Relative Digg Wordpress Plugin – Add related digg story links to the bottom of your post based on keywords

Note (5/13/07):
I just looked over this code and I made a lot of mistakes. Just use it as an example/reference or clean it up. I hacked it together pretty quick when I was bored at work, so use your judgement.

Well, as you can tell by the post dates on the past few articles, I’m being lazy. This all changed the other day when I was messing around in a project with PHP and XML. Normally I think XML/PHP is the devil, but I remembered the SimpleXML classes in PHP5. This pretty much inspired me to write a little plugin for wordpress – well, that and my love for digg – that will add relative digg stories to the bottom of each post depending on the keywords you provide.

Its still in Beta mode, but if you guys are savvy enough to get it working I would greatly appreciate some feedback.

What you need in order to run this, as of right now

1. PHP5 (should come with SimpleXML natively, but if not, you need this)
2. FOPEN (some servers don’t support this)

I will probably re-write this to use cURL in the future to get around the FOPEN problem, and maybe even to get around SimpleXML. Either way, this is just up here to test the waters on the idea and get some general feedback.

(Ps: If your server doesn’t run PHP5 or allow FOPEN, be a man and get in that shell and roll your own

How To Install (almost the exact same procedure as my YouTube PlugIn)

1. Upload “relative_digg.php” to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder
2. In admin panel, go to: Plugins -> Relative Digg Stories -> Activate
3. Switch over to Presentation -> Theme Editor -> (edit) Single Post
4. Somewhere in there add <?php relative_digg(); ?>
   • Note: you can hardcode the tag using relative_digg('tagname');
   • Note: param setup: relative_digg('tagname', number_of_results, story_age, 'title');
5. In your new post, somewhere near the bottom add: <!--digg:TAG-->

Let me know whatsup – hopefully some of you find this useful. Its terribly slow also, so I will have to check into that. Feedback is appreciated, yadda, yadda, etc.

Thanks

-rob

Hey all, I was asked to write a simple plugin that will make use of the YouTube API to generate videos based on specific post tags.

Downloads

1. YouTube Wordpress Plugin
2. svn export http://public.svnme.com/youtubevideos .

Usage

1. open the .PHP file in a text editor, on the line $dev_id = "???" insert your developer ID
2. upload the PHP file to wp-content/plugins/
3. activate the plugin from the Dashboard, Plugins menu
4. go to Presentation, Template Editor, Single Post and/or Main Index. Insert this
   code where you want the video to appear:
   <? youtubevideos(); ?>
5. when you post, use the code: <!--youtube:YourTagHere--> to tell the plugin what video topic you want to show. For example, if you want a video on horses, put <!--youtube:horses--> at the end of your post.
6. that’s it. To change the number of videos shown or to tweak the filter settings, you have to modify that within the plugin PHP file itself.
7. Let me know of any bugs you find, or any tweaks you have made (this is a community after all )

Features

1. Set how many videos to show, could be 1, could be 1,000
2. Setup filters to block videos that contain bad keywords and keep your blog respectable
3. Change the output template to display the videos any way you want to better incorporate it with your blog
4. Manually add your own taggings to show videos you want.

Change Log

• May 13 I just looked through this code and it is pretty sloppy, sorry. Use this as an example or starting point for your own plugin — or, if it still works, use it. Just a heads up (don’t judge me by that code )
• Oct 4 the new version needs to be tested – ill try to get to that today
• Oct 4 Thanks to Mr. Nuck Chorris, the SimpleTags is now phased out, I have updated the file.
• Oct 3 I removed the YouTube Developer ID, please use your own
• Oct 3 I am going to work on this again now that I am back. If you found bugs or have ideas for it, please send me an email and I will try to include them.