Finaly Our first Free Pligg Template is available for download. Browner1 has Web 2.0 feel and uses brown and white colors. It has been tested in IE6 and FireFox and with pligg v9.8.2.

This template has a custom links block in top left corner that is easily edited to add your own links without editing pligg code. We have added optional FeedBurner feed button but if you don’t use feedburner, you can easily convert back to original feed without messing with the code. This template also has changed Bookmark Pligg To FaceBook Bookmark URL and Image and added StumbleUpon and Technorati Bookmark URLs and Images.

Template Features:

Browner1 features editable links block, image as a logo, SEO Friendly Page Titles Hack, Duplicate Content fix, Delete Discarded Stories, Changed Bookmark Pligg To FaceBook Bookmark URL and Image, Added StumbleUpon and Technorati Bookmark URL and Image, Added FeedBurner feed button (optional). Minimum height in IE fix.

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::Demo

DOWNLOAD Browner1_v_9.8.zip

Installation:

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1. upload whole browner1 folder to /templates/ folder to your pligg root folder.

2. Goto you administration section and set the template name to “browner1″.

3. Upload images from Avatars folder to Avatars folder in your Pligg installation.

4.clear your /templates_c and /cache folders.
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1.SEO friendly titles Fix
This is already coded in pligg.tpl template included in the download.

2.Pligg Duplicate Content fix
Pligg story pages have a few URL’s that can be indexed by the search engines and could amount to duplicate content so we have included a Pligg robots.txt file that will fix that.

Just upload robots.txt from Extras/SEO package/ folder to the root folder of your server (where your pligg is installed).

3. Custom Logo Image.

To change the logo with your own, create your new logo and save it as logo.jpg and upload it to …templates/browner1/images/ folder on your server. Make sure the logo is 237px wide and 74px high (237×74). Alternatively you can change the image type (jpg,gif,…) in main.css under #logo.

4.Delete Discarded stories.Our templates come with already coded link to delete discarded stories in dashboard. If your website is in main folder (like http://www.pligg.com) all you have to do is upload admin_delete_stories.php and admin_optimize_database.php from Extras/ to the root folder of your server (where your pligg is installed).

If Pligg is installed in a subfolder, (like http://www.pligg.com/news/) then use files from Extras/Subfolder package/ folder and upload admin_links_center.tpl to …templates/browner1/admin_templates/ folder on your server replacing the existing file and admin_delete_stories.php and admin_optimize_database.php to the root folder of your server (where your pligg is installed).
(Thanks to fingerprn at http://forums.pligg.com/pligg-mods/10089-method-deleting-discarded-stories.html for this hack).

5.FeedBurner button Configuration:

Custom template file will let you use Feedburner or regular feeds.

6.Protect tpl files

When you install Pligg inside the /template folder you will see a file titled htaccess.default, rename this file to .htaccess to protect your templates directory from being browsed. It is also good idea to copy this file to all your template directories for example if you are using yget as your template place a copy of the .htaccess file within every folder of your pligg template.

This method will return a 403 Forbidden error for anyone that tries to browse your templates folders or open one of your .tpl files directly.

Custom Link block and Feedburner customization are explained in the Readme file included with the download.

Any issues, leave a comment bellow.

UPDATE: New Search Box and Minimum height in IE fix added.