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Wordpress Photoblogging Plugins - Create a Gallery with Wordpress

I was browsing through web sites yesterday and I noticed at the bottom of one of those ‘Best of CSS’ galleries that it said ‘Powered by Wordpress’. I was a little shocked because this site really looked like a photo gallery / directory. Every single image was able to be rated, each of them categorized, and each page was an entire page of thumbnails.  I wanted to know how to do this, so I spent the entire day yesterday collecting Wordpress Plugins to help other Wordpress bloggers create their own Wordpress gallery. The second part of this article will be about Wordpress Photoblogging Themes. I promise to get that to you soon. I have noticed that almost all of my past articles have disappeared which makes me very upset, but I will try to slowly make this a good blog again. Thanks for your patience.

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AltPWA

altPWA is a plugin that will allow you to easily embed a Picasa Web Album in your pages. Do you have a Picasa account? You can host there 1GB of pictures and publish easily with Picasa program. But how to have them online? With WordPress and this plugin you only need one line for embedding. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Awsom PixGallery

WSOM Pixgallery is an Image Gallery/Archive plugin designed to make it easier for Artists or Webcomic creators to set up a portfolio of their artwork. It features Automatic Watermarking, captioning using the Visual Editor or HTML, sorting, auto-thumbnailing, Comicpress theme support, per image/gallery commenting and more. It is a Wordpress native Plugin and does not require any config or file changes or outside tool integration to work; just activate the plugin and add a line of text to any post or page and your Gallery of Images will appear. All options are handled through the regular Wordpress Admin interface. More features are in development now such as tagging, extensive theme control through Admin interface, and more. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0.5 or higher.

akWPLightbox

This isn’t a photoblogging plugin for Wordpress, but it is helpful for those who are photoblogging. Aim of this plugin was to create a simple lightbox, to be used with the images on the post, it helps you add your images as you do now, it will take care of rest of the things. It works transparently without adding any extra work on your part. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1.1 or higher.

Berri YouTube Gallery

Berri YouTube Gallery gives you possibility to show a YouTube video gallery with customized appearance on your sidebar and all you need is to write the video URLs in the widget control panel. There is no need to register or to get YouTube API. Easy to customize and you can insert an image in the video thumbnail. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1 or higher.

D13 Gallery

D13Gallery is a simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to quickly add thumbnail image galleries to your posts and pages. By including a simple HTML-like tag to the body of your post, a folder on your web server can be scanned for images and a gallery generated automatically. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0.2 or higher.

EasyPermGals

EasyPermGals is based on easygals by Walter Vos. Where easygals allows you to manually activate the automatic gallery feature on a per-post/per-Page basis, EasyPermGals does this automatically. Each and every post or Page is checked for attached images which are then displayed in a neat gallery underneath. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0.2 or higher.

Exif & Zoom

ExZo is a plugin that provides a filter for displays jpg-pictures, some (or all) of their Exif tags and bundles a zoom functionality (if a larger version of the picture is available). User definable templates and token access to any Exif tag and a life preview of each in the admin panel are core features. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1 or higher.

Falbum

This is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your Flickr photos and photosets on your site.

FeatPlug

Featplug is a standalone script / wordpress plugin that can mine your Wordpress posts or any other data and look for images suiting a given dimension and generates ‘featured’ section for your site using the found items. The featured section, includes a resized image (banner) with the label, description and link of the related post or data. Featplug is a architectural plugin with input layers and output templates. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.6 or higher.

Featurific For Wordpress

The Featurific for Wordpress plugin automatically generates the data.xml file required to drive Featurific. Since it does this dynamically and automatically, your slideshow is consistently being updated around the clock. Featurific for Wordpress requires no configuration (although you can tweak nearly any aspect of the plugin if you so desire), provides an array of user-customizable templates, integrates with the Wordpress.com Stats Plugin to select most popular posts, and allows extensive customization of options such as the number of posts to display, post selection type, screen duration, auto-excerpt length, etc. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.3 or higher. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.3 or higher.

flickrFaves - A plugin to display users’ flickr favorites on their Wordpress sites. Uses Favoritas de Flickr en RSS (now included and renamed to ‘flickrss.php’). This plugin is based upon flickrRSS.

Flickr Mini Gallery

Mini flickr gallery is a easy way to embed super flexible galeries from any flickr account or group, using different parameters to costumize it. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Flickr Photo Album for WordPress

This Flickr plugin for WordPress will allow you to pull in your Flickr photosets and display them as albums on your WordPress site. There is a pretty simple template provided, but you can customize the templates 100% to match the look and feel of your own site. And if you want, you could also hook it up with Lightbox or any other number of display libraries. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.3 or higher.

Flickr Thumbnail Photostream - The Flickr Thumbnail Photostream Wordpress plugin makes including and linking to photos on a Flickr account simple and flexible. The links come in the form of thumbnail images that link to their larger, normal formats within the Flickr website. The advantage of this plugin is that it does not use RSS feeds and uses the Flickr API instead. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.3.3 to 2.5.1.

Fotobook

Fotobook LogoFotobook is a WordPress plugin that will link to your Facebook account and import all of your photo albums into a page on your WordPress installation. It makes use of Facebook’s API so importing your photos is a breeze. Features include - Interfaces with Facebook’s API, displays photo albums on a WordPress page, you can import photos from mulitple Facebook accounts, includes sidebar widgets for displaying random or recent photos & albums, you can insert individual photos into posts/pages, it is an easy-to-use AJAX album management panel, the frontend validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict, and it works with PHP5 & PHP4. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.3.3 or higher.

Gallery Navigation Plugin

Gallery Navigation Plugin is a simple Wordpress 2.5 plugin that allows you to quickly add page navigation to your wordpress 2.5 gallery. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Gallery Widget

Gallery Widget is a simple plugin that let you show the latest/random images of the wordpress media gallery inside a widget or directly in your templates (it is possible to choose some categories to be included/excluded). A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Gallery Widget Pro - A widget that displays rotating images from a post’s gallery in the sidebar of your site. You just specify the post or page, and it will cycle through all the images from the gallery of that post or page. you can have as many of them as you want on your site simultaneously. Requires PHP5. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5.1 or higher.

Gallery : Direct Image URLs For Galleries - Modifies thumbnails to link to fullsize image instead of the page containing the medium thumbnail. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Gallery Plus - The built-in Wordpress gallery has some options that are accessable through the use of shortcodes, but if you do not know them or the proper input they can be hard to use. Similarly, there is now wat to make system wide changes without having to use shortcodes on all your galleries. This plug-in creates an options page for some of those shortcodes along with adding other features that can extend the gallery’s functionality. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Gallery Shortcode Style to Head - Moves the gallery shortcode styles to the head so it doesn’t break XHTML validation. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.6 or higher.

Image Manager

This isn’t a photoblogging plugin, but rather a polugin that will help you with photobloging. The ImageManager plugin integrates the stand alone PHP ImageManager + Editor with WordPress. The ImageManager provides an interface for browsing and uploading image files on/to your server. The Editor allows for some basic image manipulations such as, cropping, rotation, flip, and scaling. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.x or higher.

Improved Gallery

This plugin improves the gallery template in Wordpress 2.5+, by making the following tweaks: 1. Puts all the gallery css in a separte file, for easy customisation and faster page load. 2. Adds an id attribute to the code, so that two or more galleries can have a different number of columns and still display correctly on the same page. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Inline Gallery for Wordpress

This plugin offers a way of including arbitrary amounts of images in posts; the basic ideas came from AutoGallery. Template-able output makes it very flexible: It can generates a page for each photo, and, combined with another plugin of mine that binds comments to pages of a post, allows commenting on the individual photos. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0 or higher.

jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries

Makes the native WordPress galleries introduced in WordPress 2.5 use jQuery Lightbox by balupton to display the fullsize images. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.6 or higher.

jPic WordPress Widget - jPic WordPress Widget is a general purpose WordPress widget which shows a picture supplied by an URL. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0.2 or higher.

KB Easy PicasaWeb

There are many PicasaWeb plugins for WordPress; I counted 8 of them before writing this plugin, and tried using several. Unfortunately, most of them are annoying. Either they have poor documentation, or they require you to insert funny things into your posts, or they are slow, or whatever. KB Easy PicasaWeb is the easiest, fastest, most visitor-friendly Picasa plugin for WordPress. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0 or higher.

kPicasa Gallery

This plugin displays your Picasa Web Galleries in a post or in a page simply by creating a post or a page with a special keyword. All the images are kept on the Picasa Web Gallery server. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.2 or higher … PHP5 is required for this plugin.

kPicasa Gallery PHP4MOD - This plugin displays your Picasa Web Galleries in a post or in a page simply by creating a post or a page with a special keyword. All the images are kept on the Picasa Web Gallery server. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.2 or higher.

Lameda

Lameda stands for List Attachment MEtaDAta. This function can be used as a shortcode included in the text or a template tag to display the metadata of an attachment, like EXIFs of a picture. WordPress 2.5 will extract all the EXIF data of the pictures you upload and Lameda will display them easily. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Lazyest Gallery

Lazyest Gallery will create thumbs and slides on the fly. Do you want more? It can be done. The Lazyest Gallery Settings and Manage menus have many options. You can add captions for folders and images. You can show images in your posts with some simple code. You can use ‘lighbox’ and ‘thickbox’ to show your full size images. You can show exif info. You can upload new images from Wordpress Admin. You can add/rename/delete files and folders. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Lightbox Gallery

The Lightbox Gallery plugin changes the view of galleries to the lightbox. Feautures include : lightbox display of Gallery, tooltip view of caption of images, and it dsplays the associated metadata with images. You can also make regular images appear in a lightbox. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Lightbox Plus

Lightbox Plus permits users to view larger versions of images without having to leave the current page, and is also able to display simple slideshows. The use of the dark or light background, which dims the page over which the image has been overlaid, also serves to highlight the image being viewed. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

mBox

mBox allows you to easy include slideshow galleries into Wordpress posts. It uses the Image and File Attachments WP tool to show the pictures uploaded. Features include Gallery generated automatically from the images uploaded, flickr or folder, AJAX loading to display the page faster, a thumbnail navigation bar, pagination, you can enable / Disable slideshow presentation., downloadable image icon., you can load photos from posts, flickr or folders, widget sidebar support, and theme support. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0 or higher.

myPh3

myPh3 is an image gallery PHP script that is designed to be elegant, easy to use and install and standards-compatible. Styling is easy and four designs are included. It reads your photo album directories and presents a slick user interface with automatically generated thumbnails. All you need is a PHP web server with GD installed. Nice, friendly URL’s are supported via mod_rewrite (optional) as well as multilingual support (15 translations included) and different visual styles (6 included). No database like mySQL is needed! A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0.0 or higher.

NextGen Gallery

Features include Sortable Albums, Upload a Zip-File with pictures, Watermark function, JavaScript Effect: Use any available popular image effect : Thickbox, Greybox or Lightbox, Multiple CSS Stylesheet, Slideshow, Sidebar Widget, and much more. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1.x or higher.

NextGEN ImageFlow

Finn Rudolphs picture gallery for NextGEN Gallery. Digital animation for thumbing through a physical image stack. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1.0 or higher.

NextGEN Smooth Gallery

Nextgen Smooth Gallery: A Wordpress Plugin that allows you to use the amazing JonDesign’s Smooth Gallery viewer on your NextGen-Gallery galleries. In order to use the galery viewer from JonDesign’s SmoothGallery on your blog, you need to be using the best Wordpress gallery manager: NextGEN Gallery. A Wordpress gallery plugin that is only compatible up to Wordpress 2.5.

NowThen Photo Display

NowThen Photo Display parses picture RSS feeds from the image service nowthen.com and displays the pictures on your sidebar. Show your readers where you are and what you’re doing by displaying your latest NowThen mobile pics in a groovy widget sidebar on your page or in a designated gallery page. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.3 or higher.

PhotoJar - This is the plugin is to feature images on a Wordpress blog and to display gallery thumbnails on posts. The highlight feature is the display of a full gallery via Lightbox (or other viewer) when the thumbnail is clicked. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5.1 or higher.

Photon

Photon is a plugin which allows PhpWebGallery (a photoblog) and wordpress integration. All seems to be one, your users won’t see any difference! Version 4.2 is tested with phpwebgallery 1.6.2. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0 or higher.

PhotoCrank

PhotoCrank is a lightweight and powerful script that enhances the functionality of images on your site by allowing your visitors to interact, converse and caption around your photos. It enables your site’s visitors to add rich-media captions (such as graphics, word bubbles, and text) on the top of the images on your site which encourages your users to contribute content and to interact. For instance, if Joe adds a caption on a photo, Kristen, another visitor, will be able to see what Joe created and respond to him. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.2 or higher.

Photo Galleria

Photo Galleria is a simple, yet elegant, plugin for photographers, designers and Wordpress 2.5 users alike who want to beautify their Wordpress photo galleries using the jquery framework. The Photo Galleria plugin synchronizes Galleria with Wordpress’ built-in media manager. Simply upload photos as normal and the Photo Galleria plugin will create a photo gallery with fade-in and fade-out effects common on flash-based websites. All the transitions happen inline without having to navigate to multiple Wordpress attachment pages. Pretty neat, eh? A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Photopress

This isn’t a gallery plugin but is useful for working with imagse in Wordpress. Photopress is a plugin that adds a set of helper tools to WordPress to make working with images easier. It adds a pop-up uploader and a pop-up image browser to the posting page, a groovy random image function for your template, and a simple album to display the photos you’ve uploaded.

PhotoXhibit - This plugin uses photos from your Flickr, Picasa, and/or SmugMug accounts as well as allows you to upload and build Albums to help you build inviting Photo Galleries on and through out your site. Features include: Independent gallery creator for post, pages, and sidebar, the ability to create a gallery based of some of the most popular JavaScript based gallery plugins, the ability to customize each gallery’s appearance with a styles editor, the ability to grab your photos from Flickr, Picasa, and/or SmugMug, it is an easy to use interface for adding photos directly to a post or page from Flickr and SmugMug (Picasa and Albums coming soon), it is eay to create and upload albums with a single thumbnail or two different size thumbnails, and more. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1.x or higher.

PhotoQ Photoblog

PhotoQ is a Wordpress photoblog plugin that makes your photoblogging life easier. It is most suited for “one photo a day”-style web pages i.e., classical photoblogs. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.6 or higher.

Picasa Widget

This plugin for WordPress allows you to put pictures from Picasa Web Albums in your sidebar, via widget. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

Picasaweb Inline Gallery - The Plugin PicasaWeb was created for native integration google’s web-galleries into blogs, boards and any other web pages. Plugin works this way: after initialization it looking for all links (by searching mask) and check them are they linked to gallery. If true, then the link will be hidden and changed for gallery’s content. All content has a lot of DIVs with hip of classNames for comfortable layout customizing. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0.2 or higher.

Picasa Plugin for WordPress - Picasa LightBox is a WordPress plugin that lets you easily add Picasa images to your WordPress posts and pages. You can add Picasa images to your posts and pages without using any custom tags. Just click the Picasa Photos tab, browse your albums and select the picture you want to insert. Picasa LightBox does not download Picasa images to your server. Instead it displays them directly from Picasa. Picasa LightBox currently supports only public Picasa albums. Picasa LightBox inserts pure HTML code into your posts or pages so you can easily customize it to fit your needs. Picasa LightBox has been tested with Wordpress 1.5 up to version 2.3.3.

Piclense

The PicLens Plugin for WordPress makes it easy for you to provide your readers with an immersive slideshow experience. Visitors simply click a “start slideshow” link (see example) to activate PicLens Lite, a slick filmstrip-style presentation console. From there, they can play or pause your slideshow, or better yet dive into a full-screen mode. Optionally, you can also enable our sidebar widget to display a mini slideshow of images from throughout your blog. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1 or higher.

Piflasa - Piflasa is a plugin for wordpress that makes it possible to insert a google picasa web album in your post as a flash slide show. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0 or higher.

Plugin PhotoBlog

This Plugin convert your WordPress’s blog into a photoblog. Include theme. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.x or higher.

Quick Tag Manager - This isn’t an image gallery, but it would be a nice feature to add to your image gallery. Quick Tag Manager is a revolutionary plugin that add many “quick tags” to your blog, used to enhance your posts or pages. Or to add special functions to them. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1 or higher.

Shutter Reloaded

Shutter Reloaded is an image viewer for your website that works similarly to Lightbox, Thickbox, etc. but is lean and mean at only 10KB size. It does not require any external libraries. It has all standard features: resizing large images if the window is too small to display them with option to show the image in full size, unlimited number of image sets, pre-loading of neighbour images for faster display and very good browser compatibility.

SimpleFlickr

This is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to embed a flickr integrated simpleviewer into your Wordpress site. In additional, you are able to specific a path to a standard SimpleViewer XML configuration file to display images from a local gallery. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0 or higher.

Slickr Gallery (AJAX Flickr plugin for Wordpress)

Slickr Gallery is a very fast, bandwidth-friendly photo gallery plugin for Wordpress. It allows you to pull your Flickr-hosted photos into a gallery section of your blog, as well as easily add Flickr-hosted images to your posts and pages. It is especially useful for people with many Flickr albums/photos. This plugin requires a Lightbox plugin in order to work properly. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 1.5 or higher.

Thumbnail Viewer

Thumbnail Viewer is simply used to overlay images on a page, similar to Lightbox JS. The javascript is from the Image Thumbnail Viewer code from DynamicDrive. The javascript included in Thumbnail Viewer from DynamicDrive is much faster than Lightbox JS, although not as feature packed, which is the entire point. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1 or higher.

Vodpod Videos Widget

The Vodpod plugin allows you to collect videos from thousands of sites on the Net, and put them in your blog with an interactive gallery. Your users and readers can scroll through 100s — even 1000s — of videos you’ve collected without having to leave your blog. Playback of the video occurs in the widget, on your blog. You can set up your gallery so that it displays the most recent videos you’ve collected, or a more specific selection of videos, arranged in a specific order. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0.2 or higher.

WP Facebook - It’s a Facebox plugin for WordPress 2.5, which means Facebox-style lightboxes for linked images and gallery items automagically! A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5.1 or higher.

WP Gallery Remote - WP-Gallery-Remote is a plugin for the open source blog software WordPress. It can be used to include albums and images from any Gallery installation using Gallery’s Gallery Remote Protocol. WP-Gallery-Remote uses the Lightbox plugin for WordPress to display images in a visually appealing way. Features include the ability to display images and albums of any Gallery installation which has enabled the Gallery-Remote-Protocol, support for multiple wpgr tags in one post/page (v1.1), support for multiple Gallery installations (v1.2), two output types: plain and carousel (v1.2), Lightbox integration, supports caching of fetched album and image meta data (can be enabled/disabled globally and per post/page), include/exclude filter to only show some images from an album, global and per post/page options to display album title and subalbums, and uses Gallery’s image captions. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

WP Photo Album - WPPA

This plugin is designed to easily manage and display your photo albums within your WordPress site. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1 or higher.

WP Reorder Gallery Plugin

Gives you the ability to simply drag and drop to reorganize your images how you want them to appear in your gallery. If drag and drop isn’t your thing, it also adds an “Order” field to the images in your gallery, much like pages have, which allows you to reorder them to display in whatever order you want. Requires PHP5. There is a way to manually set the order using a number (lower is near the beginning, higher is toward the end) in the image details, or you can simply drag and drop to order the images how you want them to appear. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

WP ThickBox

A plugin for WordPress that helps you to embed ThickBox into your blog. Just install and activate the plugin, add ThickBox compliant markup wherever you want and you’re all set. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0 or higher.

WP Vault

With WP Vault, you can upload and store any type of files (not just image files). You can use the installation of WordPress as a file storage, so you have access to files anywhere, as long as you have the internet access. You can also get files from FTP servers directly into WP Vault. and you can also get files through HTTP. You can easily and efficiently get images and other files on web pages right into WP Vault, without downloading them first to your own PC. You can also browse files in ajax-powered interface, attach image gallery to any posts or pages using stored files, without additional coding. It works without fiddling with any WordPress or theme files. There is absolutely no coding needed. No copy-and-pasting a piece of code. Not even inserting tags into your post entries. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.2 or higher.

WP-SimpleViewer

This plugin enables you to easily add fancy SimpleViewer Flash galleries to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings. If you like your images can have captions that shows up in the gallery. All plugin and gallery settings can easily be changed on the admin pages. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

WP-SmoothGallery

You can display a SmoothGallery inside a post/page or integrate it into your theme. If you’re using WordPress to upload the images, attach the images you’d like to show in a SmoothGallery to your post or page and the markup will be generated for you. All you have to do is to copy and paste the HTML from the box saying SmoothGallery located at the bottom of the Advanced Options on the edit screen. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.0 or higher.

WordPress Theme Showcase Plugin - This plugin will display all themes located in wp-content/themes in a showcase gallery with theme screenshots and preview links. This is a great plugin for designers looking to showcase their work or anyone that wants an easy way to display and preview multiple themes. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1 or higher.

XML Google Maps

This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.). A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.1 or higher.

Yet Another Photoblog

Convert your WordPress 2.5+ installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer. A Wordpress gallery plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher.

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Oscandy: The Multiple Social Bookmarking Widget - OScandy is working on a new widget that will push the boundaries of multiple social bookmarking by provide a interactive interface that works direclt from the administrators blog/website. It is an application for mass social bookmarking of social bookmarking sites i.e del.icio.us, furl.com blinklist.com etc.

Manhattan Service: Social Bookmark Tool - Social bookmark tool to allow visitors bookmark pages or posts from your website / blog directly to social sites. Adding this social bookmark widget script on your pages, you don’t have to worry anymore about site submission in social sites like Digg, Technorati, Yahoo social bookmarks, Reddit, Furl, Delicious.

OnlyWire - Use One bookmarklet for all these services Backflip, Bibsonomy, Blinklist, Blogmemes, Blue Dot, de.lirio.us, del.icio.us, Diigo, Excites, Furl, linkatopia, Linkroll, Looklater, ma.gnolia, Markaboo, Rawsugar, Shadows, Simpy, Spurl, unalog, Wink, and xilinus.

Pheedo - Pheedo’s FeedPowered™ advertising platform converts your RSS feeds into rich, dynamically updating advertising that engages your audience. Leverage your existing RSS assets to extend your brand, drive traffic, and acquire new feed subscribers.Pheedo’s Engagement Triggers™ make it easy for your audience to interact with your brand and share your content and offers with friends - directly from the ad unit.

PopMarks - PopMarks is a pop up tool, one button, for Blogger, WordPress and TypePad that can do many things: Social Bookmarking, Read or Subscribe to RSS feeds, searching, translating… as you want.

Postli - Postli allows bloggers and website owners to replace list of buttons useful to post to social sites similar to the following: * old style list of buttons * with a single link that allows to post to every major social site.

PunchCard Manual - PunchCard is a javascript widget for simplifying content submission to social bookmarking sites, such as del.icio.us, digg, technorati, and 42 more. Every button is a tiny mark on a punchcard, and when the mouse hovers the punchcard a tooltip pops up, and the tooltip shows icon and name of the site corresponding to that mark.

Romlet - Romlet boasts your best site stats and provides both tools and incentives for visitors to boost your popularity. This simple but powerful widget is a brag badge, bookmarking tool and stats counter all rolled into one. Romlet is continually updated to display current on-site information to you and your readers. It also provides relevant and updated bookmarking buttons to make voting for your site as easy as possible.

Socialbookmarker - A free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website. Requirements The only requirement is that you need to be using FireFox when socially marking. All you need to do is simply drag this button SocialMarker.com to your bookmarks toolbar, in order to create a submission bookmarklet. When you are on a website that you want to socially mark, simply select the text and click the SocialMarker button to pre-populate the submission form with the selected information.

Social Bookmarks 3.1 - A really cool social bookmarking widget. There is text that says ‘Bookmark’ and then when you click on it, bookmarking buttons pop up. A new version (3.1) of the Social Bookmarks WordPress plugin is now available for download. This updated version includes Bloglines and Tailrank to the list of supported sites increasing their number to 26.

Social Bookmark Count Plugin -  Now by installing”The Social Bookmark Count” you can monitor StumbleUpon, Digg, Sphinn, Reddit and del.icio.us bookmarks daily.

Swicki Builder - An online social bookmarking button builder. Get the code to add the social bookmarking swicki to your site

Shout List Icons - Customize your social bookmarking and easily add a configurable icon list of networks. Currently enabled for 35+ networks, but you pick which ones to display!

Social Bookmark Script: Web 2.0 Optimierung - Use the Social Bookmark Script to automatically add link icons from the best social bookmark services to your web page in order to enable your visitors to set a public bookmark for your site by mouse-click. Two benefits to this script is that there is no maintenance for you because the script will be updated by social-bookmarking-script. And there will be no Pagerank loss due to social bookmarks, because you only need to use javascript links.

SocialBookmarkIt - SocialBookmarkIt.com provides the tools you need to quickly add all the major social bookmark links to your website.

Socialize It - You can now link to all the social bookmarking services using just one link. No need to dig into each website’s submission process and API ; no need to fill your site with 40+ icons just to be sure your visitors will find their favorite one

The Socializer - The Socializer allows you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems. Instead of having a link to each social bookmarking website, you have a single link to all of them! The Socializer is a free web service from eKstreme.com.

Tips n Tricks Social Bookmarking Buttons - It is very important to provide the readers with a very easy way to bookmark the articles they find useful. This blog article author tells you how to add buttons directly on your blog or website.

Top Ranks Social Bookmarks Creator - This social bookmarks tool provides you with several easy to implement options to encourage visitors to your blog to bookmark your posts on the most popular social bookmark and news sites. You can decide how many or how few bookmaring services to display on your blog. There are also several display options including text links and a drop down menu to conserve screen space.

WebCosmo - With a single Web Cosmo Widget button, visitors can collect the content they come across and save it into their favorite bookmarking service, pass to to friends etc. Its easy to install and easy to use. It works with both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

WpBlogBMLet - This bookmarklet generate the code for posting the blog entry to social bookmark sites, directly from blog. The current script generates bookmark links for del.icio.us, digg, blinklist, furl, yahoo myweb2.0, simpy, shadows, spurl & buddymarks.

WidgetBox: Ultimate Social Bookmark - This widget will let readers easily bookmark your web/blog into about 50+ social bookmark services.

WP Plugin: Gregarious - Social bookmarking allows users to submit, comment on, and “promote” websites. The Gregarious plugin supersedes the Digg This Reloaded Plugin and allows for seamless integration between your Wordpress Blog and social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit and more. Requiring no editing of templates, and a simple point and click interface, Gregarious is the ultimate social bookmarking plugin for Wordpress.

YouFame.net: Social Bookmarking Widget Generator - This widget will help others easily social bookmark your site. Just follow the steps on YouFrame, and then select your buttons, create the code and put the code on your blog or website

Your Minis Social Bookmarking - This widget allows you to bookmark and/or submit your URLs and news stories to various aggregating services. To properly use this widget, you will need to manually (or programmatically) add posturl=[URL to post] to the FlashVars string. This will tell the widget which URL to submit and/or bookmark.

YourMinis: Web2Bar - You can add this widget to your yourminis public page or blog to make it easier for users to post stories to the major web 2.0 bookmarking and news sites. All you need to do is change the address via the ‘edit widget’ or arrow button!

Your Minis: Web2Bar - You can add this widget to your yourminis public page or blog to make it easier for users to post stories to the major web 2.0 bookmarking and news sites. All you need to do is change the address via the ‘edit widget’ or arrow button!

I hope that you enjoyed this list. If you are into Sphinn (a Digg like site for webmasters, SEO, and social networking) then you should check out this list for some great tools. I will write a blog article about more tools and widgets soon. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Alternatives to Flickr : Links to Other Free Photo Hosting & Sharing Sites & Communities

For one reason or another, you are looking for another photo sharing site similar to Flickr….or maybe you are looking for a photography hosting & sharing community that is completely different than Flickr. Either way, you have come to the right place. If you are an artist, a photographer, or a designer, you know that it is important to place your photos on as many communities as possible to promote your work. You should bookmark this page and try to sign up for at least a few accounts to get your name out there. Please send to me links to more Photo Hosting Sites (preferably free photo sharing community sites) and also include your comments about that site. Please also feel free to leave your comments about the Flickr type sites that I have already posted. Thank you.

23HQ -
With your free 23 account you can upload 30 photos every month, and if that’s not enough you can upgrade.

Amazon S3 -
Amazon S3 is based on the idea that quality Internet-based storage should be taken for granted. It helps free developers from worrying about where they are going to store data, whether it will be safe and secure, the costs associated with server maintenance, or whether they have enough storage available. The functionality is simple and robust: Store any amount of data inexpensively and securely, while ensuring that the data will always be available when you need it. Amazon S3 enables developers to focus on innovating with data, rather than figuring out how to store it

Amnius Photoblog Hosting -
Aminus3 is a photoblog community that welcomes anyone with a passion for photography. We offer a high-quality, photoblog hosting service for thousands of photographers around the world.

Blipfoto -
Record your life in pictures, improve your photography skills, or just keep in touch with your family and friends. Join the community now and start seeing the world in a completely different way.

Blogger -
Not specifically for photoblogging, but can be used for it.

Buzznet -
Buzznet’s integrated media and community platform allows its users to network like never before with leading bands, trendsetters and their peers through self-created content, videos, photos and journal.

DeviantArt -
Join the largest art community in the world! As a member, you can collect favourites, submit art, and track your friends and favourite artists.

DropShots -
Looks like a family oriented flickr type site.

eSnips -
Share your photos, links, videos, mucic, and other documents with 5 GB free space.

Expressions -
Photoblogging for photographers by photographers. Expressions is a hosted, multi-lingual photoblogging system. But it is also a community of photographers and artists who take pride in their work. The best way to see if Expressions is right for you is to give it a whirl with a 30-day free trial.

Flickr -
Top notch hosted photoblogging. The most popular hosted photoblogging on the net.

Fotix -
A fantastic photography family and community to blog in.

Fotki - A great photoblogging community like Flickr but with less storage space.

Fotolog -
Fotolog is the world’s leading photo-blogging site, one of the world’s largest social networking sites and a global cultural phenomenon. More than 10 million members in more than 200 countries use Fotolog as a simple and fun way to express themselves through online photo diaries or photo blogs.

Fotothing -
Fotothing allows you to share your latest and greatest photos with your friends, family and the world. Other users can post comments on your photos, and the most recently updated Fotothings appear on the home page. You can use Fotothing to keep a daily record of your life in photographic format, document the growth of your kids, or simply to get public feedback on your latest work of art. The possibilities are endless.

FotoPages -
Fotopages was founded to allow people to easily create, manage, and host photologs.

Fotopic -
A photographic community.

Go Blog Go -
Take a camera phone picture, email it to us, and share your pictures online! As long as your phone can send an email this service will work for you! Works with your verizon lg camera phone, nextel camera phone, the latest motorola camera phones, nokia camera phones, prepaid camera phones, verizon camera phones, and more!

iPernity -
Share your photos, videos, audios, and all your contents with your family, friends or whoever you want to share them with. If you are an artist, you can promote your designs and photographs with this site. A quality photosharing site.

Koffee Photo -
Easily organize, share and backup all your photos on your computer and on the web! Every album you create gets its web page allowing you to browse and share your photos from anywhere. Album hosting and photo sharing is unlimited and free. KoffeePhoto provides direct print ordering through partner services while simplifying the process of uploading the pictures.

MoBlog -
Moblogging is taking pictures and videos with your camera phone and putting them on the internet.

PBase - Doesn’t look very popular but it works and their are members.

Phlog -
An easy way to share photos from your digital camera or phone.

PhotoBlog -
Photoblog helps you preserve your memories and share your life through photographs. Best of all, it’s completely free and unlimited.

Photobloggers.net -
Photobloggers.net provides you with an easy-to-use personal website (called a photoblog), where you can quickly post photos and thoughts to share with your friends, family and other people.

PhotoBucket -
One of the leaders in photoblogging and photgraphy communities.

ShareaPic -
Members get paid to share their pictures.
ShutterChance -
Exhibit your photos worldwide and gain recognition and reputation. Join a thriving community, get comments and tips from pros, and build a fan club for your photos.

Smug Mug -
A well designed and well maintained photo sharing community. I am not sure whether this site is free or not.

Snaps5 -
Free Image Hosting … a basic free photo hosting site.

Tagmee -
Still in Beta, but it looks like it might be a good one.

Twango -
Media sharing and hosting for photos, videos, and more.

TypePad ($4.95+ / month) -
TypePad is the premier blogging service for professionals, hosting many of the world’s most popular blogs and small business websites. TypePad’s ease of use enables you to create a blog in minutes. Not specifically meant for photoblogging.

Vox -
Blogging is fun again. With powerful privacy controls and hundreds of beautiful designs, Vox is a great place to build your online neighborhood. Add seamless integration with popular web services like Flickr and YouTube, and we think you’ll agree that…Vox makes sharing your life with friends and family, easy, safe, and fun.

WebShots -
With 7.2 Million* monthly visitors and more than 520 million photos to explore, Webshots is one of the largest photo- and video-sharing sites. And I love the design of the site.

WordPress -
Their open source software is the leader in the blogging industry, so I am sure that their hosted blogging system is amazing. Not specifically meant for photoblogging.

ZenFolio -
ZenFolio is a hosting service for photographers to organize, print, share, and sell their photographs / prints online.

Zoomr -
A well maintained photo sharing community.

Zoto -
Photosharing, photostorage, and photblogging.

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Here are More Blog Articles about Alternatives to Flickr. I hope that they are useful to you.

Tagmee - A Promising Flickr Alternative

An Amazing List of Flickr Tools

10 Top Urban Photography Sites

Photo Hosting Sites

ShareaPic

Free Photo Hosting on Amazon … Yet Another Place to Upload Your Photos

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How to Win at the Digg Game - Tips by Top Digg Users - How Top Digg Users Get to The Front Page on a Daily Basis

Digg.com is one of the biggest social bookmarking sites currently in use. Because of its popularity, it can be a great site to use for driving traffic to your own website or blog. But because of its popularity, it can also be a difficult social bookmarking site to break into. After all, there are so many people on there throwing up posts that it can be easy to not get noticed on Digg. Still, if you can access the site and use it to your advantage, Digg is a terrific tool for getting more people to see the content that you want them to see. This article is an aggregation of tips from top Diggers themselves.

Here are a large number of tips for using Digg.com for driving traffic to your site.

Create a Catchy and Memorable Name
When you are creating a Digg account, you will benefit from creating a memorable username. I tend to remember users who stole celebrity names and people who have created humorous names. Just remember not to create a spammy name that tells people you are just there to get traffic to your site, such as diggmenowplease.

Build Up Your Digg Profile
One of the articles that I read stated that building up your profile is by far the most important factor that will carry a Diggers success or failure. According to the article on AdityaSpeaks.com, the 5 most important factors for a successful Digg profile are (the most important point is number 3) :

1. Number of stories submitted
2. Number of stories which became popular
3. Popularity Ratio which is the percentage of your submitted stories which became popular. Kevin Rose is the only person who has 100% popularity ratio. Means all the stories which he submitting went popular. Well for those who don’t know Kevin Rose is the founder - CEO if Digg
4. The number of stories you dugg
5. The number of distinct people who viewed your profile.

Brand Yourself by Using an Avatar
People will recognize you by your avatar. Don’t pass on an opportunity to get more people clicking on your stories. Put a face to your name. Try to find an image that is either very funny, very cute, or find a picture of a gorgeous woman. You are trying to get people talking about you and your avatar so take this seriously. Find or create an avatar that matches your personality and one that is either very humorous, super weird, or just really cool. I found a lot of funny avatars and avatar tools…you can see the list on this page.

Diggers Don’t Like When You Digg Your Own Articles
Digg users don’t like it when you submit our own stuff. It is okay to digg your own stories, but you should try to get someone else to submit your stories for you. The submitter should appear to not have any visual connection to you or your sites. If the Digg community finds a connection, you might be blocked or banned.

Use Feeds, News Alerts, and Social Aggregators to Stay Current on Very Current News Topics
The only way to be the very first to post a news topic, is to stay notified of the news and hot topics online. I you have subscribed to rss feeds, utilize news ticker, use social aggregators, and subscribe to news alerts, then you are probably doing the best that you can. I suggest subscribing to a select few RSS feeds or you will end up being overwhelmed. You can slowly add more RSS feeds in to the mix as time goes on. I suggest also using social aggregators such as PopURLs, DoggDot, NetVibes, or Reddiggulo.us as your start page, or at least visit them often. Another idea is to subscribe to news alerts from top news sites, top news aggregators, and niche sites.

Use Your Stumble Toolbar to Find Cool Sites to Submit to Digg
If you are having problems finding a site or article to submit to Digg, then look no further then your own StumbleUpon tool bar. I find the craziest stuff in StumbleUpon.

Know The Interests of the Digg Crowd
Just like any site or news source, this site has a trend of liking a certain type of article and disliking other types of articles. For example, Diggers don’t tend to like articles about doing better on Digg, but Sphinn users eat it up. On the other hand, Digg users love funny news, news about the iPhone, Digg usability, and Paris Hilton. However, Sphinn users hate stories about Paris Hilton. So what is my point? Don’t submit articles that don’t fit the Digg genre or you will set yourself up to fail.

Choose Your Target Source Sites
Before you are even ready to make your first post, you need to research to find some news sources that are updated frequently, but that you don’t see often on Digg.

Stay Active
Try to get on to Digg at least once a day. Becoming a top user on Digg is a lot of work. You can’t just join, submit a few stories, digg a few posts, and somehow become a top user. Like everything else in life, hard work and determination will get you to where you want to go. Pencil Digg into your busy schedule and try to digg and comment on a few stories.

Digg Stories When They Are New
Keep an eye out for new upcoming stories that you think will go hot and be one of the first people to digg and comment on it. Digging and commenting on new upcoming stories is the way to get noticed. Think about it. After you submit a story, don’t you additively watch that story to see how it is going to fare? Don’t you always notice the first user who comments on your story? Of course you do, because you have been anxiously awaiting a positive comment. Well, other members feel the same way. That is why this tactic works.

Subscribe to Digg’s RSS Feed
Subscribing to Digg’s RSS feed is the best way to stay on top of things in Digg. This also helps you to stay acquainted with the current popular trends.

Submitting a Lot of Stories
In order to get to Digg’s homepage, you need to submit a LOT of stoires. Create a favorites folder and call it something like ‘LinkBait’ … ‘DiggBait’ … ‘Diggables’ or something like this. Place in this folder sites that you will check regularly to see if there is anything worth submitting to Digg. Include the obvious sites, such as ‘Google News‘, ‘Reddit‘, ‘Netscape‘, Mashable, BoingBoing, ArsTechnica, TechCrunch, Technorati Top, and ‘PopURLs‘. But, then also place not so obvious source URLs in this page as well. Submit stories as often as you can and you will start doing well in no time.

Stories From Major News Outlets are Hot
Stories from the major news outlets tend to be the most popular stories.

Diggers Tend to Like Certain Type of Stories

• Diggers Tend to Like Informational Top 10 Lists
  Also, Diggers tend to be interested in informational articles and stories. So if you see an article that is informational, such as top 10 Tutorials on Building a Light Bulb out of a Piece of Steak or Top List of Free Tutorial Sites. If the story has ‘Top 10′ in it, the article will probably do pretty well. Diggers love lists.
• Diggers Tend to Love Useful Web Surfer, Webmaster, or Design Tools
  If you find a great useful tool for web users, you should definitely submit it. What is even better? A top ten list of web tools would be even better.
• Diggers Tend to Love Controversy and Gossip about Celebrities.
  There have been tons of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton posts that were hugely popular on Digg. Both of these ladies are synonymous with ‘Hot’ submissions (at least Paris is). There also have been many hugely controversial political posts as well. Submit something controversial and you are almost definitely going to do well with that post.
• Pictures and Videos Do Really Well on Digg
  Picture and video diggs do really well on Digg lately. Find a really interesting, funny, or strange picture or video and submit it. You are sure to do well if you pick a good headline for the story.
• Statistics in Title and Description Tend to Do Well
  Stats in the title and description tend to do well even if you can’t back up the numbers.
• Bush Bashing and Fox News Bashing Almost Always Works on Digg
  Digg tends to be a very liberal site and most of the users tend to think that Bush is an idiot and that Fox News is spreading blatant lies. Post an article about George Bush, the Bush administration, or Fox News and you are almost guaranteed to go hot with your story.
• Commentaries and Opinionated Articles Tend to Do Badly on Digg (Unless it is extremely controversial)
  If you want to post commentaries on Digg, be prepared to not get anywhere with your story. However, controversial articles do great.
• There are Subcultures and Fan bases on Digg.
  There are a lot of clique / fan topics on Digg. There isn’t a list of Digg subculture topics, you just need to find out what these topics are. Some of these topics are Star Wars, Ron Paul, Linux, Wii, and Apple. If you know of more subcultures on Digg, please let me know and I will list them. Almost any good article or news item listed about one of these fan-base topics will do well.

Digg Uses an Algorithm That Not Only Counts Votes
Many people thing that Digg is run by a small number of people and that new Digg users don’t have a chance to make it to the front page. This isn’t completely true. Yes, it is much harder for a newbie to get on to the front page of Digg, but it has been done. Digg not only counts the number of votes, but it also takes in to account how many friends that Digg user has. Newer users’(those with few friends) votes count more than a user who has a lot of friends. On the other hand, a story that gets a large amount of votes gets shown on the ‘most voted’ page of ‘upcoming‘ stories, which puts it in front of more potential voters more easily.

Try to Time Your Diggs
Try to time your digg submissions at times when you know that is an active time for your friends. The more friends that you have online, the more likely that they will see your upcoming story and digg it.

Try to Submit Stories on Off Peak Hours
Another good tip, especially if you don’t have a lot of Digg friends yet, is to submit your stories in the middle of the night when there is little competition. This way your story has some time to get noticed and dugg. Try to time your Diggs for about 7 - 9 AM Eastern time (GMT -4). Use Dugg Analytics to view statistically what time is best for you to submit your articles.

Don’t Submit Your Own Stories Until You Are Able to Get 20 or More Diggs
Don’t submit your own stories until you are able to get 20 or more Diggs from another site’s story. Also, if you start out using other site’s stories, you build up your karma with other members. Nobody will think that you are using Digg to promote your own stories if you start out submitting other site’s stories. Here is a story called ‘The Dangers of Digg Self-Submission‘.

Don’t Submit Stories to Digg if it is a ReBlog / ReCap of a Larger Story
This tip seems obvious to me, but it must be said. If you continuously submit already submitted stories, you are in danger of getting your domain and account being banned from Digg. For example, If you use reblog (a software that allows you to use other people’s stories as your blog) then using Digg isn’t for you. You should only be submitting original content. However, if you recap a larger story, but also added commentary and something unique to the story, then it is okay for you to submit that story to Digg. Below, you can see what is stated in Digg’s FAQ. Beware, this doesn’t mean that people don’t break the rules. Yesterday, I saw the same story submitted over and over again about Britney being pregnant with her 3rd child.

Is it a duplicate story if I submit a similar story but from a different source?
That isn’t for us to decide. Sometimes there is a better story from another news outlet. We let our users determine that aspect of duplicate submissions. It is, however, a duplicate story if you submit the same story from the same source.

Digg’s FAQ also says: “We strongly discourage the submission of duplicate stories as it only steals credit from the first submitter.”

Make Sure to Use a Catchy Title for Your Digg Stories
Unless people find your article’s title interesting, they won’t click on them. Even if your article is just so-so, if you spin the title in a way that makes it sound exciting, you will get people to click through to read your story. Diggitizer is a cool (and funny if you ask me) tool that helps you create a good title for your digg stories. Maybe this tool will help you if you are stuck for a good story title. Some tips are to use the words ‘Cool, Top, Best, New, How, Free, Launch, and First.’ Read this article for writing quality Digg titles … and … Here is a good article on how to write a title for Digg stories.

Also, if you are submitting someone else’s article, it is usually better to create your own catchy title. Probably the author of the article wasn’t creating a title specifically for Diggers. You probably know better what titles work on Digg, so I suggest you create a new title for the Digg post.

Digg Story Descriptions are Very Important Too.
Titles are very important to grab the Digg users in, but please don’t forget about the description. The reader wants to know more before they click on the link to the story. It is acceptable to just copy and paste the first paragraph of the story, but I usually prefer a more to the point approach. I want to know quickly whether or not I am interested, and most Diggers feel the same way. I would suggest highlighting the key points of the story in only one or two sentences.

Place Your Article in a Non Competitive Category
You might have noticed that some categories move way too fast for your articles (such as Offbeat News) to even have a chance to get Dugg. Try finding a category (that matches your article’s content) that moves a bit slower, such as Technology > Gadgets or Sports > Golf. However, don’t get caught putting your story in a category that doesn’t even match your content or you will find your story buried or even banned.

Content is King … or Maybe Not?
Some of the articles that I read said that content was the most important part of the Digg process. Other articles said that the better the content, the worst the story does. I have found both to be true. It seems like the stupidest stories get to the top sometimes. And I have posted some amazing articles that went unnoticed. It is very frustrating sometimes.

Don’t Submit Every Page of a Multi-Page Story
Digg users hate when you submit multiple pages from a multi-page story. You might even be banned for spamming. If you find a multiple page story that you want to submit, then find the first page of the story and submit that page to Digg.

Don’t Over Use Keywords
Don’t overuse keywords in a spammy way. Some people spam Digg with keyword heavy submissions so that they will get traffic from the Digg search engine. Don’t do this, you will get banned anyways.

Don’t Submit a Story that is written in Greek
Don’t you hate it when people submit stories in Russian or Japanese and all you see are funky characters?Please don’t be one of those people. LOL.

You Have Submitted a Story and Your Story is Listed in Upcoming … Now What?
After you post your story to Digg, your story lands up in the Upcoming section that you posted to. If you posted to Technology > Design, then look for your story in Technology>Design and then click on ‘Upcoming’ in the upper right corner. Watch for your story on the right side bar called ‘Hot in All Topics’ if you are on the front upcoming page or ‘Hot in Design’ if you are on the Technology > Design Upcoming page. When you hit 30 - 40 Diggs, you usually appear on the front page ‘Hot in All Topics’ side bar. When your story disappears off of the ‘Hot in All Topics’ or ‘Hot in Design’ sidebar, it has either gone ‘Popular’ or was buried. DON’T BURY OTHER PEOPLE’S STORIES TO GET YOURS TO THE TOP!!! This silliness will get you banned, not to mention that it is just ethically wrong. However, you can bury articles that you feel are nonsense or that are spammy. When your story is in the hot stage, you should play the upcoming page. Digg good articles, bury bad articles, and comment on as many as you can. This will get more people to digg your article because people notice that you are being active in the community.

Votes Count More the Quicker They Come
Votes count more when they come in quick succession. Try to get your friends and family members to digg your submissions within a 30 - 60 minute window.

Comment on Articles That You Have Submitted
After your submitted article starts to get a few Diggs, make a comment on the Digg to get the conversation rolling. Don’t say something like ‘this is the coolest story’. Instead, say something meaningful, interesting, or funny. Continue to comment as more people do to keep the conversation going. This is not only a good way to keep people interested in the submitted story, but it also builds up your credibility, and possible friendships with other Diggers.

Comment AND Digg Stories
If you have something to say, then say it. If you are a very quiet person, and you don’t ever have anything to say, then this is a problem. You need to force yourself to make comments on stories. The reason that it is important to comment on Digg stories is so that other users start remembering your username and avatar. You want to become branded in everyone’s However, remember that commenting on a story won’t count for anything for the story if you don’t remember to digg it too. Here is a cool tool to track your comments and how many diggs each comment received.

Make Friends, Be Friendly, and Network Away
Making friends has become the most important strategy to becoming a top user on Digg. Even if you aren’t inherently a social person, you will need to become one to win at the Digg game. On other social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, there’s no easy way to contact Digg members, browse their photo gallery or break the ice first. The way that you make friends on Digg is by looking at member’s statistics, comments, and stories and forming your opinion that way. It takes a bit of getting used to.

Seek Out Top Diggers
Seek out Digg top diggers and get their attention. Top diggers have put in a lot of work to become top diggers and they demand your respect. Make sure to get on their good side. Make them your friends, digg their submitted stories, and comment on their Digg submissions. You should also visit their blogs and make positive comments and suggestions on their blog. I also suggest placing top diggers on your blogroll to really get their attention. Another good idea is to review their blog in a positive light or interview them. If this top digger is on sites like MyBlogLog, add them to your network. Find out where these users hang out online, such as forums, blogs, communities. Start hanging out in those places as well. You need to then take part in those communities too and make helpful, friendly, and maybe even funny comments and observations. Try as hard as you can to build a relationship with this Digger by building not only your credibility but by trying to show your similarities to that person (not blatantly just in casual conversations). Never ask these users to Digg you as you don’t want them to know that you are looking for Diggs from them. Let your great content speak for itself.

Frequently Check to See Who Has Befriended You
Frequently check to see who has befriended you. If someone has added you as their friend, check out their profile before adding them as a friend. You can try to add them to see if they Digg your stories, after all, they did just add you as a friend so they might like your content. You can always dump them later if they don’t digg your content.

You Don’t Need All of Those Friends, Do You?
Every once in a while, you need to reduce the number of friends that you have. Yes, it sounds strange, but it is true. Like I said earlier in this article, the more friends you have, the less each vote counts. In other words, if you get 30 votes with only 5 friends, your votes will count more than a person who also gets 30 votes but has 300 friends. You should unfriend people who don’t Digg your content. You should keep top Digg users and people who befriended you, but other than that, I would prune the rest. Use this tool to find out which members are Digging your content. Some of the top users have as little as a few dozen friends, so don’t be afraid to cut down your list of friends a bit. Only 1 out of every 100 Digg users are active participants in the community. You are trying to find the needles in the haystack.

Be Selective When Adding Friends on Digg
Adding friends is essential to become a successful Digger. Your first instinct may be to add as many friends as you can. Don’t go adding huge numbers of friends though, instead be very selective. Look at members who have digged your past or current stories. Take a look at this member’s Digg stats. Have any of their diggs gone popular? Do they have plenty of submissions? Do they have plenty of comments? If they do, I usually make them friends. You should also make friends with some or all of the top Diggers . One reason for this is so that you can follow their lead. See how they do it…they are obviously doing something right. For example, check out their titles, their descriptions, what types of articles they submit, etc. Use Dugg Analytics to view stats about Digg members. The good news is that once you start hitting the home page of Digg, you won’t need to search for friends anymore, they will come and seek you out. Only 1 out of every 100 Digg users is active in the Digg community. Your job is to find those needles in the haystack. You can even add the #1 Digger, Kevin Rose , or the #1 digger Mr. BabyMan. He has a 100% Popular ratio … he is the only one on Digg who can boast that percentage. What does an ideal friend look like? Take it from Brett Borders on Copy Brighter, your ideal friend does the following …

• Checks in and uses the site daily
• Diggs a lot of stories
• Checks for stories that their friends submit and diggs them regularly
• Submits stories that you will enjoy following and voting on
• Doesn’t submit way too many stories
• Doesn’t have 50 zillion friends

Note: When you add a friend on Digg, you will see their submissions, but they won’t see yours. When you add a friend, you are becoming their fan unless they add you as a friend too. If this user adds you as a friend, then you will both be mutual friends and both of you will see each other’s submissions.

Make Friends with Your Fans
For the most part, fans are the Digg members who like your Diggs and your submissions. Make friends with the people who are fans of you. After you both have befriended each other, you will both be able to check out each other’s submissions.

Digging Your Friends’ Stories & Your Friend’s Digging Your Stories
Don’t just blindly Digg all of your friends’ articles. This is very tempting to do since you are a busy person and you have a lot of other things to do. However, you will more than likely get banned if you keep doing this over a period of time. Instead, only click through to the articles that you find interesting or that already have a number of Diggs. Also, take the time to click through to make a meaningful comment (not just - great or liked it).

Don’t shout ‘Digg this’ to all of your friends. Instead build up a report with all of your ‘friends’ or better yet, become actual online friends. Also, if the same people keep digging your stories, you will get caught. Also if your friends digg your stories too quickly, it will appear unnatural and you will get caught.

Superficial Conversation Doesn’t Work
In order to be successful with Digg, you can’t just send superficial messages to other Digg members and Digg friends. An example of a superficial Digg message is “Digg my stories and I will Digg yours”. Instead try to make a deeper impact on this user. An example of a deeper conversation starter would be “I saw your post on business card design ideas and I really enjoyed it. I am adding you as a friend because I see that you have dugg a lot of stories that I find very useful. Are you a designer too?” Although it might feel like it will take forever to make friends this way, if you want to become successful at this, then try to at least make some friends this way.

Follow and Digg Your Friends’ Content
After you have added some friends, you will need to stalk them and Digg their content. How do you do this? It is easy, just do the following:

1. Go to your profile
2. Click on the Friends’ Activity tab up top
3. Now look at the right side bar and click on submissions
4. Browse through and Digg all of your friend’s stories that you like (don’t leave any of your friend’s out … if you find that you consistently don’t like one of your friend’s stories, then find a more compatible friend.

After you continuously Digg your friend’s stories, they will take notice and reciprocate. If one of your friends doesn’t catch on after a while, maybe they should be on your friend’s list.

Learn How to Have a Tough Skin
If you are going to be a top Digger, then you will need to grow a tough shell. Some Diggers are very rude and they will personally attack everything you like about yourself. Don’t take everything to heart. These Diggers are either trying to get attention, are trolls, or are just plain mean. Some things that these people say are true though, so try to learn from your past mistakes.

To Be Nice or To Be Rude
There are several different ways to get attention on Digg, some people prefer to be jerks and some prefer to be nice.

• Be Extremely Rude to Get Attention
  I hate this one, but since I am aggregating everything that I found out about Digg, I am going to repeat it for you. I am against this tip, but if you aren’t, then go ahead and try it. Be rude and people will notice you. Beware, some people may block you and then they won’t see any of your stories. Try to create mortal enemies to get even more attention.
• Or Don’t Be a Troll - Stop Being Rude
  Trolls are jerks, so don’t be one. It is very frustrating when you work for days on an article and then someone says nasty things about your writing style, the design of your page, or other personal attacks. People will think you are a jerkhole and they will block your user account so that they don’t see your posts at all. You catch more flies with honey, so be sweet. Be nice even when others are being mean and heartless. Maybe Digg members will stop and think twice before burying your story to raise the rank of their own story if they know that you have been kind to them. You never know, it might work.

StumbleUpon and Digg Together Make a Great Team
Using Digg along with StumbleUpon is a good idea. Add a digg button to the article that you are going to submit to Digg (if it is on your site that is) and then submit the article to Digg and then to StumbleUpon. Hopefully the two together will work to your benefit.

Save Your Site From Going Down with the Digg Effect
If you are going to try to get a page digged to the front page, you need to worry about The Digg Effect. Simply said, The Digg Effect is when your site crashes from so many Diggers visiting your site at once. The way that your server goes down is that your server gets suddenly hit with a spike of thousands of requests, overloading your server. Read this article for many ideas for Digg proofing your site. Also, if your site cannot handle a popular Digg, then you should consider first mirroring your site. Visit The Coral Content Distribution Network. CoralCDN is a free peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand, and all for free. There is also a possibility that your site’s cache was picked up by DuggMirror, but only if you were listed in popular upcoming stories long enough, and even then it isn’t always a sure thing.

Use Digg Tools to Enhance Your Digg Experience
Enhance your Digg experience with Digg Tools like Smart Digg Button, Digg Alerter, and the powerful Social Media for Firefox browser tool … and here are more Firefox Digg tools. Use Dugg Analytics to analyze Digg data…it is an amazing tool. Also, you should read this article - 29 Awesome Tools Built on the Digg API.

Don’t Game the System
Even though there is software and web sites that offer services to allow you to game Digg and other social networking sites, doesn’t mean that it is acceptable. Digg is a community, a place where users can get together to discuss the things that they do and don’t like on the web. Despite the fact that many people on Digg to promote their own online work, Digg is still widely used for the purpose of community and online sharing. People who violate Digg’s community rules will essentially be shunned by Digg members and ultimately banned. Read Subvert and Profit. It is an article about the site Subvert and Profit, a site that games Digg. The premise of the article is that if you use gaming systems, your article might continue to get diggs, but Digg will bury your story anyways. So gaming the system isn’t worth it.

Add a Digg Button / Widget to Your Site
If your submitting your own content, then you should add a Digg button to all of your articles. Adding a Digg button / widget to all of your articles, gives each of them a higher chance on Digg, and as an added perk, you are helping to increase the number on Digg. Take a look at this page on Digg to find the perfect widget for your site.

Learn From Your Past Mistakes
If your story was buried or just totally missed by everyone, learn why this happened. Did you submit a lame story? Was your title not enticing enough? Maybe you submitted in the wrong category? Did you submit a story at peak hours when there is way too much interesting stories to compete? Do you need to make more friends? Be honest, is it a lame story? There are some Digg tools to help you find out why you were buried, such as Digg Spy, Digg Alerter and The Bury Brigade Exists. You might be surprised to find out that there were just vindictive webmasters trying to get above you so they worked together to bury your story. This just happened to me yesterday. Also here are some interesting links. Top 50 Buriers in the Bury Brigade .. Digg’s Dark Future and Online Censorship .. Digg’s Failure and When No Moderation Doesn’t Work .. Digg’s Bury System is Being Abused .. An Open Letter to Kevin Rose ..and a post on Diggs blog .. On Buries and Blocking.

Try, Try, and Try Again
Try posting at least once a day. The only way to succeed is to try until you get it right. And after you get it right, keep doing it right (easier said than done). Your persistence will pay off, I promise you. If you don’t give up, you will find yourself being a top digger. Don’t give up. You will have your up days and your down days.

Sources: Here are the blogs and articles that I found some of this useful information from (also used forums and communities)

11 Tips to Enhance Your Digg User Experience (And Hopefully Bring You Front Page Fame)

White Hat Digging - 3 Tips and Tricks for Understanding and Submitting to Digg

How to Get to Digg’s Front Page

Digg Tips - The Official Guide on How to Get Dugg

Digg, Diggers, and Dugg

Welcome to Digg School - 4 Tips to Digg Success

The Top 25 Digg Tips

5 Simple Tips to Get on The Front Page of Digg

How to Assplode Your Blog with Digg

Digg Secrets Exposed - Tips to Increase Your Story Visibility on Digg

Why I Hit the Digg Home Page on a Daily Basis

Demand Your Presence on Digg with 6 Simple Steps

How to Make the Digg Homepage

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Notifications and Alerts Tools

Below you will find listed various tools that will help you get notified and alerted about stories that you want to hear about.

DiggAlerts

It allows you to setup alerts when other DiggAlerts.com members submit stories you’re interested in.

Digg Notify

It’s an application that pops up a small box in the bottom right hand side of your screen. It tells you when your story hits front page. You also have the option of ignoring certain stories.

Digglicious.com

It shows how many digs and how many del.icio.us realtime top stories.

OriginalSignal

It provides an overview of current Digg stories separated by category and chronological order.

DiggNotify Beta

It notifies you every time someone diggs on one of your fifteen stories. It would also show how many diggs the story has received and who dugg it. It provides a button to click and open up the page.

Digg Update

It provides updates when new stories hit the front page of Digg or when your friends Digg a story.

Digg IRC Bot

It reporst newly listed front page stories in IRC. You can also configure the bot to provate message you with current headlings.

Digg Top Stories

It’s a plugin for the Google Desktop Sidebar that displays the ten most recent stories from Digg.

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