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Get the PlugIM Widget for your Site

Go ahead, try it out. The PlugIM vote box widget has been integrated and is in use with the PlugIM blog. Click the plug box to the left to see how it works.

The number one request I’ve had from the community is for a PlugIM vote box widget and after weeks in development, it has finally arrived. But this isn’t your typical vote box widget that you’re used to seeing around the web… This widget is AJAX powered. It automatically casts a vote and updates the vote count right there on your site so your visitor never needs to leave! I’m sure you’ve noticed most vote boxes require your visitor to not only leave your site, but also create an account on the bookmarking site just to be able to vote. Well not the PlugIM widget, your users don’t even need to have a PlugIM account to vote for your story! They can just click ‘plug’ and keep on browsing your site without ever leaving to go to PlugIM.

Here’s how it works. Once you’ve installed the code, the PlugIM vote box will be displayed on your site. The very first person to click it, will be directed to the submit story page on PlugIM where the URL and story title will be automatically populated. The user finishes up the submission process by setting the tags, writing a short description and selecting a category. (Note that if you use our automatic RSS feed submission feature, your stories will already be submitted and ready for voting.) Once the story has been submitted, everyone else who clicks the button will simply be casing a vote for your story. If they’re logged into PlugIM from a previous visit, the vote will be cast in their name. If they aren’t logged in, or don’t have a PlugIM account, the vote will still count and measures are in place to prevent voting abuse, so they still only get one vote.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In the code snippets below, be sure to change occurrences of “xsrc” to “src”. This was done for security reasons.

Support for 1 PlugIM button on a page:

Simply insert the following code where you want the button:

<script xsrc="http://www.plugim.com/tools/plugthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

This creates a button that when clicked, uses the URL and Title of the page it’s on to submit the story. If you’re page title is extremely long, and you want to change it (for example, maybe the default page title on your site includes the domain name and a subtitle before the actual story title) you can do so by including the title variable like this:

Support for changing the story title:

<script type="text/javascript">
plugim_title = 'Title of Your Story';
</script>
<script xsrc="http://www.plugim.com/tools/plugthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

(Note: once a story has been submitted, changing the title variable will not change the title of the story on PlugIM.)

Support for multiple buttons on the same page:

If you need multiple PlugIM buttons on the same webpage (on the homepage of a blog for example, where you want to have one PlugIM button for each story) you can do so by including the PlugIM URL and Title variables:

<script type="text/javascript">
plugim_url = 'http://www.YourStoryURL.com';
plugim_title = 'Title of Your Story';
</script>
<script xsrc="http://www.plugim.com/tools/plugthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Note in this example, the URL and Title variables are required. Otherwise every button on your page will point to the same story on PlugIM. In the example of a blog, simply use the permalink URL for each post.

WordPress Plugin

We realize the widget requires some technical knowledge to install, which is why we also have a WordPress plugin available developed by Michelle MacPhearson. If you have a WordPress blog, simply download the plugin from her site, upload it to your blog and activate it. Then all your posts will automatically have the PlugIM vote box ready for your readers to vote. You can download the plugin here:

http://blog.michellemacphearson.com/wordpress-plugin-plugim-votebox/

The widget has been tested with IE6, IE7 and Firefox 1.5. If you find any issues, please reply to this post so we can clear them up.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 1:21 am and is filed under PlugIM, Widgets. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

19 Responses to “Get the PlugIM Widget for your Site”

#1: Home With Heather » Have you noticed my “Plug This” Button? Have You used it yet? Says:

May 28th, 2007 at 4:34 pm

[…] The button is really easy to use. To make it even easier to install on a Wordpress Blog, Michelle MacPhearson created a plugin for it. […]

#2: Jon Says:

June 15th, 2007 at 11:26 am

Neat site and neat Widget. Would you be releasing this mod up on Pligg?

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#4: Yuri Says:

July 5th, 2007 at 2:35 am

How about the dynamic link pattern to submit links to this site? The widget will slow down my site.

Thanks.

#5: Dravis Says:

July 5th, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Yuri, if you don’t want to use the widget because you’re worried about it slowing down your site (it’s only about 4KB in size by the way) then you can use the “Plug this button” which is basically a submit to PlugIM link. When clicked, it’ll fill in the URL and the title of your page and lead you through the story submission process. If you click the button after a story has already been submitted, it’ll bring you directly to the story page so you can vote for the story. For full details, see the following post: http://www.plugim.com/blog/2006/11/webmasters-add-plug-this-button-to-your-site/

#6: John Says:

July 12th, 2007 at 12:39 pm

I’ve just upgrade my Wordpress installation and can’t get the plugin to work anymore. It was working fine before the upgrade, but now that I’ve updated to Wordpress 2.2.1 it just won’t display the button. The plugin is installed & activated and the options are set (top left).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
John

#7: onlinedownloads Says:

July 20th, 2007 at 9:55 am

From the past 2 months, i’m using this PlugIM widget for my site. Recently I did note that my website has the url http://onlinedownloads.org/diary . So i changed the url to http://www.onlinedownloads.org/diary . The votes on plugIM vanished.

What should i do now? Should i again submit the story and start the fresh voting count. Please help me.

#8: ForumeR Says:

July 27th, 2007 at 1:18 am

I put it on my blog, but it not appears

#9: Dravis Says:

July 28th, 2007 at 1:59 pm

Onlinedownloads: Good catch and thanks for reporting that issue. The problem is, the widget compares URL’s to determine if a story has been posted before. So the widget would think that http://www.plugim.com and http://plugim.com are two different stories even though they’re actually the same. I will try to get this fixed.

ForumeR: Did you add the widget code to your site manually or did you use Michelle’s WordPress plugin? If you have a WordPress blog, I would highly suggest using her plugin because it’s much easier than trying to add the code to your template. Here’s the link to the download: http://blog.michellemacphearson.com/wordpress-plugin-plugim-votebox/
Let me know if you have any other questions.

#10: onlinedownloads Says:

August 10th, 2007 at 5:59 pm

Thanx Dravis for addressing my problem. Hope you would come out a solution at an earliest.

#11: Terrance Charles Says:

September 20th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

The widget is great, and it was so simpe to install, I prefer it way more than digg…

Terrance Charles
www.terrancecharles.com/blog

#12: Sharon Says:

April 17th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

The widget’s not working anymore.

#13: Michelle Thomas Says:

May 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

how do i put the plug im widget in the template of my blogger blog so that it appears in each post micky

#14: Dokter Matrix Says:

November 25th, 2008 at 1:06 am

thanks for this tutorial. and the plugin

#15: Bryan Hee Says:

February 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 am

Excellent widget!It’s allows users to vote even don’t have PlugIm account will increase the voting due to the convenience and hassle free.

To Your Success
Bryan Hee

#16: mosk Says:

May 11th, 2009 at 1:00 pm

thanks for this tutorial. and the plugin

#17: elsa peretti Says:

May 19th, 2009 at 11:40 pm

very thank you
good plugin

#18: diego Says:

May 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am

Hi!
are you selling the widget? I would like using it in www.linkk.com.br …

thanks
Diego

#19: John Beck Property Vault Says:

May 29th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

Your post is awesome and I am going to add it on my website because recently I have started a small business of internet marketing. This post will help me in expanding my knowledge about Internet Marketing.

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