Since the release of Pligg v1.0.2 it has become clear that there are once again some serious security vulnerabilities within the system. This isn’t the first time pligg site owners and their registered users have succumbed to security exploits within...
Author: Lincoln on December 2nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: Pligg, pligg security, pligg vulnerabilities
After writing our article on Pligg winning third place in the “Most Promising” category of Packt Publishing’s CMS awards we received several emails and messages from readers alerting us to the fact that Pligg may not have been eligible for...
Author: Lincoln on November 30th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: packt awards, Pligg
Anyone who has had the displeasure of working with or owning a Pligg website will know exactly how bad the system actually is in a real world live web environment. Packt Publishing on the other hand seem to think that...
Author: Lincoln on November 26th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: cms awards, Pligg, pligg cms
RunnerTalk is a social news / voting community website dedicated to the topic of running and the sport of running in general. There is no doubt that the running industry and marketplace is pretty huge and runnertalk aims to fill...
Author: Lincoln on November 13th, 2009
Category: Pligg, Social News
Tags: Pligg, runnertalk, social news
Recently we have received a lot of mail's and a few comments asking if we plan to update a few of our Pligg Templates like SocialVantage and PliggBroadcast to be compatible with v1.0.0 of Pligg. Regrettably the simple answer to...
Author: Lincoln on September 9th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: Pligg, pligg template, pligg templates
Last week we decided to run a live install of Pligg v1.0.0 RC5 as a test to see if the usual spammers would come to visit it, lo and behold we were not disappointed with around ten spam registrations per...
Author: Lincoln on May 25th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: Pligg, pligg spam, spam
FAQPal is a new social news website recently launched which aims to list the best Web Developer and Design tutorials from around the web. There are a few other existing sites providing this service on the web Designbump.com, DesignFloat.com, Dzone.com,...
Author: Lincoln on May 23rd, 2009
Category: Pligg, Startups
Tags: faqpal, Pligg, web design, web development
DesignFloat has suffered more than it’s fair share of pligg related problems, hacks, database corruptions in the past so much so we wrote an article not long ago asking whether DesignFloat needed to move away from Pligg to survive. It...
Author: Lincoln on May 22nd, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: designfloat, designfloat hacked, Pligg, pligg hacked