How to Create your AllTop/Popurls-like Site for Free with wordpress

How to Create your AllTop/Popurls-like Site for Free with wordpress

Submitted on: 06 Dec 08

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Popurls and AllTop are both useful sources for the latest web buzz and news from hundreds of sites. So, if you you want to aggregate your favorite blogs, you can create Popurls clone with Wordpress.

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

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1 Comments For This Post

  1. @krjx (February 2nd, 2009 at 1:49 pm)

    Thanks for the tip..Im going to try this out.

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