UPDATE: Since this original post, WordPress has made a better option available to getting folks to Digg your posts. Now on to the original post…
For those of us who use WordPress.com to host our blogs vs. hosting them ourselves there are some tradeoffs. One of those tradeoffs is that there are limits to what can be customized in your blog. Including JavaScript in your posts is one of those tradeoffs – it’s not allowed.
That wasn’t such a big deal until I wanted to start including a Digg It! icon in my posts. I saw it in many of the blogs I read, and thought it would be a great way to get my posts in front of more people. The problem is that most of the Digg submission buttons required JavaScript.
All except one – the Custom Submission-Only Button. My original thought was “Great!” Then I realized that there is a lot of effort in creating the link that would be a pain if done manually. Even more painful to do it more than once. And there weren’t any tools out there to make it easier (couldn’t find any).
So I made one – the Digg Submission Link Creator. It might not be the prettiest tool in the world, but what it does is allow you to do is to enter in the following:
- Blog post permalink
- Title of post
- Brief description of post
- Select a Digg topic
- Select a Digg icon to serve as the link
Then just click on Create Digg Link button and out will pop the HTML in the Digg Link box.
So to start including Digg It links in your posts, just follow these steps:
- Create and publish your post
- Create the HTML Digg link in the Digg Submission Link Creator tool
- Open your post again for editing, click on the “Code” tab and paste the link created in step #2 where you want the link to appear and press “Save”
That’s all there is to it. And if you want something other than those three icons I have you can feel free to edit what’s being linked to whatever you want.
