No need for a widget or Javascript. If you’re on a WordPress hosted domain, (like this blog) just add digg= http://digg.com/url_to/story_on_digg (surrounded by brackets) [like this] and it will turn into a Digg button. Source

You can see the story at Digg here: Just a side note, there’s some discussion there about Digg crushing a WordPress domain. My experience with Digg and WordPress was certainly crash free. WordPress held up quite well under the strain of over 75,000 visitors in just 24 hours.


  1. Digg’s widgets are some of the most bloated JS widgets I have ever seen :)

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