How To Replicate Techchuck AutoBlog

Use yahoo pipes for feeds filtering,..
it minimize your CPU usages and you can get clean feeds.

esp if you use autoblogged, it saved almost all item in the feeds into database as post meta, drive your dbase and disk nuts :))
 
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i've gone through this thread for days and made my first test autoblog. it's just a copy of the tech but it was a great way to start.
if you guys want to take a look and give comments i would really appreciate it. thank you for all the hints I found here...now i'm going to make some changes and try to monetize a little bit from it.

hXXp://tech.holoview.n3t
 
bzy39 said:
I did an autoblog and I am happy that I did it well aside from the youtube video I put before the content. Is anybody here can help me what code to edit to let only 3 youtube videos to be displayed instead of the default 4? Coz at the right side of the youtube video is a blank space and I want that the middle content/widget and right widget to occupy the vacant space instead. Is that possible?
Here is my autoblog site
Code:

hxxp://www.newtodays.com


EDIT: I changed my mind I let my youtube video to put at the very top in the center.
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You could hide your plugin folder with an empty index.html

.../wp-content/plugins/

just my two cents .. nice blog though ..
 
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slater said:
i've gone through this thread for days and made my first test autoblog. it's just a copy of the tech but it was a great way to start.
if you guys want to take a look and give comments i would really appreciate it. thank you for all the hints I found here...now i'm going to make some changes and try to monetize a little bit from it.

hXXp://tech.holoview.n3t
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Slater, nice! Very nice.

Would you care to share plugins you used, and any special tips. Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Hi nice thead

am newbie in this and am stuck on the manu bar
how do u make a bar like MashGet that direct you to the sub-blog
 
How do they make it a techchuck to display a whole paragraph from the RSS feed. For example if you take a feed from Google News it only displays a sentence or two , whereas at techchunk they got a whole paragraph for each summary post , for example

"
If you have Mac servers in your business, you weren't left out of the Snow Leopard fun during the keynote earlier today. Apple also announced that Mac Server 10.6, A.K.A. Snow Leopard Server, will be shipping in September. Like the server version of the OS provides 64-bit support, and many of the Apple applications have been updated to take advantage of that. For example, SMB file server performance is 2.3x faster than Leopard Server, and AFP file server performance is now 1.3x faster.
Read the whole story on or try our
"

How do they strip content that way ?
 
if you use the autoblogged plugin instead of wp-o-matic you can choose the number of sentances,paragraphs or words to show in the excerpt

3ukman said:
How do they make it a techchuck to display a whole paragraph from the RSS feed. For example if you take a feed from Google News it only displays a sentence or two , whereas at techchunk they got a whole paragraph for each summary post , for example

"
If you have Mac servers in your business, you weren't left out of the Snow Leopard fun during the keynote earlier today. Apple also announced that Mac Server 10.6, A.K.A. Snow Leopard Server, will be shipping in September. Like the server version of the OS provides 64-bit support, and many of the Apple applications have been updated to take advantage of that. For example, SMB file server performance is 2.3x faster than Leopard Server, and AFP file server performance is now 1.3x faster.
Read the whole story on or try our
"

How do they strip content that way ?
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specopkirbs
How much are you asking for the source code?
I want to buy the source files and the DB.
Please kindly let me know
Thanks
 
Actually you need to learn the structure of RSS feed first,.. when the rss feed have the full content (encoded content - please view source for this) then you can scrap the full content of it.

When its not, you can write a script to get the full content by grabbing the ID of the news in the RSS pointing forward the actual content in the website. That's how mashget done.

The problem with this is, you should carefully and manually and continuously monitoring the original website, once they update the structure you have to modify your script.

That's why mashget only parse from big website/big news company who doesnt change their layout much.






3ukman said:
How do they make it a techchuck to display a whole paragraph from the RSS feed. For example if you take a feed from Google News it only displays a sentence or two , whereas at techchunk they got a whole paragraph for each summary post , for example

"
If you have Mac servers in your business, you weren't left out of the Snow Leopard fun during the keynote earlier today. Apple also announced that Mac Server 10.6, A.K.A. Snow Leopard Server, will be shipping in September. Like the server version of the OS provides 64-bit support, and many of the Apple applications have been updated to take advantage of that. For example, SMB file server performance is 2.3x faster than Leopard Server, and AFP file server performance is now 1.3x faster.
Read the whole story on or try our
"

How do they strip content that way ?
Click to expand...
 
Awesome thread, even if a bit long. I was able to create an autoblog pretty quickly. I need to tweek it more of course. See mine @ w3.ps4-zone.c0m. I am going to make the process so that I can setup the next few much quicker.

I see a lot of people asking about setting Next Gen. There were people changing code, manual copy, etc. It is not that hard.
1. Make sure WOM has a cache directory that actually has files in it.
2. Setup a new Next Gen gallery to use any folder
3. Go to Manage Gallery --> Click on your Gallery
4. Change path to your WOM cache

​
@Namun - How did you get the Youtube info to show on hover? I tried looking at techchuck code & yours. I assume it is in JS somewhere. Am I on the right track?
 
Either I am crazy or techchuck is a bher...

anyone else notice an out of place swf with no use in the header?
 
yeah i couldnt see it either???hey mark jump on msn when you get a chance
 
nng_gdh said:
Thanks for this thread! I've done my first autoblog!!
here is mine
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this is pretty good...i like the design on this one...and ur topic is also different...if u get enough traffic on this once..i think adsense clicks will be pretty high
 
I downloaded specopkirbs files (Theme + Plugins + Images) so i had a pick inside his theme (Elegant Box) to see how he calls the related tweets plugin and...

Code: 
 <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>

this is how he is calling it...

So i tryed to include this within my template without success so i must be missing something...

If i activate his template everythings works great then if i activate mine it stop working.

Any ideas about what i am missing?
 
You must add this style into your theme

Code: 
.introIMG { background:none; border:1px solid #A9A9A9; float:left; margin:5px 10px 0 0; padding:3px }
.slogo { border-bottom:1px solid #ccc; padding-bottom:2px }
#entry-box .related_post { margin:0; float:left; width:455px }
#entry-box img, .pybigimg { background:#f7f7f7 }
.sociable { background:#ececec; border-left:1px solid #ccc; line-height:180%; margin-bottom:15px; padding:0 3px }
.sociable span { font-size:12px; font-weight:700 }
.sociable ul { display:inline; left:3px; position:relative; top:3px }
.sociable ul li { background:none; display:inline!important; list-style-type:none; margin:0; padding:0 5px }
.sociable ul li:before { content:"" }
.sociable img { border:0; float:none; height:16px; margin:0; padding:0; width:16px }

.related_box ul, .ps_posts ul { clear:both; margin:0; padding:0 }
.related_more h3, .related_box h3, .ps_posts h3 { background:#e9e9e9; border-left:1px solid #ccc; font-size:12px; padding:5px }
.related_box h3 img.icon { margin:0 2px }
.related_box p { margin:10px 0; line-height:1.5em }


ul.related_video li { float:left; list-style:none; margin:10px 5px 5px 17px; padding-bottom:10px }
ul.related_video li:first-child { margin-left:0 }
ul.related_video li #introIMG { width:120px; position:relative }
ul.related_video .yuvideo { height:72px!important; overflow:hidden; position:relative; display:block }
ul.related_video li a img { height:90px; width:120px; top:-10px; position:relative }
ul.related_video li .playvideo { background:url(images/play.png); display:block; bottom:3px; left:3px; width:16px; height:16px; position:absolute }
ul.related_video li .vts { background:#000; color:#fff; font-weight:700; display:block; bottom:3px; right:0; position:absolute; padding:0 2px; line-height:1.3em; font-size:11px }
ul.related_video li .vtitle { clear:both; display:block; height:28px; width:115px; overflow:hidden; line-height:normal; font-size:90%; padding:5px }
ul.related_post { margin:0; padding:.5em 0 }
ul.related_post .postMeta { border-top:1px solid #ccc; text-align:right }
ul.related_post li { border-bottom:1px dashed #ccc; clear:both; list-style:none!important; padding:10px 0 }
ul.related_post li span { color:#7f7f7f; font-size:10px; line-height:2em }
ul.related_tweet li { border-bottom:1px dashed #ccc; padding:7px 0 }
ul.related_tweet li a { background:none }
ul.related_tweet .avatar { float:left; height:48px; overflow:hidden; width:48px }
ul.related_tweet .msg { line-height:17px; margin-left:58px }
ul.related_tweet .info { color:#777; font-size:12px; margin-left:58px }
.ps_posts li { clear:both; line-height:150%; list-style:none!important; padding-left:3px }
.related_more h3 { background:none; border:0; text-align:right }
ul.related_video #introIMG { float:left }

.pymimg_con { float:left; margin:5px 10px 0 0 }
.pymimg_con img { margin:0; cursor:pointer; background:url(images/throbber.gif) no-repeat 50% 50% }
.pymimg_tools { clear:both; padding-left:7px; text-align:center }
.pymimg_tools span { color:#666; cursor:pointer; font-size:12px; text-decoration:underline }
#ptools { background:#ececec; border:1px solid #ccc; display:none; height:20px; line-height:17px; padding:5px 8px 2px 5px; position:fixed; right:-3px; bottom:-3px; z-index:999999 }
#ptools a { color:#369; margin:0 7px }
#ptools, .sociable-hovers, .playvideo, .vts { -moz-opacity:0.8; filter:alpha(opacity=80); opacity:0.75 }
#main a { font-weight:700; font-size:0.9em }
#main .ps_posts a { font-weight:400; font-size:1em }
}
 
@bzy39 thx for the rply

it ain't the css
something is not working right cause i get this

Code: 
<h3>Related tweets from <a target="_blank" [SIZE=5][COLOR=Red]href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=">[/COLOR][/SIZE]Twitter<img align="absmiddle" src="/pics/favicon/twitter.gif" class="icon"/></a>:</h3>

i had look all night into his thread for a solution but i ight have skipped it or something cause i was sleepy...or it ain't any...there were some guys with the same problem here anyway
 
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