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It's been 2 years since inception of Pligg and we wanted to bring everyone up to speed on where we've been and where we're going. When Pligg began back on December 17, 2005 we never imagined how successful or complex the project would become. Pligg is now one of the most popular content management systems available today due to YOU, our wonderful users. Many articles have been written about Pligg, and Pligg has been mentioned (and even used) on many popular tech sites all over the web. The Pligg community forums have grown to over 17,000 members, all sharing ideas and supporting each other. Pligg is now offered by many web hosting companies as a packaged service. DreamHost is one of the largest web hosting companies in the world now offers Pligg through their "One Click Installs"

Many people have requested to have custom modules developed. We wanted to provide a place in which everyone could have the opportunity to have access to these add-ons while still providing benefits to the authors. Thus the birth of the Pligg marketplace aptly named "Pligg Pro". Pligg Pro allows you to purchase themes and additional modules to enhance your Pligg site even further. We launched "Pligg Pro" in the last week of October and has been an overwhelming success. It has allowed for Pligg to create a new revenue stream and has boosted development as we gear up to come out of beta and release Pligg V1.0.

To celebrate Pligg's second birthday we're offering a coupon code for Pligg Pro that gives you 22% off all orders until 12/24/2007. Use coupon code 'Birthday2' when making your purchase. Visit http://pligg.com/pro/ soon before the coupon expires.

Since our last release of Pligg Beta 9.8.2 we've been hard at work with bug fixes and code enhancements which will provide a noticeable difference in load times and code compliance. We're quite sure you'll be impressed, as this will clearly be the best version of Pligg yet. The next release, Beta 9.9.0, will be one of the last 'beta' releases before version 1.0. We've developed many new free modules that have expanded the abilities of Pligg. Anti-Spam modules that help reduce spam submissions and spam comments. A CAPTCHA module will allow you to choose from different CAPTCHAs or even use none at all. There is a new Template Manager module that allows templates to be installed with the click of a button instead of downloading, unzipping and uploading each file.

Soon we will be launching a new service called "Fraxi" which will allow anyone to create their own free Pligg powered niche community with just a few clicks of a mouse button. For example if someone living in Miami wanted to create a social network for the citizens of their community, they will be able to create Miami.Fraxi.com in a matter of seconds. No hosting fees, no installation process and no time wasted. They can then concentrate on growing their social network instead of needing to learn the ropes of FTPing, monkeying with server configurations, setting up domains, etc. More information about this service and website will be unveiled soon.

Future releases of Pligg will have a new installation process that will allow you to choose from various language packages. It will automatically download to your server the latest lang.conf file for the selected language. We're asking for help from bilingual Pliggers to help translate these language files in the near future. We've developed an online system to try to make the process easier. You can participate as a translator by signing up soon via the Pligg forum. More details will be posted on both the blog and forum in the coming weeks.

Since Pligg has grown rapidly we've needed to expand our server capacity a few times over the past 2 years to keep up with demand. Pligg.com receives roughly 5 million unique visitors and 20 to 30 million page views each year. This amount of traffic requires a massive amount of bandwidth and operating expenses. This is paid for by your kind donations and though sponsorships on the front page. If you would like to sponsor Pligg and have your company's link and logo on the front page, we offer several extremely cost effective plans. So please show your support by becoming a Pligg sponsor today. You can find out more about Pligg Sponsorships by visiting here. If you'd like to make a donation you can do so by visiting here.

We'd take a moment to applaud a site that has used Pligg in an original way. This time we tip our hats to the founders of www.RealEstateVoices.com, who have created a site with a unique look and feel that many visitors would not recognize as a typical Pligg site. Like many successful Pligg sites, they found a niche market and appealed to them through clean design and relevant content.

Thanks for a great 2 years! 2008 will be even better.

The Pligg Development Team

The Pligg Pro shop is the official spot to get Pligg Templates, Modules and Services. Many of the items in the shop are developed by the creators of Pligg, and a percentage of each sale goes toward further development of the Pligg Content Management System.

In an effort to promote quality work on the Pligg Pro shop and to encourage the expansion of free downloads we require that all developers who sell work on Pligg Pro have donated modifications, modules or templates to the Pligg Forum. The Pligg Pro shop has been designed to give committed Pligg developers an incentive to keep developing. All items submitted to Pligg Pro will be reviewed based upon the developers standing in the Pligg community and by the quality of the work. Pligg Pro also will work to negotiate fair and honest prices for the shop. If you are interested in becoming a developer, please contact us using our developer signup form.

This was posted by Dravis on the forum and it deserved some attention because this is a fantastic mod that many people have requested. He provided an excellent writeup on how to install this mod, so make sure that you check it out if you want a way to improve your user participation. Below is Dravis’ explanation of what this modification is.

Users may add an Adsense ID and Adsense Channel (optional) to their account settings. If they set they’re Adsense ID, from that point forward, every time a story they posted is viewed, there’s a chance their ads are displayed. The optional Adsense Channel allows the user to track how many impressions and clicks their ads are getting through their Adsense account. You set the default revenue share percent for all users while implementing the mod, but after that, you may adjust any user’s revenue sharing percent through the user administration menu. So for example if you want to reward one particular member for their recent participation, you can bump just that one user’s revenue share from 50% to 80%. The way this mod is set up, there is no revenue sharing for ads on the front page summary, or any other pages on the site, just the full story pages where you can submit comments. As a safety precaution to protect your users, as long as they’re logged into their user account, they’ll never be shown their own ads in an attempt to help prevent them from accidentally clicking them and getting banned from Google.