Popurls is, as described by its founder, the ultimate source for the latest web buzz and news and a daily must-read for me. I thought maybe I can do something based on that model to keep track of the buzz in Singapore and thus OneNews was born. This also showcase the power of Wordpress being more than a blog software.
With the new version 2.x, create unlimited pages of news like Alltop. Now you can have
- unlimited pages with targeted keywords
- self-updating fresh content (no maintenance time required)
Common Features
- Robust SimplePie RSS
- Built-in cache
- No plugins required
- Works on Wordpress v2.5 and above
- Tested on IE6/7, Firefox, Opera, Safari
- XHTML & CSS Validated
Premium Version Goodies
- Easily create a single-page news aggregator like Popurls or multiple-pages news aggregator like Alltop
- Widgets Ready Homepage -easily add and arrange feed blocks without touching any codes
- 4 unique widgets available
- textRSS: for normal text feeds
- photoRSS: for Flickr feeds
- videoRSS: for Youtube and Metacafe feeds
- HTML: for any php or html code, including javascript (easily add banners or adsense) - Browsing tools: resize text, toogle background color and social media sharing
- Inline Video Player for Youtube and Metacafe
- Theme admin options
- Option to open link in new or current window
- Option for dofollow or nofollow feed links
- Optional 3-column widget-ready bottombar
- Sideblog (preview)
- Threaded & paged comments ready for WP 2.7
- Gravatar support
- PDF setup guide
Setup Guide
A glimpse into the backend of the premium version.
Browse Setup Guide [Flash format]
Changelog
Version 1.5
- Tested on WP 2.5
- Fix fat top banner in IE (style.css and styleb.css)
- Display “Feed may be down” message instead of “Warning: array_slice(): The first argument should be an array”, which breaks the layout
- Upgrade Exec-PHP plugin to version 4.7
- Upgrade flickrRSS plugin to version 4.0
Version 2.0
- Tested on WP 2.6
- Robust SimplePie RSS
- New web 2.0 interface
- No plugins required
- Free and Premium version
Version 2.1 Premium
- Ability to create multiple pages of news like Alltop.com
Version 2.2 Premium
- Bugfix: background mouseover in subpages (alltop mode) not showing
- When you add new pages (alltop mode), the widgets configuration got mixed up with other pages
Version 2.3 Premium
- Threaded & paged comments ready for WP 2.7 (premium version)
- Display source url in popup window
- Fix: Alphabet List widget to display nothing if left blank
- Separate pingbacks/trackbacks removed
License
License for Free version
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
- you may not remove the credit links
- you may not resell or distribute
- for personal non-commercial use
License for Premium version
- You may remove the credit link
- No resell/distribution rights
- Free upgrades to bug patches/version
- Customization & support not included
Demo
OneNews Free Version
OneNews Premium Version
Download
Free Version
Premium Version
Single License - $49
Multiple License - $199
Being a digital product, all purchases are final with no refunds. So feel free to play around with the free version before purchasing. You will be able to download the theme files via e-junkie upon successful payment.
Niche
Tags: Aggregator, Non-Blogging
Note
This site is not affiliated with Popurls or Alltop (both registered trademark) in any way.
Tips & Tricks
Error: A feed could not be found at http://abcxyz.com
While SimplePie is pretty robust, there are times when some feeds will choke it. The solution is to use FeedBuner or Yahoo Pipes to burn the feed first and use their feed link instead.
Error: Cache directory is not writable.
Ensure that the cache directory permission is set to 755.
free version: wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/cache
premium version: wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/cache
See how to change directory permissions.
How can I improve the performance?
Besides enabling feeds cache and increasing the cache duration in the theme options(premium version), you can also install WP-Cache or WP Super Cache for even faster performance.
Any other recommended plugins?
While these plugins are not required, they are quite useful for this theme.
- RSS Includes Pages Plugin for pinging your pages
- Widgets Profiles for saving your widgets configuration
Need Help?
Much as I want to provide free support, there are only 24 hours a day.
So if you need a chunk of my time, I’m available for hire.
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Hi Eric,
Reply to this commentCongratulations for this clone, very great. But I’m using Wordpress 2.2 and the layout broken, the adsense go down of the YouTube. I tried to change some width in CSS file but doens’t resolve. Do you know why this happen?
huhhuu, very great..ermm, eric, do you know how to add a background picture plus a logo at the header…like what popurl did.
Reply to this commentÉrico Oliveira: what’s the url of your popurl clone?
ramzy0: You can play around with the contents in the “banner-nav-center” div. Prepare to tweak alot to your liking. Too much for me to cover here.
Reply to this commentSorry to be a n00b, but where do I put the post.txt file? Thanks — awesome script.
Reply to this commentOops, problem solved — just had to turn off the Visual Editor in my profile. Thanks!
Reply to this commentHi Genkisan, I’m using localhost. I will put in a web server and I will inform you later. Thanks.
Reply to this commentFoodieGoodie: Great! And thanks for the beer
Reply to this commentHello - I’m also having the same broken layout problems as Érico Oliveira, I look forward to learning a fix.
Reply to this commentFoodieGoodie & Érico Oliveira
I believe both of you are having the same issue. I actually miss out a simple step to set the width of the theme.
Under WP Admin > Presentation > Simplr Options > Set the Layout Width = 950px
That ought to fix the problem.
Reply to this commentgenki, can we customize the rss. i mean if the site has 10 headlines, but i just wanna it to be appear on the my onenews site only 5….
and this problem, click the below ( screenshoot )
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/8661/screenfd7.jpg
p/s: erico, me too..genki, i will inform u too.Thanx
Reply to this commentSure. If you look carefully, the code in post.txt is repetitive. Simply remove those feed that you dun need.
The second problem is probably the boxover.js script not loaded properly. Will wait for your site to be up.
Customising this script probably need some php/xml/rss knowledge. Kinda of lazy to write a tutorial. Perhaps I can charge a small fee for installation
Reply to this commentI see require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss-functions.php’); at the top of the post.txt, but I don’t have an /rss-functions.php on my server.
Reply to this commenthi,
Reply to this commenti try to use your package with wordpress 2.3.3
but the layout is broken
the package doesn;t work with wp2.3.3?
Brian: the rss-functions.php is in the wp-includes folder. You can also point to rss.php.
lionc: When I try to access the style.css, it says permission denied. You may need to change the permissions for the themes/plugins files.
Reply to this commenthttp://pinkurls.com/wp-content/themes/Simplr/style.css
Hi,
this theme (-package) looks great. Actually I wanted to create my own “planet”, but it looks like far more than that.
but: is it possible to display the feeds (of google news etc.) including an excerpt of the articles? and…if yes: how could i make this work?
(sorry, i’m a bit afraid of php coding)
best wishes,
Reply to this commentwretchi
wretchi: to display excerpt, simply “echo $desc” where you want it.
Reply to this commentHello Genkisan,
Reply to this commentThank you. But, why some sintax xml don´t do nothing?
example:
http://rss.terra.com.br/0,,EI1977,00.xml
Has anyone had difficulty adjusting the flickr code? Namely:
How do you adjust the tags without messing things up? I only seem able to adjust “singapore” for example, but cannot add additional tags for a more refined search of flickr. Anyone see the issue?
Thx
Reply to this commentHi, Scot
Reply to this comment1- don´t do anything FlickRSS Options.
2- use examples by http://eightface.com/wordpress/flickrrss/
Looks great. I’m trying to run this on WPMU and failing
http://kompressaur.thedailypunt.com/
Would this work on WPMU? I suppose if the widgets wont then this wont. Is there any alternative plugins that can be used or has anyone had any joy running this on wpmu?
thanks again
Reg
Reply to this commentDaniel
Duh, forgot about the plugin. Thanks…Anyone notice a jerky effect when using in IE? I’ve noticed the whole page moves slightly to the side when you hover over links, but only in Explorer.
Thx
Reply to this commentDaniel: I’m just guessing here but I think Wordpress’ RSS functions are not robust enough to handle all the different feed standards.
reg gordon: sorry, not tested on WPMU
Scott: no problem on my side
Reply to this commentGenkisan
I’m testing it in Explorer 6 and I see the page move when I hover over the links within each feed. I’ve read somewhere that IE won’t recognize “a:hover” in CSS (causes jittery movement) but not sure if this is the issue or not.BTW…I see the problem on your demo for OneNews so I’m pretty sure it’s not on my side…has to be an IE6 issue.
Reply to this commentScot, I meant no problem when I view in IE6/XP for both demo sites.
Reply to this commentGensikan
I guess it’s on my end because I see it on my own site in IE and yours as well. I’ll figure it out.
Another question…the Simplr options page refers to the sidebar and About section yet I see neither of these in my site. Am I missing something? Sorry for all the questions, but also about RSS (no feed?) and Search (are both used via widgets in sidebar?)
Thx
Reply to this commentThe options page came with the original theme. You can safely ignore them. And the modified theme doesn’t support widgets.
Reply to this commentHow can I implement Twitter feed for a location, geographical location that is?
Reply to this commentYou can use the feed at http://tweetscan.com/rss.php?s=singapore
Reply to this commentReplace singapore with your location
Awesome scripts Eric,
btw how to create like http://fonehubber.com/ ?
Reply to this commentbluefive, it’s a heavily modified onenews theme.
Reply to this commentAll I’m seeing when trying to use this is code.
I’m using wordpress 2.6 and switched from “visual” to “HTML” I activated all the plugins: Exec-PHP 4.8, flickrRSS 4.0, Adsense 0.1
Can anyone help?
Reply to this commentMauro, can you double scheck that your Exec-PHP plugin is activated. It may have been deactivated when you upgrade it automatically.
Reply to this commentIt shows up as active. I pressed activate again just for the hell of it and it fixed the it!
Thanks for your help.
Reply to this commentI spoke to soon. Some feeds are working but the YouTube, Technorati, and Google News doesn’t appear to be working. Any more helpful advice?
Reply to this commentHi,
thanx for sharing great theme!
I’m playing a bit with this one on new Wordpress 2.6, and it keeps returning this:
“Warning: array_slice() [function.array-slice]: The first argument should be an array in … runtime.php in line…”
on the first position in first row,
and in the middle of the second rowž
it returned rss-1 warning, but I put @ in front of that line so that isn’t reporting any more, but I still keep getting error i mentioned…
is this me, or theme needs a fix due to transition to wp2.6?
Reply to this commentI’ve tested it on WP 2.6 so it shouldn’t be.
Reply to this commentI’ve also seen the problem before but sometimes it just go away without me doing anything, as is the case for Torova above.
So unfortunately no proper solution from me, Mauro and Ante.
I think I have you all beat. I couldn’t figure out why the css was messed up and not giving me the bordered box with Flickr photos, so I decided to post the original post.txt file again.
That completely screwed up the css and the javascript, so after fighting with it for about an hour I decided to completely wipe WP and my db and reinstall everything.
One would think that would fix things up, no? Sadly, no. I’m really sad about it too, since I really loved this format. Any advice/thoughts are welcome and appreciated.
MTIA
P.S. During this several hours-long ordeal, I also tried installing Newsblocks and Simplepie, but the instructions for the former are far from clear. It doesn’t even tell you what directory to put stuff in! :^)
Reply to this commentYour stylesheet is not accessible
http://offthebaseline.com/wp/wp-content/themes/Simplr/style.css
Try changing the file permissions for all the theme files to 644
Reply to this commentThanks Genkisan, that was totally it. It took me a while to realize that what you meant is that the css files needed to be 644 and the dir needed to be 755, but I worked it out.
Also, sorry if I sounded cranky in my last post. I was just frustrated after having worked on this for several hours.
I also figured out last night (after a few cups of coffee and some food) how to install Newsblocks. Unf I couldn’t get the cluetips to work, and though I don’t think I really need to run a full blown version of WP, I do like having the YT player inline.
I’ll keep playing. Thanks for your help.
Reply to this commentHi everyonwe!
How do i insert a xml feed into the post.txt
Is it possible?
Reply to this commentAs mentioned, this theme requires some knowledge in PHP/XML/RSS. Stay tuned for a premium version of OneNews I’m working on.
Reply to this commentI’ve been playing around with this theme and love it. I’m a CSS newbie, and I want to try and add more photo streams. I’m trying to get a handle on the Flickr styling… but I can’t find anything in the CSS for it at all.
Can you help a brutha out?
Thanks for your hard work on this.
Reply to this commenthaving trouble with installation - my site is http://techpoo.com. I’ve pasted the .txt code in a post but my site still spits out the code. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Reply to this commentJordan
tinytee: the flickr css is hardcoded on the flickrrss plugin.
Jordan: Either you did not upload and activate the plugins or you paste the codes in the visual view. Refer to the “Tips & Tricks” section above for help.
Reply to this commenthow do you activate the plugins? I’m using wp 2.6 and I did paste the .txt file in the html format
Reply to this commentmy aim is jevanf2000, can someone please send me a message and give me a minute to help me out. Website is techpoo.com, looking to correct the code! I’m a noob but know alot about wordpress and html.
I’d appreciate it,
Reply to this commentJordan
There are 3 plugins included in the zip file. Just upload and activate them like normal wordpress plugins.
Reply to this commentHi Genkisan,
Maybe my post didn’t make sense, but I know there’s definitley no CSS in the Flickr plugin.
I’m trying to figure out where in the Simplr CSS the styles for the plugin are, esp to create the border so I can add different streams. I’m looking at it with CSSViewer for FF and all it comes up as is “img” but there’s no corresponding img styling in your CSS.
I hope that makes more sense and thanks!!
Reply to this commentgreat advice, works great! thanks so much
Reply to this commenttinytee: the CSS is declared inline. Look at line 110, 115 in flickrrss.php.
Reply to this commentwhat if I want to combine a bunch of feeds into one main feed. basically like techmeme.com, anyone have any ideas? I’ve got a decent start but I’d appreciate some help.
Thanks!
Reply to this commentTry
Reply to this commenthttp://pipes.yahoo.com/
http://www.xfruits.com/
Genkisan, I see what you did — you added the CSS to the plugin, and I updated to the new version, thus overwriting the file. Hence my confusion since I assumed the CSS would be in the, well, CSS file.
Just posting this in case anyone else runs into the same issue.
Thanks for the help
Reply to this commentVersion 2.0 released. The above comments are mostly related to prior version.
Reply to this commentJust thought I use this comment to segregate them
Hi,
When I’m trying to activate the plugin I get the following message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class SimplePie in /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/simplepie.inc on line 382
How may I fix this?
Thanks,
Reply to this commentTarz
This theme doesn’t require any plugin. If you have the simplepie plugin, simply deactivate it.
Reply to this commentvery nice theme thank you
Reply to this commentI have Wordpress 2.6 and OneNews Premium 2.0.
How can I put PHP in the HTML sections of the widgets? It just prints out the PHP code… I have ExecPHP installed, but it doesn’t work inside the OneNews widgets…
Reply to this commentThe current version only supports html and javascript. Good suggestion though. I’ll work on it over the weekend
Update: OneNews textRSS widgets now runs both php and html codes.
Reply to this commentGreat theme, I recently purchased the premium version. How do I add a space under the video rss widget? I went into the widgets code and added this…(
e cho $after_widget;
e cho ”;
e cho ”;
but I’m still not getting a space.
Thanks.
Reply to this commentNot sure if I understand but try the following. Hopefully it will achieve the desired effect.
Reply to this commentecho ‘<br />’;
or
echo ‘<br /><br />’;
or
echo ‘<p> </p>’;
Duh! I’m a noob. That took care of it thanks, you can see it in action at
http://www.celebrityslice.com
Great theme, great buy. Thanks again.
Reply to this commentLooks promising, I will test out the free version then get the premium version if it rocks!
Reply to this commenthello,
great work, I am looking to buy it. But pls, can I use my logo?
thanks,
Reply to this commentIdong
Sure, you can customise the theme anyway you want it
Reply to this commentHi,
I just picked up the theme. I want to know in your next update, if you could provide a feature, where instead of 6 videos/photos, we could 4 and keep the remaining space for a banner ad. You can see it in popurls, next to the flickr images.
Please comment.
Reply to this commentI did consider that option before release but realised that there are too many unpredictable variables involved. So came up with the optional html field in the textRSS widget instead.
If you don’t mind hard coding, it can be still be done by adding the following code to the full-width OneNews HTML widget
Also near line 311 in style.css & styleb.css, change
to
On another note, to “level” the headings on your site: in style.css and styleb.css, add height:15px to the .news-entry h2 such as below.
Reply to this commenthello, btw i can’t download free version, winzip say error corruption
Reply to this commentFile re-uploaded.
Reply to this commentPlease try again. Thanks.
Hi Genkisan, I was wondering if it is possible with the premium version to create multiple “one news” pages?
If you need more info, please feel free to email me.
I made an example. Thanks
Reply to this commentSomething like alltop.com? Off my head, yes, it’s possible using page templates. Will require some manual coding though. As everytime you add a new page, you need to edit the functions.php in the premium version.
Feel free to share your method of implementation:)
Reply to this comment@mARK i was hoping to do the same thing. can you please share your results to date?
Reply to this comment@Genkisan I purchased the premium edition and I notice that when using apostrophe’s in the title of feeds (within widget), the scripts generates this character “/”. So if I placed “Google’s” in the title it reads “Google/’s”.
Also wondering if you know how to add a header, h2, over the HTML widget when using Google Adwords code so that the box looks consistent with other boxes. I’ve tried adding Title above the code but it always appears slightly offset, below the height of other boxes.
Thanks…great script.
Reply to this commentOops.. will be working on the extra slashes.
Mind doing a printscreen on the h2 issue? Thanks.
Reply to this commentHi there!
Is there anyway to rotate each feed block? For example, Digg shows by default in your basic theme, what if I wanted all of the main feeds to rotate position on the page (giving equal visibility to all feeds)
Also, does a feed page like this get good SEO or page rank?
Thanks!
Reply to this commentPossible. You can store your feeds in an array and use shuffle to rotate them.
Not too sure about the PR as too many factors involved.
Reply to this comment@Genkisan False alarm on the header issue. Duh…I wasn’t using a title with the adsense code. Works fine now.
Still very interested in creating multiple pages, with different content. At SportsTwit.com/news, I’ve started separating out blocks of feeds by individual sports but would ideally like separate pages a la Alltop.com. I don’t mind doing the work to get it done, but can you give some advice on how to address functions.php, etc.?
Cheers
Reply to this commentI’m using this awesome theme at http://www.wpthemesnews.com.
I customized the design to fit my needs and it’s doing pretty well.
Really easy to use !
Thanks Genkisan !
Reply to this commentIs there an ability to add more than 6 feeds on the pages, or is this easily edited?
Thanks
Reply to this comment@Scot: Added to todo list
@WPThemesNews: Now i got a competitor for my WP News.. kidding
@vsw: Yes, you can add more feeds. For free version, simply edit index.php. For premium version, you can make use of the widgets.
Reply to this comment@WPThemesNews bravo! very nice implementation. clever work with the ads i must say.
@Genkisan sounds good. i think it will be well worth your while from the premium end. it’s a logical extension of the theme.
Reply to this commentI purchased another WP template for my site, but it doesn’t have the power of this RSS template. How could I, if possible, incorporate the two? Keep in mind, I’m a coding NOOB and know enough to look up scripts on Google and eventually write hello world.
http://www.gamesqueal.com
Thanks!
Reply to this commentTry out the simplepie wordpress plugin
Reply to this commenthttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simplepie-plugin-for-wordpress/
Genkisan- I just downloaded the free version and have been playing with it. It’s pretty awesome.
I had the same thought that lhd did about shuffling the blocks. I’m not a great php coder, but I get the gist. How would you go about applying shuffle() to this format? Can you provide an example?
Reply to this commentFirst store all feeds in a multi-dimension array and then shuffle them
$feedlinks = array(
array("1", "Digg", "http://digg.com", "http://digg.com/rss/index.xml"),
array("2", "Delicious", "http://delicious.com", "http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/"),
array("3", "StumbleUpon", "http://stumbleupon.com", "http://rss.stumbleupon.com/buzz/")
);
shuffle($feedlinks);
Then modify each newsblock. For the first block
<div class="newsblock">
<h2><a rel="nofollow" href="<?php echo $feedlinks[0][2] ?>"><?php echo $feedlinks[0][1] ?></a></h2>
<ul>
<?php
echo SimplePieWP($feedlinks[0][3], array(
"items" => 10,
));
?>
</ul>
</div>
For each new newsblock, increment the array e.g
Reply to this comment$feedlinks[1][1] //title
$feedlinks[1][2] //website
$feedlinks[1][3] //feed link
…
$feedlinks[2][1] //title
$feedlinks[2][2] //website
$feedlinks[2][3] //feed link
Genkisan- Thanks for putting that together I just tested it out and that sounds better than it looks tho
I guess what I’m not clear on is how you can get it to the way it is in the current version. So for ex the $items array_slice allows you to do all kinds of styling like creating the listed and having the descriptions as popovers. But since $items is a variable of each feed, can you have it both ways?
Thanx again for the help.
Reply to this commentAre you using OneNews version 1.x? $items is really an array rather than a variable. You can find out more at http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/
Reply to this commentHello!
I recently bought you premium version and I have to say, this theme is great! … But here is the thing… I’m using Yahoo Pipe to get the feeds but they just don’t show up on the theme, here is the Yahoo Pipe’s url (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=58d2fec94145c7542478cad07f697968&_render=rss).
Any Idea?
(When I aggregate the Yahoo Pipe’s feed on xfruits, it works fine… but now comes with the ugly urls [http://xfruits.com/vitorpps/?id=46854&clic=266567913&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.arstechnica.com%2F~r%2Farstechnica%2FBAaf%2F~3%2FiZzVAeLvQWk%2F20080919-google-now-one-of-the-top-10-most-valuable-brands.html])
Thanks!
Reply to this commentHmm.. works on my side. Double check the & in the url.
Correct url:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=58d2fec94145c7542478cad07f697968&_render=rss
Incorrect url:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=58d2fec94145c7542478cad07f697968&_render=rss
Or try feeding the link to feedburner.
Reply to this commentThanks for your fast response!
I have tried with Feedburner and doesn’t work, nothing shows up : http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleGoogle
I have tried deactivating all plugins and still…
And last, I have tried disabling cache… still not showing up
…???
Reply to this commentGenkisan- I did have version 1! I had it for a while and didn’t play around with it until the other night.
I just updated to version 2 and I still have ul’s so that it’s numbering each of the feeds. It is also says {FEED_TITLE} and the date and the time of the post underneath each link.
Can you tell me what’s going wrong?? Thanks
Reply to this commentI just thought about it more and realised that it’s not using or finding the boxover.js. I’m not sure how to fix it tho. Thanx, Jeff
Reply to this commentJust bought the premium copy and really pleased with it. Thanks! Wondering if you could confirm, once installed how do I view the loop (ie my blog loop). I can see how to view static pages and specific categories, but not the standard loop.
Many thanks
Phil
Reply to this comment@jiffyjeff: Would be easier for me if I can see your live website.
@Phil: Actually the idea is to use a single category for the sideblog. As the home.php takes precedence over the index.php, you can’t really view the loop for all categories. You can create a “blog” category and move all your current categories under it. Alternatives might be using the Archives or Recent Posts widget.
Reply to this commentNot sure if this has already been brought up, but you may want to correct “register_sidebar( array(’name’ => ‘bottombar_cebter’,(…)” with “register_sidebar( array(’name’ => ‘bottombar_center’,(…) in your functions.php.
On a completely unrelated note, is there a possibility to hide a specific page from the alphabet lists widget, even while showing all other pages beginning with the same letter?
Reply to this commentThanks for reporting the bug.
Not out of the box. Perhaps you can try the manual workaround at
Reply to this commenthttp://ericulous.com/2008/09/15/onenews-theme-hack-multiple-pages-of-news/
is this site using the old version of your script? http://hoopsfeed.com/
Reply to this commentYes, version 1.x.
Reply to this commentInterested in knowing how to add support for other RSS vidoe feeds besides YouTube and MetaCafe.
For my site, Shackvideo, would be a greast source of vidoes. Feed is here: http://feed.shacknews.com/shackvideo.xml
Thoughts?
Reply to this commentUnfortunately the feed provided by shacknews doesn’t contain enough info for the videorss widget.
Reply to this commenti love version one interface. can u send me that version please. thanks!
Reply to this commentI recommend modifying version 2 to look like version 1 instead.
Reply to this commentGenkisan- Unf the live site is for a nonprofit orgs internal use and they have it pw protected. I’m thinking that it’s just conflicting with some other js or something. I tried playing around with it last night and when I tried to load the theme I got an ugly red box telling me I didn’t have simplepie for wp. Obvs its there and none of the rest of the site uses it.
I can send you some screenshots if you want. Just let me know where to send them.
Thanx, Jeff
Reply to this commentyes.. but i need version one too and the script as well. where can i get them?
Reply to this comment@ od3n: try adapting http://hoopsfeed.com/wp-content/themes/Simplr/style.css to your onenews install
Reply to this commentGenkisan- This is the error I’m getting:
Warning: include_once(/home/wri/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simplepie-plugin-for-wordpress/processing/none.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wri/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/simplepie_wordpress_2.php on line 896
Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/wri/public_html/wp-content/plugins/simplepie-plugin-for-wordpress/processing/none.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/wri/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/simplepie_wordpress_2.php on line 896
The SimplePie template file is not readable by WordPress. Check the WordPress Control Panel for more information.
Should of posted this the other day but I didn’t get to work until just now. Hope you can help. Thx, Jeff
Reply to this commentThe simplepie plugin is not required. De-activate both the simplepie plugins to avoid conflict.
Then you may need to delete the simplepie options stored by the plugin. Go to http://replacewithyourdomain.com/wp-admin/options.php and delete all simplepie options there. Deactivate and reactivate the OneNews theme.
Reply to this commentExcited to play with this but can’t seem to find where you set/change the RSS feeds!
Also, any thought to the problem of making this content unique to Google? As a mash-up it is unique - would SEO plugins help or hurt this type of theme? Thx and nice work.
Reply to this commentI have just bought the premium version and its quite impressive. There is one major flaw not just with your theme but with aggregation - and that is its considered dupe content from Google. I think a powerful solution is to encourage user-generated content.
BRITNEY SPEARS HEADLINE comments (2)
this takes you to a single page of the headline and the excerpt/teaser.
readers can then go to the SOURCE SITE, make comments or share the page. The site now becomes more social and user generated content pleases the Googles.
Reply to this commentNot sure but SEO plugins should help rather than hurt.
Googlebot will only see the title text, not the post content, so there shouldn’t be any duplicate content. In fact the page should be unique in google’s eyes with the mashup of titles. But I could be wrong
For a comments page, it can be achieved to that effect
Reply to this comment1) Create a new post or page
2) Add a OneNews HTML widget at the top and link to that page, something like
By allowing a single post to be auto created with comment (e.g. with gravatar+brian’s threaded comments) on each pulled article headline/excerpt, the site owner will gain a permalink beneficial to google, e.g. site.com/title-of-headline, and more pages for google to index.
otherwise there are no other links on google except to the main domain - at some point user-generated, original content should be be created.
Reply to this commentI see. What you probably have in mind is those rss-to-post plugins. And now I understand why you are concerned about duplicate content. But you gonna need lots of comments on each post to really make it unique from the original source.
OnenNews theme is really in a different league and serve a different purpose. As you can see, it doesn’t create any new posts. It’s more of a popurls or alltop clone, serving fresh news on single page(popurls mode) or multiple pages(alltop mode), rather than a feed aggregator blog. When it comes to google, I think they rather crawl a single unique page than multiple pages of duplicate pages?
But you idea can still be implemented by combining the theme with one of those rss-to-post plugins.
Reply to this comment1) Pull the posts you want into your blog using the plugin. Seperate them into categories for each newsblock e.g create a digg category and assign digg feeds to the digg category.
2) Use the category feed for the newsblock feedlink e.g http://yourdomain.com/category/digg/feed.
Hello,
I bought the premium version of the theme but i am having problem with it running on my server. I had apache 2 + php 5.x and it just kept showing blank page.
I reinstalled php 4.x to test and it works fine there. I’ve tried lots of things but can’t figure out what’s wrong. Can you help ?
Reply to this commentI am working with the theme now and have some thoughts on any future updates:
- adding ‘no-follow’ to RSS pages would prevent PageRank leak, as every page has tons of outbound links.
- adding SOURCE | COMMENT | SHARE to the story’s teaser/excerpt would make the site sticky and more viral. SOURCE is link to original story source.
- Comments can then have gravatars built in plus the new Intense Debate plugin which gives commenting social functionality (Wordpress just bought Intense Debate)
e.g. this allows people to interact with the headlines - otherwise it will be very hard to keep people on a site full of other people’s links.
Thx for listening.
Reply to this commentNote, this theme works briefly with WPMU then fails, using it will yield a blank white screen after several days - does not work with WPMU.
Reply to this comment@Steven
Nofollow/Dofollow already available in premium version
Will look into source and share link.
As mentioned, since this theme does not create posts, you can consider the solution above.
I feel it would be better to leave the choice of commenting system to the user as adding an external service can complicate things, especially since Wordpress have built-in comments.
If you need theme customisation, I’m available for hire.
@alltop
As stated, this theme was tested on Wordpress 2.5 and above. I’m not familiar with MU. Will see if I can run a copy on my localhost.
A blank screen can also be related to php curl extension as in Farhan’s case. So maybe you check on that.
Reply to this comment@alltop: very strange… I had onenews premium running on a WPMU install for a while, without a glitch- It was a good way to have a sort-off alltop functionality too, by creating a new blog/sub-domain per theme and then customizing it. Worked very nicely on a pristine WPMU install.
When Genkisan came up with the new “alltop” option in onenews premium, though, I converted back to the old, traditional WP install. One advantage is that options are now kept for every onenews page consistently (with WPMU, if you had, say, your background set to black in one blog it could be white in another).
But the main reason I switched back to a single WP install was the license: I’m not really sure that the use of onenews premium single license is correct in the case of a WPMU installation. After all, WPMU is all about multiple, independent sites… Whoops! I guess the cat is out of the bag now…
Well, in conclusion for the curious: onenews seems to work just fine with WPMU, but you should most probably consider the multi-licence option in that case.
Reply to this commentHello Gen
I am also having the similar problem as
http://ericulous.com/2007/06/11/popurls-clone-using-wordpress/#comment-5939
mentioned
I have the following error as I try to activate this theme
Warning: require_once(/home/onepoint/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/simplepie.inc) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/onepoint/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/functions.php on line 2
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/onepoint/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/simplepie.inc’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/onepoint/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/functions.php on line 2
What should I do?
Reply to this commentThanks for your help
Doulos
@Serge
That didn’t cross my mind at all.. haha. I guess it falls into a grey area? I wonder what other theme sellers say on this.
@doulos
Is the simplepie.inc accessible from http?
e.g http://yourwebsite.com/onenews/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie.inc
Try to re-upload the file and set the file permission to 644 or 755
Reply to this commentGenkisan
I purchased the Premium version a month or so ago. How do I get the upgraded version with Alltop style functionality?
Thx
Reply to this comment@Genkisan: yes, a grey area at best, that’s what I thought. And that’s also why I welcomed the “alltop” functionality with open arms: it offers the best of two worlds (structured organisation and easy access from one place), although being probably overkill for others it is nice to have it as an option, rather than mandatory.
Reply to this commentGen
I am getting this file from my http
http://www.onepoint.in/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/simplepie.inc
but still getting this error
Warning: require_once(/home/onepoint/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/idn/idna_convert.class.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/onepoint/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/functions.php on line 3
Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/onepoint/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/idn/idna_convert.class.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/onepoint/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenews/functions.php on line 3
Thanks for your help
Reply to this commentdoulos
this url show error on onenews. A feed could not be found at http://www.malaysiakini.com/rss/index.php?l=en&c=news
Reply to this comment@Infobytes: check that all files in the onenews folder (and subfolders) file permission are 644, and all subfolders permission are 755.
@od3n: Burn the feed with yahoo pipes and use yahoo pipes feedlink.
Reply to this commentid like to know if i can chose the rss link (add and remove)?
Reply to this commentSure. Simple edit the index.php for the free version or use widgets for the premium version.
Reply to this commentHello,
Reply to this commentI’m testing free version on my news wp 2.6.2 site. All design seems to be broken. Please advice.
http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotje1.png
http://www.AllenHsieh.com is my site that runs on the free version of OneNews. I also got the premium version which I’m using for another site. I’ll show it to everyone once it’s customized!
Reply to this comment@Allen are you using WP 2.6.2?
Reply to this commentFigured out that it was the permissions problem on free theme (im using Ubuntu Linux)
Reply to this commentHow come I am getting this in “Widgets”:
No Sidebars Defined
You are seeing this message because the theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions.
Reply to this commentOnly the premium version supports widget.
Reply to this commentHi,
I recently purchased the premium edition of the template but get the following error when activating it.
Warning: /home/wotnstv/public_html/headlines/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/cache/83019d3cfa0bd090fc02f7da4cebef58.spc is not writeable in /home/wotnstv/public_html/headlines/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie.inc on line 1770
How do I fix this?
Thanks
Reply to this commentTry to delete all the spc files in the cache folder. Also set the cache folder permission to 755 or 777.
Reply to this commentok that did it thanks!
One more question I am trying to figure out how to add multiple pages like it says in the manual page 6.
1. Go to Write > Page to create a new page
2. Enter Title (in this case I entered Wordpress Themes)
3. Select OneNews as the Page Template
4. Click Publish
Only on my wordpress write page (2.6.2) there is no option to select the template.
Any ideas how to do this in the wordpress edition I am using or do I need to use a different one?
Reply to this commentThanks again
never mind I am silly..think I got it
Reply to this commentHow do I change the duration of time to import the RSS feeds and what is it set to as a default?
Reply to this commentThanks
Look in the OneNews Premium theme options (Design > OneNews Premium).
Reply to this commentHi,
I purchased this brilliant template for a multiple page site ala alltop. I cant figure out how to set it up though. Does anybody have a step by step guide that begins where the manual finishes?
I keep getting my original page even when I have made the changes and cleared the cache as well.
Thanks
Reply to this commentHave you add widgets to the homepage? It would be easier if you can share yr blog url.
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