Remember the website Jean-Baptise Jung started called WPVote.com? During mid-2009, WPVote.com was the talk amongst WordPress bloggers. Why? Because it was a site built with the WordPress core as a digg-like site. This was a break through for those who were still doubtful of the power of WordPress as a CMS.
When Jean-Baptiste did not have time to keep up WPVote.com, he left it in the capable hands of Ben Gillbanks (@binarymoon on Twitter.) Bill is the guy behind Binary Moon and he has created several popular and sleek WordPress themes and plugins.
WPVote.com is a social bookmark site for WordPress related articles and has been open since August 2008. Surprisingly, for those who did not know, WPVote.com was not always run solely on WordPress. It was run on Pligg, which has known issues to be spammed. Anyone who runs large sites with members who have to sign up, this is a pain!
The site is very easy to use. Simply register, confirm your registration, fill out your profile, and then you can submit articles. All you have to include are the title, link to original article, short description, and a few tags.
WPAddict.net sends a big kudos to Ben for re-launching WPVote.com and a big good luck to the further success of the site!
(Note: Please note that I did change to Ben… It originally said Bill. I do truly suffer from dyslexia and bound to get it wrong.)
Hi – thanks for the kind words about WPVote. It’s great to see people linking in to it and knowing that they enjoy using it. I have lots of ideas to help it grow so hopefully it will increase in usage and functionality.
BTW my name is Ben, not Bill 🙂
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Oops… Corrected!!! *bangs head on wall*
WPVote is a great place. I thought so when I first heard about it. I was a little surprised on the database been wiped of older posts, and I was wondering if it was necessary… or an agreement that was struck up between yourself and Jean-Baptiste?
I am using tdo mini forms for Blogrity.com, but I know both Webmasterish and I are also looking into ways to do a remote submission like digg and such. If you have any insight to share on that, I would appreciate it. I am not sure if I mentioned it… but I do have a plugin to prevent duplicate content submissions that can be integrated.
Wow, its nice to see it on its own newly designed site. Thanks for the heads-up. I was completely unaware that it was back.
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