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.