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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 sup
Open.Srcphp.com is a newly launched website that list Open Source PHP Web Applications, these are fully featured websites for many uses that you can download and use and edit for you own purposes for absolutely free. Projects can be submitted to an
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 shor
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 webs
When developing a project it's important to have a good form input structure throughout, most commonly used forms will tend to be Login, Register and user Profiles. If you have taken the time to develop a custom template for your project more often
Social Web CMS (formerly YADC) was launched on 31st July 2008 and is an open source php and mysql based social media system that allows anyone to create a web site like digg, reddit, etc. The project has been busy gathering momentum and contributors

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Pligg v9.9.5 comes hot on the heels of the YADC system which was released earlier today by AshDigg a former developer of pligg, both systems are very similar in fixes and codebase which isn’t surprising as they share the same SVN revision as a codeb
YADC which stands for “Yet Another *igg CLone” Launches it’s BETA 1 version to the public today, YADC is a fork of the popular Pligg CMS System and has been developed by Pligg’s former lead developer AshDigg. YADC can be best described as an open so
Water & Stone who are an open source content management Web consultancy have produced the first in-depth analysis of market share in the competitive open source CMS market. Over 50 pages in length, the white paper includes analysis of a number of is
Everyday here at Social CMS Buzz we get around 3 - 5 requests to review websites, most requests are quickly cobbled together default installs of pligg filled with RSS Imported content needless to say these sites do not get reviewed. In contrast Enti
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 g
You can never have too many themes to choose from when starting a wordpress site, whether you plan on using the standard free themes that are available in their default guise or are looking for a base theme for customization, wordpress has a plenty
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 sub
At the start of the month we posted an article featuring 20 of the best css based navigation menus that could be used in your own development projects. This article is a continuation of that post and features 20 more excellent CSS based Navigation m
After the release of our PliggBroadcast template we received quite a few emails from users asking if it would be possible to adapt the Latest Submitted Story feature of the PliggBroadcast template into a standalone pligg module that would function w
A new search engine service with a twist titled Scour has just launched into public beta, formerly known as aftervote scour aims to change web searches to a social affair. Scour is a search engine for the web2.0 generation gathering results simultan
This tutorial will show you how to add the popular ShareThis social bookmarking button to your submitted pligg stories, ShareThis will then replace pliggs default Add To function. The ShareThis button will work on both the summary and full story vie
Hot on the heels of PliggBroadcast and continuing our tradition of releasing high quality free pligg templates today we are pleased to announce the release of SocialVantage our latest template for the pligg v9.9.0 CMS System.
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EIOBA is an article publishing site with a very similar layout and features to that of a social voting website like digg.com, the main difference is that EIOBA deals with exclusively written articles rather than allowing users to submit links to alr
As our regular readers will no doubt noticed by now Social CMS Buzz has a brand new look, the main aim of this process was to make the site blog, forums and pligg install more fluid for our visitors. Our great new logo is courtesy of GraphicsGuru ow
Wordpress is primarily recognized as a blogging platform, with a couple of tweaks and plugins however wordpress can also function as a fully fledged CMS system. One of the most popular applications wordpress has been adapted for in recent years is t
Symfony the popular web application PHP5 Framework has been updated to v1.1. Symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.
A framework streaml
One of the most important features of your website will be the navigation menu, not only do you want the menu to look good but it must be functional and instinctive to use. If your visitors cannot navigate your site easily and instinctively traffic
Website owners can never have read too many cool tutorials on CSS and HTML to improve the look of their site, or simply to gather inspiration and technique from. This post contains 15 of our favorite css tutorials that can be used in your own projec
Digg Updates It's Back in late November 2007 both Digg The Candidates and Yahoo Pulse launched in the midst of the growing presidential election fever sweeping the US. Digg’s political section has done very well since it’s launch and received a new