curation

Broken Link Checking in WP-Drudge

I maintain a Trello list to keep track of potential features for WP-Drudge. The community can vote and comment on proposed features to help me figure out what’s next. One of the features that came up a while back is a broken link checker to find and fix outbound links that aren’t working anymore. This […]

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Build an RSS News Aggregator in WordPress with WP-Drudge

  A big question I’m asked on a regular basis is if the WP-Drudge theme can use RSS feeds to display content for a news aggregator in WordPress. Right out the the box, it can and does using the built-in RSS Feed widget (more options than the core widget). This takes an RSS feed and […]

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SEO Tips for Curators and Aggregators

We’re often asked how to improve the on-page SEO for a curation or aggregation site. We’ve worked with a number of different groups to build and optimize sites that include content from existing sources and SEO is always a challenge. The challenge comes from the same thing but can be seen 2 different ways: Not […]

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The Basics of News Aggregation and Content Curation

This all started a few years ago when a friend asked me to create a Drudge Report style web page. She needed a simple way to display links other web pages, news articles, and blog posts. Like the Drudge Report, a news site that simply links to other pages, she didn’t have any of her […]

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