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What is Pligg? Don’t we use WordPress as the “default” Content Management System? Enough, you WordPress dreamers! The world outside WordPress is huge and you got to jump out of your favorite content management system so as to discover the rest of the virtual world. Today, we will break some shackles to travel outside our comfort zone. It is time to discover one Content Management System which has been doing rounds for quite some time: Pligg.
P.S. You will notice how by the end of the article I slowly drift into the favor of WordPress (even when I won’t mention this openly). After all, WordPress rocks!
I know, I ended up pushing all my energy into my introduction which resulted in the major question being left unanswered. So, let me bite my tongue and introduce you to the definition of Pligg.
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. – Wikipedia
The above definition of Pligg really wraps up everything that can be said about Pligg. While WordPress was solely launched as a CMS for blogging purposes, Pligg on the other hand was launched as a social networking Content Management System. It has been designed to handle multiple authors who can be registered users controlling the website’s content. Those who know Digg (almost all of us do) might have already figured out Pligg’s initial purpose. Although the uses of Pligg have evolved in recent years yet the voting system remains the backbone for Pligg.
There isn’t much about Pligg so I don’t want to push lot of useless content in this article. Pligg is still growing. Their Wikipedia Page isn’t complete yet! To give you an example - Pligg.in is a news site which nowhere deals with Pligg although it uses Pligg as its backend.
Let us go through the features of Pligg before we jump over to the Pligg Showcase:
Although Pligg seems to have some future, they still have a lot of room for improvement. The below suggestions are solely my thoughts and must not be misunderstood.
I have a lot more to tell them but I would rather give them time to improve. They still have a lot to learn and a long way to go.
As is the case usually, I cannot let you guys go away without an inspirational showcase of websites that run on Pligg. Believe me, there is lot of niche Digg like websites that have a stronghold in their regions. Here we go …
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Salman Siddiqui is an alpha geek, design guru and seasoned WordPress critic. Writing, for him, started out of ego but it has become the most luring and enlightening career option of his life. He is walking that extra mile for his freelancing dream.
Saturday, November 26th, 2011 23:05
Pligg appears to be the only choice for a digg like site. But Seenthis is a lovely one. It should be based on StatusNet I assume. What’s the plugin seenthis for?
Thursday, November 24th, 2011 01:25
Pligg is probably the best platform for creating sites such as Digg, but there is also another script integrated in Drupal and is called Drigg. Thanks for the great article Salman!
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 16:44
I remember a few years ago when I tried out the software and was present on their boards and it was a nightmare. The code was badly written and full of security holes which were exploited by the spammers, while of a handful of lead developers one left leaving the remaining two scratching their arses wondering what to do next. To quote the author: “They still have a lot to learn and a long way to go.” Well if they haven’t got there now then they’ll never get there/
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 09:01
I still give them that one last chance. Digg isn’t dead yet and so has the craze for similar sites. They have the chance but it is on them if they feel like using it or not.
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Andy Walpole
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 16:44
I remember a few years ago when I tried out the software and was present on their boards and it was a nightmare. The code was badly written and full of security holes which were exploited by the spammers, while of a handful of lead developers one left leaving the remaining two scratching their arses wondering what to do next. To quote the author: “They still have a lot to learn and a long way to go.” Well if they haven’t got there now then they’ll never get there/
Salman Siddiqui
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 09:01
I still give them that one last chance. Digg isn’t dead yet and so has the craze for similar sites. They have the chance but it is on them if they feel like using it or not.
Dannie
Thursday, November 24th, 2011 01:25
Pligg is probably the best platform for creating sites such as Digg, but there is also another script integrated in Drupal and is called Drigg. Thanks for the great article Salman!
Zhen
Saturday, November 26th, 2011 23:05
Pligg appears to be the only choice for a digg like site. But Seenthis is a lovely one. It should be based on StatusNet I assume. What’s the plugin seenthis for?
sequeel
Friday, April 13th, 2012 10:22
great….this is site I want …