How To Replicate Techchuck AutoBlog

akoreviews said:

How to show Popular posts in sidebar?
How To Use logo for my site?
How to modify Menubar for align left and font bold?

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specopkirbs said:

tiny url is for links not rss feeds...correct me if im wrong though not sure why you need to run it through tiny url either if your just trying to get legitimit clicks then you have no need to hide the referer. but at a guess its tiny url causing the problem

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dynamicvb said:

Has anyone figured out how to reduce the number of tweets in the related tweets? I played around with the settings and numbers in the control panel, but it seems no matter what I change it still shows 5 tweets.

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Namun said:

The display the favicon in front of the post title and the website logo on the post page you need to use custom fields.

I have used autoblogged for this blog and it automatically adds a custom field for favicon ex: key: icon value: hxxp://www.site.c0m/favicon.ico and you have the option to add more custom fields for each feed. I don't know if this feature is available for wp-o-matic.

For the website logo to appear on each post you need to add a custom field for each feed.

Download the logos for the feeds you are going to use (i got all the images from techchuck about page), after you download 'em for each feed add the custom field like this key: feedlogo value: hxxp://yoursite.c0m/yourlogofolder/feedlogoimage.jpg

Now you need to edit the template pages. Edit index.php from your template folder and add

Code:

<div style="float:left; margin-right: 5px"><img src="<?php $key="icon"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" /></div>

right in front of

Code:

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

This will display the favicons on the main/index page.

Now edit single.php page and add the same code in front of

Code:

<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

if you want favicons on the post page aswell.

To display the feed logo on the post pages this is the code

Code:

<img src="<?php $key="feedlogo"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" />"

You need to change the display style using css.

To display related posts with thumbnails under the post i am using "WordPress Related Posts with Thumb Revised". The plugin's page is in italian, use google translate if you want.

Code:

http://fabrizio.zellini.org/wordpress-related-posts-with-thumbs-revised

For displaying thumbnails for excerpts on the main page i used "Thumbnail For Excerpts"

Code:

http://www.cnet.ro/wordpress/thumbnailforexcerpts/

For youtube related videos i have used the "AJAX Video Bar" from google.

Code:

http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/videobar/index.html

Related tweets plugin

Code:

http://www.kisaso.com/ajax-wordpress-twitter-plugin/

Custom excerpts

Code:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-excerpts/

Other plugins used:

NextGEN Gallery
Random Posts
Post-Plugin Library (for Random Posts to work)
Sociable
Wordpress Popular Posts
WP-Cumulus (tag cloud)

I am not going to use this blog actually, made it just to test/configure the display of the plugins and learn how they work.

You should use another template also since this one isn't looking so good without alot of modifications.

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specopkirbs said:

its not really that complicated to do there are plugins listed here that do the same things but namun is very skilled at coding he has helped me alot here so thanks namun i got the 6 video bars working too mate so they will be appearing on technicnews very soon

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omoxx said:

I am having a problem trying to create a custom static/front page.
How do I remove "Home" tab, and make my custom page appear as front page?
I found all related to "home" tab is in header.php of elegant-box theme,
but no idea how to edit it.
Thank you

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goldminer said:

Can you share to us your latest customized template you have?

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