With more that 6.5 billion users in Facebook, using Facebook Comments Plugin will help you to gain more traffic to your site in less time. In few steps, we’ll be able to achieve that.

I tried this plugin in Pligg CMS 1.1.4 and within the default template Wistie and it worked like a charm. Its probably the same for the previous versions of Pligg and other themes also.

Ok, lets get started.

Step 1: Modify template

Locate your default template (Wistie, in this case) and open story_center.tpl .Usually, its http://YOUR_PLIGG_SITE/templates/wistie/story_center.tpl

Look for {include file=$the_template.”/comment_form.tpl”} and replace it with the following code:

Change the values of num_posts and width as required by your theme. And its done! One easy step huh?

If you do not want to show comments your site already received from the internal commenting system of Pligg, you could remove the following lines of code in the same file(story.php). Its right above the facebook comments plugin you just pasted.

I hope you enjoy this tutorial. Have a nice day!

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Why not use jQuery? By itself, there is no reason.  However, removing the need for it will cut down on load time.

Another issue with Pligg and jQuery is they do not always get along.  There are too many conflicts with the scriptaculous effects and prototype, which does not like jQuery.

The following is so simple, there is no reason not to use it.

Open, link_summary.tpl and find:

change to:

Save.

Open your main CSS file and add:

Save.

You can change the image provider to whatever you like, I personally use Shrink the Web, as they seem to be the quickest.

This method will show the thumbshot immediately upon hover of the story title, the previous method, had a time delay.

Would love your opinion, leave me a comment below. You can also follow me on Twitter, where I will always help one on one.

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In this post, I will show you how to have your RSS feed automatically post to Twitter at a time interval you set.

For this to happen, you will need to visit and sign-up at TwitterFeed.  Let’s begin.

Step 1:

Add a feed to your Twitter account:

Allow TwitterFeed to access your Twitter account:

Enter a feed name and RSS feed address:

Click “Test RSS Feed”, you should get this:

Now, click on Advanced:

In here you will want the following settings:

• Update Frequency – make this want you want, don’t Tweet too often though
• Post Content – make this title only
• Check “Post Link” and determine your URL shortener service
• Post Sorting – change to GUID and uncheck “Feed is sorted”
• For the remaining settings, this is up to you, I have these blank.

Your feed is now setup:

Depending on the URL shortening service you provided, you will be asked for API login details, for example Bit.ly will provide you with this.  When you select this service you will be presented with 2 fields asking for this info which is used for analytics only.

Here’s how Bit.ly shows yours analytics:

This will simply take posts from your published RSS so you will not be posting spam.  The address that the clicker will be sent to will be the story page.  For this reason, you will want to be careful how many you post and you will also want to post general Tweets in between to not be labeled a SPAMMER or get your “Followers” upset with you.

Will you use this method?

Leave your opinion below.

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There are a number of things you can do to integrate Twitter with Pligg, we are going to look at one of them now, and I will post further ideas later.

One of the best places to integrate Twitter would be the submitted story summary.

For example:

That’s how your summary looks now.

So, lets Twitterize it so it looks like this:

Here’s how to do it,

open link_summary.tpl:

Find,

below it add,

save.

Download and upload the following image to templates/yget/images directory.

That’s it.

There is a downside, the user submitting the Tweet may need to edit the status if the story being submitted has an extremely long URL.  Most times this will not be an issue.

This addition will allow users to Tweet the submitted stories URL and it also credits your Pligg install at the same time.

Have fun.

By the Way, follow me on Twitter and I will follow you back.

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There is one feature in the Pligg script that really shouldn’t be there and makes absolutely no sense. Can you guess what it is?

Its the javascript at the end of every news item submitted labeled:

Share this on… or Save this to…

There are a couple of reasons using this makes no sense, after deep thinking you may come up with more, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind for me:

Submission Guidelines:

Most if not all Pligg sites have the following on step 1 of the submission process:

Please follow a few simple guidelines to make this site a better place:

• Quality Content: Is your story relevant to the site?
• Link Directly to the Source: Save people time by linking directly to the original story.
• Search First: Avoid duplicate submissions by searching to make sure someone else has not submitted the story already.
• Be Descriptive: You are the story editor, so explain what it is and why it is cool.

Note the second guideline, Save people time by linking directly to the original story, we are asking members to link directly to the source, not a Digg page showing an excerpt of the story.

Then, we are asking other members who are voting, to submit excerpt posted to our Pligg sites to Digg, so that Digg users can be brought to an excerpt of the original story.

Members should be posting original URLs, not a page from Digg, therefore, lets not ask them to post a URL to a story on our Pligg stories to Digg.

Competition:

One of the reasons Digg, Mixx etc…, don’t have this option, is because it makes no sense at all to send your members to another social networking site. They want you to stay on theirs and browse, submit, vote and discuss the items they have, not what their competition has.

Annoying:

It annoys visitors when they see a story of Digg, for example, that leads them to the same story on Mixx, for example, where they need to click yet again to get to the original source. Users want things to be simple, if they want to vote for the story on Mixx or Digg, they will go to those sites and vote for it.

Conclusion:

I will be removing this feature on both of my Pligg sites today, there are only a few features you need to have on each item:

1. Submitters username
2. Source
3. When it was submitted
4. Tags
5. Category
6. Description
7. Method to share with friends, i.e., email
8. Thumbshot of source URL
9. The ‘Bury’ feature if used on your Pligg

Will you be removing this from yours?

You can disable this feature simply from the Admin Panel:

Configure Pligg > Summary > Enable AddTo > Set this option to “False”, currently is will be set to “True”

Or, this can be done manually via the link_summary.tpl file located in your template folder.

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After you install Pligg and custom design it, there’s only one thing left to do, get traffic!

This will probably be the hardest part of maintaining your Pligg site.

Here are a few tips to help you get started:

• Guest blogging – find websites related to your niche and ask if you can guest blog for them, post a link to your website in the footer of this post.
• Interact – spend time commenting on blogs with a link to your Pligg site
• Email – email bloggers/webmasters with innovative ways of working together, perhaps posting a link on each of their posts that would enable visitors to submit the post to your website in exchange for free advertising (real webmasters don’t mind getting emails see Banned for Emailing… for additional info.
• Post – post your website on other Pligg sites, don’t make it spammy though, make sure you word it right
• Stumble – download the StumbleUpon toolbar to find blogs or websites that match your Pligg niche and post comments or introduce yourself
• Socialize – become a high profile member of Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon etc…

These are just a few things I do.

Got a tip? Leave a comment below.

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The karma feature in Pligg has always been a mysterious feature. I still haven’t been able to change the values given for submissions, votes etc…

The basics of the karma system are the member gets X number of points for stories submitting, stories voted on, then it’s put into a mathematical equation against time elapsed.

Here are the settings for karma found in libs/karma.php:

$karma_base=10;
$min_karma=6;
$max_karma=2000;
$negative_per_day = 0.3;
$history_from = time() – 3600*24*7;
$points_link_users = 10;
$points_vote_users = 1;

I am going to change some of these values and see how member karma changes.

One of the biggest issues with the karma function is getting the karma rating for each member updated. There are really only 2 options to do this:

1. manually using your browser and visiting http://www.yourpligg.com/libs/karma.php
2. setting up a cron job in your cPanel

I highly recommend using a cron job, set it and forget it. If you have a large number of members using the browser method can take a few minutes.

To set it up using a cron job, check out the tutorial written by Lincoln at Social CMS buzz.

If you have any tips or questions, post them in the comments section below.

Can you be contacted by a member/potential member, someone interested in advertising on your website?

I have spent a great deal of time visiting dozens of Pligg powered websites in the last 2 days and about 80% had no contact form. I also noted that the same websites are using the default faq-en.php file. If you have a website with a niche of, deals/coupons, and a box that says ‘About Us’, your visitors are expecting to see a write up of what your website is about and how it can benefit them to join and participate. After visiting the dozens of websites, I definitely now know what Pligg is as this was the title and content of many ‘About Us’ pages.

Does your website have a face? Not a photo of you, but a write up of what your website is about, how it started, the direction you want it to go. Where is your ‘Contact Us’ form? Do you have one?

Pligg default comes with the Contact form plugin builtin, all you need to do is activate it in the Admin panel, simple.

Your ‘About Us’ page should contain the following, but not limited to:

• purpose of the website
• benefits of joining (revenue sharing?)
• a couple FAQs
• link to ‘Contact’ form

What else do you have on your ‘About Us’ page?

If you haven’t activated the contact module yet, activate it, and edit your faq-en.php file.

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On step 2 of the submission process, there is a field at the bottom that will auto populate if Pligg can find the trackback on the source page, or you can enter it manually. No matter what you enter here, Pligg will not ping the source to tell it that it has been mentioned on your Pligg website.

After playing around with this feature, I came up with a way to get this to work in v9.8.2.

On step 1, rather than putting the URL, for example,

Free Online Image Editor

enter the trackback instead. So, it would be,

Free Online Image Editor – Trackback.

This will ping the source and a trackback to your Pligg will be placed on the source URL.

This is because once you submit at step 1, your Pligg does ping the source so it can auto-populate the ‘title’ field.

I have gotten dozens of trackbacks for one of my Pliggs using this method.

I have not come up with or found a way to get trackbacks working in v9.9.0, if you have a tip, please leave a comment.

Now, get trackbacking!

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There are countless things you can do to improve your SEO to any blog (or website) with very little effort. Most people just do not do it. What most webmasters do not realize is that these easy 10 second fixes can end up bringing them more visibility to their blog or website.

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This is a must read if you are looking to improve your traffic or SEO.