How to Put Yahoo Buzz in your Wordpress Blog!

Yahoo Buzz if finally open to every blogger who wants extra exposure. It is pretty much Yahoo’s version of Digg but we expect that there’s more potential for Yahoo Buzz as there’s already a big audience for Yahoo.

Here’s how to put Yahoo Buzz in your Wordpress blog:

1. Open up single.php in your Wordpress theme directory.

2. Add the following:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js” badgetype=”small” showbranding=”1″>
<?php the_permalink();?>
</script>

3. That’s it. There’s more ways to add headlines and summary but it seems like that’s actually broken right now as I get the following errors:

Notice: Memcache::get(): marked server ‘localhost:11211′ as failed in /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/cache/MemcacheDataAccess.class.php on line 41 [/apiws/Hype.php] Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/cache/MemcacheDataAccess.class.php:41) in /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/core/sessions.inc on line 68 [/apiws/Hype.php] Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/cache/MemcacheDataAccess.class.php:41) in /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/core/WSHandler.class.php on line 41 [/apiws/Hype.php]

The code I used for that:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js” badgetype=”small” showbranding=”1″>
yahooBuzzArticleId=”<?php the_permalink();?>”;
yahooBuzzArticleHeadline=”<?php the_title(); ?>”;
yahooBuzzArticleSummary=”<?php the_excerpt_rss(10); ?>”;
</script>

Well, use the first method until Yahoo gets their headline and summary thingee sorted out. From the error message, I can already tell Yahoo is using Memcache to do most of their caching, smart.

Tags: audience, blogger, Blogging, buzz, digg, theme_directory, wordpress_theme, yahoo

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 at 4:42 pm and is filed under Blogging.
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