How To Replicate Techchuck AutoBlog

[specopkirbs]

im using all in one adsense and its working fine donkon

 

[omoxx]

the code gets pasted into the 'single.php'. You don't use "Widgets" for YT or Tweet.

What code and where exactly do I have to include that?

 

[harleydavidsons2]

Thank for Step by Step.
I read and read again and make it together ...
I can setup it in 30 minutes on my unuse domain ...
This is my test site sawasdeeinbox (dot) info

But I have question why in single page my image is under the content ???
I use autoblog ... and my twitter related dont have any think ????

 

[dynamicvb]

The tweets code is in the single.php if you have downloaded the theme files posted in this thread. Specifically

<div id="related_posts_box">
            <div id="related_tweets_content" class="entry clear">
              <div class="related_box rel_tweets">
                <h3>Related tweets from <a target="_blank" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=<?=$tagname ?>">Twitter<img align="absmiddle" src="/pics/favicon/twitter.gif" class="icon"/></a>:</h3>
                <?php kish_twitter_related($tagname); ?>
                <div class="related_more clear">
                  <h3><a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=<?=$tagname ?>" target="_blank">More tweets ...</a></h3>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
           
          </div>
</div>

 

[omoxx]

Thank for Step by Step.
I read and read again and make it together ...
I can setup it in 30 minutes on my unuse domain ...
This is my test site sawasdeeinbox (dot) info

But I have question why in single page my image is under the content ???
I use autoblog ... and my twitter related dont have any think ????

Very cool site!
Can you explain how do you add the tabs on top of interface?
And how do you separate the frames of each post?
Thanxxx

 

[specopkirbs]

i believe he is using a different theme omoxx its one of the other box themes created by the same author

 

[omoxx]

Uhh this is very confusing!
How do you guys do to put all that stuff( related videos, tweets, related posts ,etc ) in the left field, out of the sidebar widgets?
Where do you get that code(Related ....) you past in single.php?

Please elaborate on Favicons placement too!

 

[specopkirbs]

omoxx unless your happy with css coding and basic php id suggest you stay clear of doing anything advanced...if you use the files i uploaded and replace your theme with it the related tweets etc are set up already just set up the kish twitte application how i described further up the post and it works

 

[omoxx]

Ok, but if I paste your files, do I still have to use the youtube plugin or the code of it is already included in your .php files?
Please help me with Favicons!

 

[CasinoJack]

Well, this is great thread, nice to see everyone helping out and not flaming some of us noobs. Serious, very nice thread

I been trying to playto get complete articles anot not just partial feeds,and then post the link to article to give credit. I found this post here

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/member-downloads/56413-get-partial-content-feed-full-text-rss-scrapper-my-personal-script.html

Going to start to play...

Last thing I am stuck on, is on the category icons, the small ones look great but when i click on my article, the next page the big icon shows on the right, and i want to move it to left. this thread spoke of the code you need to add, but i have been unable to get it to work correctly

Also, on that same page, i wanted to move the "Read the whole story..." which links to the orginal article, I wanted to center it, and i am not good with style sheets.

Thanks again

 

[specopkirbs]

omoxx i havent used a plugin nor mentioned a youtube plugin its already in the files i provided the favicons were added using category icons plugin...read the thread properly it does tell you somewhere here

 

[zesty]

heres how i made a menu similar to his on techchuck (tabs that turn blue when you mouseover)

Make header area bigger (style.css)

#header .inner {height:70px !important;}

Move search bar down and make font cooler looking. you can go into the code where the search bar is and put value="Search Now..." and it will put that as the initial value in the box. (style.css)

#search_textfield {
color:#BBBBBB;
font-family:arial;
margin-top:27px;
padding-right:20px;
width:247px;
}

change the tab color, style.css (line 222)

#navlist li a:hover {
background-color:#3B5998;
color:white;
text-decoration:none;
}

move the menu down

#header #searchbox, #header #nav {
float:right;
margin-top:11px !important;
}

#nav {
position:absolute;
top:30px;
}

Make it so that the RSS feed button doesnt have a blue background when tabbed over (looks ugly). add this whole declaration to style.css

#navlist li a:hover#feed {
	background-color: white;
}

 

[specopkirbs]

nice zesty good stuff...almost finished on the video thumbnails so ill put a step by step up tomorrown just need to work out how to get rid of the powered by youtube image now

 

[zesty]

how much can you guys make from this? I planned to just duplicate this blog 100 diff times for 10 diff niches

by the way, i dont have an adsense account. can i show them my techchuck mockup blog, or should i give them something else?

Lastly, this is kind of a vague question, but what will google do and how can you get 'caught'? autoblogging in general seems like you have to keep it under the radar or you get banned and whatnot. Im big into ppc but now im learning seo so that I have to do even LESS to make money (LOL - life is good. suck it corporate workslaves).

 

[dynamicvb]

Do you guys have the image caching on in wp-o-matic? I turned mine one and now I'm not getting good images. Some of them are okay, but for the most part I don't get a good image file and it shows up as a text place holder in the posts.

 

[dynamicvb]

how much can you guys make from this? I planned to just duplicate this blog 100 diff times for 10 diff niches

by the way, i dont have an adsense account. can i show them my techchuck mockup blog, or should i give them something else?

Lastly, this is kind of a vague question, but what will google do and how can you get 'caught'? autoblogging in general seems like you have to keep it under the radar or you get banned and whatnot. Im big into ppc but now im learning seo so that I have to do even LESS to make money (LOL - life is good. suck it corporate workslaves).

From what I've heard Google is not approving accounts that don't have valid domains that are over 6 months old anymore. I don't know this for sure, but its something I've heard on the forums.

I personally would not try to get an account approved on any sort of auto generated site, but a pure whitehat worked your tail off to build site.

While there is nothing in the TOS against autoblogs, it does say that sites must adhere to the Webmaster guidelines and there arer parts in there about unique content.

 

[Fudnut]

nice zesty good stuff...almost finished on the video thumbnails so ill put a step by step up tomorrown just need to work out how to get rid of the powered by youtube image now

Remove this code from the js file:

    // now add in the branding...
    row = this.createTableRow(table);
    var brandingOrientation;
    if (this.verticalMode) {
      cell = this.createTableCell(row, this.CL_RESULTCELL);
      brandingOrientation = GSearch.VERTICAL_BRANDING;
    } else {
      cell = this.createTableCell(row, this.CL_RESULTCELL);
      if (this.br_IsIE()) {
        cell.setAttribute("colSpan", results.length);
      } else {
        cell.setAttribute("colspan", results.length);
      }
      brandingOrientation = GSearch.HORIZONTAL_BRANDING;
    }
    GSearch.getBranding(cell, brandingOrientation, "(hxxp://)www(.)youtube(.)com");
    this.brandingCell = cell;

 

[Fudnut]

Do you guys have the image caching on in wp-o-matic? I turned mine one and now I'm not getting good images. Some of them are okay, but for the most part I don't get a good image file and it shows up as a text place holder in the posts.

Yeah, seems NextGen falls over on many of the images that have the hash prepended. You need to either delete the image or choose "Edit thumb" on each image, then it recognizes it. Either way, a PITA

 

[dynamicvb]

Yeah, seems NextGen falls over on many of the images that have the hash prepended. You need to either delete the image or choose "Edit thumb" on each image, then it recognizes it. Either way, a PITA

I have not gotten NextGen to work yet, but I found my problem with this. In case anyone has the same issue, make sure your permissions on the cache folder are set to 777, 766 or 666 won't work correctly.

 

[zesty]

I fixed the columns so theyre bigger

download his content background, he already edited it for you

http://www.techchuck.com/wp-content/...background.gif

now use firebug to find the sizes of container_body (width:978px)

and #sidebar (width:320px