How To Replicate Techchuck AutoBlog

[spankythepyro]

so my posts are getting messed up when you read the whole post... has anyone else had this problem?

Also has anyone solved the disappearing read more link?

 

[mark9510]

so my posts are getting messed up when you read the whole post... has anyone else had this problem?

Also has anyone solved the disappearing read more link?

we need a little more info than that because they can be messed up in many different ways can you post a link to the blog

 

[spankythepyro]

ok got it fixed this is the cc code im using

[image]</div><div><br/>[post]

 

[spankythepyro]

Ok, been messing around a bit with WP, "Elegant Theme" & W-O-M.
Firstly, in the Main Index Template I replaced

<?php the_content(__('Read more...', 'elegantbox')); ?>

with

<?php the_excerpt(__('Read more...', 'elegantbox')); ?>

Then to put some space around the thumbnails generated by "Thumbnail For Excerpts" I added the following to style.css

.imgtfe {
             float: left;
             margin-top: 7px;
             margin-right: 7px;
             margin-bottom: 7px;
          }

Then to remove the '[...]' at the end of the excerpt & align the hyperlink with the last line, I edited 'formatting.php' in the wp-includes folder.
I changed line 1495 from:

array_push($words, '[...]');

to

array_push($words, '<a '.'href="'.get_permalink().'">'.'Read More...'.'</a>');

Worked a charm. What I did notice was that for some reason when I edited the file in EditPad Pro it would break the WP editing after saving. As soon as I did the edit in Zend Studio on a new copy, all was good. Something to do with the encoding, but nothing I could readily pick, as all looked good.

also that last bit of code did not work for me

 

[zesty]

http://bestcreditreview.com/

'eres mine

 

[zesty]

If you use wp-o-matic.Try this code

{content}
<p>Read the original article at Engadget:
<a href="{permalink}">{title}</a></p>

I tried that, it doesnt work :/

this is the code i currently have

		<div class="content">
						<?php the_content(); ?>
						<?php 
							$source = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'wpo_sourcepermalink', true);
							$urlsource = 'Read the whole story at the '.'<a '.'href="'. $source .'"target="_blank">'.'Source '.'<img src="wp-content/themes/elegant-box/styles/white/external.gif" alt="" />'.'</a>'; 
							echo $urlsource; 
						?>
						<br /><br />
						<div class="fixed"></div>
					</div>

 

[tabims]

Anyone wanna give me some thoughts on what they think of my two blogs I created using this - one is an aggregate of all things twitter, and all things apple. --

http://www.twitterapple.info

the second is all games related:

http://www.extreme-gamer.info

I'm thinking of adding a flyin ad to get emails in exchange for a chance to win a game system or iphone, then send out weekly emails to each list with CPA offers related to that niche.

Each blogs are only a few days old and are getting about 300 hits daily each - but I'm having trouble monetizing, so far I've made like $.50 -- any thoughts on this would be helpful.

I've setup a new twitter account with both sites - so that all the feeds can be sent via twitter tools plugin to twitter, I get a majority of traffic from twitter search.

Looking forward to your suggestions.

 

[spankythepyro]

Yea I'm looking into changing the header...can't really find any info on that and its tickin me off... look at putting in the adsense the sameway as the orgi

 

[zesty]

Yea I'm looking into changing the header...can't really find any info on that and its tickin me off... look at putting in the adsense the sameway as the orgi

what part of the header? is mine how you want it? (link is like a few posts up)

 

[zesty]

i explain how to do it (with code) in a previous post somewhere

 

[zesty]

post 225

 

[sonicman]

How to reducing image resolution in each post and change outbound links? is this do manually?

 

[jkr500]

I tried that, it doesnt work :/

this is the code i currently have

		<div class="content">
						<?php the_content(); ?>
						<?php 
							$source = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'wpo_sourcepermalink', true);
							$urlsource = 'Read the whole story at the '.'<a '.'href="'. $source .'"target="_blank">'.'Source '.'<img src="wp-content/themes/elegant-box/styles/white/external.gif" alt="" />'.'</a>'; 
							echo $urlsource; 
						?>
						<br /><br />
						<div class="fixed"></div>
					</div>

i put my code into the wp-o-matic where it says custom post template. Than you get the name of the post.

 

[kautilya]

I will be creating "exact" clone of techchunk for 7 people. Please pm me if you are interested.

 

[specopkirbs]

has anyone managed to add 2 video bars yet? i know you need to change something in either the js or css or both just not sure what???
also added 2 subdomains and a link to a friends blog on technicnews.com...its all coming together now

 

[cyklotrial]

on techchuck author is using 2 separated bars for two diffrend TAG's

example:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    var vb1;
    var vb2;
    function load() {

      var options = {
        largeResultSet : false,
		horizontal : true
      }

      // set up the vertical bar as the master
      vb1 = new GSvideoBar(
                  document.getElementById("videoBar1"),
                  GSvideoBar.PLAYER_ROOT_FLOATING,
                  options
                  );
		vb1.execute("first tag");		  

      // horizontal bar is a slave
      options = {
        largeResultSet : false,
        horizontal : true
      }

      vb2 = new GSvideoBar(
                  document.getElementById("videoBar2"),
                  GSvideoBar.PLAYER_ROOT_FLOATING,
                  options
                  );

      vb2.execute("second tag");
    }
    GSearch.setOnLoadCallback(load);
  </script>


<div id="videoBar1">videobar with video's related to first tag</div>
<div id="videoBar2">videobar with video's related to second tag</div>

I know how techhuck makes that bottom arrow (the one that goes top) float at bottom but i will write about this tomorrow

 

[Namun]

on techchuck author is using 2 separated bars for two diffrend TAG's

You're supposed to have 2 videobars that share the same player http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/videobar/reference.html , in that example it's just 2 different videobars.

I have 2 bars sharing the same player on my testing site http://tech.ccortez.com but i`m using techchuck script with some modifications.

 

[playercool]

Before I go and erase my blog and start over maybe someone can help.

I just changed my permalink to this:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Right when I did that not a single page worked anymore other than the front page.

Here is what it says:

The requested URL /2009/04/24/asus-p565-apparently-available-unboxed/ was not found on this server.

This is for old posts, new posts, tags, next, everything.

Is there a simple fix to this? I am hoping so.

 

[mark9510]

Before I go and erase my blog and start over maybe someone can help.

I just changed my permalink to this:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Right when I did that not a single page worked anymore other than the front page.

Here is what it says:

The requested URL /2009/04/24/asus-p565-apparently-available-unboxed/ was not found on this server.

This is for old posts, new posts, tags, next, everything.

Is there a simple fix to this? I am hoping so.

Are you sure that all of the permalink objects are correctly typed and that you have set it up to redirect old posts to their new format

 

[playercool]

Are you sure that all of the permalink objects are correctly typed and that you have set it up to redirect old posts to their new format

How exactly do I redirect the old posts? I can't find the option anywhere.