Pligg sucks, Hotaru CMS is dead and I’m not sure if the Nominate theme is what I want. Basically I’m trying to create a link submission website like Reddit with WordPress, this would basically mean:
- Voting
- Easy link submission
- Member creation and restriction of groups
- oEmbed support (optional)
I looked at BuddyPress but it appears it’s trying to be more of a social networking site (Facebook) instead of a social link submission site (Reddit).
These can be nicely done with WordPress using custom post type for link submission, so then the rest becomes very easy using a few plugins:
- Voting – CMS Vote Up Social CMS
News will handle the voting.
- Easy link submission – simple custom front end post form would do the job (ex: here or you can use plugins like Mini TDO, Gravity forms…
- Member creation and restriction of
groups – this is build in with WordPress, users and roles
- oEmbed support – here is the only part i can think of that you would have a lot of work with unless you mean giving users ability to oEmbed there links like youtube in which case you can use the built in oEmbed support.
