How to integrate Digg button into your WordPress Blog

WordPress is one the most popular blogging platforms these days. Digg is the well-known service, which allows internet users to share content and rate it. The more diggs (clicks) the article or material has - the more popular it is. This instruction will walk you through the process of adding the Digg button to your Wordpress blog.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer
• Internet
• WordPress blog
• FTP client

1. 

   Go to http://wordpress.org and find the plugin called 'WP Digg This'

2. 
   Download

   Download the plugin

3. 

   When downloading - open the archive (zip) with your winzip or winrar applications

4. 

   Extract the plugin to hard drive

5. 

   Using your favorite FTP client, transfer the plugin directory into your wordpress/wp-content/plugins directory.

6. 

   After the directory is transferred, go to the administration section of your wordpress blog, and goto plugins section

7. 

   In the plugins list you will see the Digg it plugin. Activate it by clicking the 'Activate' button

8. 

   The plugin is now activated. Now, in order to display the digg button on your blog post, just add the cutom field to your post, where the field is 'digg' and value = 1. This is it!

9. 
   Felicity Art Blog

   Here is an example of the plugin in action on my Felicity Art Blog

Tips & Warnings

• You need WordPress 2.3 and higher to use this plugin

Resources

• Digg
• Wordpress
• Felicity Art Blog - example of plugin use
• Felicity Art Paintings for Sale

[Quickstar]

on 12/14/2008 Very informative thanks for the scope! 5*

[3CMom]

on 12/14/2008 Great article, I hope I can do it!