How to Add "Digg It!" Button to Your WordPress Blog Posts

This tutorial will explain on how to add a "Digg It!" button to your WordPress blog posts, that means it will work only with WordPress blogs, and not other blog software available. Also this tutorial is only about implementing the "diggIT" plugin, and not any other plugins that would provide the same service.

Introduction

Digg.com, is one of the most popular social networking sites on the Internet, it receives also large amounts of traffic. Stories are voted by the users of Digg, and in order for your story to become popular you need to acquire as many diggs as possible. The most popular stories end up on the front page, and will be seen by thousants and thousants of people in a very short time.

Adding a "Digg It" button to your blog posts, will increase the chances that your story will be digged because the person that is reading it does not need to return to the Digg.com web site in order to digg it, it can be done directly with a simple click.

Requirements

In order to implement a "Digg It!" button on each one of your blog posts, you will need the following:

1. A functional WordPress blog.
2. WinZip(tm), or any other archiving utility that supports .zip files.
3. A simple text editor, like Notepad.
4. The "diggIT" plugin.

Step By Step Instructions

1. Download the "diggIT" plugin from here: http://tuggo.org/projects/diggit/
2. Unpack the archive using WinZip(tm) on your computer, you will find two files in the archive, you will just need the diggthis1.1.3.php file.
3. Login to your hosting account where your WordPress blog is hosted, if the blog is located on your computer there is no need for this step.
4. Go to the "plugins" directory from your blog software files.
5. Create a new folder called "digg".
6. Upload the "diggthis1.1.3.php" file to that directory.
7. Go to the "themes" directory in your blog software files, and enter the directory of your current theme.
8. Download the "index.php" file to your computer in order to edit it.
9. Open the file using a simple text editor, and do the following:
- find the line containing the text: "";
- before the line add the following: "";
10. Upload the file back into your "themes" directory of your blog software.
11. Log into your blog, go to the "Plugins" tab, and activate the "diggIT" plugin.

The End

All should be working fine now, when you will refresh your blog, a "Digg It!" button will appear on the right top of your posts. Also the number of diggs that post received on Digg.com, if the number is 0, it means that post was not yet submited to Digg.com.

Good luck!