Admin Panel for 1.0 and above

mismeflight

You can login to your admin panel your navigation panel on your default wistie template which will become available once you login or you can use yourdomain.com/admin. If you are not login, you will be redirected to your login page and after a successful login you will be redirected back to yourdomain.com/admin.

This article is sorted by how the default admin template is being arrange.

On this tab you will be able to manage News, User account, Comments, Categories and pages.

News
On this page you will be able to managed your news, such as changing its status (Publish Queued Discard), delete discarded news from the database and edit the news contents.

User
You will be able to manage user account from this page, such as changing account privileges, edit the user account details, reset the user account password or disable the account.

- New User
You can create a new user by clicking this link. However on 1.0 RC 2 there is a reported bug which prevent you from creating a new user, using this method. However user registration is not affected.

- Editing User Account
To edit a user account, click on username and you will be redirected to a new page where you will have various administrative options stated above.

Comments
On this tab, you will be able to manage the comments made by your visitor. To delete a comment simply check the checkbox next to comments you wish to delete and click on delete selected. To edit a comment, you must first click on Author name, find the comment you want to edit and click on edit link just next to the delete checkbox. Clicking edit, you will redirected to the page where the comments appears.

Alternatively, you don't need to go into your admin panel to manage your comments. Instead simply login as admin and browse through the news normally and if find any comments you wish to edit, you simply click on the edit link available on each comments. Do note you will need to login as admin and above.

Categories
This is where you can manage your category. A wiki entry has been made by Yankidank that explains category management. Below is youtube video made by the same people who make pligg:

YouTube Video

Pages
Pages will enable you to make a static page. This is useful for TOS, about us pages without creating a seperate file.

Configure

This where you will be spending most of your time when you login to your admin panel for the first time. Please note the following is the default configuration page, if you have install extra modules you may or may not find a link that is not listed here.

- 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.

- Live
A wiki entry has been made on the pligg live feature.

- Location Installed

- 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

- OutGoing

- 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.

Backup

This is where you can do backup user avatar, pligg database or both. All backups made will be available in the following folder: admin > backup.

Modules

This is where you enable / disable or install modules. To install modules, simple find the modules you want and click on install. Do note some module will require other modules to be installed first.

After a module has been install, it will be enable by default. All enable modules will be indicated by dark red Disable text. Clicking on Disable will disable the modules and the text will be replace by a green enable text which of course when click will enable the module.

Template

This is where you can edit your template file (.tpl) via your admin panel. Do note that you won't be able to edit your css file via this method. You may also want to read the following:

Template Files
Template Structure