To do that, You have to download a wordpress theme called OneNews, which is based on a simple wordpress plugin called SimplePie.

Just needed about 30 minutes to build my new sciences news aggregator www.allsciencetopics.com.

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

With the new version 2.x, you can create unlimited pages of news like Alltop. Now you can have unlimited pages with targeted keywords self-updating fresh content (no maintenance time required)

There is also a Premium version with more features

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

Free Version: Download

Premium Version : Download

Do you know that you can create your online store with WordPress in less time that I need to write this post?

So let me show you now how to launch your  online store in less than 30 minutes!

Prerequisites:

- Web Hosting Plan

- Domain name or subdomain registered

- Wordpress installed

- Active paypal account

Step-by-Step

Step 1: Download WP E-Commerce plugin and install it. You would say, what’s this plugin?
WP E-Commerce plugin will help you to create all components of your online store like shopping cart, online order form and product pages.

Step 2: Setup the WP E-Commerce plugin, then click on “Shop Options” in the WP E-Commerce Plugin and fill out such information like : which country you’re selling in, currancy you’ll be using on your site.

Step 3: Set Gateway Options to PayPal. Under “Gateway options” in the WP E-Commerce Plugin, select PayPal. You’ll need to enter in your account info.

Step 4: Create static front page. Instead of using posts, you’ll be using pages in your online store. Create a static front page for your store by going to your WP dashboard—>Options—>Reading Options and select “static page.” Select which page you’ll use for your static page.

Add Extra Features:

Create a Contact Page : This is essential to transform confident visitors to happy customers. Gp to your WP dashboard—>Options—>Write Options and select “static page.”

Add an Email Plugin : Download WP-Email Plugin. This plugin allows customers to refer your product to your friends. Viral marketing at it’s finest.

That’s All Folks!

Your online store is now open!

Just do not forget to add such products and services

Do you know microblogging? 

This is a new popular form of communication in which you can describe your current status in short posts distributed by instant messages, mobile phones, email or the Web.

Microblogging has been popularized by microblogging plateformes like Twitter or Jaiku. 

But do you know that you can transform wordpress into a fantastic twitter-like tool?

Categories as sections

Like any blog software, WordPress displays articles, regardless of categories, in reverse chronology, with the newest entries posted first. This publication format is what usually bugs site owners who want to produce a magazine website using a blogging software.

In Cebu Living’s case, site owners wanted to publish shorter news articles without these posts pushing down feature articles they wanted to highlight. You can, of course, highlight the feature articles by listing it in the sidebar but there’s an even better way of doing this in WordPress–by using categories to manage website sections and then fetching the stories by category in the homepage. (Click on photo to view larger image of how sections are managed in the site.)

What Cebu Living did was assign the biggest story (equivalent to a newspaper’s page 1 banner article) to a Banner category and the articles they want to highlight (to serve as the site’s second, third or fourth story) to a Feature category.

Technically, the banner story should also be in the Feature category since it is a post you want to feature but to prevent it being displayed twice in the homepage (one as banner and another as part of the latest stories section), the banner story isn’t assigned to the Feature category yet. It is only assigned to that category when there is a new banner story. In effect, it becomes the site’s 2nd biggest story and goes down in the news value hierarchy as you add newer banner stories.

Index page as portal

With the stories getting their category assignments, the index.php file is then edited to display articles in blocks of categories. In Cebu Living’s case, the site uses three blocks: one to call the banner, another to display the recent feature stories and the last block to contain news and link posts to articles about Cebu.

To display articles in category blocks, do not use the WordPress loop to generate the articles. Delete The Loop in your index.php starting from: <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?> until <?php endwhile; else: ?> <p><?php _e(’Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?></p> <?php endif; ?>

Replace it with category listings using this code by Rhymed Code:

<?php $posts = get_posts( “category=12&numberposts=4″ ); ?> <?php if( $posts ) : ?> <?php foreach( $posts as $post ) : setup_postdata( $post ); ?> <h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> <?php the_content(”Continue reading ‘” . the_title(”, ”, false) . “‘”); ?> <?php endforeach; ?> <?php endif; ?>

What the code above does is display the four most recent posts under category 12. Change the category number to your category’s actual numerical ID (go to Manage > Categories and list the IDs of your categories). If you only want to list the headlines, take out this part of the code: <?php the_content(”Continue reading ‘” . the_title(”, ”, false) . “‘”); ?>

Just change the styling of the post elements to reflect your website’s style sheet.

If you change your index.php using the steps listed above, you need to have a category.php file with the WordPress loop or readers will be presented with your homepage when they try to view category pages.

Category pages

According to the WordPress Codex, when WordPress displays a category page, it looks for a category-(numericalID of category).php template file and if it can’t find one, for a category.php file, and if there isn’t one, for an archive.php file and if all these aren’t present, it will use the index.php file. The stories under the category are then listed using the WordPress loop.

This hierarchy of files to be used to display the category allows you to control the layout of your category pages to mimic the display of website sections. Say your news category ID is 6, you can control how the News category page looks by editing the category-6.php file. You can even display a different header for each category by changing the <?php get_header(); ?> code at the top of the file with <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/filename of header for your category.php’) ; ?> to display a different header for a particular category page. Just copy your current header.php and then edit the part that displays header elements such as logos, menu items or images.

Summary blurbs

Many magazines have one-paragraph summaries of or introductions to the article. You can do this in your WordPress-powered magazine by including a summary or introduction in the Optional Excerpt just below the Upload window in the Write Post interface. You can then display the summary by using the <?php the_excerpt(); ?> code in your single.php file.

You can style it as a floating div if you want, with a different background color to make it stand out. For this to work, however, you need to write an excerpt for your article. If you do not specify one, WordPress will print as excerpt the first 120 words of the post-so you’ll end up with duplicate text in your article page if you use article summaries and intros using the excerpt.

Those familiar with more portal-type or publication-oriented CMS may say that you’d be better off using another package like Props or Drupal but hey, you can do it with WordPress. I can’t say how this compares with Drupal because I haven’t tried using it extensively. I’ve long been planning to experiment with it, though.

Compared with Props, however, I see the above setup as a better solution if you’re a small group that wants to put up an online publication. Props is more rigid and handles content by issue dates. Last time I checked (and it wasn’t an extensive test although I’ve also been meaning to try it for so long), you handle all stories by publication staging.

Props is a solution for more traditional publication companies with teams of editors and reporters and with specific publication cycles like daily newspapers or weekly news magazines.

(Note: I used a webzine as an example for this article. I am currently creating a news website using the techniques I listed above. When I finish it, I’ll write another blog post about it. Sign up for my e-mail alerts or RSS feed to be notified when I post it.)