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[PandaMan]

Greetings All!!!

Excellent script. I am using Pligg at Save Money by Gardening. Using the forum I fixed the IE Catagories problem and have added pending so I approve the posted articles before the world sees them and in both cases it was just a matter of following the instructions one step at a time.

Well I got to go but I will be back.

Randy

[seomax]

Hello all,

At very first I have to introduce myself, I m newbie here and being SEO field which consists world wide web’s all stuff like a web production, web promotion, web technology, internet marketing, PPC marketing and advertising and all of advertising, search engine and their strategies and rules which are more potential for us means users etc. I need a forum and a niche place where I can share my thoughts and give other whatever I got. I think this is one of best forum site and being member of this site I pleased to say that I m member of this forum site.

After worked on web production I moved on SEO field 6 month ago and I realized that how important it is, isn’t it? I learned something from here, as well as from other web sources.

My aim to be professional in internet marketing and web strategies as well as analyzer of web market which consists how web movement get impact over world economy.

And I m concluded my speech here.

[planetmike]

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:

Docs: 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.

Docs: 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.

Docs: 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

[planetmike]

Another oddity: the Download link in the header of pligg.com site leads to a different place than the two download links on the home page. That is a bit confusing.

[jvidal14]

hello, I am new here, I hope to learn much of this

[gvalex]

Hi everyone. Could anybody help me and explain where I'm wrong? I'm trying to download 9.9.0 release. I've registered and loged in. THen I clicked on a download link. But it redirects me back to login and says I have to login first.

[alexdn]

Dear Fellow Members:

I hope to build a community site where users can share best practices in
my niches (real estate investing and Internet marketing).

Thanks,

- Alex -

[ruckerstephen]

Swimming with the Pliggs...was given a tip and an idea and told to check it out, so we shall see....

Honestly, just sorting out the best way to construct a nice social network that makes a diff.

regards,
ruckerman

[glorify]

Originally Posted by planetmike

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:

Docs: 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.

Docs: 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.

Docs: 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

I gotta say, you have a lot of time on your hands. Maybe with it you could donate your time to giving the docs a rewrite for the good of the current and future Pliggers.

I have run a vbulletin site for about 5 years, won Board of the Month in January of this year at vb.org, and just all of the sudden decided to go in a new direction as my creativity was gone in vb (tho I love the software).

I have been kind of used to paying for solid software and then relying on the community to develop add ons, mostly for free because they wanted to.

Here is a little backwards to me as far as a free software with a small team of developers and a lot of paid mods.

But I'm not complaining. I'd just like to see some more donate their time and work to the community. It'd help everyone as a whole and if you have that much time to pick stuff apart, you surely have the time to do something about it that would benefit us all.

[planetmike]

Originally Posted by glorify

I gotta say, you have a lot of time on your hands. Maybe with it you could donate your time to giving the docs a rewrite for the good of the current and future Pliggers.

I have run a vbulletin site for about 5 years, won Board of the Month in January of this year at vb.org, and just all of the sudden decided to go in a new direction as my creativity was gone in vb (tho I love the software).

I have been kind of used to paying for solid software and then relying on the community to develop add ons, mostly for free because they wanted to.

Here is a little backwards to me as far as a free software with a small team of developers and a lot of paid mods.

But I'm not complaining. I'd just like to see some more donate their time and work to the community. It'd help everyone as a whole and if you have that much time to pick stuff apart, you surely have the time to do something about it that would benefit us all.

That's the thing, I don't have that much time on my hands. From looking through the site months ago, I knew Pligg looked like a project with potential. On Monday this week I had a day free, so I figured I would throw up a test site to see how well it really worked. All of my notes up there are things that anyone would have had problems with if they were a first time Pligg-installer.

I'm willing to invest a little bit in helping with documentation, but right now it seems everything is such a hodgepodge, I'm not sure where to start. Plus, do you really want someone writing documentation who has only used Pligg for 3 days? I've emailed chuckroast to see how I could help get the docs organized.