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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to Create Social Bookmarking Site using Pligg</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are many free & paid social bookmarking sites and some are 
paid one too. Social bookmarking sites are usually those sites which 
allow submissions from user and community to rate the submissions. Some 
examples of such social bookmarking sites are: Digg, Reddit, Stumble 
Upon and so on. Now, if you are one of those bloggers who have proved 
himself and community trust your choice and recommendation, it’s time to
 take another stage forward and start your own social bookmarking site. <img alt="Pligg " class="alignright size-full wp-image-50161" height="243" src="http://www.shoutmeloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Pligg.png" style="border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px;" title="Pligg" width="400" /> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> By
 this method, you can provide quality news and best of topics from 
internet to your followers. For this task simply start a Social 
Bookmarking column with your blog or you can <strong><em>create social bookmarking site</em></strong>.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some examples of great social bookmarking sites are reddit.com
 and StumbleUpon.com etc. Many open source CMS are available for 
creating a social bookmarking site like Drupal, Hotaru and some 
WordPress plugins are also available. But I recommend you a smart one 
and free CMS – <em><strong>PLIGG</strong></em>.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Specially, being a blogger we read so many articles and many of them 
are interesting and you might be using various bookmarking tools to 
bookmark these pages. How about you create your own social bookmarking 
site and save your links and at the same time <strong>make money from ads</strong>.<br />
The idea is simple, instead of using any 3rd party site for bookmarking 
your links, you can use your own social bookmarking site. You don’t need
 to promote it apart from setting up Pligg and adding your links. It 
might take years before your social bookmarking site will start catching
 some eyes but yes, you are making money for something that you were 
completely ignoring. And in future, you might allow user submissions and
 you never know you might have created one of the top or popular social 
bookmarking site.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pligg is an <em><strong>open source CMS</strong></em> (Content 
Management System) that provides you social publishing software that 
encourages visitors to create an account and start bookmarking links on 
internet by submitting them. This is call submission and same submission
 will be shown to other users who can vote and promote that story to 
homepage for more wider audience. This is good for bloggers to get 
traffic and specially creating a social bookmarking site based on a 
small niche is a great idea.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pligg is a powerful social networking CMS which comes with various 
features like: Groups, Private messaging, Commenting system, User 
profile, modules, Templating, and it’s also SEO optimized. In this 
article I’ll give you full tutorial how to install, configure and modify
 Pligg to create your own social bookmarking website. Follow these 
steps:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to Install Pligg CMS:</span></h2>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.  Go to pligg.com and
 download the latest version of Pligg. You need a webhosting to get 
started, and I would recommend to start on Hostgator which is perfect 
for hosting your Pligg Social bookmarking site. Sign up for Hostgator here. (Use Coupon ShoutMeLoud25 to get 25% discount on your total bill).</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then go to your cPanel and upload it in any directory (www.yourdomain.com/<em>example</em>) where you want or you can upload it in the web root (<em>www.yourdomain.com</em>)
 if you want to convert your whole website into a social bookmarking 
site. Now extract it and open the address, where you uploaded it, in a 
new window.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.  Now you’ll see a screen with three 
links Pligg Homepage, Plig README and Pligg. Choose Pligg from them. 
Then follow the instruction mentioned in the page. Go to your cPanel and
 open Pligg directory. Rename ‘<em>settings.php.default</em>‘ to ‘<em>settings.php</em>‘ and rename ‘<em>dbconnect.php.default</em>‘ to ‘<em>dbconnect.php</em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">‘.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.  Then reload the page in which you are 
working and click on ‘Pligg Installer?’ and select your language. Now 
you have to play with CHMOD permissions. Change the permissions to 755 
of the following folders, if they give errors then try 777 permissions:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">admin/backup/</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">avatars/groups_uploaded/</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">avatars/user_uploaded/</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">cache/</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">cache/admin_c/</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">cache/templates_c/</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">languages/ (And all of the files contained in this folder should be CHMOD 777)</span></li>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Change the permissions to 666 the following files:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">libs/dbconnect.php</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">settings.php</span></li>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.  Afer changing the permissions when you’ll click Next you’ll have to fill the information of Data Base. So go to ‘<em>MySQL Database Wizard’ </em>in
 your cPanel and create a data base and fill its required details and 
press Next and fill your admin account details then click on <em>Create Admin Account</em>. The Pligg has been installed successfully .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.  Now again change the permissions of ‘<em>/libs/dbconnect.php</em>‘ to 644 because Pligg will not need to change this file again and delete the ‘<em>/install</em>‘
 directory from your cPanel. Your social bookmarking site is ready to 
use. Login to your admin area and configure your site. You should make 
your account in Pligg Forums<span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> for better experience.</span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Changing the theme/template is not so much easy like WordPress but not so much difficult also. Make your account in Pligg Forums and search there for the latest themes for Pligg and download them. Then upload them in your cPanel in ‘<em>/template</em>‘ directory. Login to your admin panel, go to template tag and select ‘<em>To change the template, please click here</em>‘ option. In template section fill the template/theme name (which you already have uploaded  in the ‘/<em>template</em>‘ directory) in the ‘<em>Value</em>‘ text area. And enjoy your social bookmarking site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are many Pligg templates that you can search and install it on 
your Pligg based site to give a new look. You can also hire a custom 
Pligg template designer to create a template for you. For now, do let us
 know if you have created and free or paid social bookmarking site using
 Pligg or any other CMS ? How was your exprience with personal social 
bookmarking site?</span><br />
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