How To Replicate Techchuck AutoBlog

[dheaven]

dheaven,
I have few questions.

1. Can you find out whether Image for each post is stored in different column in post table or its stored in same post_content column.
2. can you ask him to share wp-o-matic if possible.

i don't really get the first question so make it like you ask him, i'll only copy/paste

2nd hmmm i really doubt he will share it and i'm not sure if i even should ask him to do such a thing. I haven't built any trust with this guy, we just exchanged a couple of emails so i'm afraid this would damage the "relationship" at this point.

They will soon relese WOM 1.5 and i bet it will pretty much outrun any custom coding this guy had set up plus i have a feeling that it will be so great that they might start charging people for it or even worst Google policy might change over night and mass ban all blogs no wait...all internet! cguru:

 

[saadad]

Thanks for this info step by step.
My only problem is that my images link in post is directing to the old original image and not to one in cache folder, did i setup something wrong? I see your blog is directing to your own cache folder.

 

[rumbleox]

i just have one difficulty

How to display favicon of the source next to the post title?

 

[proseospecialists]

Hey Guys I found this plugin - get the image - It does everything we need to post the thumbnail pic , well almost.
1. Check for images by custom field key.
2. If no image, grab an attachment image.
3. If no attachments, scan the post content for an image (new feature).
4. If no images at this point, the script can be set to a default.
Its written with functions and arrays if anyone knows this stuff maybe you can change the last check for default call and call it to choose a random pic from a folder ie. w-o-m cache.

link: justintadlock.com/archives/2008/12/21/get-the-image-plugin-update-a-better-image-script-for-wordpress

I didn't contact the creator because he charges 25.00 to join his support forum.

 

[Rushdie]

thanks this is great.

Isnt feedwordpress better than wpomatic?

 

[coolguy]

what you have to say about this technewz.info created this some 20 days before in 2 hours

 

[JonesersRX7]

clipped....

1. WP-O-MATIC / Simple Pie / Simple Pie Core...these all work together
2. Wordpress Related Posts
3. Thumbnails for Excerpts
4. Simple Tags
5. Next Gen Gallery
6. Duplicate Post Eraser (can be found on here)

w3 blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/blogging/58143-get-autoblog-duplicate-posts-erazer-plugin.html

7. Different Posts Per Page
8. All in One Adsense
9. OnlyWire Multi Auto Submiter (developed by a member of BHW)

w3 blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/making-money/67703-automating-reddit-method-auto-blogs-cracks-addon.html

10. Max Banner Ads...only if you want a banner at the top of the theme

clipped...

Those are the ones that I came up with.. I trust they are right.

- Jonesers

 

[Bacon]

The TechChuck blog is a nice piece of work. I understand the main point of a true autoblog is to have a pretty bad looking site overloaded with ads to encourage visitors to clik on an ad to leave the page. While TechChuck is technically an autoblog, the site encourages the visitors to stay on the site and even bookmark the site for later use and you don't see an ad until you click on a post.

My main question is which type of autoblog do you guys think will prosper more? How well do you think the TechChuck blog is doing?

 

[Trota]

if everyone starts making a clone of techchuck, there will be plenty of copies soon, what will be shit... just my opinion...

 

[dheaven]

if everyone starts making a clone of techchuck, there will be plenty of copies soon, what will be shit... just my opinion...

In fact it would be better if people would build high quality autoblogs then crappy ones. The blogs would attract more visitors, it would encourage them to return, to share them with others, bookmark them ETC.

there are like 100k (just a number) of crappy AB all almost the same - all this equals tones of garbage

if there were 100k of HIGH QUALITY AB (even with dupe content) even you would be more happy when using Google, I don't know about you guys but it becomes harder and harder to find the good stuff on google

 

[mark9510]

Plus Techchuck gets under the copyright radar because it leaves a link to the original site and also it says that it is only a content agregator

 

[blackhaty]

I have one quick Question. How to generate tags automatically for posts added using RSS feeds? Can any one throw some light plz.

 

[sarahgill]

STEP 3​

Related Posts- this section will be a little more complicated as we include the related videos here ie...the Youtube API.

- first go to your related posts settings in wordpress and change the title to related posts and videos or something simlar

-when there is no related posts leave it to say no related posts or you may have trouble with youtube api

-no related posts titles or texts leave this option blank and set the limit to 3 do not exclude category and do not check any of the boxes below that.and save your preferances.

-ok here it is guys the youtube API ok first go to the youtube api widget page http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/wizards/videobar.html

-ok leave the bar as horizontal and uncheck all the boxes...now remove the channel that is already in there and replace it with channels of your own selection...to choose channels open another window and go into youtube and search for channels relating for your niche. once you have a few place them into the youtube api each one seperated by a comma okay because we are using channels ignore the keywords option underneath.

-click show code you should now see a box with the code in highlight the entire box and copy the whole script.

-go back to your wordpress and go to the theme editor and go to single post (single.php)

-okay search that page for the words "related posts" there should be 2 or 3 there under the last one find the next bit of code that reads <?php endif; ?>

-paste your yourtube api script directly under the <?php endif; ?> and save.

go to your site and with each post you should now have related posts and videos and you should now see your youtube videos. nb you may not see any related posts if you only have one or 2 articles in there at this time.

right guys ill leave it there again for now and ill be back to do the last one soon which will be mainly concentrating on the next gen gallery sidebar widget and how to link it to your article images.

How do I use tags as keywords instead of using channels?

 

[KWilfred]

Here's the js file used by the site if anyone wants to look at it. This is where all the extra stuffs are produced

http://www.mediafire.com/?mqhwej2t0jj

 

[Super Hero]

Anyone know which theme is used for mashget.com ? It is looking different from techchuck.com.

 

[mark9510]

its a custom theme for mashget

 

[Namun]

How do I use tags as keywords instead of using channels?

For that youtube video bar insert this code between the " " ex: executeList : ["Insert code here"]

This will display related videos for the first tag on your post.

<?php $posttags = get_the_tags(); 
$count=0; if ($posttags) 
{ foreach($posttags as $tag) 
{ $count++; if (1 == $count) 
{ echo $tag->name . ' '; } } } ?>

You can also download their css and js scripts and modify the bar/player abit.
Ex. using that player with some modifications http://tech.ccortez.com/?p=577

 

[blackhaty]

How to add source favicon to titles and logo to posts? any one please post it here.

 

[blackhaty]

For that youtube video bar insert this code between the " " ex: executeList : ["Insert code here"]

This will display related videos for the first tag on your post.

<?php $posttags = get_the_tags(); 
$count=0; if ($posttags) 
{ foreach($posttags as $tag) 
{ $count++; if (1 == $count) 
{ echo $tag->name . ' '; } } } ?>

You can also download their css and js scripts and modify the bar/player abit.
Ex. using that player with some modifications

Can you share us how to add source rss feed favicon to post and logo to posts. I have seen in ur website.

 

[proseospecialists]

Namun great site , how did you add the icons in the title and fix your permalinks for better search engine traction.