Developing a NewsPaper with Textpattern

duchamp · 2006-03-31 13:14:25

I’ve started a new project to develop a Newspaper On-line (based on a Real Newspaper) and think would be nice to draw some ideas here, to help myself and to help others.

First at all: this is an small newspaper (well, not a big one!)

What’s needed?

A Home that reflects the Cover for each day, with relevant news and articles, last news, some humour, some ADs and some special sections like Sports, Travel, etc. [Ads are an special ‘case of study’]

All the stuff you find each day into the home-page must to be DAILY Archived ( I guess that’s not a problem). Updated

If there’s some URGENT News, must to be easy to put it over the other news. [This could be done overriding a Form or asigning an special category with the only objetive to show it in special ocassions]

Some Weather info could be nice (but there’s some troubles with the city location ‘cause weather.com doesn’t provide a feed for this town). [Any Plugin?]

Search the site using the LiveSearch Plugin it’s a must Search tools comes with TXP and this plugin it’s easy to fit any design

A News Feed That’s done by default

Send this Article by email [There’s a Plugin that sends the Article/news Permalink by email, and if I’m not wrong Zem_Contact_Reborn could send the whole Article by email … is that right?]
Yeah, that’s right the plugin create this special tag <code><txp:zem_contact_send_article></code>

And of course Permissions are another “a must” to organize. [basically here there’s some people that write the news and One person (maybe two) that aprove that news to be published. Into TXP it’s just a question to asign the right permissions to the appropriate people]

Default Editor (writers needs to learn Textile!) or Wysiwyg?

Some resources or links that I found useful:

How to use PHP Code into TXP

tcm_rss – RSS feeds
This plugin its very useful if you want to parse external Feeds into the site

… what else? Well, that’s enough to start …

Last edited by duchamp (2006-04-04 15:01:46)

hcgtv · 2006-03-31 15:06:42

Hey Alex,

I’m traveling down a similar road, looking for ideas for a community site. I too like the newspaper metaphor for it, where there are various columns here and there and it’s easy to manipulate.

For the look of the site, I’ve found these templates from Solucija. His latest, ‘Internet Services’, is very light and would make an excellent portal style template for TXP.

Now comes the designing the backend so it’s easy to maintain.

duchamp · 2006-04-02 23:04:03

duchamp wrote:

All the stuff you find each day into the home-page must to be DAILY Archived ( I guess that’s not a problem ).

After a few attempts to show DAILY Contents I must to ask how to do it … ¿?

Maybe is simplier than I imagine, but can’t figure how to do it!

We’re talking about a Newspaper that on the Home Page shows all articles published TODAY (tomorrow that articles will we archives).

Im sure that this needs a condition (IF DATE IS = TODAY then SHOW THIS … else NOTHING)

Is this possible using if_different? … if YES … How?

Thx

PS: hcgtv, that’s a nice Template!

marios · 2006-04-03 00:25:04

I haven’t red all the details of the post, but as a general layout suggestion for such a purpose like a newspaper Site, may I suggest a multi column layout like it’s done on the Herald tribune Site.
You can retrive the details and advantage explanations for this layout
here
I came accross this recently for some research for my own .

Something else, that might be of interest , is J S M and Camoran Molls recent work on the National Gazette.
(Just for some Ideas about Typgraphy and the logo)

Another plugin , that would come in handy apart from zem_contact_reborn, would be kgr_safe_excerpt, that would allow you to restrict both the article and the excerpt body to a specific wordcount, good for front or section front pages.

regards, marios

Last edited by marios (2006-04-03 00:42:00)

KurtRaschke · 2006-04-03 00:32:13

duchamp wrote:

Im sure that this needs a condition (IF DATE IS = TODAY then SHOW THIS … else NOTHING)

That would be a job for <txp:article_custom />, however, presently <txp:article_custom /> only lets you restrict the articles by month, not day. What would really be needed is for the time parameter to take an option like today. I’d suggest making a feature request in the Feature Ideas forum.

-Kurt

duchamp · 2006-04-03 00:38:02

Thanks Marios. I agree, a multi-column layout is a great choice for a Newspaper.
I’ve read the Cameron’s article a few days ago, it’s an Awesome work, I really like it.

Well, I’m still trying to know how to display daily content …

marios · 2006-04-03 00:42:54

Updated above post,the daily content probably needs a php script or plugin.

regards

Last edited by marios (2006-04-03 00:47:36)

duchamp · 2006-04-03 00:52:35

Kurt, thanks, the request it’s done!

duchamp · 2006-04-03 01:09:55

marios wrote:

Another plugin , that would come in handy apart from zem_contact_reborn, would be kgr_safe_excerpt, that would allow you to restrict both the article and the excerpt body to a specific wordcount, good for front or section front pages.

I’m using that plugin here

There’s another one that is good for a Newspaper (I can’t remember if it’s a plugin or a hack) ‘cause counts the article words and calculates de “Time of reading”.

maniqui · 2006-04-03 01:39:33

hola duchampión…

chequeate si este método te sirve / check if this method works for you

Daily contents with txp:if_different

Saludos!

duchamp · 2006-04-03 01:43:57

maniqui wrote:

hola duchampión…
chequeate si este método te sirve / check if this method works for you
Daily contents with txp:if_different

Maestro Maniqui, like I mentioned before I’ve spend a couple of minutes trying to imagine how to do it with that tag but I couldn’t!

(No llego a comprender del todo el funcionamiento de ese tag y esa breve explicación no ayuda demasiado)

Last edited by duchamp (2006-04-03 01:44:22)

maniqui · 2006-04-03 03:01:30

hola duchamp,

i have never used the if_different tag… so, I also need to make my head around it and how to use it…

If you find out some interesting uses, post them in the “how-to” forum category, or maybe you can do an spanish entry at the textbook.

I’m very interested in the many uses of that tag…

Maybe you can find something else here

Textpattern CMS

Textpattern CMS support forum

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