— 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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Version 2.7 is releasing today and I wanted to walk through a few of the new features and functions as well as some of the bug fixes that I implemented. First, I wanted to thank everyone for their patience while I put this one together. This was scheduled for January so we’re about a month […]
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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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The latest version of WP-Drudge is complete and ready for installation. The usual caveats apply: You should receive a download link at your original purchase email address some time today (10/24/2014) if it’s been about 1 year or less since you purchased Update process is here. Please read this through before starting Issues, bugs, questions, and […]
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Last month, I sent out a link to a user survey to give folks a chance to give honest, anonymous feedback about the WP-Drudge template. As always, the response was great and I learned a lot about both what people enjoy about the theme and what people are struggling with. Because it was anonymous, I’m […]
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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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WP-Drudge version 2.5 represents the largest set of under-the-hood improvements made to the theme since it’s release over 3 years ago. The release has been delayed by about a month (everyone who purchased after May 1st, 2013 will receive the upgrade as a thanks for your patience) but the final product is the strongest I’ve ever […]
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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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If you’re on the newsletter list, you would have received a notice that version 2.4 of WP-Drudge would be released some time in October. Here we are a month past that announcement and no new version. Hopefully you’ll forgive me as it’s coming out tomorrow, I promise! As promised in that email announcement, the development […]
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