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Drigg Module Overtakes Pligg In Development and Features

Drigg Module Overtakes Pligg In Development and Features

Drigg is a module for drupal that we have wrote about many times before and functions like pligg if not better than in many ways. Tony mobily the lead developer has just announced a major re write of the module...

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Author: Lincoln on April 25th, 2008

Category: Drigg

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Getting Pligg’s User Karma System To Calculate and Update Automatically

Getting Pligg’s User Karma System To Calculate and Update Automatically

Most webmasters that run the Pligg CMS system have asked many questions about the Karma system associated with user accounts, does this actually work, whats the point of the karma etc, one of the more frequent questions however is “How...

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Author: Lincoln on April 25th, 2008

Category: Pligg

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XML Sitemaps Module v0.5 For Pligg V9.9.0 Released

XML Sitemaps Module v0.5 For Pligg V9.9.0 Released

XML Sitemaps module for pligg generates sitemaps for all your pligg stories and categories to be used with major search engines like google, yahoo, ask etc. PatchLog.com had previously released a sitemaps module for an older version of pligg v9,7...

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Author: Lincoln on April 3rd, 2008

Category: Pligg Modules

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SocialCMSBuzz gets banned from the pligg forums for revealing PYcURL Security Vurnability

SocialCMSBuzz gets banned from the pligg forums for revealing PYcURL Security Vurnability

We had previous indications that the pligg team couldn’t handle criticism well from the experience of reading certain posts in their forums, now however they have turned to banning our forum user account for revealing that Pligg v9.9.0 is still...

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Author: Lincoln on April 3rd, 2008

Category: Pligg

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Pligg CMS System Hasn’t Been Developed Since Feburary 12th 2008

Pligg CMS System Hasn’t Been Developed Since Feburary 12th 2008

The Pligg project has never been the fastest open source cms system to release updates to their code-base, over the past two months however it would seem updates to the project have went from a slow pace to a complete...

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Author: Lincoln on April 2nd, 2008

Category: Pligg

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Pligg spammers still a problem in v9.9.0

Pligg spammers still a problem in v9.9.0

You probably thought pligg was getting better at dealing with spam entries, well you would be wrong pligg sites are a heaven for spammers and the developers haven’t even attempted the simple task in v9.9.0 of adding email verification...

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Author: Lincoln on March 28th, 2008

Category: Pligg

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Akismet Anti-Spam v0.4a Pligg Module Released

Akismet Anti-Spam v0.4a Pligg Module Released

Back in December 2007 AshDigg coded a great module for pligg that aimed to improve spam protection by using the popular Askimet service that was developed by the founder of wordpress. The module worked pretty well but one drawback was...

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Author: Lincoln on March 17th, 2008

Category: Pligg Modules

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Image Upload Pligg Module v1.03 Released

Image Upload Pligg Module v1.03 Released

Well i eventually found the time to update the Pligg Image Upload Module to be compatible with v9.9.0 of pligg without the need for the modules_libs.php hack that was required for v1.02. The latest version v1.03 of the image_upload module...

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Author: Lincoln on March 3rd, 2008

Category: Pligg Modules

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