Wordpress Theme OneNews

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

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 and Dailymotion
  • 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

Setup Guide

A glimpse into the backend: Browse Setup Guide [Flash format]

Testimnoials

I’m using this awesome theme at WPThemesNews.
I customized the design to fit my needs and it’s doing pretty well.
Really easy to use !

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: $49 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.

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

- You may remove the credit link
- No resell/distribution rights
- Free upgrades to bug patches/version
- Customization & support not included

Demo

Preview OneNews Premium

Download/Purchase

Free Version

Single License – $49
Multiple License – $199
Upgrade from Single to Multiple License – $150

 

Being a digital product, all purchases are final with no refunds. So feel free to play around with the demo before purchasing. You will be able to download the theme files via 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 and folders(both the main onenewspremium folder and subfolders) have a permission of 755.

See how to change directory permissions.

Error: Cache directory is not writable.
Ensure that the cache directory permission is set to 755.
premium version: wp-content/themes/onenewspremium/includes/cache

free version: wp-content/themes/onenews/includes/cache

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. 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);

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

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.

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Note

This site is not affiliated with Popurls or Alltop (both registered trademark) in any way.


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