Promote This! Plugin for Movable Type

I was surprised to discover just how hard it was to find a plugin that would help me add a "digg this" link to my site. So as I was coding up an overly complicated set up Movable Type Template Tags it occurred to me that there is a simpler way.

So I created the "Promote This!" plugin for Movable Type. Promote This provides a set of super-simple template that makes it crazy-easy to compose links to your favorite social bookmarking, and social news services like del.icio.us, digg (my favorite), reddit and Newsvine URLs.

What support for another service? Just let me know and I will add it!

Reference

Here is the current list of supported template tags:

• <$MTDiggURL$>
• <$MTdeliciousURL$>
• <$MTredditURL$>
• <$MTNewsVineURL$>
• <$MTFurlURL$>
• <$MTFarkURL$>
• <$MTGoogleURL$>
• <$MTSpurlURL$>
• <$MTMyWebURL$>
• <$MTBlinkListURL$>
• <$MTBlinkBitsURL$>
• <$MTConnoteaURL$>
• <$MTFeedMeLinksURL$>
• <$MTShadowsURL$>
• <$MTSimpyURL$>
• <$MTStumbleUponURL$>
• <$MTLinkrollURL$>
• <$MTBlogMarksURL$>
• <$MTFaceBookURL$>
• <$MTSphereItURL$>
• <$MTMagnoliaURL$>
• <$MTTechnoratiURL$>

So to create a "digg this" link on your Movable Type blog, here is the template code you would use:

<a href="<$MTDiggURL$>">digg this</a>

It can't get much easier than that. Can it?

Installation

To install the plugin:

• Download Promote This.
• Set the current working directory to your MT_HOME (where MT_HOME is the same directory in which mt.cgi can be found).
• Unzip the Promote This archive file - doing so will place all of Promote This' files in the proper location automatically.