[eon]

Ok, so I come across pligg. I say Heck Ya!.... very nice system. So I download, install, and get ready to mod. Little did I know... this looks like a NIGHTMARE to modify and customize! I hate template systems... they're overly complicated.

And I find that there's NO templates for the latest pligg? Nothing is compatible? And... noone wants to make any templates untill pligg is out of beta. There's a lot of people hanging here!

I think that this is killing pligg.

Does ANYONE have ANY info on ANY 9.5 compatible templates?

I would GREATLY appreciate any links, and I'm sure dozens of other people are looking for the same thing. Anyone... Please....

Thank you.

[AshDigg]

The template system is changing quite a bit for the next release (2-3 months away) and people are waiting for that. It will be much easier with the new system to make / edit templates.

[eon]

Ash, that sounds great and all, but really, that means it would be wise for any new pliggers to wait 2-3 months before attempting to use pligg. Otherwise, it would be a loss to start with 9.5, and in 2-3 months, possibly having to start all over again.

My suggestion is.... if the pligg masters are going to let this sit in 9.5 untill the milestone 1.0 is out, then the pligg masters should either inform new downloaders of the situation beforehand, or have 2-5 templates made so that the community doesn't sit around waiting, possibly losing interest in using pligg at all.

I mean, I saw pligg and was happy. I bought a domain, set up hosting, installed it, and then found out I'm basically stuck like many others... unless I want to spend countless hours trying to modify something that in 2-3 months will be no good.

Hope nobody gets me wrong. I think pligg is a great thing, but it can't sit lilke this!

[kbeeveer46]

Spend a few hours and learn the structure of a Pligg site and then go find a free template that you like at one of the many open source template sites. This way you don't have to spend all the time creating something from scratch.

Pligg.tpl is the container that holds all the elements of a Pligg site.

[revolver]

Can one of the developers comment on what the transition process will be like for existing sites that have created their own templates once the new template system is introduced? Will templates made for 9.5 be compatible with the v1.0 release? Will it be relatively easy to upgrade?

Any insights greatly appreciated.

[successmaker]

I would be happy to see the easy upgrade and integration option from the current pligg version to the future version 1.0.

[savant]

I would really like some template options.

What does this mean?

[eon]

Originally Posted by savant

What does this mean?

You know what it means


I wanted to come back here and say that I have successfully modified the hell out of the default template and css. It took about 16 hours... all day yesterday and most of today so far.

There is a pretty nasty learning curve for anyone just coming into pligg... BUT... if you're a real webbie... you'll get through it. I was just frustraded that there was no other way... other than putting on my web boots and getting dirty.

There are quite a few little tedious things that take a lot of time to iron out though... pretty anoying. I hate the tiny hour long problems

[dollars5]

Originally Posted by eon

You know what it means


I wanted to come back here and say that I have successfully modified the hell out of the default template and css. It took about 16 hours... all day yesterday and most of today so far.

There is a pretty nasty learning curve for anyone just coming into pligg... BUT... if you're a real webbie... you'll get through it. I was just frustraded that there was no other way... other than putting on my web boots and getting dirty.

There are quite a few little tedious things that take a lot of time to iron out though... pretty anoying. I hate the tiny hour long problems

I would have to disagree with your statements on the learning curve with Pligg - some 5 months back (December 2006 I guess) it just took me 3 hours to understand the flow (I also referred to several posts in the general help section that clarified many of my doubts), and if I got struck I used to post my doubts in here and the ever online Pligg dev team used to reply promptly in brief making me understand the whole pligg stuff in just 10 hours since beginning. I had doubts with the smarty system which I cleared off by reading stuff from smarty.net. Within a week of so i was able to start contributing with modules and install+customize Pligg with ease.

Now I even accept client projects for people who want a very custom Pligg installation (performing non-standard Pligg functionalities) Eg: http://memeorlame.com, Do1thing (launching June) and some minor module developments.

So learning Curve of Pligg is dependent on the interest level of the learner - more you are interested less steep it is, lesser your interest - more steeper it is.

But I have to admit this 1 thing: Comparing to other CMS systems like WordPress, Drupal, Joomla - people feel islated and hard with Pligg - just because it lacks a documentation. But with all our efforts it can be built at the Pligg Wiki site (I forgot its link)

Added by Yankidank: Wiki URL

[dollars5]

@eon : Also did you read this - http://forums.pligg.com/showthread.php?t=6526

Ash mentions "ability to take virtually any template from oswd or freecsstemplates and other similar sites and have it working with Pligg within a hour. Tutorials will be released." - which is sweet.