— The Best WordPress News Aggregation and Content Curation Template —
— The Best WordPress News Aggregation and Content Curation Template —
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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OK, so we’re a little biased, that’s true. I think that when you see this tutorial, though, you will agree that WP-Drudge is the best WordPress aggregator theme out there. The onus is on me to prove it! For those not familiar with WP-Drudge, it’s a theme for WordPress that makes creating valuable curated news […]
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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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One of the fun features of The Drudge Report (www.drudgereport.com) is a visitor counter on the bottom of the right-hand column. This shows how many visitors have been to the site in the last day, month, and year. How this is being calculated or how accurate it is remains a mystery but even a fraction […]
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By all measures, the Drudge Report website is impressive. If you trust the on-site statistics, Matt Drudge’s news site gets almost 25 million hits per day, or 750 million hits per month. If you trust average cost per 1000 impression stats, this is good for over $2 million per month in ad revenue … per […]
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We’ve seen some great uses of our theme over the last couple of years and we’re always looking to our users to help focus and improve this theme. Just recently, one of our power users helped me figure out a problem with the Press This Reloaded plugin. His workflow was greatly improved by this little […]
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This is the much-delayed part 2 of the user survey responses (part 1 is here). With the holidays and the 2.3 release, we were up to our neck but now that we’ve got v2.3.1 in place and things have settled down a bit, we can address some of these questions. Thanks for your patience here […]
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WP-Drudge lets users post videos from YouTube, Vimeo, and other video services. The problem is fitting those videos into the columns on the site. On a fixed width site, you can set the correct width in the embed. But for those who use the fluid width setting, this can be problematic as the videos don’t […]
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My task here is to build a way of serving mobile users into the current WP-Drudge template and provide a path forward for future projects. For several reasons, the biggest of which is quality of output, this is proving to be harder than I first thought it would be. I want to explain the project […]
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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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