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I know it's not identical; but I'm proud of it considering I've never taken a class in any programming language...

How did you find pligg as a platform? I'm not a programmer either, but am considering it for a 'beer money' idea I have.

(I will be leveraging the support of a friend with php / mysql experience. Would love to know more about your experience.)

Pligg was pretty easy to pick up; however, I've been using wordpress for a year (which is how I got my feet wet with some development items). Feel free to ping me with any questions!

Make sure you don't use their control panel editor to edit the header file; with multiple themes I've experienced situations where components get messed up.

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