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Originally Posted by chuckroast  You criticize but offer no suggestions. Sorry our free software is not up to your standards. |
Yeah, it's free so I shouldn't complain. And I want a pony. I'm sorry if I annoyed you. The silly "you need to post one article so you can do stuff" banner was/is annoying, hence my post. I've been spoiled by the maturity of WordPress. Problems and solutions I've run across so far:
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Pligg Content Management System step #2 should be rephrased: NOT: "Do the same for /libs/dbconnect.php.default." but SHOULD BE: " Rename /libs/dbconnect.php.default to /libs/dbconnect.php"
Docs: Also on
http://www.pligg.com/faq.ph step #5 should be corrected /libs/lang.conf no longer exists under the newest beta. It should be /languages/
Bugs: Apparently there are bugs hard coded into templates, although I think I ran into this while poking around the Admin area. Some templates or Pligg code looks for /lib/lang.conf and when it can't find it, you get an error. The solution I found on the Forums was to "copy" /languages/lang_english.conf to /libs/lang.conf. The huge problem with that is it is quite likely that as future templates or code is added,there will be functionality defined in both files. I created a link between the two files (under Linux, in the libs directory, the command is ln -s ../languages/lang_english.conf lang.conf ) This has been working fine for me for all of 10 hours now. And any changes that get made to the english language file will be future-proofed.
A longer term solution(?): Should filenames that are a part of the Pligg system be hard coded at all? Shouldn't they be stored in a variable, then template creators would call the variable? Then when Pligg version $current+1 comes out and has to move a few files around, nothing will break.
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Main Page Under the Antispamming" section there are instructions given for removing spam from the wiki. Are those instructions still accurate? You're not using a wiki anymore, you're using the vBulletin system.
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Main Page Near the bottom half of the screen, the section "Here's some quick links" aren't actually links at all.
Docs: Update the links at Yankidank's post at
http://forums.pligg.com/pligg-tutori...ligg-wiki.html to point to the forum based wiki. Right now they point to the old (now empty) wiki. YankiDank's post is the first posting under the Pligg tutorials category of the Forum.
Tutorial Request: It would have been very helpful for a step by step tutorial on where all the initial variables are edited. It frustrated me when I was trying to get rid "Pligg Beta 9" from all over my pages after the initial setup. I am nowhere near confident enough yet that I've tweaked everywhere that needs tweaking, so I'm not the best person to do this. If you'd prefer me to do a first draft, I will.
Spam: What's with all the spam junk under the download Pligg section of the Forum? Dental Finance? Resorts? Home Foreclosure? Very unprofessional. That section/thread should be locked down. Unless these wonderful ads are the reason someone has to post to the forum, hence the reason for the banner telling me to post in the first place.
http://forums.pligg.com/downloads.php?do=cat&id=2