6 Free Digg Clones Scripts

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Digg.com’s content publishing model is no doubt one successful Web 2.0 example. I’ve written an entry about a year ago, listing some 15 sites that use similar digg.com concepts. Now that one year passed, god knows how many site out there now practices the digg model. But if you are still thinking of jumping on the bandwagon, here’s 6 free scripts that allows you to setup something like Digg, where stories are submitted shared as voted by users.

Pligg

pligg

Pligg is one of the most well known digg clone. It runs on PHP/MySQL, free and its currently on Beta 9.8. Read more about Pligg.

PHPDug

phpdug

PHPDug is very similar to digg.com, particularly its dig buttons. It runs on PHP/MySQL, supports 12 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Chinese, Arabic, Dutch, Indonesian, Turkish, Persian) and here are its features:

  • Easy to edit html template files
  • Spam fighting captcha security codes
  • Simple wizard installation
  • External dig buttons
  • Easy to edit language files
  • No need to setup a cronjob
  • Dig up/down comments
  • Powerful Admin panel for controlling your site
  • Automatic thumbnail retrieval for youtube and google videos
  • Automatically add stories from RSS feeds

Check out the front demo, as well as the admin demo (user/pass : demo/demo)

The above two are by far few of the popular ones, but if you are intending to look for more, here’s another 4 more digg clones scripts with however less online support. Authors’ descriptions in quotes.

diggCLone

The diggCLone project is an effort to reproduce the functionality of the oh-so-popular social bookmarking site, digg.com. We’ve changed up a few things about it, but kept how the site basically works. Right now, we’re still in some of the early stages, though, so some of the functionality isn’t there yet.

Download diggClone

Upwarded Source

Upwarded.com wasn’t as successful so far as I was hoping, so I’ve had a hard time adjusting the ranking algorithms… there just isn’t enough data coming in to test it. In any case, I’m releasing the full source for Upwarded.com [ZIP] under a GNU GPL/ CC license. All you need is Apache/ PHP5/ MySQL; for more see the contained “readme.txt”.

Download Upward Source

Loudle

A “digg like” news submitter/voter (non-hierarchical editorial control for you wordphiles) created using industry standard PHP and MySQL.

Download Loudle

GrabTheMic

GrabTheMic is an Open Source implementation of community-driven news sites such as Digg (http://www.digg.com) and Reddit (http://www.reddit.com). It is powered by Ruby on Rails.

Download GrabTheMic

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Posted by hongkiat in Web 2.0 , at 12.03.07

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Comments

  1. Kitkat December 4th, 2007

    So, can we come up with a successful site with these free scripts?

    Reply
  2. hongkiat December 4th, 2007

    I think it is not the script that determines successful of the site. Wordpress is a good example. Majority of blogs are on Wordpress platform, but only minority becomes successful. So I guess it is the creativity and determination or the concept behind your website that determines.

    Reply
  3. Syahid Ali December 5th, 2007

    I’ve seen another but i don’t think it is based on Digg script. It is called Mixx.

    Reply
  4. dicky December 10th, 2007

    Mixx is a customize Digg-like site. It look quite similar with Pligg. But i believe Mixx is not based on any open source Digg Clone Scripts.

    Reply
  5. hongkiat December 23rd, 2007

    dicky: Yeap, I’m a user of Mixx too. Obviously the crowd is smaller, but looks potential.

    Reply
  6. Nadia Dxb January 5th, 2008

    Well its nice sharing….

    Reply
  7. Akki January 5th, 2008

    Really they are very useful… thanx for sharing

    Reply
  8. Voice Of Dingchao March 21st, 2008

    They are great! I will consider to use them. Thanks for your sharing.

    Reply
  9. Tayzar April 2nd, 2008

    Well, thanks a lot for this post. Is there any one who can recommand the best script?

    Reply
  10. Rice Blogger April 4th, 2008

    i think there is opportunity with this script…try not to compete with digg service and you shall be fine

    Reply
  11. sanjeev May 16th, 2008

    Well, i felt phpdugg is better and i am planning to use. but thinking about the domain name. what name suits better?

    Reply
  12. igoy cavalera May 23rd, 2008

    hey, this is cool information! nice. thanks

    Reply
  13. Anit Parmar June 8th, 2008

    PHPdug is not installing. It shows table error.
    Please help.

    Reply
  14. bamboo directory September 4th, 2008

    hey, this is cool information! nice. thanks

    Reply
  15. bamboo directory September 4th, 2008

    i like the pligg ,i will download it

    Reply
  16. Ramil September 17th, 2008

    Here’s my own Digg-style site powered by Pligg: http://www.earnersclub.net/

    Reply
  17. Robert Johnson October 18th, 2008

    Hi. It’s Robert Johnson with http://www.stirtalk.com and although we’re still under development, I want to share with you anothe open source program that’s worth looking into. It’s called Elgg and you can find it the http://www.elgg.org web site.

    I don’t benefit from mentioning Elgg in any way. I simply love the little gem.

    Reply
  18. NewZigg October 22nd, 2008

    Voici mon propre style Digg-site alimenté par Pligg :

    http://www.newziggf1.com/

    Reply
  19. SuperMario290 November 8th, 2008

    Thanks for the links! I’ve always wanted to have my own digg-esque style of site.

    Reply
  20. Sankeerth December 19th, 2008

    Thanks for the useful scripts. Will use it for my future site http://www.callsavr.com

    Reply
  21. runescape quests information February 7th, 2009

    i use mixx too and that is good and better than digg

    Reply
  22. Easy Job Info February 23rd, 2009

    Anyway, thanks for the info. :)
    Pligg is aneasy job info to use.

    Reply
  23. Rumait March 24th, 2009

    Digg and reddit are better

    Reply
  24. Logo Designer May 5th, 2009

    Another digg style site is DipLinks.com (http://www.diplinks.com), i linked it because…

    - submission is easy
    - makes direct link to your site without no-follow
    - every story is published on home page after 15 kicks automatically
    - you can also post your links behind your names in comments area.

    Enjoy..!

    Reply
  25. Sulumits Retsambew June 19th, 2009

    What about reddit? Can you recommend the source?

    Reply
  26. Rajiv July 23rd, 2009

    i think markit is best social bookmarking script
    if uyou want try to use markit (http://www.markit.me/)social bookmarking script.
    it is useful for you

    Reply
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    thank you for information.

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  38. Eaun Carter October 28th, 2009

    If you want to download more open source digg style scripts ( many other listed) and also other clone open source scripts. Do visit
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    A lot of scripts and free wordpress and joomla themes to download

    Reply

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