Pligg is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that you can download and use for free. 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. Our software creates websites where stories are created and voted on by members, not website editors. Use Pligg content management system to start your own social networking community in minutes.

Pligg CMS is based on open source PHP and MySQL technologies that allow it to be installed on most web hosts on a relatively small budget. For support and free downloads please visit the Pligg Forum where you can find help 24 hours a day thanks to our excellent open source development team and community. Pligg CMS is a free software, but you are welcome to Donate to support development.

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.

Pligg started as a simple CMS to let users submit and vote on news articles, and that's still what we do best. Vote on stories that interest you and articles that receive enough votes will appear on the homepage of your Pligg site. Pligg offers a 5 star method for voting or the more traditional numbered voting as seen on sites like Digg, Mixx or Reddit.

Pligg is the closest you can ever get to Digg, except perhaps the interface (but you could always make one up right?). Currently the most popular CMS under social bookmarking, Pligg is used numerous entreprening site owners. Pligg also supports anonymous voting, perhaps one element that Digg cannot offer (yet).