How to Add Digg buttons to Blogger Posts

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By LaZuppa
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Example of Button on Blogger Post

This will allow you to automatically add a digg button to every blog post you make. If you are unfamiliar with digg, it is a site that categorizes news and other interesting items by how much people like them.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Be able to look at HTML code and kind of know what is going on
An Account with blogger (The free Google blogging service)

Step 1

Your blog should be set to save Post Pages. Post Pages are archived blog posts published to their own web page. Each post will have a unique URL, which is required by Digg for the individual posts to be submitted. To verify or enable it, login to your Blogger Dashboard. Under Settings-> Archiving, set the “Enable Post Pages?” to “Yes” and save the settings.
Step 2

This template hack will put a Digg button to every post. You are therefore not able to choose which post you want to include or exclude a button. The code reads the URL of the individual blog page and this shall be the URL used for submission of the story to Digg.
Step 3

Under “Template”, click the “Edit HTML” tab. Block copy the entire HTML code for your site and save it in a text file. You can also click the "Download Template" link. This isn't necessary but it is always a good idea in case anything happens to go wrong.
Step 4

Click the box next to “Expand Widget Templates”. Scroll about two-thirds down the template to look for the code that reads:-

< p >< data:post.body />< /p >

and replace it with the text in the image.