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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 sys
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?. Th
Social Web Content Management System (SWCMS), a fork of the popular Pligg social news project, continues to show its significant forward momentum. First sign of life comes from the release of SWCMS Beta 2. Beta 2 is a significant step forward over t
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 v
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
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 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
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
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
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.
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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
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
Blossoms is a lilac and white template with a left hand sidebar layout this template also has the SEO optimal titles hack applied for story page titles. The template has been tested on IE6, IE7, and FF and is released to fix a bug with the navigatio
A few days back Reddit the popular news aggregator service released a major announcement that it was releasing it’s code base as an open source project titled Open Reddit. Reddit is a social news website that displays news based on your personal pre
FoxieWire.com is a pligg based social news site that deals solely in Mozilla FireFox news, addons, and anything else FireFox browser related to be precise. With FireFox 3 only being released day ago and FoxieWire now being linked to from the officia