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Making a GP News Aggregator in 2022
1 reply · Started by Sebastian on January 25, 2022
Hello Friends,
I would love to create a news aggregator site for my niche, using GP because of it´s lightweight framework. But my coding skills are so so.
There is already a nice looking solution for that, named PostX. It contains ready made blocks and layouts, looking like that:
https://ultp.wpxpo.com/starter-packs/
https://ultp.wpxpo.com/readymade-blocks/
But I dont want to rely pure on a plugin. What if it gets buggy and stops working? The whole frontpage would be gone.
How difficult is it, to replicate something like that in GP?
https://ultp.wpxpo.com/design/post-list-2-style-11/
https://ultp.wpxpo.com/design/post-list-2-style-12/
To achieve a frontpage like this (2 Ideas)?
https://buchpanda.net/generate%20aggregator3.jpg
Sample template:
https://ultp.wpxpo.com/template/news-4/
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Cheers
Hi Sebastian,
Unfortunately the news/magazine style layout is one of the most difficult layout to create as there isn't a great way to display posts on a static page currently.
It usually requires a tremendous amount of custom coding in both HTML and CSS.
You could look into using the query loop and post blocks from WP core and style them with CSS:
https://wordpress.org/support/article/query-loop-block/
https://wordpress.org/support/article/latest-posts-block/
Or just try the plugin you found.
Hope this helps :)
