Gallery of Newest Pligg Launches for 2011

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The Pligg CMS has grown tremendously in just a few years time. The development team is hard at work constantly churning out updates and new patches for their libraries. Often times the community is able to release new collections and launches of the most popular brands running the open source script. Below are some of the latest launches for Pligg. The social news/social bookmarking script runs on a PHP & MySQL backend with an integrated plugins and template system. The gallery below … [Read more...]

Newest Pligg Venture BizSugar: Social News for Business

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I've been an avid fan of Pligg CMS for a long time now. It's an open source project, allowing anyone to download and run their own social news community similar to Digg and Reddit. I have my own case study for Pligg as well, and recently BizSugar has caught my attention. The domain and brand of BizSugar has been included on "web 2.0 site" lists and directories for a long time now. However, the recent re-branding and marketing campaign done by the BizSugar team has launched the site into … [Read more...]

Craze.cc – New and Innovative Social News/Discussion Community

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I love social media, I'll get that off my chest right now. There are so many new and innovative websites popping up each and every day which take the idea of social networking and spin it around with some new features and a new look, then present it to you in a clean and elegant way. Well Craze.cc is certainly one of those sites, and the idea is spreading fast. Built off the Pligg CMS, Craze.cc is a new social networking application which I can only describe as a combination of a small forum … [Read more...]

Pligg Social News CMS Releases Official 1.0.4 Upgrade

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The popular Digg-clone script Pligg has released their latest version as of today, stable release 1.0.4. There are a lot of new features from 1.0.3a and 1.0.3b releases of the CMS script, which have fixed a lot of security issues and bugs in the code. The Pligg developers have also released a set of new modules, while also removing some of the older modules from the default download. New module hooks, which are used to place modules throughout Pligg's templating system, have also been added … [Read more...]

CypherBox.net – Great Pligg-based PR4 Social Bookmarking Site

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I just want to say, I absolutely love Pligg. It's an amazing PHP script, free to download which allows you to set up your own social news site similar to Digg. Many micro-niche sites have popped up running on Pligg's backend, and CypherBox is my latest find. CypherBox is a Google PageRank 4, which is huge for social bookmarking sites. Not only that, but every link on the page is DoFollow - this means Google passes on PR4 juice to each link you submit! This can greatly impact a new website or … [Read more...]

Configuring TortoiseSVN to Manage Updates on Pligg Sites

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I am extremely fond of the new social news script Pligg CMS. I have been following it since early release, and updating Pligg sites used to be very difficult. However from instructions from this wiki, you can use TortoiseSVN to control the version and upgrades of your Pligg site with ease. Below I've also added a small video. This was created by Pligg user Yankidank to help out those who are unfamiliar with TortoiseSVN. It's a quick and easy tutorial to follow, and it's really useful for … [Read more...]