Politigg
I got an email a month or two ago telling me that Wonko’s World had been added to Politigg as a trusted source. I then forgot about it until the other day when I noticed that the Devil had implemented Politigg.
I notice that there are only a handful of posts on the Kitchen that have the Politigg button and I suspect it’s because, until today, the process of adding a Politigg button to your post was as follows:
- Write your post
- Submit the post to Politigg or wait a while for it to be auto-submitted
- Go to the Politigg entry for your post and click on the Comments link
- Copy the id, put it into a URL Politigg gives you and insert the html in your post
Hardly ideal and I suspect that is why only a handful of posts on the Devil’s Kitchen have the Politigg button on them. I simplified the process for myself by putting some code into my template to check for a “Politigg” meta tag on the post and insert the code for the button but it was still a ball-ache so I emailed the creator of Politigg and asked him to change the code to accept a URL instead of an id. So he did, which is nice.
If you’re interested in the code for a Wordpress blog, here it is:
<?php
$politigg=get_permalink();
echo ‘<div style=”float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-top: -50px; display: inline; width: 52px;“><iframe src=”http://www.politigg.co.uk/ex.php?url=’.$politigg.’” scrolling=”no” width=”52″ frameborder=”0″ height=”83″></iframe></div>’;
?>
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I’ve seen this. It was put together by one of the mods from the Britsh Democracy Forum.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:19 am