How to add Digg button in WordPress without Plugin

Posted by: Faisal 14 January 2011 3 Comments

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Digg is one of the largest content sharing site nowadays. It allows people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. The Digg button, also known as “Digg this” button, is for blogs and website to share content on Digg.

There are many WordPress plugins available for putting digg button on WordPress blog or site; all of them are workable. This blog post guide you how you can add Digg button without plugin on your WordPress blog. If you want to add Digg button on your WordPress site all you need to do is put the following code in your theme where you want.

Here’s code for adding “Digg this” button on home page.

<a href=”http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink()
?>&title=<?php the_title();?>&bodytext=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>”</a>
<script src=”http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js”></script>

Now use the following code for the small and long button on a single post

<a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=<?php the_permalink()

?>&title=<?php the_title();?>&bodytext=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>"</a>

<script src="http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js"></script>

The Digg button is available in four sizes: Wide, Medium, Compact, and Icon

To use any of them on your blog or site you need to specify the button size in anchor class, as given below.

<script type="text/javascript">
(function() {
var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'),

s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];

s.type = 'text/javascript';
s.async = true;
s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';
s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);
})();
</script>
<!-- Wide Button -->
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggWide"></a>
<!-- Medium Button -->
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggMedium"></a>
<!-- Compact Button -->
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggCompact"></a>
<!-- Icon Button -->
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggIcon"></a>

Do let us know if you found any problem during adding this code in comments section?

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