The Admin Configure page is where you can apply settings to your Pligg website. Below is a list of some of the configuration options available along with explanations.

AntiSpam
This is where you setup your antispam filtering for story / comments submission. You can also set your filtering rules, domain blacklist and log for spam filtering activity.

Avatars
This is where you setup the default user avatar location, size, to allow your user to upload their own avatar and avatar storage location.

Comments
This is where you can enable / disable user ability to comments and the ability to vote on comments. You can also changed how pligg sort your comments. Plus you can changed the number of comments that appears on your sidebar and the maximum length before pligg automatically turnacate it.

Groups
This is where you enable / disable and setup pligg group feature. A wiki entry has already been made on explaining pligg group feature.

Misc
This is where you find the setting for all the other pligg features, which includes the following:

  • Trackback URL
  • Enable extra fields
  • Allow friends
  • Search method
  • Database Language
  • Page Size
  • Top Users Size
  • Spell Check
  • MySQL Table Prefix
  • Enable Gzip File Compression
  • Validate user email


SEO
This is where you can enable SEO friendly url. An in-depth explanation can be found: SEO Friendly URL

Story
This is where you can enable Thumbnail preview on news page, and choose if to open links in a new window.

Submit
This is where you can control user news submission. The following can be found in this tab:


  • HTML tags to allow to Normal users
  • Require a URL when Submitting
  • Show the URL Input Box
  • No URL text
  • Auto vote
  • Validate URL
  • Summary Content truncate
  • Allow Edit of Summary
  • Minimum Title Length
  • Minimum Story Length
  • Email Time Limit
  • Limit time to edit stories
  • Minutes before a user is no longer allowed to edit a story
  • HTML tags to allow to Admin users
  • HTML tags to allow to God


Tags
This is wher you enable / disable pligg tags features. This is also where you can control the tags size, word limits and the number of tags that is allowed to displayed on the tags sidebar.

Tell-a-Friend
This is where you enable / disable pligg Tell-a-Friend features. It is recommended that you do not leave "Sent from email" field empty as it will likely not reach the intended receipents if you leave it blank.

Template
This is where you indicated to pligg which template you want to use a default and if you allow each user to select his/her own template.

Voting
This is where you can control the voting style. You can choose between digg style or the good olb five star rating. There is one field called "Votes Allowed from one IP" which has been faulted in some thread in pligg forums for causing user not being able to vote. If you set this field to 1, user will only be able to vote once per IP per news.