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New Pligg Beta 9.9.0
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Happy 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!
Want to Beta Test Pligg 9.9.0 ?
Monday, December 24th, 2007We are looking for 20 or so dedicated Pliggers to help us go through some intensive testing on Pligg 9.9.0 beginning this Wednesday December 26 and continuing through Monday December 31st.
You must be familiar with Pligg’s features, and be available to provide detailed bug reports. Including the operating environment and any steps taken to recreate the said bug.
If you are interested please respond to this thread.
You will be contacted with further instructions if you are selected.
Thanks
Pligg Development Team
Pligg Beta 9.8
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Pligg 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.
Pligg.com Goes Fraxi
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Pligg.com and Pligg.com/blog now both using the new “Fraxi” template, thanks to the work done by the folks at Moonrank USA. The design was created by me in Photoshop and ported as a Pligg template by Moonrank. The Pligg template version still hasn’t been applied to the site because we are working on some new features release along side the new template. For now you have a beautiful new homepage and blog to look at and help us test out.
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Beta 9.5 released, here’s what’s new.
Monday, April 30th, 2007Yesterday evening Pligg released beta version 9.5, our last installment of the beta series for Pligg. Between this release and the next there will be additional optimizations performed and some final tweaking and bugfixes added. It has been decided that most features from this point out should be added through the semi-new module system which lets you plugin your own code without messing with the core of Pligg. This doesn’t mean that the development of Pligg will slow, in fact we expect the opposite. Soon we will be releasing a few new features on Pligg.com that I think will result in gaining the attention of more developers and users. We’re very happy about the current performance and features of Pligg and I think you will agree after testing this latest version. Below is a list of my favorite features from this release (there are A LOT). Picture will be added soon.
- Related Stories - New related stories feature returns stories that have common tags. Code can be found here http://forums.pligg.com/showthread.p…elated+stories
- Un-vote - Now users can un-vote stories they have voted for.
- Mass delete private messages - Delete as many PM as you want at once.
- Search for users - On the profile page users can search for other users
- Major database query enhancements - There are no official numbers yet but AshDigg has done an awesome job eliminating many calls to the database. A quick estimation shows that the database calls in version 9.1 was 170+ and now it’s 50-60. This should substantially increase the speed of your Pligg site
- “Reporting/Burying” Stories - Users can bury stories that are spam, inaccurate etc etc. Burying a story grays it out to signify you have buried it.
- Latest comments - A new sidebar module that shows the latest comments has been added.
- Vote counts in sidebar - Now in the sidebar you can view the vote counts for each story
- Custom 404 pages - Now you can easily enable a custom 404 page for your Pligg site.
- “Save” stories - A new feature has been added to Pligg that lets users save or bookmark any stories they want. The stories are saved under a new tab called “Saved” in their profile. (thanks eH9116)
- Title of stories links to original news URL on story page - Now when your users are viewing the full story they can click on the title to view the external link
- Vote count is RSS feeds - The vote count for each story has been added to the RSS feeds.
- New Modules
- Enhanced RSS importer module - The RSS importer is now a module and has many new features including Import pre-existing feeds and support for random votes.
- Image upload module - Upload images and use the thickbox javascript library to view them (Thanks Cent)
- Digg users module - Allow your users to enter their digg name in their profile and an rss feed for their submitted and voted on stories is automatically generated in the rss importer. Admins can then import these stories into their Pligg site. Thanks (jstayii/uncle_jesse)
- Email all users module - A module that lets you create a message to send to all of the users on your site
- Page statistics module - A module that allows your users to view all the stories and how many views each story has had.
- Formula Manager module - A new module has been added that allows an admin to easily modify formulas that are used and their Pligg site. Currently, you can only edit the “report/bury” formula. Hopefully more will be added in the future.
- Enhanced Admin Panel - Major improvements to the Admin Panel.
- Search users - On the main user management page you can now search for users. You can search by name, email address, level, and date joined.
- Create new user - Create users from the admin panel.
- Link Management - As an admin you can do a mass update of stories via the admin panel. You can select multiple stories and either discard, queue, or published them with one click of a button. Admins can use this area to search for any stories, too.
- Template Editor - Now admins can easily edit any of their template files via a new template editor. This saves the time having to get out your FTP client to make a small change.
- Comment Manager - A new comment manager allows admins to delete or edit all comments from the admin panel. Mass deletion of comments can be done with a single click. Admins can use this area to search for comments, too.
General Updates and Pligg Beta 9
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006New to the Pligg Forum navigation bar is a link to the Downloads section and a link to the IRC chat room. The downloads section is a great way to upload your own modules, templates and language files and share them with the community. Uploads are posted to the bottom of your forum profile, you can see an example by looking at my profile here.
Pligg’s first birthday on December 17th was a great success. We released a new version of Pligg (beta 9) on Pligg’s birthday, new to beta 9 are modules. Modules let developers add features to Pligg without having to modify the core code. Currently there are a few modules available to download including a private messaging too, embed video tool and phpbb integration. Development has slowed slightly for the holidays, but you can rest assured that we will pick up the pace after the New Year.
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