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Sep 03

Create a digg or StumbleUpon clone website

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We all know the social networks Digg.com and StumbleUpon which attracts thousands of web users every day and provide links to quality and interesting articles, news and media from well-known and brand new websites in the Net. A lot of people love these social publishing websites and many of you might have thought over the idea to create such a website and attract many visitors generating valuable content.

It is true that sites such as Digg.com and StumbleUpon have a large team of experienced web developers but you do not need to be an expert developer or have programming knowledge in order to create a similar website. In this article we would like to present one very interesting social publishing content management system which will provide you with all the features required to start our own digg clone website — the social publishing CMS Pligg.

Pligg was created as a social publishing CMS. While most content management systems are designed for only a handful of authors, Pligg CMS was designed to manage a site with an unlimited number of authors. All of these registered users are in control of the website’s content. It is a user driven CMS that relies on independent authors content and participation to manage news articles.

The Pligg Community features allows you to share articles with other members of a group who share a common interest in a topic, provides included a private messaging module, post, comment or rate already posted articles or comments. Additionally, Pligg provides extended user profiles for your members. Furthermore, you are provided with module manager allowing you to extend your website functionality as well as easy upgrade procedure to keep up to date your application and modules. Pligg social publishing CMS is also very well optimized for search engines in order to drive more traffic to your site.

You may review the official Pligg websites gallery here. It provides links to many real active Pligg social networks which you can review as demo. You can also check the official demo of Pligg here.

Our Pligg Hosting Package provides a great hosting environment specially optimized by the official server requirements provided by the Pligg developers. Furthermore, our technical support team will install Pligg CMS for you completely free of charge. On the other hand, if you have an active Pligg website you can transfer it to TMDHosting by requesting a free website transfer — our support team will perform the transfer professionally without any downtime or data loss.

For any inquiries you might have, please do not hesitate to contact our experienced sales representatives – they are 24/7 at your disposal.

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Aug 31

Community website hosting

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If you are about to start your own social network or community website you might be interested in the following applications which cover almost all features required for interactive and social-oriented website. Below you can find a list of the most populary used appllications and suitable hosting solutions for them.

wordpress-muBased on the standard WordPress blog platform the multi-user version extends the functionality to a whole new level providing you with the ability to create literary unlimited number of blogs. Additionally, your visitors may register and sign up for their own WordPress blog which will be created automatically without any actions required on your end. In other words, WordPress MU is the perfect application if you are looking for a blog-oriented community website. Our WordPress MU Hosting package provides all hosting features that will be needed, free installation and 24/7 expert technical support.

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buddypress_256BuddyPress is a set of WordPress plugins and themes which extend the multi user version of WordPress with many social network features such as extended user profiles, private messaging, friends lists and groups as well as user wall (wire). BuddyPress contains all the features you would expect from WordPress but emphasize on the members social interaction. If you are looking for a blog-community network but still you would like to emphasize on member profiles and groups BuddyPress is just for you. Our BuddyPress Hosting package is recongnized as the best on the marked due to the professional support and BuddyPress optimized hosting environment.

For those of you who are about to start their own BuddyPress website we have a special offer. If you sign up in the following 7 days you can get a special discount with PROMO CODE: BUDDY

Related Posts: WordPress MU and BuddyPress hosting

pligg_logoPligg is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that you can download and use for free. Still, it is not like the other CMS applications and hardly can be recongnized as any other specific type of application due to its unique features. Pligg CMS provides social networking software that encourages visitors to register on your website so that they can submit content and connect with other users. Pligg creates websites where stories are created and voted on by members, not website editors. You can use Pligg to start your own Digg-like social networking community in minutes. If you are going to create your own StumbleUpon clone you will need a reliable and secure Pligg hosting solution. Our Pligg Hosting package provides hassle-free environment for your website needs on an extreemly afforable price.

Laconica (pronounced “luh-KAWN-ih-kuh”) is a Free and Open Source microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to “follow” and receive only their friends’ or colleagues’ status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku, and Plurk.

Related Posts: Create a Twitter Clone

Joomla Community Builder is an open-source community builder, working as an extension to Joomla. Community Builder integrates all features needed to make your site social and users getting active on your website. Community Builder is designed and tested for stability and performance, and runs on many large sites with concurrent member interactions. Performance audits and database optimizations have been made in cooperation with leading database experts to ensure large site operations. Our specially optimized hosting environment for Joomla websites is a great platform for building your community website using the Joomla Community Builder Hosting Package

Dolphin web community script is a universal software package that allows you to build any kind of online community. With a huge variety of features and options, you can quickly develop your own community, dating or social-networking site.

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Aug 08

Make your BuddyPress site look like Facebook or Twitter

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Today’s post is dedicated to all Facebook and Twitter fans who want to have their own social networking website looking just like the ones we all know about and use daily.

It’s a sure thing that even without reading through statistics you can say that the number of people who register daily to use Facebook or Twitter is a huge one. And it’s true – popularity of those community websites is so great that it’s no surprise that the number of BuddyPress users is growing so quickly, too. Before going further in this article, we should say a few words about BuddyPress for those who hear/ read about it for the first time: BuddyPress is a set of WordPress plugins and themes which extend the multi user version of WordPress with many social network features such as extended user profiles, private messaging, friends lists and groups as well as user wall (wire).

In other words, using BuddyPress you can have your own social networking website. So, good news is that BuddyPress has become really popular these days. Our statistics prove that every single day – average number of MU and BuddyPress installations is higher than the number of any other free application. That is why we are very happy that our partners from BuddyPress do their best to satisfy their fans’ appetite. Latest most popular releases of BuddyPress designers are the Shouty and Facebuddy themes.

Shouty and Facebuddy themes are dedicated to all Twitter and Facebook enthusiasts. The great thing about those two themes is that they differ from the default BP theme to a great extent. Apart from the fact that they will give a nice, clean Facebook or Twitter-like appearance to your BuddyPress site, those themes will also make your private network users love your site as much as they like using Facebook and Twitter. Actually, we bet they will love your Facebuddy or Twitter-like site even more.

Here you can check out some sample sites of BuddyPress using Facebuddy and Shouty:

Facebuddy:

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Shouty:

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Well, Shouty and Facebuddy themes can not be used with the older release of BuddyPress but no worries about that. At TMDHosting we do not only offer free installation of WordPress MU and BuddyPress, as a part of our BuddyPress hosting plan, we also offer free upgrade services.

You need only to register for our services and you can start creating your own Facebook or Twitter clone site today. It’s true, it is that easy. No need to worry about installation, right setup, themes change, etc.

Moreover, in case you already have your BuddyPress site running, we will transfer it for free to us with no downtime and save you all the hassle on that process.

You can review our BuddyPress hosting plan offer and start now. For any inquiries you might have, please do not hesitate to contact our experienced sales agents – they are at your disposal 24/7.

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