Everyone needs links, especially now that Google are making sweeping changes to the way they read links. Many marketers previously gathered links via automated methods, such as article marketing by spreading a single article all over the web, or using commenting software or social bookmarking software. Well, those links are cea

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If you are a web designer or if you enjoy reading web design-related articles, hopefully you’ve already come across Design Float. Those of us in the web design industry are fortunate that there are several useful design-related social media sites. If you’re looking for a place to promote your own content and find other items of interest, I th

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SEO Mix is a social voting web site dedicate to the topic of SEO, built on the pligg system and using a customized version of our very own Convergence template SEO Mix shows what can be achieved with some suttle changes to a popular template. There are already more than a few SEO related pligg sites up and running so competitio

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Pligg the popular open source social voting CMS system has always had one downfall and that was integration with other open source web scripts, pligg did integrate with vbulletin for a while around a year ago. Since then though their has been no integration for phpBB, Vbulletin, IPB, SMF, Joomla, Wordpress etc. Considering that

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Well it’s been a while since i released a free template for the pligg cms system, today i am happy to announce the release of PliggedBlue a clean white and light blue template for pligg v9.9.0. I had been working on this template on and off for a few days and finally got a version ready for release so enjoy. PligedBlue is a gre

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In an article we wrote last month it was revealed that pligg had not been developed for months leaving lots of users worried about the continuation of the project. Information on this subject has been non existent over at pligg.com luckily a pligger named Dave Mackey the owner of informednetworker.com asked some questions that

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Well i eventually found the time to update the Pligg Image Upload Module to be compatible with v9.9.0 of pligg without the need for the modules_libs.php hack that was required for v1.02. The latest version v1.03 of the image_upload module will work with pligg v9.9.0 only, story pages and index pages now show the thumbnail.

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We had previous indications that the pligg team couldn’t handle criticism well from the experience of reading certain posts in their forums, now however they have turned to banning our forum user account for revealing that Pligg v9.9.0 is still vulnerable to automated PycURL bot spamming attacks. We posted a link in their forum

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The last official release of the Pligg CMS system was way back on January 1st 2008, since then however development has slowed to a near stop with even the SVN disappearing out of the community’s reach. Very little news has broken from pligg as to the scheduled release of v1.0 of pligg, for myself and many others 5 months withou

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Deciding on the correct hosting solution for your Pligg or Drigg based project is as important as what system you choose to put online. Choosing the wrong web host can destroy a new web based venture faster than you can say 404 error, you can have the best looking most feature laden website in the world but if your members can’

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Get your Pligg install to auto fill the description box on step 2 just like Digg.

Submit a story, if the story being submitted, has the meta tag “description” filled in, your Pligg install will automatically enter it in the Description box on step 2 of the 3 step submission process.

Big thanks to Knight01 for his contribu

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FoxieWire.com is a pligg based social news site that deals solely in Mozilla FireFox news, addons, and anything else FireFox browser related to be precise. With FireFox 3 only being released day ago and FoxieWire now being linked to from the official Mozilla press page, things can only be going upwards for this niche pligg site

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Last week we reviewed PornSifter a pligg based site focused solely on the concept of making porn related content like, news, videos and blogs etc a social affair. HotAphrodite is another porn related pligg site but this time focusing on picture galleries. Any user (including anonymous visitors) can submit new galleries and post

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A few days back Reddit the popular news aggregator service released a major announcement that it was releasing it’s code base as an open source project titled Open Reddit. Reddit is a social news website that displays news based on your personal preferences and what the community likes. Your preferences are determined based on

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Today we are pleased to release a new version of our popular SocialVantage pligg template, v1.1 now has three styles to choose from with a JavaScript theme switcher. Other additions include our custom related links description summary and latest submitted story on homepage module. SocialVantage is one of my personal favorite fr

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Every now and then we see post’s cropping up titled “Someone Stole My Custom Pligg Template”. The user more often than not indicates that they have picked up a strange referrer in their web stats? upon visiting the referrer they are astonished to see an identical copy of their pligg template that they sweat and bled over creati

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If you have read any of our previous articles on Pligg Spam you will no doubt already be aware that Pligg has had more than it’s fair share of spam related problems in the past. Pligg webmasters now face a potentially devastating new threat in the guise of an fully automated Pligg Submission and Voting Spam Tool titled AutoPlig

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