WP-Drudge

[...] By all measures, the Drudge Report website is impressive. If you trust the on-site statistics, Matt Drudge’s news site gets [...]

[...] One of the fun features of The Drudge Report (www.drudgereport.com) is a visitor counter on the bottom of the right-hand column. This shows [...]

[...] This all started a few years ago when a friend asked me to create a Drudge Report style web page. She needed a simple way to display links other web pages, news articles, and [...]

[...] ability to add trending stories above the featured story, in the top left column, similar to Drudge Report … a widget for the top left (above feature story) like Drudge has … Something [...]

[...] you a new widget area to add content blocks. It also provides a mobile menu area for static links at the top. Advertisements, if you’d like them to display, can be added just like [...]

[...] in 2.3. You can now create a list of links on the top left of your site using Posted or Static links. Just select a category on the Header tab of the options page and the links will appear at the [...]

[...] in 3 columns near the top of the site. The second type, the links to major sources, are called Static Links in WP-Drudge. These use a title text and a link as well but are ordered any way you’d [...]

[...] create a unique look. Posting links is as easy (actually, easier) as posting a blog post and static links are created as bookmarks. Both use user-generated categories to organize and combine like [...]

[...] with the theme was the lack of a focused way to add the most important content on the site: Posted Links. Up until now, the main WordPress post interface was used along with a few custom fields to [...]

[...] people to add a limit to the number of links in the Top Links section to limit the number of posted links being shown there. This limit is now available on the Header tab of the WP-Drudge Options [...]

[...] for video so we added two – one on the getting started page and one on Posted Links. If you’ve got specific requests, leave them in the comments below and we’ve get [...]

[...] add-on converts feed items to post content items automatically. For feed items to appear as Posted Links (and follow style and display settings), they need to be posts so this add-on is necessary. [...]

[...] pages” – this will automatically redirect anyone who goes to a post link that has an outbound link saved to it directly to that outbound link. If you’re using neither comments nor [...]

[...] latest release made it less capable (specifically, the URL was not going into the “Outbound link” field). We worked together and got it functioning even better than it was before. [...]

[...] posts: imported ones and manually created ones, both with links and without. You’ll see the Outbound Link in the last column and the Featured Image, if one was imported, as well. You should also see [...]

[...] you’ve created a new post, the UI will change based on whether or not there is an Outbound Link associated with the post. If there is, you’ll see the modified UI like above. If not, [...]

[...] , 3.3.2, and did extensive debugging. It’s possible that your colors selected on the WP-Drudge options page, Borders and Colors tab, will get reset to defaults. Make sure, after you activate the [...]

[...] , 3.3.2, and did extensive debugging. It’s possible that your colors selected on the WP-Drudge options page, Borders and Colors tab, will get reset to defaults. Make sure, after you activate the [...]

[...] footer code” and “Additional header code” on the Advanced tab of the WP-Drudge options page to add the tracking code and meta validation, respectively. If you’re generating a [...]

[...] posted links being shown there. This limit is now available on the Header tab of the WP-Drudge Options page. Removed contact form page template and widget Contact forms are notorious sources of [...]

[...] . Refactored static links widget to improve input sanitization, output escaping Refactored Posted Link widget for new format, better sanitization, escaping Refactored Advertising module Style changes [...]

[...] time but give them a try and report back with any issues you find! Added features to the Posted Link widget: You can now show only featured links and set the category to “all” so you, [...]

[...] of the settings as they are and click Save Now, start over at step 2 and add another Posted Link widget, this time to the Middle Column section For “Category to display,” select & [...]

[...] mapping Awesome! If I walk through and publish a few, I see them showing up right in my Posted Link widget with the correct title, image, and link behavior. Step 4: Display Imported Content In order [...]

[...] third. Thankfully that’s not every release. Version 2 is a big step forward for the WP-Drudge template. We added lots of cool features and made a few structural changes that will make modifying [...]

[...] like a lightweight, you’ll understand why. Let me set the stage… The WP-Drudge template allows for advertisements to be placed in certain areas of the template. This is [...]

[...] Yet another release of the WP-Drudge template is coming out today and we’re introducing a lot of new features and fixes. The full list is [...]

[...] a link to a user survey to give folks a chance to give honest, anonymous feedback about the WP-Drudge template. As always, the response was great and I learned a lot about both what people enjoy about [...]