Digg This 1.0.5 Update Released
The famous Digg This plugin for wordpress just got updated (thanks for Rob Walling for notifying me of the problem and the solution).
As it turns out that Digg changed the HTML code consist of a post yet again. Since the plugin validate that the referral you got is actually from digg and not from a spam bot, it did not parse correctly the changed HTML coming from digg, resulting no link back to digg. If you have an old version of the plugin, please update your wordpress with the new version.
I also added an option to turn off validation which will cause the plugin to work faster, however it will be less secure and susceptible to spam links. If you do not suffer from spam and want to be immune from future changes of digg code, edit digg-this.php, find
$VALIDATE_REFERRER = true;
and change it to
$VALIDATE_REFERRER = false;
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March 21st, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Hi Aviran,
Unfortunately, your 1.0.5 version doesn’t seem to work on my site - the old version worked with the old Digg referrals, and the digg_this_button() code is unchanged from then, so I don’t know why this should be.
If I set the DiggUrl post meta field by hand for an individual post, then up pops the Digg box - so the plugin is definitely working once it gets past the referrer decoding section. However, something within that initial bit of curl magic doesn’t appear to be working for freshly-Dugg pages. Hope this is a help!
Could I suggest a debug setting for a future version of your plugin, that displays how far through the set of &&-ed conditions it has reached?
Best regards, ….Nick Pelling…. // Cipher Mysteries