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Digg bar blocker for WordPress

The DiggBar is a URL shortening service that puts your website within a frame on digg.com. As a result, the user sees Digg's URL, rather than your URL in their address bar, no matter which page they navigate to on your site.

I don't particularly like this, so I've written a small plugin for WordPress that removes it. Go to the No DiggBar page to download it.

Tip of the hat to John Gruber for the idea.

Update: The No DiggBar plugin is now available from the WordPress Plugin Directory: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-diggbar

This entry was posted on Friday, 10th April 2009 at 09:00 and is filed under WordPress.

2 Responses to “Digg bar blocker for WordPress”

  1. 1 David Goodwin
    April 10th, 2009 at 16:14 #

    how is this any worse than e.g. the facebook url redirection thing?

  2. 2 Rob...
    April 12th, 2009 at 08:34 #

    David,

    The most important difference is that Facebook's is opt-in. Go to http://digg.com/ and click on any of the links to an off-site article and look at the URL.

    Now go to your Facebook home page and click on a link within someone's update message. A new window opens directly on the other site.

    Regards,

    Rob...

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