I’m recommending all bloggers within the Blog Engage community remove their current social share buttons and install the latest version of the Digg Digg WordPress Social Sharing Plugin. The plugin allows for easy managed of all your favorite social sites including the Blog Engage button.
I believe if you add this plugin to your site you will see a dramatic increase in overall votes, tweets, engages and more. The Digg Digg plugin allows you to easily add your twitter name into your tweets and so much more.
I ask all our members to add these buttons so we can socially engage with you when you submit your blogs articles to Blog Engage. This allows us easy access to all of our most favorite and interactive social media websites.
If you don’t believe me look at what some of our top members have to say about it,
1. Just Ask Kim, Digg Digg Review
2. James from Evolutionary Designs
3. Mani from Daily Blogging
4. Dana from Letupdate
You know FYI I used the Blog Engage search to find all these articles! thanks for submitting your content everyone so I could share it here in the articles. So don’t miss out any longer. Download Digg Digg and install it to your wordpress blog. Make sure to add the Blog Engage social share button as well.
Please make sure to follow, Mkyong and thank him for kindly adding the Blog Engage button to his Digg Digg wordpress plugin. You can visit his site here, Java web development tutorials.
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whitegyr
December 16th, 2011
I have several icons on my blog and do not want to risk code bloat on my web pages as page load speed is becoming more and more a concern for Google
bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hello whitegyr, if you add the digg digg button you will see right away it loads very fast! Trust me I am using it on my personal blog and it’s really great! You can see it in action here, http://www.seomkt.com/ let me know if you end up using it I’m sure you will be very happy with the end result!
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Latief
December 16th, 2011
Sure this is a good new since I always have trouble to put BE vote button at my blog.
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bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hi Latief, yes this is the concern of many bloggers that want to add the Blog Engage buttons so bad but they are not good at coding. The Blog Engage has been included with the Digg Digg and is so each to set up!
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Wijdan Rohail
December 16th, 2011
I’ll definetly try it out, looks to me impressive.
Justin Germino
December 16th, 2011
I use sharebar myself, the floating share in the side that slides while you read keeps it noticeable at all times. Typically you want the share buttons at the bottom of an article because when people are done you want them to have access to share right away. I know that is open for opinion, but I find I can share articles best when it is right in front of me when I am done with the article.
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bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hi Justin, yes the sharebar is also nice I’ve seen it on your site for a while now. Do you know if it also supports blog engage or was that something you manually had to add? One thing I see about share bar is it doesn’t fit on widescreen website designed.
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Justin Germino
December 16th, 2011
I did manually have to add the code, wasn’t hard but might turn off some bloggers who don’t want the extra step. It is just “add new button”, “cut paste BE button code” and set which position number, not a big deal.
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bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hey that sounds pretty easy Justin,. Perhaps I will be lucky enough to be included in their plugin and we can also recommend them. I recommended Digg Digg because it’s easy to use, install and make it fit to your blog. Sounds like all the share bar is missing is the blog engage buttons. Maybe I will contact them and see if they will add it.
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Sherryl Perry
December 27th, 2011
Justin, I loved the ShareBar plugin but it was causing a major issue for me in IE 8. I’m using Thesis and readers were complaining that the bar was appearing right over the middle of my posts. I gave up trying to figure it out and I reverted to AddToAny which I’m really not happy with.
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Justin Germino
December 27th, 2011
I noticed that my google +1 button doesn’t show on IE9 but the rest of them do with Sharebar on my blog. I will open up a trouble ticket with author to see if it can be fixed in an update for better IE8 and IE9 support.
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tonygreene113
December 16th, 2011
Thanks for the write up on this one Brian. I was looking for something a bit more robust.Will get on this one right now…Have a great weekend!!
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Harleena Singh
December 16th, 2011
Hi Brian!
This sure is wonderful news, and I need to thank you especially as I know this post is meant for me
I did see the link http://www.seomkt.com/ though the buttons counters come as a square box over the button- thus the BE button fit in well. I wonder if Mkyong has also been kind enough to add the horizontal counter buttons, for those who want to use it sideways,m instead of going upwards with the counters.
Thanks once again, and am glad that BE has been added into Digg Digg
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bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hi Harleena, I have used the contact form and requested he add them. I’m sure he will do it as I think it’s a very easy process for his talented mind. Wasn’t it so nice of him to add blog engage into his plugin? I will 100% let you know as soon as he updated me if he can or cannot do it. Right now we are in a waiting game! I hope you enjoy his plugin it’s very nice and fast loading.
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Harleena Singh
December 16th, 2011
I am already using Digg Digg on my blog, though having BE on it now sure is wonderful. I shall wait for his reply to you and am hopeful he would surely come up with something.
Thanks once again for all your effort and help
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Blazing Minds
December 16th, 2011
Just updated Slappy Bear’s blog with the floating option, looks pretty good, now just for some RTs etc
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bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hi Karen, thanks for adding it! Also I know you have the same questions as Harleena in the chat. I will let everyone know what he says about the compact buttons! I’ll go and tweet you know! Spread the love lol.
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Thomas
December 16th, 2011
Hi Brian
Social buttons are just a must on a blog today if you ask me. I use Sharebar and have also added some code manual to add buttons the way I wanted them in the bottom of my posts. I don’t understand people that do not at least have a twitter button on their blog. Another thing I don’t understand is that some people forget to get their twitter name added to their twitter-button. They simply don’t get any twitter mention from the people sharing their posts. I see that a lot too.
bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hi Thomas, funny you mention the fact that many people don’t add their twitter code. I don’t understand how it can be missed it’s step 2 of 3 when setting up your twitter button code with twitter. I will not tweet an article without the authors twitter name being in the tweet it’s a personal rule of mine. Justin was mentoring sharebar above I think I’m going to contact them and see if they can add blog engage to it as default. You never know unless you ask right?
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Sally Brown
December 16th, 2011
Hi Brian,
I would love to use this. However, in attempting to disable what is already there and adding new plugin doesn’t seem to work for me. You know I’m really ignorant about this type of stuff. If someone wants to walk me through the process, it would be appreciated. I’ve spent at least 45 minutes trying to do this new plugin to no avail.
Sounds like a good thing though. Sally
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Sally Brown
December 16th, 2011
Okay, I got the icons up, but unable to igure out how to delete old ones that are there. Anyone have an idea? Sally
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bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hi Sally, I suggest two things, log into your WP admin and clear the cache for your WP Super Cache plugin, then clear the cache on your website browser. Once done come back and let me know if it’s working for you. Also p.s. you used the wrong e-mail again commenting here. Maybe it really is time to clear the old cache huh?
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slbphoenix
December 26th, 2011
I have the Digg Digg up and working, but it is really slowing down my load time. I’m not sure I want to keep this. Anyone have any suggestions? Sally
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Brian Hawkins
December 26th, 2011
I’m new to it as well but did you try ticking the “Lazy Loading” boxes when possible? I think that allows the page to load first and the social buttons load at their leisure.
bbrian017
December 27th, 2011
Hi Sally, I haven’t seen any load issues. But you can also try share bar Justin from dragon blogger uses it check this out, http://www.dragonblogger.com/add-social-sharing-buttons-with-custom-sharebar/ I hope this helps!
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Mani Viswanathan
December 16th, 2011
Thank you Brian for including my blog review post as well. I used to rely on Digg Digg plugin a lot when I started blogging, but eventually came down to custom coding (as I was more comfortable tweaking it)
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bbrian017
December 16th, 2011
Hi Mani yes same here but as you know that is not something many people can do we are very lucky to have these coding skills! I was happy to find a few articles on Blog Engage to share!
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Brad Reason
December 16th, 2011
I see it’s for wordpress, but will it work for Blogger?
Easther
December 17th, 2011
Hi Brian
hmm I tried install the Digg Digg plugin, but for some reason its not showing on my blog..Plus I can’t configure it/
hmm I don’t know how many times I’ve deleted, donwloaded again etc.
still doens’t work.
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tonygreene113
December 17th, 2011
Looks like it made your site explode Easther…
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bbrian017
December 17th, 2011
Hi Easther. If you want to e-mail me and give me some login credentials I can have a look and see if your settings are all correct. There’s a few spots where you have to set stuff floating, twitter name etc…
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Caleb
December 17th, 2011
Strangely enough after using DiggDigg for almost a year it started causing my blog to not load anything after the place where its code was inserted so in effect my post pages were not loading beyond the top as of a few days ago.
I went through several plugins to find out what was making this happen and my posts only began fully loading when DiggDigg was deactivated so I decided to delete it and install TF Social Share for floating options on the left side of posts which ended up being much simpler to use anyway plus it loads fast
Don’t know why DiggDigg began conflicting with my site all of a sudden but I was glad to find a swift alternative..hope this helps anyone who may have run into similar issues.
btw,
I put BlogEngage voting options on after my posts some time ago and didn’t mind doing it manually at all..
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bbrian017
December 17th, 2011
Caleb I think I know 99% what the issue is! If I’m right you have a plugin installed for caching your website, “Performance Something” Every time you make a change on the Digg Digg you have to go to the wp-admin header drop down menu and clear all caches and CTRL F5 your blog for it to load correct again.
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Caleb
December 17th, 2011
Ahhh…I see. Still I wouldn’t want to go through that everytime I make a small change plus I’m liking the simplicity of TF Social Share. However if I ever decide to go back to DiggDigg I will at least have a possible solution so thanks for that Brian
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bbrian017
December 17th, 2011
Caleb your very welcome! This is what was happening to Easther above and now we got her blog nice and clean looking with the social buttons she wanted without duplicates.
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Nipon
December 17th, 2011
Digg digg is a good plugin but mostly it makes the site load slow,if you activate too many sharing buttons.i think facebook and twitter button is sufficient.I am gonna add it soon in my site.
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Ajnabii
December 17th, 2011
it was sevral problems in old social icons web page load time, and icons space on page, so am not sure how this will work but let we try this new plugin i will share more about this plugin if this plugin really works for me.
Thanks for sharing.
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richard
December 18th, 2011
Hi Brian,
I’ve tried out probably all the different social sharing bars. Digg Digg, I found, generated random code that sometimes broke m site annd slowed down m load speed. I use a lesser known plugin called getsocial. It loads quickly and supports adding custom buttons so I am able to put a blog engage button on the bar.
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bbrian017
December 23rd, 2011
Hi Richard, from what I have seen there seems to be conflicts with the cache plugins and when you dont’ clear that wp-adman cache it causes blank white screens. So for some this plugin has worked amazing and not so well for some others.
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tonygreene113
December 18th, 2011
I tried the digg digg for a few days and just gave up on it for something aa bit easier on the eyes with better functions. I went with the 1-click RT/Share service for the readers to use.
Ellie
December 19th, 2011
Just wanted to say thanks for all of us for your input on Digg Digg and Blogengage. We technically challenged need all the mentoring and guidance we can get
Amanda
December 19th, 2011
If it is as useful, as you described, then probably this plugin will get many fans and users. Let’s see it)
Steve
December 22nd, 2011
Sounds nice! I will have to check out the digg digg plugin. MAKes it sound simpler to use
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Brian Hawkins
December 23rd, 2011
One of these days I’ll get a better theme, a custom one hopefully but I always have a lot of trouble with certain plugins. I did manage to get the Blog Engage share button in there so I’m happy with that. The floating side icons simply won’t work for me but it’s really no necessary for my blog, I think. Nice resource Brian, I appreciate it.
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bbrian017
December 23rd, 2011
Hey Brian, seems some people are having issues with this and the odd thing is it appears to be theme related. Hey off topic have you decided to host content for the month of January giving away the accounts and gold membership etc… I would love to add your contest to our customer’s contests post linked from our register page.
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Brian D. Hawkins
December 23rd, 2011
Actually I do have one in mind for next year, a monthly contest. Just sent you an email.
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Dennis
February 8th, 2012
Yo I absolutely love this plugin. This is my number 1 plugin on my 15 top social sharing plugins.. I’m going to write a review for it on my site because with what Digg Digg brings to the table, and for free, they deserve it..