About LemonTwist:

Originally designed as a theme for Wordpress by Chris Murphy, LemonTwist is now a free Pligg template released by Yankidank. The template is currently being developed for the next Pligg version (9.9.6). LemonTwist currently is designed to work with Pligg SVN revision 55 current as of August 18, 2008. Please DO NOT redistribute this template or any variation of it without getting my permission first.

For those who want to use a logo image with their site rather than a text name in the top left corner, please download the logo file attached to the official thread. It contains a .psd file for the logo image, you should then read NOTES.txt for more information about how to use it.

LemonTwist template for Pligg

Differences from Yget:

LemonTwist does not fully support the five star voting method. I decided that it’s not something I was interested in writing extra code to add in since very few Pliggers make use of voting method 2.

Version:

As of this blog post, the current version is 0.003.
Version numbers will be updated with each SVN revision commit that modifies this template.
To receive the most up to date version of this template please download it from the Pligg SVN under the /templates directory (not /trunk/templates).
It’s brand new and still needs a couple final fixes (see below bug list), but I consider this template to be quite stable. I should have a rock solid version of this template ready for inclusion with 9.9.6.

If you would like to contribute some help I would be glad to have the assistance. I would also greatly appreciate a donation using the Chipin widget associated with the forum thread. I invested a lot of time developing this template and I could use the money to help support me creating more free templates.

Known bugs:

• Check page management, currently submission isn’t redirecting to anything
• Vote doesn’t change to “voted” with ajax vote. Requires page refresh.

Support:

Limited support will be offered from myself once I finish this template. If enough users begin using this template I will create a new forum for bug reports and help requests.
Please check the README.txt and NOTES.txt files for more information about the LemonTwist template.

Download:

Download the latest version available from the SVN or the most recent forum release through the official LemonTwist thread.

Somehow for the past several months it slipped by me that the Pligg forum has been requiring users to log in to a forum account to download anything from any of the forums. That was definitely not my intent, and I now understand some of the frustrations that I’ve heard from users about how the main Pligg download isn’t easy to access. This will be a lesson to me to be more careful about checking the small details, you would have thought that I would have learned through all of the bug testing I do with Pligg.

Downloads in the forum have been straightened out, now you can download the latest version of Pligg without having to register for an account.  Not only can you get the latest version of Pligg, but now the Pligg Templates and Pligg Modules forums are open for download without registration so now you can get all the free templates and modules without having an account. Of course, if you want support you should register an account, and even consider registering just to receive important email updates if a security threat is discovered.

I have decided tonight to retire the Downloads link from the top menu across the site because the forum downloads section wasn’t flexible enough to meet the needs of Pligg users. We no longer have a centralized file area, instead we will rely on forum thread attachments for downloads.

35,000 emails have been sent out this evening to let Pligg users know that we have a security fix out to patch some of the recent vulnerabilities discovered in the Pligg core. The contents of the email can be found below.

Download Pligg 9.9.5

This week has been a stressful week for many Pliggers due to a security vulnerability discovered and exploited by a few hackers. It seems that even though we have not provided any changes in code over the past several months, three separate people seemed to find holes in the Pligg software all within the same few days. Since we first discovered the problem we have been frantically trying to patch the hole and get a release out to the public, and tonight we are ready to provide you with the first solution in protecting your Pligg site. I must thank many of you for posting to the forums some of the fixes that we have applied

First, please update to the latest version of Pligg available (currently 9.9.5). This release that was published just minutes ago should take care of many security vulnerabilities that the hackers are exploiting. I have also hired a third party expert to analyze and patch any security holes that might still exist in Pligg. I have also hired a part time coder to assist in developing Pligg over the next month as we approach 1.0. Any updates that I receive from either of these people will be added to the SVN and shortly after that the next Pligg version.

Second, we are developing a feature that will create registration confirmation emails that will hopefully stop, or at least slow down spammers and some hackers. You can expect this (along with a new default Pligg template) in version 1.0 which is due out soon.

Third, we will be providing you with frequent updates now through the Pligg blog as we continue to develop and refine our software. I am committed to improving Pligg and bringing in several new free templates over the next month. The latest version of Pligg will now display the latest Pligg Blog titles in the admin panel so you can keep an eye on developments.

Last but not least I must announce our new SVN server URL. We have changed services so that our developers can communicate and track changes better. You can now find our new SVN URL at:
https://pligg.svn.beanstalkapp.com/pligg/

You can also keep track of our SVN changes through Twitter using this url: http://twitter.com/pligg

Happy 2008 everyone! It’s a new year, and what better way to kick it off by releasing the long awaited Pigg Beta 9.9.0
I’ll leave the technical stuff to the change log but I’m sure you will agree this is the best version of Pligg yet. Besides a slew of core improvements and a multitude of bug fixes, the first thing you will notice is a slight change to the installation process. We are rolling out a language fetching feature to the installation process. This will allow you to select a language, then the installer will connect to the Pligg servers to download the most up to date language pack.

Another new addition is Template Management. This will allow you to download and install templates instantly. You can also repackage templates for distribution much easier.

Some other great features included in this version are the addition of the Akismet anti-spam, and new Captcha module for registrations which allows for different types of Captcha methods to be used. Agree-to-Terms allows you to set up a user agreement upon registration.

We would like to thank everyone that made 2007 a great year for Pligg and we promise that 2008 will be the best year yet!

Pligg Beta 9.8 released today (9/8/2007) with several bug fixes and a more compatible and optimized template. We noticed today that it has been a really long time since the last major release, but if you compare us to Mac OS X we are moving pretty fast with incremental updates. Pretty soon we will be releasing our stable 1.0 version, which should be the most stable and efficient version of Pligg yet.

Below is a list of the most recent changes for Pligg Beta 9.8.

• Fix for various ‘undefined index’ errors.
• Various code improvements.
• Added various module hooks.
• Updates to make yget Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
• Various bugfixes.
• MySQL strict mode fixes.
• Optimized CSS.
• Updates to make CSS 2.1 Valid.
• Fixed tabindex on register and login pages.
• Fixed www / no www voting problem.
• ezSQL cache of some of the tables.
• Upgraded RSS Importer to ver 0.5.
• Added ability to use Google site search.
• Added ability to log ez_sql queries to a file.
• Added ability to disable ‘Last 5 people to view this profile’ as it is causing DB problems for some users.
• Hide ‘god’ users from the ‘who voted’ section.
• Fix for MySQL usernames and passwords with “$” in it.

You can download Pligg Beta 9.8 here.