I had been having a problem Digging articles on my WordPress blog using the Digg Me! button. I’d click the button and Digg would send me to a URL submission page with the error message:

“Please enter a properly formatted URL. Thanks.”

When I searched message boards, the solution was editing the the Bad Behavior plugin. Unfortunately, I was not using the plugin.

So I contacted the people at Digg, who were extremely quick and helpful. I was able to manually submit the URL to Digg after clearing my browser cache, but my Digg This! button still didn’t work. Here is my workaround:

Go to the admin panel->Design->Theme Editor->single.php. Remove the code inside the anchor tag for digg and replace it with this:

<div style="float:left; border:1px solid #CCCCCC; padding:2px; margin-top:2px; margin-right:10px;"> <script type="text/javascript"> digg_skin = 'icon'; </script> <script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </div>

For more information on using WordPress, and more specifically the Arthemia2 theme, check out Adding a New Wordpress Theme: Arthemia2.