There’s no doubt that digg can provide an emourmous boost to your traffic. It’s great for ‘new’ articles and blog posts to give them a big rush of initial popularity. But it’s also useful for older articles - if you can keep the digg count ticking over, then you might have a shot at some of the long-term popular lists.
So, with this in mind, I wrote an article on how to display digg counts (like in the image above). It goes into some detail about how to retrieve the counts in PHP and via AJAX. And there’s full source-code as ever.
Isn't Easter great? Some quality time off work to spend with family and friends. Or, alternatively, to sit at your PC and work on a Wordpress plugin. I think you'll be able to guess from this release which option I chose.
The big feature of this release (0.4) is that PHP Speedy will now handle standard JavaScript libraries. Previous releases suffered from problems when a plugin used a JavaScript library such as Prototype/Scriptaculous. Also, I have noticed that some plugins include their libraries directly, which means that if more than one plugin calls the same library it is included (and downloaded by the user) more than once. For fun, I tested this out.
