Today, i would like to introduce a useful wordpress plugin named Digg Digg. Digg Digg is actually an all-in-one social vote/share generator. Digg Digg supports Tweetmeme, Facebook, Google Buzz, Yahoo Buzz, Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious, Polladium, Reddit and Comments.

Digg Digg have special feature which make social vote/share widget “hanging” beside the post instead of embedded within post. This feature is called Ajax left float.

Ajax left float: This will make the buttons wrap by a div block on the left side of the post, scroll down as the people read the post, A Mashable.com shared buttons scrolling effect cloned.

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After install Digg Digg Wordpress Plugin, go to Setting—> Digg Digg.

Select Social vote/share widget that you wish to embed. For my case, i have chosen Digg, Twitter and Facebook.

imageMake sure you have clicked both Ajax Left Float Setup and Enable Ajax Library.

image Adjust initial position by changing the margin-left value in CSS

imageAdjust scrolling position by changing the marginLeft value in JavaScript.  

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By trial and error, you should get your Social Vote/Share Widget right in the position you preferred.

imageThis is what you should get after value of marginLeft has been changed. 

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Best suggestion to prevent security issue on blog powered by Wordpress is to update your blog to latest Wordpress version. Now, the latest release of Wordpress 2.9.2 is available for all users.

According to the Wordpress, the release of the latest version of Wordpress is to fix the security issue occur recently. Thomas Mackenzie, a security enthusiast, had alerted Wordpress administrator about the problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. In order to solve this problem, you are advised to upgrade your wordpress to latest version.

To upgrade your wordpress, simply go to your dashboard –>Tools –> Upgrade. OR you may upgrade your wordpress manually by download the latest version here and upload to your root directories.     

Recently, i have changed all of my blog from blogger to Wordpress.I found out blogging using Wordpress is more advance than blogger as you can configure plugin installed in Wordpress. As the result of setting up several blog, i learn some useful plugin used by many blogger. So, i would like to introduce them to Wordpress Newbie.

The plugin that i would introduce to you today is All in one SEO pack. If you are so new until you do not even know what is SEO, then you are advised to read this before you goes on. For those who already know what is SEO but not very good in utilizing it, i would recommend you to try this plugin. The biggest advantage of this plugin is that you do not need to have much knowledge about SEO. All in one SEO pack do the job for you.

You are required to key in the detail of your blog such as Home title, home description and home keyword. Home description is actually the description meta tag that Google may use it as snippets for your page.

Example:

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Features:

  • Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality.
  • Provides SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
  • Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
  • Generates META tags automatically
  • You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is one of the popular method in boosting traffic. Expert SEO consultant may cost you a few thousand but All in one SEO pack do it for FREE. For more information about All in one SEO pack, please visit here. To download this plugin, click here.

PS: i will introduce more useful Wordpress plugin later. Stay tune.

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