WPscoop website
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WPscoop is a social news/bookmarking site dedicated to the WordPress community and functioning much like the popular digg.com website. Members can submit WordPress related content to WPscoop and other members can then vote upon or discuss these items. When a submitted article reaches the required number of votes it is the promoted from the Upcoming section of Wpscoop and placed in our published news section (frontpage).
Stuart Duff, face behind WPscoop, tell me this words: “We differ from our competition as our site is a true social bookmarking site that is based upon the popular Drupal core. The Wpscoop system is much more complete and advanced than our competitors in many ways.”
WPscoop Features
Story and Video Submission
Members can submit articles as well as Videos from popular video sites to WPscoop, currently we support seven video sites with more on the way.
- YouTube
- Vimeo
- Veoh
- Metacafe
- GoogleVideo
- Revver
- Yahoo Video
All submited content can also be sorted by submission time etc, on the published page for example you can sort articels by Newest, top submissions in 24hrs, top 7 days, top 30days, top 365 days. Similar sorting options are available in the upcoming section of the site.
Published Section
Submission get promoted to here after enough votes have been cast.
Upcoming Section
Submissions are held here until they reach enough votes to be promoted, after 30 days if the submission has not acheived sufficient votes to be promoted they are moved to the Archived section of WPscoop and can no longer be voted upon.
Archived Section
This section archives all submissions that after 30 days did not receive enough votes to be promoted.
Voting
The WPscoop system allows menbers to vote upon content that has been submitted with our voting alogorythm promoting popular content to the frontpage of WPscoop once it has reached a desired number of votes. Its worth noting that the voting system allows positive and negative votes on articles.
Another cool feature uniuqe to WPscoop is the fact members can see what way members voted upon their content from the article page either positive or negative. This feature allows you to see who voted up your story or who voted it down, so of a certain user always seems to vote down your content you will be able to see who. This also adds another layer of tranparency to the voting features as you cannot anonymously vote on artiles as all memebrs of WPscoop can see who voted and which way.
Favorites
Members can save any article or video to their favorites for later reference.
Member Profiles
Members get a profile where you can see information about that member along with submitted articles, articles they have voted upon, or articles they have commented upon as well as their favorites.
We are currently in the process of redesigning our profile layouts and the new design should be live in the near future.
Private Messaging
Members can private message each other with our messaging system.
Comments
Members can comment on all submitted content and also reply to comments in a threaded style.
RSS Feeds
Each category has two seperate rss feeds for published new and all news this allows members or visitors to easily follow a particular category that they are interested in.
TOOLS
WPscoop tools section is where outshines it competition when it comes to external submission and vote display features.
Browser Submit Button
You can easily submit stories to WPscoop directly from your favorite browser.
Firefox: Drag the link below to your Bookmarks Toolbar
Opera: Rightclick the link below, and choose “Bookmark Link”
The Bookmarklet: WPscoop
Internet Explorer: Rightclick the link below, choose “Add to favorites.”
The Bookmarklet IE Only: WPscoop
Firefox Submission Plugin
The WPscoop firefox plugin makes submiting content to WPscoop as easy as right clinking you mouse on the page you are browsing and would like to submit to WPscoop.
Install: WPscoop FireFox Plugin v0.1
Configurable Stories Site Widget
You can display the top stories from WPscoop on your website by copying the code below. All options are configurable and can be styled to suit you sites layout.
<script type="text/javascript"><!-- customize to match your website !! --> var box_width ="300px "; <!-- edit width !! --> var box_height = "390px"; <!-- edit height !! --> var text_size = "8"; <!-- edit text size !! --> var section = "All"; <!-- edit feed categories!! --> var how_many = 10; <!-- edit how many stories !! --> var show_karma = 1; <!-- edit show karma !! --> var bg_color = "ffffff"; <!-- edit background color !! --> var text_color = "5ea400"; <!-- edit text color !! --> var link_color = "054b81"; <!-- edit link color !! --> var border_color = "e4e4e4"; <!-- edit border color !! --> var score_bg_color = "054b81"; <!-- edit score background color !! --> var score_text_color = "fff"; <!-- edit score text color !! --> var score_border_color = "000"; <!-- edit score board color !! --> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://wpscoop.com/sites/all/modules/drigg/drigg_box/drigg_box.js"></script>
WPscoop WordPress External Dynamic Vote Button Plugin
When activated the plugin will automatically detect your blog post url and if that url has been submitted to WPscoop it will display our vote button with corresponding vote count of the article. This plugin functions exactly the same as the external Digg vote button you see on many websites.
Download: WPscoop WordPress External Dynamic Vote Button Plugin
Demo and more info on this link.
As you can see WPscoop provides lots of fantastic features for users to submit or display content on their own blogs etc. It’s also a great way of gaining a little more trafic to you WordPress related sites. I started the site intiially out of frustration with Digg.com and WordPress content from only the well know blogs/websites being promoted to diggs front page, i dont beleive we can compete with digg on traffic but i beleive we can on content. – Stuart Duff -
Few minutes ago Stuart send me one more feature
WPscoop added another cool feature, which is the ability for members to add their twitter account details into their WPscoop profile, once this step is complete any article a member posts to WPscoop will also be posted automatically to their Twitter account.
