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As noted in the (several updates to the) original post, the javascript code I wrote for the ‘Suggest to Techmeme’ button won’t work when inserted into posts on self-hosted instances of WordPress (unless you have the Exec-PHP plugin installed, like I do on my personal blog). There is already a very popular plugin for adding sharing calls to action to your blog posts called Sociable, and it happens to be very easily extensible.

So, I just created a custom version of the Sociable plugin that includes ‘Techmeme’ as an option (you can see it in action on my personal blog — it’s under the Share This widget at the bottom of each post). For those of you running self-hosted WordPress blogs, just download my version of the plugin here and install and activate it as you would any normal plugin. Then, go into Settings>Sociable and check ‘Techmeme’. That’s it!

A few requests have been made to include URL shortening functionality into the button, and I’ve got a few ideas I’m going to send to Joost, the guy who maintains the Sociable plugin. Maybe we can come up with something cool together. Stay tuned…

Again, for those of you who missed it:

DOWNLOAD THE WORDPRESS PLUGIN HERE

If you have no idea what this is all about, read up on Techmeme’s new suggest via Twitter functionality on TechCrunch or the Techmeme blog.