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elderban
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Nov 4, 2006, 7:08 PM
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Tutorial: Digg-ing your articles
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With the ability to urlEncode in Article Manager 2, it is now easy to set your site up to allow users that have "dug "your articles to "Digg" them (Like the play on Dig Dug? Does anyone remember Dig Dug, for that matter?)
Anyway, it's very simple to add the ability to Digg articles on your site.
In this example, I have placed the link with the "Email this article" and "Printer friendly page" links that show up on each article page, but you can put the link anywhere you want, including your index page.
So, to add this to your article page, just open articlePages.html in your templates/articlePages directory and look for the following code:
<a href="mailto:?subject=$article.title:urlEncoded$&body=$published.articlePage.url:urlEncoded$">Email this article</a><br>
<a href="$published.articlePrinterPage.url$">Printer friendly page</a><br>
At the end of that line, add the following code:
<a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=$published.articlePage.url:urlEncoded$&title=$article.title:urlEncoded$&bodytext=$article.summary:urlEncoded$&topic=YOURTOPIC">Digg this article</a><br>
IMPORTANT: You will have to change where it says "YOURTOPIC"...you will have to select a topic that is most relevant to your site from the following categories that are currently available on Digg:
apple
baseball
basketball
business_finance
celebrity
design
environment
extreme_sports
football
gadgets
gaming_news
general_sciences
golf
hardware
health
hockey
linux_unix
mods
motorsport
movies
music
offbeat_news
other_sports
playable_web_games
political_opinion
politics
programming
security
soccer
software
space
tech_deals
tech_news
television
tennis
videos_animation
videos_comedy
videos_educational
videos_gaming
videos_music
videos_people
videos_sports
world_news
For example, world_news was relevant to my site, so I put it after the "&topic=", so it read "&topic=world_news".
Once this is complete, save articlePage.html and re-publish your articles.
You can test it by clicking on it and see if all of the relevant information is filled out properly when you get to the Digg site.
One thing to note, though, is that Digg requires users to log on before they can Digg an article.
Bryan Gilchrist
(This post was edited by elderban on Nov 4, 2006, 7:11 PM)
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ChetW
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Nov 5, 2006, 11:07 AM
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Re: [elderban] Tutorial: Digg-ing your articles
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Hi Brian,
Thanks for the post!
This looks like a great tutorial that will help many Article Manager users take advantage of the exposure that Digg can give their websites articles. :)
Cheers,
Chet Woodside - Product Specialist
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floodrod
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Dec 14, 2006, 10:05 AM
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Re: [elderban] Tutorial: Digg-ing your articles
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Nice tutorial, But im encountering a delima.
many of my articles use ***image1*** thumbnails in the summary, which messes up the digg.com description. Can you think of a way to tell this templateif statement to not print any word that starts with ***? or something else that will resolve the problem?
Again, kool templateif thanks
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