Social News sites are a popular subject and it seems everybody wants to start a digg clone of some type nowadays for various different reasons, many social news sites launch however very few ever become even relatively successful. So is it worth starting a Digg Clone type website and if you decide it is what system should you u

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NaturalWeb is a modern looking v9.9.5 Pligg Template with a stylish and elegant colour scheme. Optimized for speed with no gimmicks or heavy javascript NaturalWeb will provide your pligg site with clean and modern web 2.0 feel. Features within this pligg template include * User Avatar Dynamically resized and Cached * Top Pu

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Due to several work related issues it has taken longer than expected for me to publish this second part in our "Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal" tutorial, but the wait is over as this is the second part you are now reading :). Here in Part two we are going to go through the process of installing Drupal and the Drigg

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With the Drigg social news system for Drupal becoming a popular choice for starting your own digg, reddit or mixx featured website a common question is what sites are using Drigg. This article lists ten active websites that have deployed the Drigg for Drupal system in a live environment, we also only listed sites that are estab

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WPscoop or "Wordpress Scoop" to give it's full working title is a social news, bookmarking and networking website dedicated to the Wordpress CMS blogging web application. Built using the Drigg for Drupal system WPscoop which launched around a month ago is the latest project to have chosen the Drigg system. WPscoop allows any

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Drupal is an open source CMS system (Content Management System) that allows anyone to build fairly complicated dynamic website applications. A question we get asked here at Social CMS Buzz is what popular, well known websites use Drupal as their system, the answer is lots with Nike, Universal Music, Warner Bros, Yahoo and Adobe

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Recently Pligg have semi released an edited open source Wordpress template titled Lemon Twist for Pligg, the reason we say semi released is due to pligg asking that You “Do Not Redistribute” the template unless asking YankiDank permission first?. This along with a few other naive errors breaks the original GNU General Public Li

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Drigg consists of a set of modules for Drupal that allows anyone to start a digg like social news website. Over the last few months Drigg has been gaining a reputation as the most advanced system for starting your very own digg clone website, with v1.35 of drigg recently being released Drigg’s reputation as the professional cho

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Pligg an open source digg clone php web application released v9.9.0 way back in January 2008, since then however the Pligg project has seen a significant downturn in user uptake of the system, support, development and overall traffic. With users support requests being unanswered or simply deleted, developers ripping security pa

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The social news revolution has exploded into all areas of media now with players like yahoo, mixx and digg all now competing for the mass traffic in an already overcrowded market. We already know that if you blog posts is lucky enough to make the front page of digg you can expect between 60k and 100k of visits depending on time

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Yahoo Buzz a social news network you guessed it run by Yahoo has now opened up fully to the public, before today only a small handful of publishers could submit content in a bid to iron out any pre-public release kinks. Yahoo Buzz is very much a mainstream social news site with huge potential.

Yahoo Buzz allows anyone to sub

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Wordpress shows /category within it’s url link output for categories, this however does nothing to help SEO and more so looks pretty ugly. Removing the category word from wordpress url structure is pretty simple and brianhoff originally wrote a short tutorial covering how to do this. Since v2.6 of wordpress was released however

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Social News websites are very much in fashion nowadays, a social news website is a site where the community members rather than an editor take control of the content and ultimately decide whats hot or not. For bloggers in particular Social News websites can be a great source of traffic if your lucky enough to get an article pub

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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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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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