OneNews Premium Setup Guide

By ericulous.com

Installation
Configure Theme Options
Configuration (Single-Page News like Popurls)
Configuration (Multi-Pages News like Alltop)
Widgets Settings
FAQs/Troubleshooting

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Installation

1. Unzip and FTP upload the “onenewspremium” folder to the “wp-content / themes” directory
2. Check that all theme files have permission of 644/666 and folders have permission of
755/777
3. Activate the OneNews Premium theme in Appearance > Themes

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Configure Theme Options

Under Appearance > OneNews Premium

• Open links in New Window/Current Window
- New Window recommended to reduce page reloading.
• Feeds links NoFollow/DoFollow
- NoFollow recommended to preserve link juice (wiki: nofollow).
• Feeds cache Enable/Disable
- Enable recommended for improved performance.
• Feeds cache duration
- 3600 seconds recommended. Increase if you find performance sluggish.
• Show/Hide bottom bar
- Default is Hide. Choose Show if you want to use the widgetised 3-column bottom bar.
• Show/Hide credit link in footer
- Default is Show. Erm.. please.. no obligation :)

Now you may proceed to configure OneNews theme

1) as a single-page news aggregator like Popurls (go to next page)
2) as a multi-pages news aggregator like Alltop (go to page 6)

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Configuration (Single-Page News like Popurls)

Out of the box, the theme displays feeds from Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Lifehacker,
Boing Boing and my blog, Ericulous. Time to put in your own feeds.

1. Go to Appearance > Widgets

2. Drag and drop the OneNews Widgets (e.g OneNews photoRSS) from the left column
to the homepage section in the right column
3. Enter widget info
• Header Title e.g Ericulous
• Logo Url e.g http://ericulous.com/logo.png
• Site Url: e.g http://ericulous.com
• Feed Url e.g http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ericulous
• Display item summary? Show item summary below item title
• No. of items e.g 15
• HTML Content Javascript e.g adsense. PHP works too.
4. Click “Save”

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Configuration (Multi-Pages News like Alltop)

1. Go to Pages > Add New to create a new page

2. Enter Title (in this case I entered Make Money)
3. Select OneNews as the Template
4. Click Publish

IMPORTANT NOTE
DO NOT delete any OneNews pages you have created. This will mess up your widgets
settings. Instead of deleting the page, please set the ‘Publish Status’ to ‘Pending Review’ or
‘Draft’ to hide the page from public.

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5. Go to Apperance > Widgets
6. On the right column, look for the “make-money” section (which corresponds to the title we
entered earlier in step 2) and click the drop down arrow (top right corner).
7. Drag and drop the OneNews Widgets (e.g OneNews photoRSS) from the left column
to the “make-money” section in the right column
8. Enter widget info
• Header Title e.g Ericulous
• Logo Url e.g http://ericulous.com/logo.png
• Site Url: e.g http://ericulous.com
• Feed Url e.g http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ericulous
• Display item summary? Show item summary below item title
• No. of items e.g 15
• HTML Content Javascript e.g adsense. php works too.

9. Click “Save”
10. Repeat step 1 for every page of news you want to add

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11. After adding all the pages, we can configure the homepage

12. Drag and drop the OneNews Alphabet Lists widget from the left column
to the homepage section in the right column
13. Enter the alphabets to be displayed in each of the 3 columns
• Separate them with spaces e.g a b c d
• Use # for numeric and non-alphabets
• It's ok to include alphabets that you do not have any news on. That empty alphabet list
will not be displayed.
14. Click “Save”

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Widgets Settings
You may add multiple instances of each widget.

Each textRSS widget will take up one row and consist of 3 columns – left, middle, right.

Each photoRSS widget will display 6 images in one row so 12 images will take up 2 rows
hence and so forth.

Each videoRSS widget will display 6 videos in one row so 12 videos will take up 2 rows hence
and so forth.

photoRSS widget works with Flickr.

videoRSS widget works with YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Yahoo Videos.

Alphabet Lists widget will take up one row and consist of 3 columns – left, middle, right.

The HTML Content field in the textRSS and Alphabets List widget is only for a single column. If
you want to use a full row, you can use the OneNews HTML widget.

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FAQs/Troubleshooting

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 backing up 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);

I have many pages and the WP-Admin>Widgets page is getting too long to work on.
How?
Try the widgets page hack.

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