Hello DP'ers, I am looking to build a news aggregator websites with Joomla and an existing joomla template. The basic idea is that it should pull articles automatically from different websites RSS feeds and publish them on this website automatically, then let users thumbs up/down these articles, while also seeing which ones are the hotest ones by assigning a hotness rating based on the number of views. Users could also enlist their websites via a simple e-mail form and also become members of this website via facebook connect or the traditional ways. Once they become a member they can follow topics they are interested in, be notified when new articles are publish in the topics they are following, follow people, save articles to be read later. The social aspect like following topics,members,etc could be handled by Community Builder or JomSocial but It would be great if there would be a free alternative since the required features are follow articles,follow topics,follow users, activity wall,save articles. Part 1: - install the theme on my hosting - edit the theme so it looks like the attached image below by adding/removing/moving elements around. The adding part mostly consists of editing the CSS or adding sliders in different areas so nothing complex. - install & implement in the theme the following extensions Golem Social Box, Facebook Connect , Addthis for Joomla, Facebook Comments Part 2: -install an automatic article creation extensions that will pull content from different RSS feeds and publish them on the website automatically, images needs to be pulled as well as the ability to provide the source of the article at the end of the article. You could use Content Grabber for this which is free or a commercial alternative like Feed2Post, obFullTextRSS or use/build one. Part 3: - find or custom build an extension that will let users thumbs up/thumbs down articles & apply the design found in the image below to the thumbs up/thumbs down - find or custom build an extension that will assign a HOTness rating to articles based on the number of views, 4[SUP]O[/SUP] for each view so if an article has 200 views it will assign a Hotness rating of 800. The hotness is also represented by a "progress bar" that should change based on the number of views, so based on how hot that article is it should have a different color. Part 4: - install/build or modify an extension that will let users follow articles,follow topics,follow users, activity wall,save articles. Community builder could be used as a platform for this aspect. Notes: - the theme currently is responsive to the screen resolution so the changes to it shouldn't break this feature. - I'm running the latest version of joomla on my hosting account Payment will be handled via Paypal and on completion due to previous bad DP experiences. If you wish you could run the theme on your own server/hosting, make the changes & show them to me and upon completion move it to my hosting account. ORIGINAL THEME: can be found here -click the demo button REQUIRED CHANGES - with no text --> click here - with text marking the required changes: --> click here APPLY If you are interested please PM your individual price for each of the 4 parts , portfolio, turnaround time.
You can't copy entirely article. This is copy infringement. My advice is to take only the news headlines and/or a small part of it.