trouble adding digg

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  seandodson · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 2:07 am

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  Hello, i’ve carefully (i think) been trying to add a digg button to my posts. I’ve followed the tutorial here http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/how-do-i-digg/ but all i get is a non-hyperlated digg like this [digg]. I’m probably doing something really obvious wrong, but what?

  many thanks in advance

  ..S..

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  teck07 · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 2:28 am

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  You need to write the digg short cut in the HTML part of your Editor
  [Click The HTML Tab] then you write the code like this
  ‘[digg=your digg article url goes here]’

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  teck07 · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 2:29 am

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  oops I meant like this

  [digg=your digg article url goes here]

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 2:35 am

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  This is what I see when I view the source on your digg:
  [<abbr title="Post author: please enter the Digg URL in the post.">Digg</abbr>]

  You need to put the URL of your post (the one from digg) where it says, “Post author: please enter the Digg URL in the post.”

  Make sure there is the opening and closing quote marks.

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  seandodson · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 2:40 am

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  @thesacredpath

  hey, thanks for you advice and sorry to be a dunce, but how do i do that? How to i alter the source code?

  many thanks

  ..S..

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 17, 2008 at 3:27 am

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  Open your post for edit and insert the URL of your post on digg into the digg shortcode at the top of your post. It will look something like this:

  [digg=URL of your story from digg] where “URL of your story from digg is the one you get after you submit your article to digg.

  Read through the FAQ on digg again.