Displaying recent Wordpress posts in Pligg
Displaying recent Wordpress posts in Pligg
In this tutorial I will show you how to start integrating your Wordpress blog into your Pligg install by displaying your recent blog posts in your Pligg sidebar.
CSS Pligg Tooltip
CSS Pligg Tooltip
Back in May I showed you how to display a thumbshot of the story submitted using a jQuery hover, now, let’s make it better by only using CSS.
Adding reCaptcha to comments
Adding reCaptcha to comments
Like most of you, I have had more than enough SPAM on my sites. One of the biggest sources is in the comments section. Let’s put an end to them now.
Adding Tweetmeme to Pligg
Adding Tweetmeme to Pligg
The biggest social media site right now, is probably Twitter, and the best plugin for it has to be Tweetmeme.
Adding a Twitter stream to Pligg
Adding a Twitter stream to Pligg
The hottest things online right now is social media, namely Digg style websites and Twitter.  With so many Digg style websites going up these days, it’s important to try and stand out from the pact and your niche.
reCaptcha for submit – Pligg 1.0
reCaptcha for submit – Pligg 1.0
The Pligg CMS comes with many great components, SPAM protection isn’t one of them.  As with previous versions, Pligg developers have decided SPAM protection isn’t important.  Fellow members have come up with great solutions including our submit anti-spam solution but they ignored it.
Stopping Comment Spam
Stopping Comment Spam
One of the biggest issues with the Pligg CMS is SPAM.  As a Pligg powered website owner you are constantly dealing with submissions of links that are blatent spam, spam bots and spam in the comments.  To be fair, Pligg is not the only CMS that faces this issue, but it does have very little deterents...
FREE Pligg modules
FREE Pligg modules
A while back the developers setup a store where members could purchase modules and templates, this was to help the team with costs. While I have no issue with Pligg selling modules, I do have an issue with them selling modules that have no business being sold.
reCaptcha for submit – Pligg v9.9.5
reCaptcha for submit – Pligg v9.9.5
One of the most sought after modules for Pligg is adding reCaptcha for story submissions.
Blocking .ru URLs
Blocking .ru URLs
If your site is anything like mine, you will be flooded with spam posts from .ru (Russian) websites. Heres how to use .htaccess to block these submissions by disallowing them to register. Open your .htaccess add the contents of the attached download to it.   Block .ru (47.4 KiB, 690 hits) This...
Pligg is Ajax unfriendly
Pligg is Ajax unfriendly
Recently developers at Pligg released a module that would allow you to add this effect to your Pligg install.  However, the module should have undergone some testing or perhaps 1 moment of thought. Amazes me that these so-called “developers” didn’t realize that this effect as like...
Pligg Latest Submitted Story Module v0.1 Released
Pligg Latest Submitted Story Module v0.1 Released
My good friend Lincoln over at Social CMS Buzz has released another module for Pligg v9.9.0. This module enables the admin to show the latest submission right on his main page. There is no coding to do, it is all automatic. Additional info… Download…
Jpligger: Pligg and Joomla Integration Mambot Project Launched
Jpligger: Pligg and Joomla Integration Mambot Project Launched
Finally someone has integrated Pligg with Joomla properly and has been kind enough to share it with the rest of us. My good friend LincolhHawks over at Socal CMS Buzz has provided a step by step tutorial on how to do it. I will be trying it out myself later this week when I wrap up my next template...
Getting Pligg to Auto-Fill
Getting Pligg to Auto-Fill
Late January of this year I attempted to get my Pligg install to auto populate the description of a story submitted on step 2 of the submission process. This is the code I started with: if ( preg_match ( ‘~~i’, $this->html, $matches ) ){ $description = preg_replace( ‘~^(.+?)content="([^"]+?)"(.+?)$~i’,...
XML Sitemap Pligg Modules – Invalid Date
Heres a fix to the XML Sitemap module, the original was producing invalid dates. Thanks to mihai from PatchLog for providing XML Sitemap for Pligg update 0.6. I installed it for my pligg 9.9.0 powered site at http://pligg.topsites.sg running on php 4. However when submitting the sitemap to Google, the...

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