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 on Wordpress 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)
Key Features of OneNews
- 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, Metacafe and Dailymotion 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, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Yahoo Videos
- Option to open link in new or current window
- Option for dofollow or nofollow feed links
- Optional 3-column widget-ready bottombar
- Optional sideblog
- Robust SimplePie RSS
- Built-in cache
- No plugins required
- Threaded & paged comments ready for WP 2.7
- Gravatar support
- Works on Wordpress v2.5 and above
- Tested on IE6/7, Firefox, Opera, Safari
- XHTML & CSS Validated
- PDF setup guide
Testimnoials
I love the OneNews theme! Actually, I loved it so much that I bought it and am using it on my newly launched site – Gururls.
Here’s how your OneNews theme helped me out…
Getting the idea: $0 dollars
Registering the domain: $9 dollars
Buying the OneNews theme: $59 dollars
Saving copious amounts of time, launching uberfast and not pulling out all my hair: Priceless.
I love the theme so far – saving time is 100% worth the price… It is a “popurls” for the upcoming US inauguration.
Demo
Preview OneNews Premium
Preview Backend Setup Guide [Flash format]
Download/Purchase
Single License – $59
Multiple License – $149
Upgrade from Single to Multiple License – $90
- You may remove the credit link
- No resell/distribution rights
- Free upgrades to bug patches/version
- Customization & support not included
Being a digital product, all purchases are final with no refunds. So feel free to play around with the demo before purchasing. You should receive an email with a download link from e-junkie upon successful payment.
Tips & Tricks
The theme is not displaying correctly e.g no styling, blank.
Check that all files have a permission of 644/666 and folders(both the main onenewspremium folder and subfolders) have a permission of 755/777.
See how to change directory permissions.
Error: Cache directory is not writable.
Ensure that the cache directory (wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/cache) permission is set to 755/777.
See how to change directory permissions.
Error: A feed is displaying blank in the widget or cannot be found.
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.
How can I improve the performance?
Besides enabling feeds cache and increasing the cache duration in the theme options, 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
The feed items is displaying in random order, e.g not sorted by order
Try disabling the “enable_order_by_date” option. Go to http://your_own_domain.com/wp-admin/options.php and change simplepie_enable_order_by_date to 0.
I have many pages and the WP-Admin>Widgets page is getting too long to work on. How?
Try the widgets page hack.
Changelog
Version 2.0
- Tested on WP 2.6
- Robust SimplePie RSS
- New web 2.0 interface
- No plugins required
Version 2.1
- Ability to create multiple pages of news like Alltop.com
Version 2.2
- 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
- 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
Version 2.4
- Option to display summary below item title (textrss widget)
- Option to display logo or text or both for header title
- CSS tweaks: highlight full block instead of text only when mouseover item title, grey out visited links
- Bugfix: replace characters [] with {} in item description
- Support Dailymotion videos
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.
Niche
Tags: Aggregator, Non-Blogging
Note
This site is not affiliated with Popurls or Alltop (both registered trademark) in any way.
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How can I implement Twitter feed for a location, geographical location that is?
You can use the feed at http://tweetscan.com/rss.php?s=singapore
Replace singapore with your location
what 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!
Try
http://pipes.yahoo.com/
http://www.xfruits.com/
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,
Tarz
This theme doesn’t require any plugin. If you have the simplepie plugin, simply deactivate it.
Hi,
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.
I 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.
I’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 !
Hello!
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!
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 ?
Note, this theme works briefly with WPMU then fails, using it will yield a blank white screen after several days – does not work with WPMU.
@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.
Hi,
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
Try to delete all the spc files in the cache folder. Also set the cache folder permission to 755 or 777.
Did a fresh reinstall of wordpress, and put the onenewspremium files into wp-content/themes/ folder prior to uploading (along with default and classic which are already there).
Classic and Default themes work fine, but upon activating OneNewsPremium I get “The SimplePie template file is not readable by WordPress.” (Uploaded using Cyberduck FTP in MacOSX)
I still do not understand why it’s not readable. I thought it was a permission problem, as you said Genkisan — but now I’m not so sure.
Confused…
Im at a loss completely, tried everything i can think of to get around the problem:
Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/home/pers/public_html/news/wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/processing/none.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/pers/public_html/news/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie_wordpress_2.php on line 896
Warning: file_get_contents(http:) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pers/public_html/news/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie.inc on line 7760
Mind sharing your blog url?
sure – persp icac ious.co.uk/news
Try logging in to persp icac ious.co.uk/news/wp-admin/options.php
Find the 3 options below, clear their values and click “Save Changes”
- simplepie_processing
- simplepie_set_cache_location
- simplepie_template
Hi Genkisan
You have developed a great theme and your install and other document is fantastic.
I am facing the same problem. Warning: file_get_contents(http:) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/faridaba/public_html/news/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie.inc on line 7760
I have already tried logging in to /wp-admin/options.php and find the 3 options below, clear their values and click “Save Changes”
- simplepie_processing
- simplepie_set_cache_location
- simplepie_template
Problem is that after I do the save changes on the options.php those values reappear in front of
- simplepie_processing
- simplepie_set_cache_location
- simplepie_template
Please help.
Hello,
Does the script have the ability to NOT display feeds that have an error? and NOT display feeds whose site have not posted in x number of days?
Thanks,
Paul
Feeds with error: display blank
Feeds not posted in x number of days: not supported
Hi
Does this have the ability to make content pages or archives of older feed content or is this just able to display the latest feed content ?
Just able to display the latest feed content.
Hey Genkisan,
I love the OneNews theme! Actually, I loved it so much that I bought it and am using it on my newly launched site – Gururls (that’s http://www.gururls.com).
Here’s how your OneNews theme helped me out…
Getting the idea: $0 dollars
Registering the domain: $9 dollars
Buying the OneNews theme: $59 dollars
Saving copious amounts of time, launching uberfast and not pulling out all my hair: Priceless.
Thanks,
Dave Cadoff
GuruWrangler of Gururls
Thanks for the glowing review!
GREAT TEMP
Is it possible to list the alphabetical pages horizontally instead vertically
e.g.
When you add the Alphabet Widget – it list the pages vertically
A
B
C
D
I need them to go across the top of the page.
A B C D E F G . etc.
I’m afraid not. You can try hard-coding and paste the html into the HTML widget instead.
Solved
Hacked – “Sticky Menu” to solve the prob thanks
Hey could you please link me to the “Hacked – ‘Sticky Menu’”?
http://www.ditii.com/2007/06/22/sticky-menu-plugin/
Hi Genkisan,
How would I add traditional blogging functionality back into to my OneNews-based site? If I create posts rather than pages, where do they go?
Also, what is the sideblog? How do I set that up?
Thanks,
Dave Cadoff
Guru Wrangler of Gururls
Simply make a post as normal. Then you can use a category widget or recent post widget in the bottombar for your visitors to access the posts. Like I did for my bottombar at http://ericulous.com/onenews/
It’s not displaying my feed entries in an ordered list. The raw feed itself DOES display the entries in the proper order, however when I set them up in the theme, they are put out of order in the exact same way.
An example of a feed I’m testing is this: http://www.amazon.com/rss/bestsellers/music/ref=pd_ts_rss_link
It’s setup as a Top 10 list, however when I place it in my testing site, the entries come up in random order. However note that it’s the SAME random order for each feed inserted which is odd to me.
Try disabling the “enable_order_by_date” option. Open simple_wordpress_2.php file and edit line 911
$feed->enable_order_by_date($enable_order_by_date);
change to
$feed->enable_order_by_date(false);
It worked! Man, thanks for the speedy reply! I have no idea why the feeds themselves would order out of whack even though they’re posted on the same date/time.
Thanks! Again, great work here – a very VERY useful theme indeed.
Thanks for the great theme.
1. I am using the premium version and keep getting the same error on any additional pages that I try to add:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘:’ in /home/newschom/public_html/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/page_onenews.php on line 27
see: http://newschomper.com/technology-news/
2. where do I edit code to add my own logo?
Thx
Drew
1. Try re-uploading the original page_onenews.php file.
2. In header.php, uncomment line 58 and delete line 59-62.
<div id="logo"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>" title="Home"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/logo.gif" alt="Home" /></a></div>
Remember to upload your logo.gif to the theme images folder. May also need to edit both style.css/styleb.css line 38 to adjust the logo position.
Hi,
Nice job on the OneNews Theme. Quality stuff. I have it working OK so far but for the life of me I can not figure out how to get a custom search for Stumbleupon.com. Can you help me out?
http://www.eridernews.com/newsfeeds/
Thanks,
Adam
Stumbleupon sure makes it tough, have to google for it and the options seems limited, only by individual user.
http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/NICKNAME/
http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/NICKNAME/review/
http://rss.stumbleupon.com/user/NICKNAME/comments/
http://rss.stumbleupon.com/buzz/ (Recent Popular Sites)
Hi again,
What do you recommend for rss feeds from youtube?
YouTube feeds available here and here
I purchased your premium theme. How can I default it to the darker/black background?
Rename styleb.css to style.css and vice versa.
Understandable – you could open a “getsatisfaction” account and let the customers try to help other customers? I’d pitch in. I love the theme so far – saving time is 100% worth the price.
I’m not sure if you have a showcase for themes that have been created with it but here is the first (need to upgrade). It is a “popurls” for the upcoming US inauguration…
http://www.twinauguration.com
I’m having some trouble with the Twitter feeds – not sure if it is the theme or twitter (probably twitter).
I had toyed with the idea of a forum but aborted as moderating forums can be a chore.
Twitter is looking good right now
I realised that Google is only indexing the headlines of the rss feeds, but not the text that goes with it. Any suggestios how to change this?
As the mouseover text is stored in the anchor title text, it is not indexed by google. Storing the text in a hidden div will probably result in penalization by google. Anyone with an ideal workaround?
great theme …! what your opinion about the seo
You can use this theme on its own or install another blog in http://your-domain.com/subdir. Then you can easily setup pages with your targeted keywords, which should be boost your seo.
why don’t you return your emails?
why is my website http://www.iphoneftw.com broken?
I understand you may be eager to fix things but I’m not on 24×7 standby support. And it’s only been 15 hours since your last mail, not like 15 days.
As you have moved to a new server, the server path has probably changed. Since you can’t login to the admin, you have to edit the database directly (phpmyadmin recommended). In the wp_options table, look for the following 3 option_name and delete their option_value
- simplepie_processing
- simplepie_set_cache_location
- simplepie_template
You’re right, I did recently move to a dedicated server
thanks! that got rid of the errors, but now only half of the page shows up. . .and I still get a 500 internal server error when I try to login via the admin panel
sorry about being impatient. i have internet-ocd. so even the smallest image that is mis-aligned bugs me(and continues more and more until I fix it).
I make a living online, and tend to answer support critical emails within the hour. It’s hard for me to understand that other people don’t do the same(again, I’m very sorry).
I’m not sure what’s the problem but try any or all of the following
- rename your .htaccess (if after renaming works, then the settings in there is wrong)
- switch between php4 and php5
- search through the database for your old server path and replace with your new server path
- delete all files in the /themes/onenewspremium/includes/cache folder
- rename your wp-content/plugins to confirm that it’s not plugins problem
Getting closer. The htaccess, cache, and switching to php5 fixed the 500 ISE and it stopping half way through the page. . .but if you look now http://www.iphoneftw.com/ – for some reason the middle spots are blank.
I re-added the top widget, to see if it continued to do that, and sadly it kept the digg one blank
I guess I will just wipe out the database and directory and start over, fresh.(unless you have any other suggestions).
Real weird. One last shot before reinstallation.
- clear wp-super-cache and disable the plugin
*Edit: I’m seeing all feeds now. Perhaps just pure coincidence that those feeds are down?
hey, that worked!
you’re the man genkisan :p
After some minor modifications, my site is up and running. Thanks a lot Geniksan for the great work! If somebody could come up with a workaround that Google indexes also the text of the various feeds it would be fantastic.
Me again. I’m having a funny problem. When I’m using a Top 10 feed from Amazon or iTunes (1. Product, 2. Product, ……10. Product), the order of the feed seems to be random (7. Product, 3. Product…..8. Product) instead of showing 1-10 as it does when I look at the feed in IE and FF. Any clue how to tackle this?
Try this hack
Hi there,
I tried the rss widget (instead of the “OneNews textRSS” one) as i like the way that widget shows the summary under the title. However, it shows up in the individual left column only with a lot of empty space within the other middle and right columns i.e. it doesn’t go the full width.
Is there a way to put the rss widgets within the middle and right column as well? i.e. have 3 rss widgets shown at the same time in all three columns just like the “OneNews textrss” widget
Is there a way to change the rss widget such that it goes the full width?
It would be easier to edit the OneNews textRSS widget to display the summary. In textrss.tmpl, look for
{ITEM_TITLE}</a>
and replace with
{ITEM_TITLE}</a><br>{TRUNCATE_ITEM_DESCRIPTION}
thanks! if the description is under the title, will google bot see that and rank within its search engine or will it just see the title (as before).
is there a way to parse the collected feeds into one rss feed i.e. just like techmeme does. in other words create a feed of a bunch of feeds. right now, my feed just shows an empty “hello world” article.
Googlebot should see the description text.
You can combined the feeds using yahoo pipes.
@Genikisan
Is it possible to make the textrss a whole width? i.e. i’d like to put just one feed which is the full width like the “onenews html widget”
Try the following code in a Onenews html widget.
<h2><a href="http://ericulous.com">Ericulous</a></h2>
<ul style="width:930px;">
<?php
echo SimplePieWP('http://ericulous.com/feed/', array(
'items' => 8,
'template' => 'textrss',
));
?>
</ul>
Hi Genkisan,
the pop up hover window in my Flickr feed is very small. Is there a way to increase the size?
Thx,
Drew
Flickr offers atom and rss feed. Switch to atom feed for larger thumbnails.
e.g api.flickr.com/…photos_public.gne?tags=wordpress&lang=en-us&format=atom
I have hundreds of pages that I want to build. I actually have an Excel file with all of the URLs, parameters, etc for each page. Is that something I could hire you for – doing a back-end load so no one has to do this manually to start?
I’m afraid I unable help you with that.
Is this something that is even possible? Like if I hired a contractor that understood Wordpress would they be able to do it? How simple would something like this to do?
Also, just on a side note – are there any known limitations on number of feed pages you could have?
For me it’s not possible but I don’t really know.. a wordpress ninja might pull it off?
There shouldn’t be any limitation, except perhaps your server load.
Do you know the code or what I would do in order to hide any text in a story title that would make it go more than one line? Examples can be found on alltop.com. Here is a URL:
http://obama.alltop.com/
Note if you hover over a story that would go more than one line it shows the full title. This way you don’t end up with blocks that end up much greater in height because of long story titles. Every block height is the same at that point.
In style.css, replace
with
For it to work under IE, you need to download the Whatever:hover javascript. Upload to the onenewspremium theme folder.
Then in style.css, insert the new line (changing the domain to your own) into the body class
This worked for the most part except it hovers below the text below it. I am trying to make it a different background color for the entire text block (both lines or more if the title is long) and not shift down when you hover over it. I tried to look at the css for alltop, but I don’t really understand css – when I did it with zindex, etc I would get it where it would shift rows down to accommodate the hidden text when you hover over it…and the background color would only be around the first line of text.
By the way, thought it might be best to show you what is happening live:
http://www.rivalrap.com/news/
I am trying to make it look like this for now:
http://news.alltop.com/
Although I do have questions about how to change the story info that shows when you hover to be more locked like popurls.com does, but that is for another post.
Hi Genkisan!
This noob uses your premium Onenews theme and it rocks!
I have installed some plugins, all working fine except one.
The plugins where I use the widget all goes well, but when I try to activate this function inside OneNews HTML or textRSS, it just shows the function name. Do I need to define the function in function.php? I have not done this before, maybe you can give me a tip.
thx
Dre.
What plugin is that?
It is postTabs.
The HTML widget supports html and php but not shortcodes [tab:TabTitle] used by Posttabs.
Here’s a workaround. Create the tabs in a new post. Open post in new browser, view the source code, copy the html code for the tabs, and paste into the HTML widget.
Hi Genkisan,
I want to ask you if can the pages seen in Current Widget arranged in order? not just first page we made appeared first, when tens even hundred of pages for it is difficult to scroll in fast search and find. Or may be it is possible to change the page id?
Thank you
Alvin
Sorry but I’m not sure what you mean. Mind elaborating or perhaps sketch out what you have in mind?
Sorry for not being understanding what I mean, here I try:
http://picasaweb.google.co.id/lh/photo/yPDmx-NEuH-KmwNtOc2ALg?feat=directlink
This screenshot we can see the page arranged in order, homepage, bottom_left, bottom_center, bottom_right, a-on, b-on, … etc. I have made first a-on, then b-on… etc.
http://picasaweb.google.co.id/lh/photo/bOpRIJaMFgrVBDDevn6ilQ?feat=directlink
In this screenshot I have made …r-on, then s-on, oops wrong I have made s-on again then I rename page as 2008 and slug 2008 too, …. then y-on, z-on, last 2009.
Next when I add other page simply appear under 2009. Thus I want if can, it appear as alphabetical sort. Can we get it?
I have done this with many pages, I have deleted some page then got wrong page on its widgets, so I have deleted, and restart again.
Thank you,
Alvin
I see. Unfortunately Wordpress shows the latest page at the bottom and there’s no way to override it to sort alphabetically.
Btw, as stated in the manual and admin options, do not delete pages. Doing so will mess up the widgets. Instead of deleting the page, please set the ‘Publish Status’ to ‘Unpublished’ to hide the page from public.
Is it possible to fix on mess up the widget? may be by fixing MySQL databases or phpMyAdmin? In my situations it is easily happen again and again for instance when suddenly no electricity or no connection.
I afraid not. Please remember not to delete pages and install the Widgets Profile to backup your widgets configuration.
Hello
I was wondering if these theme also has the functionality to moderate the RSS feeds items to publish. Something like WP-O-Matic does on the RSS-to-post, but of course in this theme does something else. Still, I am interested into that functionality particularly: being able to chose which items from the RSS to show.
Thanks!
Nope, as the theme does not create new posts like WP-O-Matic.
A few suggestions, in order of importance
- visited links really must grey out.
- unmoving popups (as on popurls) feel better because they’re more stable. When I mouseover a link, it’s better if the popup is always in the same place. Would be nice if the popup also doesn’t disappear when you mouse over it, as originalsignal does it
- a more/less button would be nice, as originalsignal does it.
Forgot to add – increase the mouseover area… just like popurls. And the fontsize thing should toggle between 2 or 3 options.
Running into weird bugs, the popup box can’t handle [ or ]. Try making a reddit feed.
For greyed out visited links, add following to style.css
For increased mouseover area, replace the following classes in style.css
.news-entry li
.news-entry li a
.news-entry li a:hover
with
For [] bug, seems like the popup cannot accept the [] characters. The workaround is to replace them with {}. In simplepie_wordpress_2.php, replace line 2160-2163
with
Thanks, I should have mentioned I was working on those already. I already did the CSS. Hopefully someone else will find them useful.
I considered hacking on simplepie like you did, but it’s a bit messy. I was trying to work on the popups because I thought I could handle both issues once i understood the code.
a quick hack for textsize.js is just replacing “up” with the textsize
if(textsize == 100){
textsize = parseFloat(textsize)+20;
}else{
textsize =parseFloat(textsize)-20;
}
Just starting a new project and my question is this: Can I aggregate the news and list the text based on categories I set instead of the name of the various sites I am aggregating?
i.e. I see the feeds from Digg, Technorati, etc. but I want to aggregate the news feeds based on categories like, for example “World Health” “Humanitarian Aid” “Disaster Relief” etc.
That depends on whether the site offers customized feeds. Digg and Technorati does have them e.g
http://digg.com/rss_search?search=%22world+health%22...
http://feeds.technorati.com/search/%22world+health%22...
OK I understand now. Thanks and I will begin my research.
Hi, I’ve purchased and tried out the premium version and it looks pretty nice. However, as I was starting to build my site it’s clear that it will be a lot of work managing the feeds in each of the widgets, especially if I decide to move stuff around or create multiple pages (where I might want the same feed on multiple pages).
Is there any way to import and manage the feeds directly in the database instead of doing it through the UI? I have good MySQL skills and have phpMyAdmin so I am comfortable doing that.
Can you point me to the code or other documentation that could show me how to create dozens of different pages, feeds, etc directly through the database so that I don’t spend so much time hand typing all my feeds?
I’ve not been able to figure out how as the data is spread across a few rows. Also WordPress generate dynamic IDs for each widgets.
You can see for yourself in the wp_options table. Ssearch for where “option_name” LIKE %widget%.
The main one to delve into is the sidebar_widgets and the widget_onenews_xxxx.
Any chance you could read the links out of the “Links” database that wordpress already manages? It already handles categorizations, add/edit/delete, etc. So, if your software could simply take the list of links as feeds by categories or tags that would be great.
Sorry but I’m not sure how to integrate them together.
I tried deactivating the theme, deleting the theme, re-uploading the theme and checking to be certain everything was new and 644 in the outermost folder and 755 in the inner ones, deleting those three simplepie options in, and then activating the theme. I’m still getting the following error message:
Warning: /usr/www/virtual/servername/www.domain.com/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/cache/6fe8ce4306b18b00f9f6175997f534cf.spc is not writeable in /usr/www/virtual/servername/www.domain.com/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie.inc on line 1769
Suggestions?
Try setting all these folders (wp-content, themes and onenewspremium) to 755.
And delete all files in the /onenewspremium/includes/cache/ folder.
If still cannot, contact me with your url and ftp info.
Yay! You rule! That 100% worked perfectly
Hi – am considering buying the OneNews theme but first need to know if it offers a search facility as per popurls or is it possible to add Google search? thanks
As the feeds are stored as text and not posts, they are not searchable within Wordpress. But Google search should work.
Hello;
I think there is a problem in the positioning of the video’s popup box (video widget). In my browser the video window is too much in the bottom of the page so I have to scrolldown to see the whole video.
Can I change some parameter of the Js or css to show the window of the video closer of the top of the browser window?
Thank you,
Kiron
Try chagning the settings in videopopup.js, line 194
_vidPane.style.top=scrollTop+250+’px’;
Hi,
Did you know how i could change the date format ?
(24 hours format)14h00 not 2:00pm and month in french ?
Cheers,
Kevin
Login to http://your-own-domain.com/wp-admin/options.php, change the value for “simplepie_date_format” to “j M y, H\hi”. You can find out more about date formatting here. I’m not sure about the month in french though.
could these widgets be used with another wordpress theme, or FlatPress? thanks!
Nope. As it works in tandem with the theme.
This is a great tool…love it.
I’ve got one question though. I’d like to specify a new thumbnail size for YouTube and Flickr feeds.
Is this possible?
Thanks
Try altering the width/height in the photo.tmpl and video.tmpl files in the templates folder.
Just tried it and it worked perfectly. Thanks a million.
Great theme – I’ve been using it for a couple of months now, and am really finding that it fits my needs perfectly and it’s easily customizable.
However, I’ve found one problem I can’t figure out.
I really like the adverts you have on the onenews demo site, under the featured section. I’ve tried to add them to my site, but couldn’t figure out how to do it at the same time as also using ‘overflow:hidden’ to keep all the text on one line. Basically, every time I add a picture into a widget, it gets cut off so that only the top section of the image is displayed.
I’d really appreciate any pointers as to how I can display the full image. Thanks!
Try editing widgets.php line 391, replace
with
Thanks – worked perfectly.
If you ever need a testimonial, just let me know!
Hi, and thanks for tjis nice theme.
I’m french so sorry for my english.
I would know what can I do to put this rss feed in my homepage and that it work like the youtube feed ?
http://www.rss-one.com/rss-3950-Canal-Plus—Le-Zapping
The tumbnail work good but when we clic on this, the video can’t be read.
Thanks a lot
The videorss widget only supports Youtube and Metacafe feeds. Custom coding wouldn’t work either as there is not enough data in the rss-one.com feed.
Genkisan:
Great work. I’m glad your theme is becoming quite popurl.. err popular
my site is http://www.iplleagues.com
I have four questions:
1. I’d like to show an image instead of feed titles (I show Sports teams and their logos would look a lot cooler than their names in text). Is this planned and if so any idea when?
2. At least can I change the colors of the feed titles?
3. I’d love to insert a text-ad in between the list of news items under each feed. Any idea how I can accomplish his?
4. If the item is a link to an audio (say an mp3 song), is it possible to start playing it when clicked (instead of opening the link?
Thanks a bunch.
Item 1 should make it in the next version and available when WP 2.8 is released in April. I’m afraid I can’t help out in item 3 and 4.
Is it possible to have flickr photos pop up the same way as youtube videos do ?
You can install the WP-Slimbox2 Plugin. Make sure you enabled the “Enable Flickr Integration?” option in that plugin.
Then open up the photorss.tmpl file, replace
with
You may have to remove the image in the mouseover as it conflicts with the slimbox when you click next or previous image. Remove the following from photorss.tmpl
This worked well, thanks!
Hi there,
excellent theme you have there. I’d like to buy it, but wonder if I can easily modify the fonts used (I want to use Helvetica Neue only).
Also, if I buy one license and decide to get a multiple afterwards, is there a way for me to only pay the difference?
Thank you so much for you answer and great work on this.
Best,
Paul.
No problem. You can easily change the font in style.css and styleb.css (line 16).
To get the multiple license later, simply select “Upgrade from Single to Multiple Use License” from the dropdown box.
Hi, great theme. Thanks.
Is it possible to add multiple feed pages (Alltop-model) with posts instead of pages? This would make it possible to categorize the topic-pages and use conditional tags etc.
Pages were used as page templates can be used on them.
You can try out the Simple Tags plugin to tag pages
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/
I have a single user license for premium version. I created a new page but in the widgets section, it doesn’t show me the page to add feeds to it! What should I do?
Worked when i changed the page template to OneNews. Sorry to bother
Hi,
you write that if I want full width rss feeds I can do that with:
echo SimplePieWP(‘http://ericulous.com/feed/’, array(
‘items’ => 8,
‘template’ => ‘textrss’,
));
?>
and that’s great, but what should I add to this code if I want ti have these feeds with items summary? So that I will have 930px feed with short description taken from mentioned feed?
Thanks
Tom
Change
'template' => 'textrss',
to
'template' => 'textrss_summary',
Hi Genki, I just upgraded from single to multiple use license. Your script works fine. Thanks a lot.
BTW, how much is your rate for custom work?
Greetings, Karl
Just forgot something: I wanted to put a background image to the little box with the preview of the feed text (the one that appears when you hover the feed). But I couln’t find it in the stylesheet. How can I do that? Thanks alot. Karl
I’m not taking custom work at the moment. But I must say that the modifications you’ve done so far is pretty cool!
You can find background css in line 40 of header.php
Thanks. Please look again in some days/weeks. There is much to come.
Your site is avesome Karl. Congrats.
how to make menu navigation like Karl website?
Try http://www.ditii.com/2007/06/22/sticky-menu-plugin/
Can you tell me what code that i must use to insert sticky menu?
Please refer to the readme.txt in the plugin zip file.
Hi,
I’m trying to use this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lifestream/ with your theme, but just after I press activate my blog is gone… (I have to delete plugin from server to fix it). I’m just wondering if this maybe has something in common with simplepie which is used by both – your theme and this plugin. The same happens if I want to install Simplepie Plugin from wordpress.org – blank screen after I press activate. Would it maybe help if I separate somehow simplepie from theme directory?
Thanks
Tom
Sorry, I’ve got it working – I changed Simplepie’s path in Lifestream plugin to the one included in the theme.
Bought multiple licenses of this wonderful theme.
Could any one let me know how to replace the feeds’ title with images?
Thank you.
In the widgets, leave the “Header Title” blank. Then enter the img url in the “Logo Url” e.g http://yourdomain.com/image.jpg
Is it possible to control the length of an item so that all feed columns display with the same height. For example the problem i have is when some feeds have lots of long descriptions per item one column can be much taller then another which makes the page look untidy. Is there a simple workaround ?
I found the solution, edit the simplepie_wordpress2.php file and change the settings for simplepie_truncate_item_title then use the relevant tag in the template.
Actually this does not seem to work for all items, does anyone know a workaround ?
Try replacing (in simplepie_wordpress2.php)
$working_item = str_replace('{ITEM_TITLE}', SimplePie_WordPress::post_process('ITEM_TITLE', $title), $working_item);
with
$working_item = str_replace('{ITEM_TITLE}', substr(SimplePie_WordPress::post_process('ITEM_TITLE', $title),0,40), $working_item);
Hi! This is a great theme… I’m working on it right now…
I have two problems:
1. When I hover the mouse over the logo it “kind of underlines it”… Is this a margin/padding issue?
2. Is it possible to hide some pages (contact us, about, etc) from the Alphabet Lists? What’s the easiest way to do it?
Thanks in advance!!
regards
1. Would be easier for me if you post your blog url.
2. Only pages using the OneNews page template will show up. So normal pages like about or contact shouldn’t show up.
Thank you!!
I’ll work on this a little bit and then I’ll let you know…
Thanks again! Great theme!
Can I use two different logos for the two different backgrounds?
How can I achieve this?
I’m having trouble using a logo with a transparent background in IE (works fine in firefox)…
Thanks
How can I change the date on the “hover box” over the headlines of the feeds? It’s in a different timezone…
For png transparency in IE:
http://www.twinhelix.com/css/iepngfix/
For timezone, in simplepie_wordpress_2.php replace
with
Replace Europe/Athens with your own timezine
For your logo underline, remove “background: #33ccff;” in
a:hover { color: #fff; background: #33ccff; }
Thank you!!
Just changed the timezone format but without success… Is it possible that some of my feed are correct and others don’t? or is this a problem with the original feeds?
Thanks
In fact only a couple of feeds appear with the correct time… the date is always correct…
Possible as date/time implementation can be different in rss or atom format, even among versions within themselves.
Hi Genkisan:
Is there a way to increase the mouseover area to display the entire feed content?
Thanks
Kris
To display full content, go to http://higizmo.com/wp-admin/options.php and change the vaue of “simplepie_truncate_item_description” to a big number e.g 999999999.
To increase width of mouseover area, open header.php and change dvBdy.style.width='240px'; to desirable width.
Hello Genki,
I worked around in the css to make the display of the blocks more beautiful. Now there is only showing one line, and all by hover it. If you use less than 10 feed items, you maybe change the height-settings in the .news-entry ul – you can see it working here: http://www.kapitalismus.de/startups/
.news-entry ul{
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
font-size: 1em;
width: 300px;
min-height:240px;
height:18em;
}
.news-entry li {
border-top: 1px solid #505050;
line-height: 1.25em;
}
.news-entry li a{
display:inline-block;
font-size:.85em;
line-height: 1.25em;
height:1em;
width: 300px;
padding:4px 0 4px 0;
overflow:hidden;
}
.news-entry li a:hover {
color: #fff;
display:inline-block;
text-decoration: none;
background-color:#333333;
margin-bottom:-3px;
padding:4px 0 4px 0;
line-height: 1.25em;
height:auto;
overflow:auto;
}
To minimize the loading time, this plugin is nice in addition to super-cache: http://www.askapache.com/wordpress/crazy-cache-wordpress-plugin.html
Genki, is there a way to produce a cache file automatic, when simplepie is getting a new rss-file after 3600 seconds?
I need something like this to speed up the site.
Thanks for the theme. Greetings from Berlin.
Hmm.. I get the idea but I’m not sure how to get it to work.
Greetings. Very nice theme & excellent work!
I agree with Karl, that we should figure out a way to automatically update the cache once the rss-feeds are fetched by simplepie. This would clearly speed up the site for some bigger pages.
Any help there would be highly appreciated.
Best regards from Amsterdam.
If I wanted to run multiple versions on one site, utilizing subdomains what would be the best way to go about doing this? An example would be “sub1.domain.com, sub2.domain.com, sub3.domain.com”.
I would like to install about 150 variations of this theme on individual sub-domains. Is this a good idea with Wordpress and using that many SQL databases?
Can I somehow install one version of the theme and run variations of each sub-domian? Or would I have to install individual WP installs on each sub-domain?
WPMU may be the thing you need for subdomains on single installation of Wordpress.
Can I have multiple pages of aggregation pages news on a single site? I want to have a Packers page with feeds and videos for the Packers … under another tab on home page I want a Chicago Bears news aggregation page … under another tab I want to go to a Detroit Lions news aggregation page … etc.
Thanks!
Steve
Yes, see some of my pages for netbook and nintendo wii.
Hi,
I am thinking of buying. Is the code encrypted?
I might have to make modifications if necessary.
Thanks
No encrypted code, so feel free to make modifications.
Hi,
Again excellent theme. If you make a lot of different pages under this theme (like alltop.com) and the site doesn’t have any traffic, the loading time of these pages can be very long, even when Supercach is put on.
A quick fix for this is to open the page in firefox and have them reload every x minutes (via the Reload Every) option. That way the cach is built regularly, which helps the quick loading when first time vistors hit a page. This obviously isn’t a very brilliant fix and has several disadvantages.
Therefore any more robust solutions for this problems are highly appreciated. Any brilliant thoughts anybody?
Best regards from Amsterdam
Hi Genkisan:
I found the code to make text rss a whole width using onenews HTML widget, but is there a way to make the feeds also align horizontally than vertically. For eg. is there a way I can get, say, 15 feeds in 3 rows with 5 feeds in each from one feedlink?
Thanks for your time.
I should have mentioned 3 columns than 3 rows.
I found the code to make text rss a whole width using onenews HTML widget, but is there a way to make the feeds also align horizontally than vertically. For eg. is there a way I can get, say, 15 feeds in 3 columns with 5 feeds in each from one feedlink?
I’m afraid that’s too complicated.
Hi Genkisan,
Great looking them, was just wondering if it would be possible / very difficult to move the navigation “block” to the top of the page as I think it might be easily overlooked by visitors that there are other pages available when you have a lot of feeds on one page…
Hope to hear from you, interested in buying the theme…
Greets,
Matt
Or a quick “how to” on how to create a menu like “Q” from http://helemaalbij.nl did (doesnt even have to be dropdown)..
All I need is a simple way to create a decent topmenu to the other pages and I’m sold
Thanks in advance!
The navigation block or what I named the Alphabets List is a widget so you can easily place it at the top through the Wordpress widget control panel.
Thank you for the quick reply, bought the template and love it!
Weirdest thing is though that I’m not able to alter the homepage easily (rest of the pages I created are working fine) When I select widgets and choose homepage from the dropdown menu on the right and select show, it says “You are using 0 widgets in the “homepage” sidebar.”
Any clue how I can solve this?
My workaround now is to alter the home.php…
Homepage also doesnt show up in the navigation menu in the bottombar…
For the page I’m trying to set up, see http://www.graffnews.net
Great to see the PhotoRSS also working with Fotolog.com by the way!
Awesome job Genkisan
I see that you got the homepage fixed. To show the homepage link in bottombar, you can try the Flexi Pages Widget
Hi Genkisan,
thanks again for the quick reply, really appreciate it..
Homepage still no working as it should be, did this by altering the home.php
The widgets still do not show up in the back end.
If I choose to add a widget, the homepage doesn’t display anything actually, when I remove the widget everything is back up…
Any suggestions?
Clear out all the code that call for the widgets in home.php and then re-add the widgets?
Thanks for the help, will look into the flexipages widget.
All the best,
Matt
I was wondering, is there a way you to select which feeds are dofollow and which are nofollow for the premium version? From the flash setup guide it looked as if it was a blanket all or nothing.. I was hoping to possibly make 1 dofollow with the rest nofollow? Thanks.
Try this hack. In simplepie_wordpress_2.php, line 2230, replace
if ($onenews->option['nofollow'] == 'nofollow')
with
if ($onenews->option['nofollow'] == 'nofollow' && strpos($permalink,'http://replace_your_own_domain_here.com')===FALSE)
I am looking for alternatives to SimplePie NewsBlock that has serious memory issues. A page with a bit more than 70 feeds caused a memory error – 64MB was not enough. So now I wonder if OneNews can display 70 or 80 feeds on one page without such memory issues.
Not sure but high chance same issue as OneNews is based also on SimplePie. The solution may be to throw more hardware at it.
Thanks for your answer. 64MB is not much for shared hosting? Maybe I can get my host to upgrade.
How would you describe the difference between OneNews and SimplePie NewsBlocks? SimplePie NewsBlocks requires digging into the code, there is no web interface for the settings. Especially getting cronjobs to work is a hard job. This might be better in OneNews?
I found out that it is possible to increase memory without editing the php-info file
Worth a try if the host supports it.
I’ve not tried the NewsBlocks before. For OneNews the feeds are added through Wordpress widgets interface. You can check out the Stup Guide for more info
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4878076/OneNews-Setup-Guide
Hi,
Can you confirm if the ‘onenews wp’,can work with wordpress-mu. Thanks and bye.
cheers
Edward
It should as reported by other users.
Is there a way to edit the photoRSS thumbnails so they are not stretched if the original image is not square?
Open photorss.tmpl and remove either
width="128" (for equal height) or
height="96" (for equal width)
Hello,
How can I add a caption under a video, i.e the title of the video?
Thanks!
Sorry, I’m unable to figure this out. The solution should involve editing the videorss.tmpl file.
Ok I figured out how to do it but it makes the videos go in a vertical line instead of horizontal. I added {TRUNCATE_ITEM_TITLE} after:
in videorss.tmpl file
how could I make it horizontal again?
That’s the part that got me too.
Keep trying!
How do I remove the tooltip? I dont want it as the text is too small!
Open header.php and add
dvBdy.style.display='none';
below this line
function defBdyStyle() {
Is there anyway to prevent a feed title from being londer than one line? Could you add something that says if feed title is >18 characters it will cutoff and add … after it?
For example, if the title was:
“OneNews just set WP Theme records With his latest update”
It would change it to:
“OneNews just set WP Theme records…”
Im sure this is possible, hope you can figure it out!
In textrss.tmpl , replace {ITEM_TITLE} with {TRUNCATE_ITEM_TITLE}. Then go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options.php and change the value “simplepie_truncate_item_title” to maybe 35.
Is it possible to have five instead of three columns per row?
Unfortunately no.
Love the theme!!!! I have the signle license and I’m about to buy the multi license upgrade. I’m trying to create a site that will display heavily filtered RSS feeds from Yahoo Pipes for news reporting. I’d like to try to add functionality similar to popurls where you can share/bookmark a given feed item on delicious or similar. Looks like this might required editing the simplepie templates to do this? Any suggestions? Is this something you could do as a hired project?
Sorry but I’m not taking on projects. Yes, it would involve editing the tmpl files. You may want to try the addthis api, something like this:
<a href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=20"
onmouseover="return
addthis_open(this, '', '[{ITEM_PERMALINK}]', '[{ITEM_TITLE}]');"
onmouseout="addthis_close();"
onclick="return addthis_sendto();"><img src=
"http://s7.addthis.com/static/t00/logo1414.gif"
width="16" height="16" border="0" alt="Share"/></a>
Thanks! I worked it out by moving the add this code you have on the top of the site. But yours looks much better … Ill try that. great theme again.
would you be able to tell me where to put this code within the simplepie_wordpress_2.php for it to function as described by Jeremy Barnish?
Not sure how Jeremy code it since he did not share his url. Try adding the following code into textrss.tmpl, just after “<li>”
<a style="float:right;width:20px;" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php" onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, '', '{ITEM_PERMALINK}', '{ITEM_TITLE}')" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onclick="return addthis_sendto()"><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/t00/logo1414.gif" border="0" alt="Bookmark/Share" /></a>
In style.css, change
.news-entry li a{
display:inline-block;
width: 300px;
padding: 2px 0 2px 0;
}
to
.news-entry li a{
display:inline-block;
width: 280px;
padding: 2px 0 2px 0;
}
Thank you! Is it possible to get my site name somewhere on the link thats being shared. “Posted from MyWebsite.com”?
News item that displays the item title of articles on two lines cause the new article title to slide up and down. Is there a way to stop the article titles from sliding as they do now?
Posted from: in the snippet above, replace “{ITEM_TITLE}” with “Posted from MyWebsite.com: {ITEM_TITLE}”.
Slide up and down: In style.css, add the width in
.news-entry li a:hover {
color: #333;
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #E1E9EB;
display:inline-block;
width:250px;
}
Is there a way to get the site name it to appear when shared on Facebook? I’m currently using “Posted from MyWebsite.com: {ITEM_TITLE}” but when sharing on facebook it doesn’t include MyWebsite.com anywhere. Thanks for your help! This theme is awesome!
Seems like facebook grab the title directly from the website instead of what we input. I afraid there’s nothing can be done on our side.
I’m currently using the following code. Can you tell me how to set this button not to pop-up on mouse over. I would like it to only open on click.
Replace your link with
http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=shalomy&url={ITEM_PERMALINK}&title={ITEM_TITLE}
Remove
onmouseover="return addthis_open(this, '', '{ITEM_PERMALINK}', '{ITEM_TITLE}')" onmouseout="addthis_close()" onclick="return addthis_sendto()"
Hello all…
great site which has been pushing RSS news since 1999/2000, and they have hundreds of feeds by topics like cities, states, industries (US News). If you need a quick way to fill empty sub pages using OneNews (ie music, books, Los Angeles, etc.), this is great (and FREE): http://feeds.send2press.com .
Hang in with me here. I want to designate a SPECIFIC background image for EACH PAGE, that relates to the kind of feeds displayed. I’ve tried to implement a “custom css” custom field and go that route, but it doesn’t work on this theme. Any ideas?
The body background style is in use by the header. You will need to modify the header first. In header.php, replace
<div class="content">
<div id="top">
with
<div class="header">
<div class="content">
<div id="top">
also replace
</div>
</div>
with
</div>
</div>
</div>
Open style.css, delete
background: #fff url(images/top.jpg) repeat-x top;
and add
.header {
background: #fff url(images/top.jpg) repeat-x top;
}
In header.php, below this line
<link rel="alternate stylesheet" title="dark" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/styleb.css" type="text/css" media="all" />
add
<?php
global $wp_query;
$thePostID = $wp_query->post->ID;
?>
<style type="text/css">
body {
background: #fff url(<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/<?php echo $thePostID; ?>.jpg) repeat top left;
}
</style>
Finally for each page, save the background image using it’s ID e.g 4.jpg into the theme images folder.
Hey,
I have used your theme to sort of put all my websites in one place, creating a portal all around it. Even though I am only fetching 16 or so feeds, the performance is atrocious. Any suggestions on how to improve it (link provided in the website field)?
Seems pretty fast on my side as I see that you have wp-super-cache enabled. The first load may be slower as it fetch the feeds from the various sites. You may also want to check out these caching plugins suggested by a user: http://dbzer0.com/blog/the-fastest-caching-combo-for-wordpress-am-i-in-a-cached-nirvana
Thanks for the tip. Is there anyway in your opinion to make the fetching process more efficient? Let’s say I want to create an exact duplicate of AllTop with all those sites. Wouldn’t that take forever to load for the first time? I did install those 2 plugins that you suggested but the first timers will still see some lag (the reason I even care about this is some people make click away if the site doesn’t show up after 3 seconds. Right now it takes about that for the first load and is super fast after).
I’m afraid the response & transfer time between the servers is not within our control. But with caching, majority of the users will be seeing the cached pages (caching is done on a per page, not per user basis).
Well, thanks so much for answering all my questions. I am actually planning to upgrade my license to unlimited as I have a big project in mind with your theme as its center piece. That portal will could 10,000 feeds so if you have any suggestions for that, it’d be great. I mean how does AllTop do it? much better servers?
btw, which of the 3 plugins do you recommend the most? From that article, I use the DB one in conjunction with super cache. But do I need to use them on those individual sites as well?
Possible. Maybe also a greater cache expiry time.
I’ve only tried wp-super-cache so not sure about the other 2.
HI,
How can I insert adsence similarly to http://www.originalsignal.com? When cursor hovers over the link right on the preview window under the feed summary a google ad is inserted.
Thanks,
Jorge.
I’m afraid that doesn’t work with this theme.
How does the optional sideblog work? Is this a small blog in the sidebar? Can you add a regular blog to the domain e.g. http://www.domain/blog with a full-blown WordPress blog? What features does the blog have?
Thanks.
Create a category ‘blog’ and make new posts to that category. Then you will have your blog at http://yourdomain.com/category/blog e.g my sideblog at http://ericulous.com/onenews/category/wordpress/
Hi – is there a way to tweak OneNews so that feed items can be stored as posts? Thanks.
Nope. You may want to try plugins like feedwordpress or wp-o-matic.
Hi Genki,
When using logos with the textrss widget the logo sits correctly above the feed. When using either the photo or the video widget the logo takes the place of the first thumbnail pushing the sixth thumbnail onto a new line. I have reproduced this on a new installation.
What is the fix so that the logo sits above the thumbnails?
Many thanks,
John
This should work. Open photorss.tmpl, insert “<div style="clear:both">” into 1st line. And insert “</div>” into last line. Repeat for videorss.tmpl.
I am interested in adding Google Analytics tracking to the links generated by this theme. I’m hoping this will give me an indication of what the most popular links were that day. Any ideas on how I could add this to the theme, or is this already available?
Not sure about Google Analytics but you can try the Wordpress Stats plugin to track outgoing links.
Don’t think you could track these links only internals. You could try crazyegg though. The heat maps will how you where people have clicked.
You can track outgoing links with google analytics. use just about any analytics plugin for WP and turn that feature on. BUT doing this will probably slow down the site if you have a lot of links.
Hi Genkisan !
Please check Cubanoscope http://www.cubanoscope.com
Done with OneNews
Best regards from Havana, Cuba.
Pretty impressive!
Just bought your theme and run it on my site. It’s a great theme indeed. One small question: How can I feed videos from MSN and Yahoo Videos. Inline video player doesn’t work with feeds with these. Thank you
Only youtube, metacafe, dailymotion videos are supported for the video widget.
Hi. I just bought this theme.
I want to have a image that says “NEW!” next to the post that have been posted the same day or in the last 24 hours.
How do I do this???
You can see a working example here http://webdesign-news.com/category/blogging-2/
Thanks in advance
Are you taking suggestions to the next update? Here are a couple of general suggestions.
I think load time is always an issue. I think the theme does pretty well, but there are always places to look. For example, I have taken all the javascript files and packed them. That reduced their overall file size by more than 60%. Are there other areas you could look for speed improvements?
SEO issues … Here is my secret sauce that I have used to great affect on many many sites … in the top, for the site title, use an h1 tag, and for the description use an h2 tag, then for each of the widget titles (site feed title) use h3 tags. For the footer widgets I would use h4, as they are likely not to be keyword rich for the site content. those are the biggest seo issues that I would address.
thanks for a very useful theme!
Using h1 tags for the site title would mean all pages will have the same h1 tags (Would be fine if in popurls mode but OneNews uses multiple pages in the alltop mode).
Keeping the js files unpacked will make it easier for the users to edit. They may also not need some of the js functions and thus easier to leave the individual files out. They can then opt to pack the files with WP_Minify.
Can this package handle images and videos from different sources as shown on the demo page with little modification required? I need to be sure it can before investing my money it.
This theme supports
for video: youtube, metacafe, dailymotion, yahoo
for photo: flickr
As different site build their feeds differently, it’s impossible to support all of them, especially for the videos. Perhaps you can show me your list and I can test which of them runs fine.
I am looking at TED, FORA.tv, and images from almost every possible websites. The problem will be on the pops video and images. How customizable is your code?
TED and fora feed won’t work since they don’t provide enough info. I also can’t guarantee all images site will work. I guess this theme may not be what you are looking for.
Hi,
we have bought multi license version of your template. We would like to adopt it to suit our needs, and I was wondering if its possible to assign unique html ID to each imported feed via “location” in widget. E.g. each widget have 3 feeds, and all of them are sorted in widget management, so is there way to access feed location via its widget location?
Something like editing widgets.php to have newsblock defined something like
<div class="newsblock" id="widget–”> which would eventually produce
if feed is in first widget and in first feed import.
Hope you understood what i have meant to say
Best
Boban
for reasons unknown comments stripped loads of my example making question useless
anyway, in short, is there a way to produce this
<div class="newsblock" id="widget-1-1">
I assume the id “widget-2-3″ means the widget is in the 2nd row 3rd column. The column should be easy as you can hardcode it in widgets.php
line 297 becomes <div class="newsblock" id="widget-x-1">
line 342 becomes <div class="newsblock" id="widget-x-2">
line 387 becomes <div class="newsblock" id="widget-x-3">
However I’m stumped on getting the rows.
Yes thats what i meant, and figured it meanwhile…
Thanks for your answer on this.
And second issue would be with trimming within tooltip window. We tried using it on some cyrilic languages (Russian, Belarus) and sometimes it returns last char as square or in ffox that small prism with question mark inside. Is there a way to disable trimming?
Oh yeah, and for some reason $number returns different number for each row of widgets (tried on textRSS only) i havent got time to play with it but so far it looks promissing for what im trying to achieve… thanks again, and forgot to mention – awesome template set!
Open textrss.tmpl and replace TRUNCATE_ITEM_DESCRIPTION with ITEM_DESCRIPTION.
The $number is generated by wp and appears to be random numbers.
after upgraded to 2.8.6 I receive 500 internal page error..
http://social.sapdocs.info/
what to do ?
Seems like only your homepage is affected. The rest are working e.g http://social.sapdocs.info/basis/ , so I don’t think it’s theme related.
Not too sure but
1. try renaming your .htaccess to something else. If it works, then your .htaccess file is corrupted or settings are incorrect.
2. deactivate plugins to see if they are causing the issue.
3. clear the super-wp-cache.
Hi Genkisan
I bought your onenews six month ago and it’s my main pleasure to play with the theme since then. It’s really avesome to see what one can do with. I frequently comeback here to see what others saying and doing in their sites. It really helps a lot.
Yestarday i’ve checked Karl’s “Kapitalismus.de” It’s really impressive. A small detal attracted me a lot which i don’t have in my theme. It shows page headers just after the logo. i.e ‘Kapitalismus.de/Dubai’ I wonder how to add such a code to header.php
Thanks
Try the single_post_title function
I only found this now while surfing and looking for wordpress themes. This is great! I think I would try this with one of my sites. Is this also a good way to gain new traffic? Does it offer good SEO capabilities? Won’t search engines penalize my site for duplicate contents?
It should be an easy source for extra traffic and will just look like a mashup of post titles to google so no issue of duplicated content.
Am I correct in thinking that I can publish AdSense ads simply by posting the AdSense code into a OneNews HTML widget? I’ve done so, posting:
but the ad does not appear. Any suggestions appreciated, we’ve had fun working with the theme.
Thanks.
Sorry, Wordpress messed up your adsense code above. Can you paste your code to http://www.elliotswan.com/postable/ and copy back here?
The adsense code should be something like
<script type="text/javascript"><!–
google_ad_client = "pub-1892270211473760";
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 60;
//–>
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
No problem!
<script type=%u201Dtext/javascript%u201D><!%u2014google_ad_client = %u201Cpub-12345%u201D;
/* 200×200, created 12/19/09 */
google_ad_slot = %u201C67890%u201D;
google_ad_width = 200;
google_ad_height = 200;
//%u2014>
</script>
<script src=%u201Dhttp://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js%u201D type=%u201Dtext/javascript%u201D>
</script>
Still not 100% there . . . I can try again if that’d help.
It may not show up when there’s no relevant ads for that page.
That appears to be the problem. We expected a delay between the time we posted the code to our site, and when the ads first appeared, but not as long as it took (several days).
Thanks!
Ive been using your theme and its fantastic! I’ve been getting some really frustrating results with feeds not displaying for hard to work out reasons. I thought the problem was feeds from yahoo pipes and that pipes was going down, so i switched to using the original google news rss feed instead, and now some of them are not displaying either.
this one for example http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=DotNetNuke&cf=all&scoring=n&output=rss … does not return a result in a text rss widget. i tried putting it into xfruits and it worked! do you know why this is? http://www.xfruits.com/barnish/?id=87900
also, i’m wondering if you have an documentation on some of the options in the http://mydomain.com/wp-admin/options.php … would adjusting any of these mean it might choke less?
thanks for your help!
simplepie_date_format
simplepie_enable_cache
simplepie_enable_order_by_date
simplepie_items
simplepie_items_per_feed
simplepie_locale
simplepie_local_date_format
simplepie_processing
simplepie_set_cache_duration
simplepie_set_cache_location
simplepie_set_max_checked_feeds
simplepie_set_timeout
simplepie_strip_attributes
simplepie_strip_htmltags
simplepie_template
simplepie_truncate_feed_description
simplepie_truncate_feed_title
simplepie_truncate_item_description
simplepie_truncate_item_title
When I open the feed url in the browser, google says “We’re sorry… but your computer or network may be sending automated queries”. That may be the reason why it’s not showing, with google occasionally blocking your server & yahoo pipes, but not xfruits. It seems to work when I used a US proxy server with this url.
If google is indeed blocking then I don’t thing changing the values will help. You can find the simplepie docs at http://simplepie.org/wiki/plugins/wordpress/simplepie_plugin_for_wordpress/customization
Thanks. Very very useful.
I contacted you a while back to see if you are available for consulting projects .. are you available at all? or do you know anyone who you trust who might be available?
Perhaps you can check out http://wphelpcenter.com/
If you add a search option to OneNews would visitors be able search for different topics with in the feed links?
Thanks
Nope, as no posts are created, wordpress is unable to search within.
hey. i when i make photo feed the description is very short.
how to let the feet to show more characters?
tnx.
What’s your photo feed url? Nothing much can be done if the description in the feed is short.
the description in the feed is not short but in my site it’s cut the description.
this is the feed:
http://rcs.mako.co.il/rss/e3bb59b65350a110VgnVCM2000002a0c10acRCRD.xml
Oh yea, the photorss widget does not display the description. If you like to display them, you can edit photorss.tmpl in the templates folder. Look for {ITEM_DATE}
and replace it with
{TRUNCATE_ITEM_DESCRIPTION}<br />{ITEM_DATE}
Genkisan,I have a question about this theme before I purchase it. On an rss text feed or any feed I guess, does the software bring in every feed from the source or can I specify feeds with one or more key words? For example: I want to list feeds with info about the earthquake in Haiti. I want to look at feeds from google news, cnn, fox news, yada yada but only pick up news about Haiti. Can I do this or do I have to take all feed info?
The theme is unable to do keyword filtering. It will take the feed provided as is. However some feeds allows you to do filtering, which you can do before inputting into the theme e.g
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&cf=all&ned=en_sg&hl=en&q=haiti+earthquake&cf=all&output=rss (google news feed for haiti earthquake). You can also try to mash feeds that does not support keywords with http://pipes.yahoo.com
Hi, I purchased the theme and am very happy with it. I was trying to rebuild the templates and a lot of the original SimplePie template tags don’t work. For example I am trying to get the name of the site that published an rss feed by {FEED_AUTHOR_NAME} – it simply displays the tag.
Are they deactivated or what is wrong? Thank you.
I commented them out for a little speed boost as they were not used. You can delete the “/*” or “*/” in line 961, 1231, 1262, 1491, 1534, 1977, 2009, 2202, 2182, 2160, (simplepie_wordpress_2.php).
Thanks a lot! A great theme is one thing, but it is the great support that is completing this offer. Keep it up!
Great work, Genkisan! Very worthy purchase, recommended.
Two questions:
where do you reduce the blank space between widget modules?
can you recommend a way to emulate the popurls quickies? that is, name of the blog + last post from the feed.
thx
In style.css, add margin-top:-10px for the following class as below:
.news-entry h2 {
font-size: 1.5em;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 15px 0;
margin-top:-10px;
}
Unfortunately there isn’t anything equivalent for the quickies in OneNews. You can check out WP built-in fetch_feed function at http://wpengineer.com/feed-cache-in-wordpress/
Hi — I’m having a problem with wrong times being displayed (timezone issue?) ….
Original – IT & Telecoms (Mondaq) January 26, 2010 7:30 AM
Textrss widget – IT & Telecoms (Mondaq) (26 Jan 10, 3:30pm)
The original feed …
http://www.mymediamonitor.com/feeds/cloud/allnews.rss
Which is from a pipes feed ….
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=941d58b6d8cc1f3ec554ad0e02c9d2cc&_render=rss
Any suggestions?
I notice even the feeds date is different from the original articles. Try the timezone hack.
Hi Gengiskan,
Thanks for the theme, it’s really usefull, I’m doing some work on it, I will tell you when finished to check it.
But, here is my problem. I would like to insert some rating stars below the rss feed title, for example with a java script function, the fact is that I cannot find where to place the script in the theme files so it could appear automaticaly when creating a new feed block. Could you give a clue?
Try inserting into the template files e.g textrss.tmpl
Thanks for the quick response.
I want to purchase this several times actually! I’m going to need a couple licenses.
However, there is one key feature missing for me. Are there any plans on making it editable by a user just like popurls.com
I want the user to be able to edit what shows on his page so that he seees the feeds he wants to see.
Please email me if you can.
P.S. FANTASTIC JOB! Bib props to the creator
Probably not any time soon. You may want to toy with the idea of using WPMU for multiusers environment. Or the next version of WP 3.0, where they will merge WP with WPMU.
Hi Gensiskan,
I am interested, as Justin, on serving personalized sites for each user, surely using WPMU. Do I have to buy onenews multiple liscence for it?. Could you tell me differences between single license and multiple one, or where to find them.
Thanks
Single license can only be used on a single domain (subdomains are ok). Multiple licenses can be used for multiple domains.
Few days back I bought the premium and I am getting this error.
Warning: require_once(/home/missionb/public_html/new/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie.inc) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/missionb/public_html/new/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/functions.php on line 105
Check that the file permission for simplepie.inc is set to 644 or 666. If correct, you should be able to view it at http://your-own-domain//wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie.inc.
wp 2.9.1
when previewing the theme, I get a blank white screen. When activating the theme, The whole site is just a white blank page (even the admin section). I could only correct this by removing the onenewspremium theme folder and changing the theme.
please advise
Please check that all files in onenewspremium folder and subfolders have permission of 644/666, and folders have permission of 755/777.
I encounter a similar ‘blank’ case, which is caused by the simplepie.inc file not accessible. You can see if the file is accessible by going to http://your-own-domain.com/wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/simplepie.inc
If the permission for the file is already 644/666 and still not viewable, you may want to check with your host as they may have some security settings in place.
Still getting a blank screen.
I am not clear about 755/777 which is it? 755 or 777?
same with 644/666
As for these security settings.
I can view the file by going to the url you suggested (subbing my url of course).
Thank you.
Hi, I am interested in the onenews theme, but, I need to see if it works exactly like alltop, for example, it has the a b d c e f g …….., etc links on the top?
Also it it has the previous feature, when I click the a, I have a list of all the categories beginning with an a?
Another thing, when I click one of these categories on alltop, I am redirected to a sub-domain, like http://about.com.alltop.com, your theme works exactly this way, or I need to install the theme in each sub-domain?
The site will update automatically each time one of the feeds is updated? I want to build a big niche site, and, in this niche, real-time info is very important.
Resuming, I need exactly an alltop clone site, is your theme an exactly alltop clone?
Thanks
Serge
This theme does not have the equivalent of the top menu like alltop. So not really an exact clone, more of a similiar functions clone where you can setup multiple pages of feeds.
For sub-domain, you can make use of WPMU for such setups.
By default, the feeds are updated every hour. You can set it to load in real-time but that will put a heavy load on your server.