BANGALORE, INDIA: Are you keen on building a news site with features of a typical social networking site? Pligg portal enables users to submit their own content which is then categorized as an 'upcoming story'. Once a story recieves enough number of votes, it is promoted to the main page of the portal automatically.

A user can also write a short version of his story and share the same with a group of users. Besides, vistors can comment on a story, and others can rate it. Just as you would expect from a social networking site, Pligg allows users to create their profiles as well as create groups. It also supports private messaging as well as RSS feeds. RSS feeds from other websites can also be used for adding stories on a Pligg portal automatically.

Now run the installer by going to localhost/pligg/install (here put the name of your webserver instead of localhost). This will launch the installation wizard, which will ask you to specify settings of your database, ie, database name, username, password, etc.

Next, it will ask you to choose the admin account details -admin login name, password, email etc. Once you have created an admin account, Pligg is ready to use. Now you need to delete the /install directory from your webserver and change credentials of /libs/dbconnect.php to 644.

When submitting news, visitors can specify the category and group in which the news should be featured.	As a user submits a news item, it is displayed under Upcoming News. Only after getting sufficient votes it is moved to main portal.