Article Directory WordPress Plugin
As you know, WordPress is the universal platform, that may be used not only for blog creating, but also for other web-site types.
Once me and my friend have created WordPress build for the article directory, but this build have one essential shortcoming.
To deduce the list of categories on the main page I had to edit source files of WordPress engine. But it has deprived of possibility to use WordPress as the article directory at release of new versions, because changing of the source codes each time is not reasonable decision.
The idea of creation of universal and convenient instrument for realisation on WordPress the catalogue of articles did not leave me. As a result I have created a plugin Article Directory.
The primary task of this plugin is deduce on the main page (or any another) the structured list of categories, which can be easily customized with CSS, how it’s made now on Articlesss.com web-site. In addition, with the plugin implemented several changes in the administrative interface that using it was more rational and convenient for both authors and for the administrator.
Plugin features
Standard optional features for categories list:
- Amount of articles in parent and child categories.
- Category description in link title.
- Showing the empty categories.
- Using hierarchy for subcategories.
- Exclude selected categories.
Special features:
- Simple and handy design using CSS. The structure of categories is the multilevel list which can be altered easily with CSS, as you need. The parent category have the <div> container to mark it out with CSS as a parent.
- Support WordPress starting from version 2.1 and above.
- Parent category is showing amount of articles in subcategories. The character also include the number of articles in this parent category.
- Ability to display the specified amount of child categories (2nd level).
- Ability to display categories on specified amount of columns.
- Ability to hide all subcategories.
- Ability to exclude the child categories articles from the parent categories archive pages.
- Ability to add icons for parent categories using CSS.
Admin interface options:
- Ability to show warning to author, if not selected any category or if selected more than one category.
- Ability to hide unnecessary blocks from the “Write/Edit Post” page, if this is not the site administrator. It is “Comments & Pings”, “Excerpt”, “Password Protect” and other blocks. I.e. actually there is only a form of adding the article and the button to send it to moderation.
- Ability to specify the height of the categories block on “Write/Edit Post” page.
- Ability to put the “Terms of article publication” on “Write/Edit Post” page.
Installation
Installation of Article Directory plugin is a simple:
- Copy the article-directory folder in WordPress plugins directory (…\wp-content\plugins\).
- Copy the categories.css file in directory with your theme.
- Activate the plugin through admin interface.
- Add the following code in the index.php of your theme:
<?php if (function_exists('article_directory')) article_directory(); ?> - Add the following code in the style.css:
@import 'categories.css';
That’s all.
Customization
There are two things, that you can customize:
- If it is necessary, you should customize a categories.css file under the site design.
- Customize options on “Settings → Article Directory” page.
The plugin also lets you to display the list with the links to categories RSS feeds. To do this, you must:
- Create a new page template.
- Add the following code:
<?php $rssfeeds=true; ?>
<?php if (function_exists('article_directory')) article_directory(); ?> - Create a new page in the admin interface and select the created template.
How to add icons for parent categories
It’s doing using CSS. You need to add the styles for icons in categories.css or in style.css file (both located in a folder of your theme).
Styles should be like this:
#cat-23 {background: url(i/icon.gif) 4px 3px no-repeat}
Here the digit 23 means, what this icon will be added in the 2nd column for the 3rd parent category from the top. Accordingly, it is necessary to create as many of such styles, how many you have parent categories, and specify the corresponding number for each icon.
i/icon.gif - this is the path to an icon file, beginning from a folder with your theme.
4px - icon shift value from the left of the parent category block.
3px - icon shift value from the top of the parent category block.
Download
Article Directory 0.9.3 WordPress Plugin
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Version history
Version 0.9.3 (10.05.08)
- Fixed data base error: SELECT SUM(count) FROM wp_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = ‘category’ AND parent =
- Added French localization. Thanks to Le blogueur masqué.
Version 0.9.2 (08.19.08) - 451 hits
- Changes related to hiding unnecessary blocks from the authors.
Version 0.9.1 (07.25.08) - 231 hits
- Fixed the bug, when articles with the statuses “Draft” and “Pending Review” were available to view.
Version 0.9 (07.19.08) - 146 hits
- If not all subcategories is displayed according to options, the symbol “…” will be added after the list of subcategories.
- Ability to add icons for parent categories. To do this, read the instructions above in the article.
- Removed restrictions of functions in the administrative interface created by plugin for users up to the editor level.
- The error, when at entering on a comments page in administrative interface the message “Restricted area” was deduced to all users, regardless of status, is corrected.
- The message about the necessity to update WordPress is hidden from the authors.
- By pressing the “Logout” link the user is redirecting to the home page of the site.
Version 0.8.1 (06.28.08) - 200 hits
- Now it is possible to insert the “Terms of article publication” before the article edit form on “Write/Edit Post” page (terms are not shown for the administrator).
- Since not yet found a way to show for author on “Comments” page only his comments, access to this page is closed for him.
- The footer of admin interface is hidden from author as not the necessary element.
- In the top block of Dashboard is hidden some site statistic info from the author. If you also want to delete all the widgets from the Dashboard, I recommend you to use Dashboard Widget Manager plugin.
Version 0.8 beta (06.13.08) - 185 hits
- All the options transferred to the admin interface.
- Possibility of translation of a plugin on other languages.
- Functions of following plugins are integrated:
Therefore, if you are using any of this plugins, they must be removed.
- On “Manage Posts” page the author sees now only own articles.
- On “Manage Comments” page the author does not see now such data, as e-mail and the IP-address of commentators.
Version 0.7 (05.22.08) - 226 hits
- Added ability to display the specified amount of child categories (2nd level).
Version 0.6 (04.22.08) - 231 hits
- Fixed incorrect counting the number of articles in parent categories in case they contain subchild categories.
Version 0.5 (04.11.08) - 206 hits
- Added ability to output the additional list with links to categories RSS-feeds.
- Made some changes in categories.css file for this page.
Version 0.4 (02.29.08)
- Added ability to disable the output of subcategories.
- Now it is possible of exception of selected categories/subcategories.
Version 0.3 (01.23.08) - 528 hits
- Added ability to disable the “No categories” output messages, if the category does not contain subcategories.
Version 0.2 (01.19.08)
- Added automatic sorting of parent categories.
- There is a possibility to display the list of categories by columns.
- Updated categories.css file.
Version 0.1 (01.07.08)
- First release.
where should i add the code in index.php and style.css????
thanks
index.php - to the place, where you want to display the list
style.css - in any place, but it is better in top
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Very nice plugin. Works in WP 2.5 with a little tweaking..
On the RSS Category page the arrow is showing.
Example
>Acne(>RSS)
How do I remove the arrow from the rss?
Thanks
Mike
Mike, thanks for response.
To remove second arrow, you must to edit the categories.css file.
1. Change following:
#categories li li {
padding: 0 0 0 9px;
font-size: 1em;
}
to:
#categories li li {
font-size: 1em;
background: url(i/arrow.gif) 9px 7px no-repeat;
padding: 0 0 0 19px;
}
2. Change following:
#categories li li a {
background: url(i/arrow.gif) center left no-repeat;
padding: 0 0 0 10px;
color: #808080;
}
to:
#categories li li a {
color: #808080;
}
That’s all.
Hello Dimox,
You plugin seems to be exactly what I was looking for.
By the way, I would like to get my article list to be displayed in a particular page (named “Articles”) instead of the default page.
Could you explain to me how to proceed ?
I am a beginner with Wordpress and php
Regards
Hi, Patrick.
It’s not complicated:
1. Do the copy of rssfeeds.php file and rename it to articles.php
2. Edit articles.php: rename “RSSfeeds” to “Articles” and delete the code <?php $rssfeeds=true; ?>
3. Go into the admin interface and click on “Write - Write Page”.
4. Write some title and select “Articles” in the “Page Template” block at the right side.
5. Publish this page.
That’s all.
Thank You ++ :-)
Hi. Thanks for sharing this theme. I am using in my blog. I’d like to know how to show excerpts in the “recent articles” that goes in the sidebar. Just like the way you did. What should edit? Thanks you.
Raj, you should edit the sidebar.php file - it’s a code just under the “Recent Advice” (on your site) caption.
Thanks Dimox. I got it.
I want to let you, I found that when I click any category and go inside to the list of articles, there is no ‘next or previous button’ which can take the user to the next page of the article lists. There is no default page navigation so I added this in the category.php
Raj, navigation is included in theme, but only not default navigation. There is navigation by WP-Pagenavi plugin. I think it more usefull then default navigation.
P.S. This page is not for discussing about THEME, this is a PLUGIN page :)
My blog’s address is http://viet-ebook.co.cc/ . I have 23 posts, but why it show that 47 articles at the parent catelory? please help me.
http://image.vietupload.co.cc/images/wsvy6am8f9i24yyxj2o4.jpg
hoangxu, which version of plugin you are using?
I use version 0.5
How to have the background and the border like this page ?
hoangxu, I sent a letter on your mail. Check, please.
You must do these changes in style.css:
1) in this block:
body {
…
}
add the row:
background: #F4F4F4 url(i/bg.gif);
(bg.gif - is background image)
2) in this block:
#wrapper {
…
}
add following:
border-left: 1px solid #DDD;
border-right: 1px solid #DDD;
background: #FFF;
I have try the plugin which you sent, and i replace the block like below but nothing’s changed.
body {
font: 62.5% “Trebuchet MS”, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;
line-height: 1.6em;
color: #444;
background: #F4F4F4 url(i/bg.gif);
}
#wrapper {
width: 990px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 20px 0 0 0;
border-top: 5px solid #EEE;
border-left: 1px solid #DDD;
border-right: 1px solid #DDD;
background: #FFF;
}
Thanks for your help. It has displayed border and background.
But it’s still error at the counter
Unfortunately, I can not understand why the counter displays an incorrect digit. On my test sites it works without any errors (including this site).
How can I remove it ? (the number after the parent category)
There is an option in article-directory.php file.
OK, thanks a lot. I just found the reason
your plugin work perfectly
hoangxu, so tell me please, what the reason?
Hello, it seems this script is not compatible with EasyBlogsPro. When EBP is install and I add this to the template:
I get many sql errors. Taking that from the template then my blog works fine.
Warning: mysql_result(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/sseca/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php on line 138
Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /home/sseca/public_html/blog/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 1886
Warning: join() [function.join]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/sseca/public_html/blog/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 1886
toykilla, in this case I can’t do anything.
Because I post it for 2 categories (included the parent category), so 1 post is counted 2 times.
Sorry for my English.
Thank you again.
Hi Dimox thanks for your great plugins.
BTW, I have when using your plugin. Plugin works good, but I have a problem. Below the script that Appearance in my site.
I install your script at WP 2.5.1
Would you help me, thanks
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WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1 for query SELECT SUM(count) FROM rmh_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = ‘category’ AND parent = made by article_directory WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1 for query SELECT SUM(count) FROM rmh_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = ‘category’ AND parent = made by article_directory WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; …
windy, to tell the truth, I poorly versed in MySQL, but I have some assumptions:
1) Your hosting is using PHP 5. I tested the plugin only on PHP 4.
2) Tables of your db have the prefix “rmh_” instead of standart “wp_”.
May be reason in that.
Thanks Dimox,
I will try to repair it. Later I will tell you about my progress working. Thanks
I’m not code retarded but cannot get this to work.
I read the response for where to past the additional code to the index.php and style.css:
index.php - to the place, where you want to display the list
style.css - in any place, but it is better in top
… but thats a little too vague for me. (Now your understanding my level of coding)
After I do all this does the Directory automatically display on the homepage or do I need to add it somwhere…
Ben=confused
This is the message I get:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_wp_version() (previously declared in /home/poshwebs/public_html/untitled03/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php:41) in /home/poshwebs/public_html/untitled03/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php on line 39
Ben, it is hard to explain, if you understand little. I recommend you to learn firstly, how works the WordPress templates.
Olsen this is because some plugins you are using is also contain this function. Just one you can do is to rename ALL get_wp_version in article-directory.php file to another, for example to get_wpversion.
can you take a peek and see what is missing http://www.stickymarketingsystems.com/articles
The catergories show but not the article count number. Also is the formatting for the default categories.css being applied?
I created an articles.php page template here is the code:
Jeff, you must to delete following code from articles.php file:
<?php $rssfeeds=true; ?>
Yes.
thank good plugin im aplication my blog
I got this error;
WordPress database error: [Table 'jcmiras_surge.term_taxonomy' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM term_taxonomy LEFT JOIN terms ON terms.term_id = term_taxonomy.term_id WHERE term_taxonomy.taxonomy = ‘category’ AND term_taxonomy.parent = 0 ORDER BY terms.name
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/jcmiras/public_html/surge/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php on line 140
How do I fix it?
Hi Dimox
this is a great plugin you have written. I’ve modified it a bit to only display category icons of the parents category, with your theme article-directory, in order to have something like this : WordPressDB. The modifications are working only if the plugin Category Icons is activated (have a look at the screenshots : Category Icons). Where can I send you the modifications, if you want it ?
Here is your plugin source code modified : http://categoryicons.pastebin.com/f645bb9d9
The modifications are highlighted.
Regards,
BM
Hi Submarine.
The idea is very good. But tell me please, is it necessary to add an icons in ARTICLE directory. I don’t seen any article directory, which used an icons. I think what better to use them in LINKS directory.
Alfie, I don’t know what is the reason of this errors, because I not seen them on my sites. May be reason in your hosting software. Sorry, I don’t know.
Thanks Dimox, I already figured it out. It’s my own WP hack that causes this error.
This is good.
Hi,
I got 1 question,
how to show only 3 child category for every parent category ?
Plugin can’t do this.
[...] Article Directory WordPress Plugin » Article Directory [...]
I cannot make a 2nd level child category similar to your demo (example). I`m using wordpress 2.0.3
Alfie, I am not recommend you to use so old version of WordPress.
The plugin is updated to version 0.7. Added ability to display the specified amount of child categories.
I see we can set number of columns for categories list, how about setting the row?
can we set specified amount of row for the article category plugin?
rakanblog, no, we can’t. The primary concept of plugin consisted that categories list will be displayed on columns.
I installed Article Directory and plugins. Now when I click on posts or categories, I get 404 error messages instead of posts. What am I doing wrong?? Thanks!
bizgal08, I don’t know.
Im trying to figure out the categories RSS feed. Do I start with the page.php file and insert and before the .
Then after doing that do I rename the file to something else and create a new page with that file name?
Whatever help you can give will be appreciated.
Brad, the name of the page template file can be anything.
i could not download the pligin or the theme, it’s not working..?!!!
ali, try to download through another browser. Download is working.
Hi there,
I came across this plugin when i was searching for a category listing template of some sort.
What i want to do is a have a listing of the different categories that I have. If possible only ones I select to be shown. But im not sure how to do that.
I read through this page but i’ve got absolutely no idea how to get this plugin working for a page.
It can be done using the standard WordPress function wp_list_categories.
thanks for your help, i really like the way you setup the site, Good luck :)
Hi,
How do I show excerpts in the “recent articles” that goes in the sidebar. I know I need to alter this bit of code somehow.
Recent Articles
<a href=”" rel=”bookmark”>
@
Also when I alter the number of posts in code it still stays at 5
$myposts = get_posts(’numberposts=20′);
Thanks
Colin
Hi,
This is a great script and so easy to install. One small issue though, is that there appears to be no link on my site to allow users to register.
Any idea how I fix this?
Thanks,
Bri
Settings → General → Anyone can register
Colin, it is not relevant to the plugin. Search for the answer in the WordPress Codex.
Thank you! Works much better now :)
One more question: how do i convert the URLs to be more search engine friendly?
Thanks!
Dimox,
I accidentally found your plugin.
I’ve been trying to get something like this for close to 3 years. My domain is languishing.
Reading your pages it seems like we finally found an open Article Dashboard script so to say.
I couldn’t find your contact. I wish to exchange ideas and discuss needs specific to article directories.
Is that possible? Can I get your email address on my email please?
Dimox,
I am having trouble getting this to work on one of my sites. I am not very savvy at coding and perhaps I am placing the code in the wrong place.
Any additional direction would be helpful.
BTW…..I love this and have been looking for something like this for a while too!
Pat
Pat King, I advise you to consider the information about WordPress templates in WordPress Codex.
Hi Dimox,
Your plugin is great and I already install and test it and in prosess to setup my site by using it as a main plugin.
… and this is what I can observed and would like to know your feedback for help.
on the user member area we got 3 tab menu:
Write
Manage:
Comments:
The problem that I can see is at the “Comments” tab menu, that user can see all the comments even that comments is not his/her comments or is not in his/her topics that his/her give a comments.
Just imagine, any user (that become member) will see all this “not related comments” in their member/user section.
So, my question is:
1) how to make the user only can see his/her comments
Please advice, if you have any idea?
Thank you very much.
Rergards,
J.
myedream, I know this issue. It does not suffice me too. But I don’t know how to implemented it. The decision I can not find yet.
Hi Dimox,
I found this url:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/143772?replies=8#post-650237
(at the bottom of the page…)
Having tried much of the above, I have found that an effective way is to duplicate wp-admin/edit-comments.php
Rename your comments administration file to something that will enable you to access it.
Create a new wp-admin/edit-comments.php file with this content
Your contributors will not see the comments, but will effectively stay where they were.
I edit my comments by opening the ‘Comments’ in a new tab and replacing the wp-admin/edit-comments.php with the working URL (e.g. wp-admin/edit-comment2.php)
Do you think that can help in order to implement the idea to block the “comments tab menu” in the user section?
Hope to hear from you.
Thanks!
Regards,
J.
I’ve read this information some time ago. The decision requires to edit WordPress core files, therefore it is completely not good.
Hi Dimox,
This is a great plugin, and is exactly what i needed.
Great job :-)
Hi Dimox,
My user section, cant hide dashboard as your user section at articlesss.com
Please see here:
http://www.netpreneur.my/images/snagit-userdashboard.jpg
I download your latest plugin 0.8 beta version
Any idea?
Please advise.
Thank you.
Regards,
J.
My plugin not do this. Probably the dashboard hiding because of the Widgetized Dashboard plugin.
Hi Dimox,
Just to updates to you and all friends here…
I can disable the comments tab in user section by using the WPLite Plugin.
You can see here the screen shot…
http://www.netpreneur.my/images/user-dashboard.jpg
But there, still got the “unnecessary write up” that I would like to remove/disable… do you know how to make it?
Thank you!
Regards,
J.
Hi all!
The new version of a plugin (0.8.1) is accessible. See the changes.
Hi Dimox,
Thank you for your updated version!
Is there any idea on “Recent Post”, how to show only “the tittle of the post”
Your help is hopeful!
Regards,
J.
Don’t understand, which “Recent Post”.
Hi Dimox,
Please see the screen shot here…
http://netpreneur.my/images/recent-articles.jpg
How to only show the “recent articles tittle” with out the descriptions/contents.
Please advise :)
Thank you very much.
Regards,
J.
This is not related to the plugin.
You need to delete following code in sidebar.php file:
<div class="postmetadata"><?php the_time('m.d.y') ?> @ <?php the_category(', ') ?></div><div class="entry">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
Hi Dimox,
Yes it works.
Thanks for your help!
This is a great plugin!
Bravo!
Regards,
J.
Hi Dimox,
I checked with the source of my other plugin to see where I am getting this error from that is showing on the front page of my site.
Here is the error….
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1]
SELECT SUM(count) FROM wp_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = ‘category’ AND parent =
Here was their response. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
“but I do notice their sw is still beta… you might ask them too… those are their errors but likely some sort of conflict - perhaps they dont like our spf page that has dynamically generated content??”
There plugin http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/simplepress-forum/
My site http://healtharticledepot.com
Pat King, I sent you an e-mail. Please check it.
Hi Dimox!
I must firstly say that your script is just great and has everything I’ve been looking for in a directory script. I even tried a few others but none had the versatility of this plugin; complemented with the support, extensions and compatibility with other wp plugins, the potential is limitless. I have achieved everything I wanted to do with your directory plugin. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
I would like to ask one question though, relating to rss feeds. Is it possible to create rss feeds only for a particular keyword or category instead of the feeds coming from recent articles posts? I would like to use the articles feed on another website and it would be good if the articles are relevant to the content on the other website, this can only be achieved by extracting feeds from a particular category in the directory. Is this possible at all?
I would appreciate any direction or ideas from you.
Thanks!
Cheers,
Farizan
Hi there, thx for this wonderfull plugin!
Is there a way to put a little icon in front of the category titles?
Hi, Farizan!
Firstly, many thanks for so good words :) I’m very glad.
Secondly, feeds for a particular category is the default feature of WordPress. They has link like this: site.com/category/category-name/feed/
But WordPress has no the feature to get the feed of particular tag. Most likely there is the plugin, which do this. Try to search it.
ralph, where you would like to add an icons - only in parent category titles or in child too?
Hi Dimox,
thx for the quick reply!
I want to put the icons in front of the parent category titles. Just like the dutch site http://www.infonu.nl
ralph, ok, I will add this feature in next version.
Thank you for the tip Dimox. It worked.
thx a lot Dimox, that would be very nice!
The new version of a plugin (0.9) is accessible. See the changes.
I installed it… by the manual:
1. Copied to my plugins directory
2.modified index.php (is there a special place where to put that line?)
3. copied category.css and modified style.css with @import….
4. Activate
5. Set the options…
And now what? :) How do i use it? I was expecting to use a line like this [article directory id=1] inside a page….
I’m using WP 2.6.
Help me…. Thank you.
Catalin, I don’t understand, what you want to do. According to 5 actions that you fulfilled, categories list is on the home page of your site.
I was expecting to be able to create a custom page with an index of all articles…. Or maybe i don’t understand the finality of this plugin…
I’m using a static page for the home page.
Catalin , then you must create a template for this page and put the code of the plugin.
plugin was working perfectly til I upgraded now I cannot activate the plugin because it produces this fatal error
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare hide_blocks() (previously declared in /home/articleb/public_html/wp-content/plugins/write-post-blocks-hide-2.5.php:13) in /home/articleb/public_html/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php on line 898
any ideas?
thanks
Leanne
leanne, you must to deactivate and delete the plugin “Write Post” blocks hide (read above the Version 0.8 beta changes).
There seems to be a tiny bug when the plugin is activated and when I want to upload an image into the gallery. Uploading is fine, but inserting isn’t do-able. The only way to insert is to de-activate your plugin to get the theme gallery working back to normal.
Susan, thanks for informing. I made small change. Please, download the plugin again.
It’s working perfectly now! Great fix! :)
First I want to thank you for the script…
I have an issue, when i click the empty category page then it shows “Page not found Error”
http://www.onlyapple.net/submitarticle/category/ipod/ipod-news/
Please tell what should i do to fix this error.
Thanks
Piyush, nothing to do here. WordPress feature is that if the category is empty, it shows an error 404.
Susan , good. I’m glad :)
[...] and miss. I googled for a Wordpress article directory plug in and found there was one available at http://articlesss.com/article-directory-wordpress-plugin/ which also offers a nice article directory style theme to go with it. To get it up and running [...]
Dimox,
How can I display my links like you did with yours?
http://articlesss.com/category/arts-entertainment/
instead of mine that looks like
http://articlesss.com/?cat=1
I just believe that yours is more search engine friendly than mine.
Thank you,
Lourens
i want my article directory to be located here: mydomain.com/articles but wordpress 2.6 is installed in root (mydomain.com). How do I do this?
Lourens, J smith, there is WordPress Codex for this questions. RTFM.
Guess I won’t be using this plugin. Thanks for the help.
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
Regards
Hi,
Great plugin and theme. Thanks.
Just two strange little problems:
1) The 1st paragraph is missing from each article
2) There is a large space at the top of each article.
Any advice would be appreciated.
http://www.thearticlebase.com
thanks
Darren, the reason of both problems that there is some wrong code at the top of each article code, for example:
<br: Jennifer de Jong<br />The idea of decanting brings…
Ok.
Thanks for the fast response!
hello Dimox,
I really love the idea of making a article directory via wordpress engine. just want to ask. Is your plugin is an autopost plugin?
No.
so they have to register before they can submit articles. am I right?
Lhurey, yes.
Thanks for the great plugin. I notice that yours is presenting a useful message when an empty category is selected whereas wordpress defaults to the 404 - I was wondering if you could tell me how you configured this -
Many Thanks
Tony G, it’s the same 404 page, only remaked for article directory. See the 404.php file from theme folder.
I would like to add this on the recipe section of my website. Just that section. How do I go about doing that? Do I paste that code in another page?
Alex if you want to add this on page, you must to create a new page template, but if you want to add this on category page, you must use the condition is_category() in categories template. Details is in WordPress Codex.
Can you tell me why I’m getting this error and how I can fix it?
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_wpvers() (previously declared in /home/fatcityl/public_html/articlejava/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php:69) in /home/fatcityl/public_html/articlejava/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php on line 67
Thanks
Nevermind, I fixed the problem. Thanks anyway.
Hello Dimox,
I just installed your article directory and it looks great but have two problems.
On home page I get the following error:
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1]
SELECT SUM(count) FROM wp_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = ‘category’ AND parent =
for every category I add.
I added a single article and it shows ok. There is no other post on the database but the initial WordPress Hello World.
Also while testing I added the three pages, Privacy, Submission Guidelines and Terms of Service. However only the Privacy page shows up. The other two pages are published and can be reached by typing the urls of the page but don’t show on the menu.
I also have installed the three recommended plugins.
I am using WP Ver 2.6.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Solved the :
WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1]
SELECT SUM(count) FROM wp_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = ‘category’ AND parent =
It was because there were no subcategories and the server uses php ver 5.
My Navigation problem is probably not your plugin.
The search also has a mySQL error when no entry is found using the term (s) entered into the search - which is probably not your plugin either.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Charles
Michelle, tell please how you fixed this problem?
Charles, I use on my server php5, but there is no this database error.
Dimox,
My mySQL error:
SELECT SUM(count) FROM wp_term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = ‘category’ AND parent =
Error seemed to occur because I initially had no sub categories for any of the few categories I had. As soon as I added a sub category to each category the errors disappeared one by one. If someone started with sub categories for each category I suspect they would never get this error. I am assuming it has something having to do with the MySQL version due to the error mentioning it - but I know how vague and sometimes wrong error messages can be.
Thanks,
Charles
Charles, thanks for details! I will seek a solution for resolving this error.
Hi,
Thank you for this plugin! It works great without any errors on WP 2.6.1!
I would like to know if there is a way to display the titles of the articles under each subcategories ! I’ve been looking all around and couldn’t find a solution!
Do you have an Idea?
Steven, there is no this feature.
is there a way to put some credits from the author? It should have the author’s resource box after post.
Lhurey, WordPress don’t provide such a possibility.
Dimox,
Another question - I see that your sites are doing the same as mine;
When you go to; http://articlesss.com/important-facts-of-cosmetic-denture-treatment/ you wil see the article detail 14.09.2008 | Author: ravish | Posted in Beauty - when you click on “ravish”, you will see the Author “ravish” Page
When you do the same on this page; http://articlesss.com/article-directory-wordpress-plugin/ you will see the article detail 11.02.2008 | Author: Dimox | Posted in Blogging - when you click on “Dimox”, you will see Error 404 - Not Found
Any idea what I missed?
Tnx,
Lourens
Lourens, on this site it was my mistake in settings (does not concern neither a theme, nor to a plugin). Why so on your site, I don’t know.
Hi,
i have a default installation, using both the plugin + theme.
The Home link appears (near top left)
But not the: ‘Privacy Policy’, ‘Submission Guidelines’ or ‘Terms of Service’
Advice appreciated.
Thanks
Darren, you must create this pages by yourself.
Hi Dimox,
Sorry, I should have have said that I did create them as ‘Pages’.
Do I need to link to them (which I am happy to do) of should they appear as per a regular Wordpress installation?
Thanks
Darren, you need to specify the ID’s of this pages in header.php file. Instruction about this written on Article Directory theme page.
I’m having the same problem as Charles above with the MysQl error. Everything was fine until I switched servers and am now using Mysql 5. Then the errors appeared.
The page can be seen here http://www.appcraver.com/sitemap/
Adding subcategories is not an option for me. Any other solutions would be appreciated.
Thank you Dimox. The updated version you sent me by email worked perfectly. You are a great developer and I appreciate the support you provide for your products.
Thanks again!
Barbara
hi. Thanks for plugin
perfect.
BEst Regards
The new version of plugin is out. Changes.
Thank you for the link’s ;)
le blogueur masqué, You are welcome ;)
Hi, I have following problem when instaled the plugin:
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Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_wpvers() (previously declared in /mounted-storage/home51b/sub001/sc35457-HZHX/kaleidoworld.com/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php:69) in /mounted-storage/home51b/sub001/sc35457-HZHX/kaleidoworld.com/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/article-directory.php on line 67
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Any clues what could be the cause. I’m not familiar with PHP so help would be appreciated.
Marko
HELP! This is the error message I get when I try to log into the admin. What am I doing wrong.
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘legalvsi_mrcfund’@'localhost’ (using password: YES) in /home/legalvsi/public_html/legalvsillegal/includes/config.inc on line 14
Couldn’t connect to MySQL
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Richie, most likely, your MySQL settings is wrong. Apply to your hosting support.
Thanks Dimox…..
I am a novice to all this and I need my article directory set up EXACTLY like this one, with the only exception being the color scheme, mines is red, black, white, and gray. Can I pay you (or anyone who’ve post here) $25 to set it up for me if I give you all my ftp info. which is change later. I host my own websites.
Can you help me get install this “article directory in my wordpress” blog? I am my own host so I have all the info you’ll need. Can I pay you to set it up for me? I found that even with instructions I still don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to “code”!
Please!
Richie
Not for us “code_dummies” like my self. I know a lot about the internet. I host my own websites but I don’t know”diddly” about how to set-up this simple “WordPress article directory!”
Can you create a line-by-line, step-by-step set of instruction for us code-dummies out here? Pretty Please!
Link: http://legalvsillegalarticles.com/legalvsillegal/images/not_for_code_dummies.jpg
HELP!
Hi Demox,
I was accidentally found your great themes and plugin. Anyway, i have installed your themes and also your plugin, but it doesn’t come perfectly in my website, sorry because i newbie in Wordpress and Php;
My Questions are:
1. Why i cant display this welcome message like this: Welcome to Article Directory. Here you can find interesting and useful information on most popular themes.
There are 636 published articles and 281 registered authors in our article directory.”
2. Why i cant display the recent articles?
3. How to build authorization log in?
Thanks before
I DID IT! I DID IT!I DID IT!
I finally did it! I got it to work. Now I have one or two questions. Is there more help files? Like a PDF or something?
Thanks for this nice looking article theme.
P.S. How do I add a small graphic in the header like the one depicted on your site?
Thanks again!
Indra, if you have downloaded theme from this page, all of your points shall be shown.
2Richie:
No. All info in article above.
You need to know CSS before doing it. See this comment.
Got it!
Thank you so very much Dimox for a very good product! I’ll be hanging-out around this site a lot!
Richie
Question,
How do you add pages to the top ROW where you guys have displayed HOME, PRIVACY POLICY, etc….
Second, the pages that I have written and want to be displayed in the top right hand corner above the search box are NOT coming up. It’s only displaying one for some reason. Can you explain on how to fix this.
Thanks.
Dr. Singh, firstly, your comment is not related to the plugin. Secondly, the answer is on the theme page.
Hi Dimox, any hope for me? I’m feeling envious seeing all those happy people with your plug-in. My problem was described at comment N°446. Please, give me just a hint.
Marko.
nmo.Marko, I sent you e-mail.
Once I have this installed do i have to add all of the article categories manually? Whwere is the license information for this plug-in?
Of course.
No.
Dimox,
Any chance of you setting up a forum of some type (phpBB, SMF, etc) for support? It would make searching for answers to questions easier and we call all help each other more.
I can’t find a way to delete the “Uncategorized” category. Did you delete it from your directory or did you simply rename it?
I see no sense to create the forum.
This category cannot be deleted. It must be renamed.
Dimox really great plugin. I have two questions
1. On my site chessvisions.com, when you click on an authors name, you are taken to a 404 error page rather than to their profile. Do you have any idea why this might be happening?
2. Would you be willing to accept a donation in exchange for the ability to remove teh promotional links at the bottom of the directories theme?
i installed the package as suggested in this site; however, now my entire blog is disabled. I can still administer, but the blog itself has gone entirely blank. You can see by visiting blog.sigmaterials.com
Please Help!
2chess vision:
This is enigma for me.
You can delete them without a donation.
Steven Y, your blog is not blank, only not displayed the categories list. If plugin is activated, I don’t know why so, unfortunately.
Hi,
A pleasure to see the results of this plugin, I’m dazed!
I have an issue, though. When I accept subscribers who can post articles, they get access to a plugin where they can change the google tracking code. How do I get this off the subscribers interface?
That would be helpful. Thanks for any suggestions.
Joe, hard to say. May be you incorrectly configured access rights.
Hi Dimox,
Concerning 168:
I would have considered having not configured access rights properly if other plugins had been accessible as well, but this is not the case. All other plugins are hidden from subscribers.
Maybe I just should look for a better plugin. ;-)
Май выгодные торговые ветры заполнить ваши паруса. (Я надеюсь, что это Google перевод достойный, и я надеюсь, что я была права, признав правильным языком в блоге)
Joe, in this case, I am not able to help.
Concerning your last paragraph: a language is right, but I don’t understand nothing =) Translation is bad.
Hi, Great plugin! Wondering if you have any work around for adding a link directory on theme also? I wan to have a site that is an article directory and also an industry directory on the same site.
Tjanks,
Rob
rob, sorry, I’m not planning, because a link directory is a ‘last century’.
Dimox, Suppose so. I was looking at what would be really useful for my readers. Not so much what is popular now. Not to be rude or trying to stir up any animosity but article directories aren’t exactly cutting edge either. But thanks for a great plugin anyways.
Hi Dimox,
I’m trying to get the pages to show up in the top bar. I would like to have the “terms of service” page to show up next to “home”, but I could not find where to tweak the settings so this link appears. Also, the “site map” is a great idea, how do I do this in the template? Thanks for any feed back.
Now it’s working! Thanx Dimox!
(Related to my question at comment N°557)
Hi, I just want to say thank you for that great plugin. Great Work. ;)
Hi there,\
i just love your plugin, thanks alot.
I have a question, maybe it is simple for you but im stumped.
I would like to have it so browsing users, that are looking at an article someone posted. Can send an email relating to the article, by click ing on a button. It would be “mailto:” function of sorts i would guess. ?
But i want it to send the email to the poster of the article, maybe with the articles title in the subject line..
I realize this is a personal customization of your already great product but, i would really appreciate the help.
JohnieO, I will not be able to create such a function, sorry.
OK, i wasnt sure if it would be possible for you to do this. Anyone else able to help me? I could pay something for the service. Thanks
figured it out..
I did have a question about limiting how many characters a new author is allowed to use in the title when posting an article.
Reason for this is when the articles are displayed in sidebar. Or other places to, the titles are displayed too long to fit in certain areas.
please help..
“The error, when at entering on a comments page in administrative interface the message “Restricted area” was deduced to all users, regardless of status, is corrected. ”
I still have this problem…comments tab is still there, is there a fix for it?
i am using the latest version… ver 0.9.3
The title field is unlimited.
I don’t know how to remove it.
Hello Dimox!
How I can have a section that people will be able to submit their articles? Let see , I’m a writer and want to send an article to your website , is that possible to register and just send teh article to the admin?
Thank you very much
Joe
Yes, if installed the Role Manager plugin.