Building a Digg clone using WordPress?

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I am thinking of building a site similar to Digg.com (the old version). I think the best way in my case is to make a custom post type for the links and then use a a plugin such as TDO Mini Forms or One Click Post for front end posting.
As for voting I’m thinking of using the Vote it up plugin.

There are 3 main problems I need help with:

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  1. An important part of my site will be images. When submitting a new link I need the ability to automaticly grab images from the submitted the site that the user can crop to predefined size and then attach to the post. There is a plugin for Hotaru CMS (http://forums.hotarucms.org/showthread.php?559-Post-Images-0.6&highlight=post+images) that does exactly what I want but I don’t know how to port it over to wordpress and then implement it in submission form.

  2. (EDIT: Answered, see below) The Vote it up plugin doesn’t sort the posts based on how many votes they have. I want one page with all the new links and one with the ‘popular’ links were all links with a specific minimum number of votes will be. For example, when a link gets 10 or more votes it is moved from the ‘new’ page to the ‘popular’ page. There are some functions on the plugin page, I’m not sure how to use them: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vote-it-up/other_notes/

  3. I need a vote button that users can put on their blogs or websites for their readers to submit and vote on their posts. Something similar to the Digg button you can find all over the web.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. I have seen a similar question on http://stackoverflow.com a few days ago .
    I think my answer may not help you .But There are some other examples mentioned which were built like digg already on wordpress platform .
    http://nestdev.com is the best one I have ever saw .

    (Sorry If My answer doesn’t fit to the question .I didn’t find comment option here for this question.May be my reputation level is not enough to use the option to comment.SO I have post this as answer)

  2. I’ve been working on a “Recommended Links” WP/BuddyPress plugin that essentially does the same thing… would be happy to share the code if you’re interested, although its still only half finished. Link adding and up/downvoting are pretty functional, but I haven’t done the commenting functions yet… Still, feel free to build off of anything thats useful in it.

    http://goldenapplesdesign.com/projects/recommended-links-plugin-for-wordpress/

    I ended up creating two whole new tables, because I saw it potentially overwhelming the posts and comments tables, and when I started working on it (pre-WP3.0) because of the sheer volume of links and comments, it was easier to add new admin pages than try to work with custom post types. Now, I’d recommend using a custom post type, and at some point I’ll rewrite what I have to do it that way.

  3. You did not specify if you want to build it using free solutions alone, or have budget for this. So this one is not free, but seems like a good fit.

    Theme that powers WordPress Vote (Digg-like site for content about WP) had been released for sale in more generic version as Nominate

    PS grabbing full images from third party site is a practice I’d stay away from. Copyright, licenses and such.