—   The Best WordPress News Aggregation and Content Curation Template   —

Curate, Aggregate, Post, and Filter – like a pro!

WP-Drudge is a Drudge Report style (no affiliation) WordPress website template that makes it easy to post external articles, your own blog posts, and links to other sites. Add images, display featured content, and insert ads easily. With many different configuration options, you can make your website look just how you want. Add colors, change fonts, and choose the layout that works for your project.

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— WP-Drudge Features —

The WP-Drudge template uses WordPress, the most popular and easy-to-use content management system, to help you be more efficient at aggregating and curating content in your niche. We’ve spent more than a year refining how links, videos, and images are posted and came up with a set of features and functions to make this process easier.

Font, color, and layout changes The WP-Drudge website template has 8 different color settings, font and size settings for multiple elements on the page, and width settings so you can get it just right. Adjust borders, change link behavior, and get the template set exactly how you want it. We’re adding new customization options all the time so if it’s not there yet, just ask!

RSS and Google News Feed Display The WP-Drudge template has two built-in RSS feed widgets. You can add multiple RSS or Atom feeds anywhere you’d like on the homepage or post pages. You can also add a feed of Google News links by simply entering a keyword or phrase. Both widgets are cached which means your site won’t bog down with multiple feeds running at once.

Built-in Advertising placement Display advertising is a big part of DrudgeReport.com’s financial success. The WP-Drudge WordPress template has a custom, built-in advertising manager that makes it easy to add image banners or advertising code. Random ad rotation, multiple placement options, and a simple management interface makes adding advertisements a breeze.

Post anything – videos, images, links, and more Use the built-in blurb field to add short summaries or post any content you’d like using the main post body editor. You can add images and videos directly to the listing or to individual posts. Create your own posts on the site and mix them with external links or post all of one kind. The WP-Drudge news aggregation template makes it easy to create the page you need.

Drag-and-drop page customization WP-Drudge uses the core WordPress drag-and-drop to make reorganizing your pages simple. Drag in new widgets and reorganize existing ones quickly. You can also use all the existing WordPress widgets, as well as any you’d like to install.

Built for SEO A one-page link site might be tough to rank in search engines but we did everything possible to help. Appropriate page titles are generated, correct mark-up is used, and additional pages can be created, boosting your ability to rank well. Add a plugin, like All-in-One SEO, and you’re golden.

Commenting Allow your subscribers, users, and readers post comments on any link or post you create using the native WordPress commenting engine. Auto-approve comments or hold on to them for moderation, quickly reply to comments, and even create a feed of new comments for engaged readers.

We’re planning on adding several features in the coming months. The full list is here. Purchasing this template gives you access to upgrades for one year.

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— WP-Drudge Pricing —

We offer two different licenses to meet your needs. We also offer installation and training, contact us for more info.

— Are you still just making content? Who isn’t? —

Take 10 minutes to research what you think is a specific topic. Go ahead, we’ll be here. Don’t just stop at Google, by the way, look on Twitter and LinkedIn and don’t forget Posterous and Tumblr. Oh and Flickr too, lots of pictures there. And videos of course so don’t forget YouTube and Vimeo.

Surprised?

Creating content online has become a due diligence activity: everyone is doing it. If you’re a business without some kind of content online then you might as well be dead in the water. The problem is, that’s no longer enough.

WordPress claims over 15 million hosted blogs and over 17 million self-hosted installations (the latest version has been downloaded over 7.5 million times). There are almost 30 million Tumblr accounts with over 10 billion posts between them. The numbers go on and on but they only mean one thing…

There is more content out there than we need.

Between posts and articles and videos and music there’s more information online than we could possibly comprehend, let alone consume. Even when you break it down to niche topics, there is still a major overload.

But is the problem overload or something else?

Clay Shirky is a brilliant thinker on the web and he says that the problem is less about information overload and more about filter failure (video). If we could filter the information coming in just right, we’d never know how much was out there.

So what to do with all of this content? Aggregate, filter, and curate!

Add value & become an influencer by aggregating & curating.

If you represent a particular niche or industry, you are in a great position to take the content that’s out there and inject your own value by becoming a content curator or news aggregator. Now more than ever, we need people to filter and share the best of what’s out there.

And the WP-Drudge curation and aggregation template for WordPress makes that easier than anything out there!

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— WP-Drudge Examples —

There are well over 100 different websites using the WP-Drudge WordPress template. With the thousands of different configuration options, it’s hard to show all the different ways this template can look. So, instead of trying, I left it to WP-Drudge users themselves.

Below, find a few words from existing users along with their sites. Below that, there are a few screenshots showing a few more ways this versatile template can be configured. You can also view the WP-Drudge demo site here.

“WP-Drudge is so easy to use and and configure. It loads very quickly, which helps us have more time to source content. The customization options make it easy to quickly personalize your site without having to learn to write code. Josh is always quick to respond when we have questions. He’s great about polling the WP-Drudge users for input on future upgrades, and keeping us informed as to what his latest release will accomplish. His documentation is very user-friendly. We are thrilled to be part of his community and definitely recommend him and the WP-Drudge template to others who want an easy-to-use curator template!”
— The Daily Mom Report

“WP-Drudge was the exact template I was looking for. I wanted to copy the Drudge Report almost exactly, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to do it without designing it myself from scratch. After doing a little research, I found what I was looking for in WP-Drudge. In addition to making the template, Josh has also been extremely helpful with any questions or tech support should the need arise. He gets back to you right away. How cool is that? If you’re looking for a similar type of template, you won’t find anything better.”
— Parody Report – Satirical News Aggregator

“Your template allowed me to get my idea up and running in very little time. It allowed me to focus more on content then design. Thanks for the great theme!.”
— StateBlitz

“I love your products. I have ciahole.com running and moving up the google charts.”
— CIAhole.com

“My blog jrmarketingreport.com is beginning to pick up… love the layout/format and the way it’s programmed.”
— JR Marketing Report

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