Digg  ¹  is a popular social bookmarking network. Its popularity is growing more each day. If an article of yours get ‘dugg’ it’s added to this popular website. Here, it reaches many users. If your posts popularity grows, its viewers grow. Which means more people will be visiting your site. Now that we know the ‘what?’ and the ‘why should I add it?’, we can continue to talk about the plugin.

After searching through many other plugins and codes, I found one that was extremely easy to install. You can download it here.

After downloading it, simply unzip it and move the plugin file  ²   into your plugins directory. Go to your Admin Panel and activate it.

If you only want the digg icon on your posts, open your single.php or respective ‘POST only’ file, if not put it in the template file that corresponds to both posts and pages, and insert the following code after <?php the_content(); ?> : <?php if(function_exists('digg_this')) { digg_this('', '', '', ''); } ?>   ³.

You may be wondering why are they so many quotes. The first one is for a different background color to match your layout. If you want the original look, leave them blank. If not, insert the hex color code for the color you wish it to be  ⁴.  The second, is to define it you like to default look or the compact one. If you want it default leave them blank, if you want them compact fill in compact between the quotes. The third is for more custom styling  ⁵  . Finally, the fourth set of quotes is for you to fill in the category you’d like your posts to be classified under  ⁶  .

Example: My code looks like this: <?php if(function_exists('digg_this')) { digg_this('', '', '', 'design'); } ?> .

Obviously, I use this plugin. I like it very much. I had been searching for a way to do this and everything I found was very difficult and confusing.

Happy Diggin’! If you experience any trouble, tell me about it in a comment so I can try to help.

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1. Self defined as “a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web”- Source [↩]
2. File name: “diggthis.php” [↩]
3. For additional information go to the plugin’s hompage, located here. [↩]
4. Do not include the number symbol (#) [↩]
5. For additional information go to the plugin’s hompage, located here. [↩]
6. For additional information go to the plugin’s hompage, located here. [↩]