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Pligg Content Management System
URL	http://www.pligg.com/
Commercial?	No
Type of site	CMS
Owner	Eric Heikkinen (Yankidank)

Pligg is an Open source Social Networking Content Management System (CMS) Combining social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication and a democratic editorial system enables users to collaboratively submit and vote articles. It was influenced by the extremely popular English technology site digg, where when a user submits a news article it is placed in the "upcoming" area until it gains sufficient votes to be promoted to the main page. The latest version is Beta 9.1 (updated 02/20/2007).

Contents 1 Features 1.1 Voting 1.2 Admin Panel 1.2.1 User Management 1.2.2 Category Management 1.2.3 Modify Language 1.2.4 File and MySQL Backup 1.2.5 Modules 1.2.6 Configuration 1.2.7 RSS Importer 1.3 Users 1.3.1 Profile 1.3.2 Friends 1.3.3 Private Messaging 2 History 3 See also 4 External links 5 News link

[edit] Features

[edit] Voting

Pligg offers a variety of voting options for your Pligg site. The most popular one, similar to digg, lets users click on a vote button to vote for stories. The vote number increases as more users vote for the story.

The second method Pligg offers is called the "5 Star Voting" method. Users can vote for stories based on 5 stars. Once a user clicks on a star the vote count is increased and the average star rating for the total number of votes is automatically displayed.

[edit] Admin Panel

[edit] User Management

Admins can use the User Management feature to view and edit the users on their Pligg site. Have a user who seems to keep spamming your Pligg site? With one click of a button you can use the KillSpam feature under User Management to get rid of all traces of that user. Other features of User Management include: viewing a users' submitted stories and comments, viewing the last IP address they used to log in, edit user information, set user status ("god", "admin" etc), and help users by resetting their password.

[edit] Category Management

The Category Manager allows you to create categories and sub-categories using a nice AJAX interface. With a simple drag of the mouse an admin can easily create multiple sub categories.

[edit] Modify Language

Modify Language is one of the features of Pligg that makes setting up your own Pligg site easy and fast. Modify language lets an admin edit all of the text seen on their Pligg site within a single page. Don't want to spend hours sifting through all the files finding that one line of text you want to change? Don't worry, Modify Language has filtering capabilities that lets you enter particular text you want to change it will filter it, then allowing you to edit it to whatever you desire.

[edit] File and MySQL Backup

The File and MySQL backup feature in the admin panel gives an admin the ability to back up all their Pligg files without having to leave their Pligg site. Admins have the option to 1) backup files (including avatars) 2) back up MySQL database. The back-ups are conveniently stored on your server and you can download them any time you want by visiting the File and MySQL backup page on your Pligg site.

[edit] Modules

As of beta 9.0, Pligg introduced "modules", or easy ways to add to features to Pligg and delete the ones you don't want without having leftover code in the core and template files. Modules can be enabled and disabled in Admin Panel > Modules. Some of the most popular modules are Private Messaging and Adsense Revenue Sharing.

[edit] Configuration

One of the best features of any CMS is the ability to configure it to your liking. The Configuration menu lets you edit all of the functions of your Pligg site. Want to change the template? Easy, just go into Admin Panel > Configuration > Template and enter the name of the template you want to use in a convenient edit-in-place interface. This is just one example of the extensive list of configuration options given to you in the configuration menu,

[edit] RSS Importer

The RSS Importer is one of the core features that beginners love to use to get their Pligg site up and running which helps attract users. The RSS Importer feature is use to grab RSS feeds from your favorite site and automatically insert those feeds into your Pligg site. You set the number of fields you want to import and how many votes you want to give the stories and you're all set. Use the RSS Importer as a cron job and you can populate your Pligg site without touching a key.

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[edit] Users

[edit] Profile

The users of your Pligg site have their own profiles that displays their information and site statistics. User can use their profile to view their friends, view people who have added them as a friend and also track the list of stories that they have submitted, submitted and made to the front page, commented on, and stories they have voted for. Other users can visit someone else's profile and also view this information, too. Profiles also provide links to a user's RSS feed.

[edit] Friends

Just like the popular site digg, users have the ability to add friends. Users can keep track of their friends and people who have added them as a friend. Private message and remove friends at any time.

[edit] Private Messaging

Users can private message their friends if the Private Messaging module has been enabled by the site administrator. Private Messaging links are located in several areas that include: your friend's profile page and on the "viewing your friends" section. All of your messages are stored in your inbox for easy retrieval. A notification of any new PMs is placed on the front page to let users know if they have any new PMs. The private messaging module uses the lightbox javascript to view and write messages.

[edit] History

Pligg, founded by Yankidank [1] and headed by lead developer AshDigg, was originally an English translation of Menéame's source code when it was released in early December 2005. Menéame is a Spanish CMS created by Ricardo Galli [2] and inspired by Digg. In December 17 2005, the name Pligg was added to differentiate from the Spanish version. Pligg has now expanded from just a translation of meneame to a very popular CMS system.

[edit] See also

• Digg
• Web 2.0
• Social Bookmarking
• List of content management systems

[edit] External links

• Pligg Official site
• Pligg Official Demo
• How to install a news voting site with Pligg

[edit] News link

• Optimizing Your Social Media

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