Make a Twitter Site using Sweetcron - Best Blogs Asia
A simple guide and free theme to Making a website using Twitter and Sweetcron.
I’ve just installed Sweetcron for the first time, I initially had problems with adding my Wordpress Feeds whilst I found adding Twitter feeds was very simple, so I’ve created a step-by-step guide on making your own Twitter website using Sweetcron.
Sweetcron Setup
Sweetcron is a self-hosted automated life-streaming CMS / Blogging tool, which creates blog posts in an instant drawing content from your activities on various social sites like Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Tumblr etc. You just have to add the feeds from these sites, do some customization and your posts are automatically created by SweetCron.
Recommended setup
- PHP5.
- A web host (I use Liquidweb)
- A Database.
Download Sweetcron
Download at Sweetcron.com, then follow the Installation Instructions.
Birdbox Theme
I thought I’d design a Free Sweetcron Theme for Twitter only, called the Birdbox.
Download Birdbox Theme
It’s usable since you can display your Twitter Feeds more clearly, allow direct comments on the site and even monetise from it by placing adverts on the site.
The Theme contains…
- Own Site Feed, Comment options and Contact Page.
- SEO friendly, fast loading and HTML Compliant.
- Uses bird graphic from iampaddy site (now defunct).
Setup Birdbox Sweetcron Theme
Place the Birdbox theme in: /system/application/views/themes/birdbox.
Make any changes to the following -
Contact.php: add your email/contact form/photo, Single.php:add the Discussion Form and Sidebar.php: Place adverts on the site.
After uploading, go to admin/ (section) and change the display feeds setting from ‘9′ to ‘10′.
Add your twitter feed only, it’ll be something like:
http://twitter.com/USERNAME
That’s it!
How did you get on?
My suggestion is to create a sub-domain and place your Twitter website there, if you already display “Tweets” on your site you can always link to your Twitter site which keeps an archive.
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