. Especially your first post which looks like it was submitted twice under two posts. I’m not sure why it’s doing this but I think it may be your theme causing the issue.
    Can you try reverting to default wordpress theme just for a few seconds during a time when you don’t have many visitors to see if the problem still persists?

    2. Are you changing the background color in Hex? (EG. #FFFFFF)
    Edit: After looking at your blog again I just noticed only your first button shows a white background. The rest correctly display it.

36. Sir Robbie Rob Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 2:16 PM

    I just tried the the Classic theme and the default one. Both themes saw the same problem. I think tonight I will uninstall the plugin and install again. Hopefully the problem will go away.

    Do you have any ideas about what could be causing it?

37. Gorkfu Says:
    August 6th, 2008 at 2:19 PM

    It could be caused by another plugin or another snippet of JavaScript somewhere that is interfering with diggZ-Et’s javascript.

38. Jeff Says:
    August 9th, 2008 at 6:10 AM

    Great plugin!!! Thanks. I have been looking for weeks for a plugin that I can add to my blog that will display the Digg button. Your’s works the best!

39. Metroknow Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 11:51 AM

    I’ve been using the plugin for a quite a while now and really like it, but I was wondering if there is a way to manually disable it in a single post. I have a couple of posts here and there that I’d like to disable the button on, but I want to keep them on the rest of the posts. Is there a tag I can add to suppress it?

    Thanks much, and great work!

40. Gorkfu Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 12:39 PM

    @Metroknow; To hide a button in a single post refer to the first admin image above or the FAQ.

41. Metroknow Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 12:45 PM

    Thanks – my apologies for missing the obvious!

42. Gorkfu Says:
    August 14th, 2008 at 1:38 PM

    @Metroknow; No Problem. I like your blog, you got some nice articles on nutrition in there, keep up the good work.

43. Rai Says:
    August 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 PM

    I tried using the plugin to my site and it works fine, except the button won’t display the number of diggs in the home page, but does on single post.

    What could be the issue here?

    TIA.

    Btw, thanks for the plugin! It helped my site gain more visitors.

44. Gorkfu Says:
    August 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 PM

    Most if not all issues are caused by other plugins. Try deactivating all other plugins, leaving only diggZ-Et activated and see if the problem remains. If you do find a plugin causing issues please post the name of it here so I can get it fixed.

45. Rai Says:
    August 24th, 2008 at 1:47 AM

    I deactivated and left diggz-et only, but it still won’t display the number of diggs in homepage

46. Gorkfu Says:
    August 24th, 2008 at 2:49 AM

    Ok well your actually the second person to report this. I’ll have to look into it tomorrow.

47. Stephen Baugh Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 2:43 PM

    Thanks for a great pluggin.

    It sounds like I am having the same issue with the plugin. DiggZ-Et is referencing an old post for everyone it looks up, even if off not in the home page. It seems that the plu in is taking the highest number digg and displaying that and holding the link.

    Have a look at my home page to see what I mean.

    Thanks again, really appreciate the plugging.

    Cheers
    Stephen

48. Gorkfu Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 10:43 PM

    @ Stephan Baugh; Hmm, its acting even stranger on your site.

    I’ll need a volunteer that is having the homepage issues to test the older versions of diggZ-Et so I can find out at which version this bug started to occurr. You can download old versions of diggZ-Et here.

49. Rai Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 9:50 AM

    I tried using the older version 1.1.0 and it worked. The numbers are showing properly again.

    HTH.

50. Gorkfu Says:
    September 12th, 2008 at 2:19 PM

    Thanks Rai, did you try any later versions than that? Or is that the latest release that worked for you? I just want to be sure at which release the bug popped up. Thanks again for checking this.

51. Wystery Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 AM

    Nice, I am using this plugin now and it is looking good so far. Can I suggest a few other features?

    1. If we make it only appear on a single page, maybe you can write a detection code to detect incoming link from digg, and if there’s one, the digg button will appear on the homepage for that post as well as in the single page.

    2. Maybe a notification (email) to admin when someone just submitted a fresh article to digg.

    I think these two features will be really useful to someone. Keep up the good work.

52. Gorkfu Says:
    September 24th, 2008 at 8:58 AM

    Thanks for the suggestions Wystery. I’ll add them to my to do list.

53. Gorkfu Says:
    September 29th, 2008 at 11:28 AM

    @Rai, Stephen Baugh, Sir Robbie Rob and anyone else that reported bugs with homepage and/or images; These bugs have been fixed and will be released in 1.2.0 shortly.

54. Skype Help Says:
    October 29th, 2008 at 11:12 PM

    Good stuff, Gorkfu! I am just about to move to WP, but was not happy with lack of plug-in configurability – diggZ-Et fixes this for Diggs!

    S

55. beggers Says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 1:08 AM

    This is great but I have the same problem mentioned a few months ago by Jeff. The title and description always have “junk” characters like this in them:

    Sushi Bar Restaurant Hosts %u201CMartinis & Manicure

    I’ve tried turning on/off various plug-ins without any success. Any ideas? Thanks.

56. beggers Says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 1:49 PM

    I just checked and I am also set to UTF-8. I just try tried again with “straight quotes” and “curly quotes” and got these results:

    “test” %u201Ctest%u201D

    So clearly those different quotes are affected differently. I think your test used straight double quotes so it might just be the curly double quotes that cause the problem. Here is a topic title that has the curly quotes:

    http://www.vegasnews.com/1324/ra-sushi-bar-restaurant-hosts-%e2%80%9cmartinis-manicures%e2%80%9d-event.html

    Here’s a little discussion about the different quote marks:

    http://gjtm.blogspot.com/2008/06/two-types-of-quote.html

57. Gorkfu Says:
    October 31st, 2008 at 4:06 PM

    Ah ok, I have to admit I have forgotten about curly quotes, as I never use them much, if at all.

    Digg’s JavaScript is suppose to encode and decode any characters sent through, why they don’t do it with curly quotes, I have no clue.

    I’ll add a fix in for curly quotes in the next release.

58. Jan Ole Peek Says:
    November 4th, 2008 at 11:33 PM

    Excellent plugin! Finally an easy to use digg plugin that just works right out of the box!

59. Gorkfu Says:
    November 6th, 2008 at 3:47 AM

    @Jan; Thanks Jan, glad you like it.

    @Beggers; Apparently the problem is on Digg’s side. No matter what I do to change the curly quote encoding back to curly quotes (or vice versa), it still comes up as the encoding on their end. It is odd that it does because they do use UTF-8 encoding, so I would think it shouldn’t be happening.

    Well the only solution is to not use curly quotes or I can put in a fix to change curly quotes to regular straight quotes.

    It’s actually good practice to not use them, they have been known to screw up search engine results. I don’t keep up on SEO practices, but I’m sure search engines still have issues with them.

60. duplz Says:
    November 10th, 2008 at 1:50 AM

    hi,Gorkfu
    thanx,it works! but how can i control where the icon display?

61. Gorkfu Says:
    November 25th, 2008 at 12:22 AM

    If you have found any bugs or have a feature suggestion for diggZ-Et, please post them at our new feedback forum. Anonymous posting is available.

62. DxLwebs Says:
    December 9th, 2008 at 1:26 AM

    Hey I added this plugin to my blog at http://www.gamemasterx.com/blog but nothing shows up! Even in the settings area I do not get the icons for digg, has something changed?

    Thank you for this plugin it will be great when it works.

63. Gorkfu Says:
    December 9th, 2008 at 1:53 AM

    @DxLwebs;

    It should work, try using DiggZ-Et by itself by deactivating all other plugins. Most issues are usually caused by other plugins.

64. Time Synchronisation Says:
    December 10th, 2008 at 4:06 AM

    This is a great plugin

65. Gorkfu Says:
    December 16th, 2008 at 3:20 PM

    All our social media plugins work with 2.7. However, in the backend the styling will need some restructuring. I’ll get on this task asap.

66. Danny Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 6:13 AM

    I have a small problem where on my theme (Wootheme’s Fresh News) I have the posts on my homepage showing the excerpt option so that it shortens the posts but when I enable this the digg’s image dosnt show up is there anyway for this to be fixed?

    Thanks
    Danny

67. Gorkfu Says:
    December 20th, 2008 at 1:00 PM

    @ Danny

    Excerpt’s will only show words of your post and not display any Javascript code. The only way around this for now would be to use the summary option from reading options instead of using the excerpt function.

    I’ll look into it and see if it’s possible to append the button to excerpts.

68. Danny Says:
    December 21st, 2008 at 8:20 AM

    Thanks Gorkfu

69. Rene @ WordPressPluginGuide Says:
    February 2nd, 2009 at 5:53 AM

    Nice plugin, but the option i miss is to position the Digg button by itself in my template with a tag instead of selecting one of the four fixed positions…

70. HighTechDad Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 3:13 PM

    Love the plug-in but I ran into an issue. Somehow, the button gets pulled into the RSS feed as well which breaks some things on a site where we syndicate the feed. Is there any way to ensure that the button/functionality does NOT appear within an RSS feed? Perhaps a toggle in a future version.

    Thanks,
    HTD

71. Gorkfu Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 4:09 PM

    @HighTechDad;

    Hmm, well I thought I fixed that issue awhile back. I’ll look into it again and see what can be done. The JavaScript shouldn’t be activated in the RSS feed. There was a similar issue with feedburner, but that was fixed.

    On a further note, I’ll be releasing the new plugin, S-ButtonZ this weekend. It is a compilation of all four of our social media button plugins.

72. Gorkfu Says:
    May 5th, 2009 at 2:08 PM

    diggZ-Et 1.3.8 has been released with a compatibility fix for PHP 4.4+ Please let me know if you still have issues.

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