For most sites, recognition is the name of the game. Many sites, such as Digg, are designed to facilitate such recognition in ways that encourage that meaningful, quality content reaches people who care about it. There are a huge number of such meta-content sites and therefore a myriad of ways to aid people connect their content to these sites. For the purposes of this discussion, we will stick with Digg, a well-known and prominent meta-source for topical news and articles.
We use Wordpress for this blog. A great feature of wordpress is the ability to use plugins. Plugins are self-contained code modules that interface automatically - without programming - to the wordpress architecture, providing new functionality. In that we wished to add a Digg widget to our articles, showcasing how often our articles are dugg and providing an easy way for our readers to promote our site, we looked for a plugin that could do this for us. We found one quickly, and installed it in about 10 minutes.
The plugin works great and can be easily viewed from the articles on our site, including this one. The downside is that this plugin is not 100% clean and required minor modifications to our theme code. A full-featured plugin would not have this limitation. However, the included installation instructions highlighted what was required, it was easy to install nontheless, and the end result is very nice.
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