how to make a word press blog similar to reddit
DESCRIPTION
Recently a client asked me to build them a blog that looked similar in nature to Reddit. At first, I honestly thought that the client was off base but the more we talked about it, the more that I came around to his way of thinking. I spend a great deal of time trying to design blogs that have magazine style look and feel or something that in the past I considered more pleasing to the eyes. Once he did convince me that this design would suit him well, I was left with the task of figuring out how to do it. I used a WordPress Plug-in called WP Category Post List Widget.TRANSCRIPT
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How to make a WordPress Blog
Design similar to Reddit
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A client wanted a blog design similar to this.
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At first I disagreed with the client.
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But the more that we talked.
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The more that I understood his vision.
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Challenge #1
Reddit.com is not known for design beauty.
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Challenge #2
I have not built such a design. How would I do
this?
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WordPress to the Rescue
There is almost always a plug-in for that.
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WP Category Post List
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Normally I build sites like this:
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Magazine Style
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Magazine Style
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This time I built this:
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Use this:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-category-posts-list/
Code in the page:
[wp_cpl_sc cat_id=2 list_num=4 SHOW_EXCERPT="false"
SHOW_COMMENTS="true" css_theme=2 sticky_post="79"]
[wp_cpl_sc cat_id=3 list_num=4 SHOW_COMMENTS="true" css_theme=2
sticky_post="79"]