Article Directory WordPress Theme
Represent your attention the special Article Directory theme for using with my Article Directory plugin.
Worth noting that the ideological inspirer for realization article directory on WordPress engine is the ArticleDashBoard.com. Therefore, while creating Article Directory theme I was orientated to this directory.
Demo
You can see the demo this site — articlesss.com
Theme features
- The Article Directory theme is intended to work with WordPress 2.9 — 4.2
- Statistics on the total number of published articles and the number of registered authors.
- The home page displays a list of the most recent articles. By default it’s a 30 titles. The number can be changed in the template file index.php.
- Each author has a page with info about him and list of his articles. Info about the author is also displaying on a single article page.
- Breadcrumbs on the archives by date, author archives, categories and search results pages.
- The category page displays a list of subcategories (or sibling subcategories) and list of this category articles.
- The possibility of sorting a list of articles on the current category (title, newest, oldest). A similar possibility exists on the author page.
- Single article page contains a list of other articles from the same category.
- Pagination without a plugin.
- List of top authors.
- Widgets support.
- Localization support.
Attention! The Article Directory plugin is obligatory for working the article directory at full capacity.
Download
Article Directory WordPress Theme
Version: 1.7.1 | Last updated: 2015-05-02
Donation
If you enjoy this theme, you can thank me and leave a small donation.
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Version history
- Added CSS styles for the TinyMCE editor and HTML editor in the author panel.
- The authorization form is made as a function that connects from the «Article Directory» plugin.
Version 1.7 (2010-09-06)
- Many different changes in the design.
- Added widgets «Top Authors» and «Recent Articles with the excerpts».
- Pagination without a plugin.
- Info about the author on a single article page.
- Displaying an avatar of the author, if it’s configured in the Gravatar service.
- Added localization support.
Version 1.6.1 (01.10.10)
- If WP-PageNavi plugin is not installed, default paged navigation now displays.
- Fixed error with wrong displaying of the
No articles in this categorymessage.
Version 1.6 (09.27.09)
- Subcategory page now displays a list of other subcategories from the same category.
Version 1.5 (12.20.08)
- Changes for WordPress 2.7.
Version 1.4.1 (11.29.08)
- Changed the method of reading WordPress version.
- Small minor corrections.
Version 1.4 (07.19.08)
- Solved the problem with incorrect displaying the message «No categories» with the heading «Subcategories» on categories archive pages.
- Small minor corrections.
Version 1.35 (05.22.08)
- If the user is authorized, in authorization block displayed links to the admin interface for user of corresponding status.
Version 1.3 (04.11.08)
- Added a page template to display a list of categories with links to their RSS feeds (rssfeeds.php file).
- Made some changes in code of recent articles in sidebar, because the excerpt was displayed incorrectly.
Version 1.2 (02.29.08)
- Added widgets support.
- Now, if a parent category does not contain subcategories when it is viewed not shown headline «Subcategories» with the message «No categories.»
Version 1.1 (01.19.08)
- Fixed counting of the total number of articles for WordPress Version 2.3+. Earlier this amount included and the number of published pages.
- Added user registration form.
- Other minor corrections.
Version 1.0 (01.09.08)
- First release.
Hi
I downloaded the theme and directory and use it.
It had no issues and I think is a great theme that you offer.
Thank you so much.
Sherif, you’re welcome. I’m glad 😉
Thanks for the great themes and plugin.
I’ve been waiting for some one to make such plugin plus you give the theme too.
I ‘ve one question, how to put an images on every parent category on the main page?
can category icon plugins do the job?
Hi Dimox,
I noticed Google adsense is not showing, when I use it with your theme. Did you try using or testing adsense before?
Thanks.
article digger, you’re welcome.
It can be done by editing #categories li style in categories.css file.
Hi. May be you do something incorrectly. I don’t use Google Adsense anywhere. The reason is hardly in my theme.
«It can be done by editing #categories li style in categories.css file.»
OK, I got the idea.. but how if I want to get unique icon for each parent category?
what is the code should I can use?
Hi. I’m a newbie. I like your theme and plugins and have downloaded them. But when I used the theme, there’s an error note: «Fatal error: Call to undefined function: article_directory() in /home/articl09/public_html/wp-content/themes/article-directory/index.php on line 8». I didn’t do anything. I copied the theme into the directory and that note appears. Could you please tell me what did I miss here?
adhi, most likely you do not have activated the plugin in WordPress admin panel.
You’re right. 🙂 I forgot the plugin. Now I have it perfectly. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work.
Hi,
Is it possible for this article directory themes to show just few child-categories on the front page?
for example I wanted to have only 5 child-categories to show-up for every parent-category.
can this be done?
thanks
This is not possible yet.
khairul, you can download new version of plugin — this feature is added.
Great theme and plugin.
Just started playing around with it and noticed the following:
«# Added widgets support.»
I added a couple of test widgets (text box and calendar) and the «Recent Articles» disappeared, is this normal behavior on this theme?
Also, when clicking a parent category on your site, we get to see a list of child categories whereas on my test installation, I get the posts from all the categories under the parent.
BTW, I’m running WP 2.51 and the Kinderlose plugin isn’t compatible with the new WP version.
Cheers and keep up with the fantastic work.
Gene
Thanks for the update Dimox.
Gene, thanks for response.
Yes, this is normal. If you want to show simultaneously the widgets and “Recent Articles”, do following. Find this code:
<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- end #l-sidebar -->
and move <?php endif; ?> to the place before this:
<h2>Recent Articles</h2>Can you show me the working example?
Download my version of «Kinderlose». See the link in this article.
Thanks for the quick response.
«Yes, this is normal. If you want to show simultaneously the widgets and “Recent Articles”, do following. Find this code:»
Did as instructed and works like a charm.
«whereas on my test installation, I get the posts from all the categories under the parent.»
Couldn’t get rid of this problem, see the blog at:
http://matesjunction.com/altmedpress/
«Download my version of “Kinderlose”. See the link in this article.»
Downloaded and activated it but when I click on the parent category, I get a 404 error.
Cheers,
Gene
Unfortunately, the reason is not clear for me 🙁
Strange, I don’t understand why so. On this site it works fine. There is only one suggestion — may be it conflicts with other plugins. Try to deactivate third-party plugins.
Hi Dimoz,
Me neither, I’m really baffled over this issue.
I already tried that and just tried it again, leaving only Article Directory and Kinderlose on and I still got a 404 error. Could it be that my WP install is in a sub-folder or using «pretty» permalinks?
BTW, there is a small bug in the Author page, when clicking on the Author’s link, it returns the username, not the nickname, for example, my Nick on that blog is Gene but it shows «Author Nik: admin»
Thanks,
Gene
Also, how do you insert a logo like you have before your site titlte?
Thanks,
Gene
Gene, I have found the reason of the first problem (list of child categories in parent category page). Very sorry, my mistake. I make this theme on two languages and forgot to edit some code in this version.
Do following. Find following code in category.php file:
if (is_category($cat) && !empty($categories)) { ?>and replace it to this:
if (is_category($cat)) { ?>This is not bug. I deliberately did so. In the «Author Nik» field puts user login. But there is provided the «Name» field in author profile for his name. Do you think it is not safe to do so?
You need to edit #logo {...} in style.css.
Hi Dimox,
Thanks for the small code change, now it does show the subcategories when you click on the parent but I do get the posts under, Kinderlose still doesn’t work (404 error) and I’ll try and see what’s wrong with it and if I can’t, submit it to WP to see if there’s something in the code that is causing this.
That could be debatable, in the profile section, you can choose your «Nickname», maybe the author page could fetch that field. Some people could have some strange username such as hyw4387qw and a Nick (not Nik) like John28 and I’m sure that serious authors would rather be known by their screen name. Only my opinion…
OK, I got:
#logo {
float: left;
color: #808080;
line-height: 0.85em;
font-size: 3.3em;
margin: 14px 0 15px;
}
How would I modify that part to include my graphic? I usually hard code my graphics in the PHP files but I would rather be consistent with your CSS structure.
Thanks again, you’ve been very helpful,
Gene
Sorry to be such a pain but I’m also trying to change the vertical lines that separate the sidebars to a darker color as I did with smalldot.gif and some of the border colors in the CSS on my site and just can’t find the code.
Cheers,
Gene
Me again, just want to explain why I’m making all the changes in the CSS for everything to be darker and more prominent, I already own a forum that deals with the same issue (Alternative Medicine) and more than half of the members are over 45 and some have all kinds of age-related visual problems (cataracts, near-sighted, etc.).
Visit my site to see the changes I’m making.
Thanks again,
Gene
Okey, i will change the authors block.
This is my example:
#logo {
…
padding: 9px 0 10px 78px;
background: url(i/box.jpg) no-repeat;
}
1) Vertical lines — it’s a dots.gif image, which is in «i» folder of theme.
2) Find all of:
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEE;
#EEE — is color.
P.S. I recommend you to study the CSS, I can’t advise on every question related to CSS.
Is it possible to show only certain categories in recent articles?
jase, yes, it’s easy. Just find the following code in the sidebar.php file:
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5');and replace is to this:
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&cat=1,7,11');where 1,7,11 is the comma separated list of categories ID.
Awesome, thank you so much.
I’m missing something. Can you tell me how to display the rss the way that you have ie articles, comments, categories. My display shows the categories under pages (I used the Rss categories) template and under RSS there is the articles and the comments by default I presume. Should I create a RSS Page for the articles and comments?
thank you. Hope this is not too confusing.
Leanne
No, you sould only create RSS Categories page, if you need. RSS for comments and articles is default WordPress function.
Hi Dimoz,
I don’t know if I’m the only one experiencing this problem; when using a contact form plugin and sending an email, the recipient (admin) receives as many copies of the message as there are posts, meaning that I had 5 posts on my test install and when I sent myself a test message, I received 6 copies of the same email.
I tried it on a fresh WP install with only the original WP post, sent myself a message and got 2 copies. I had a friend try it and the same thing happened to him.
This doesn’t have anything to do with other plugins, the fresh install only had your plugin and the contact form activated. I also tried 3 or 4 different contact form plugins and tthe same thing happened.
Could this have something to do with the RSS coding in either the theme or plugin?
Thanks,
Gene
Neither the plugin, nor a theme do not do anything, that concerns e-mail sending.
thanks but still it did not work, how if i have different project but i want the same setup of template with a bit extra features..? you don’t have a contact us page..?!!
thanks,
ali
Dimox,
This site is awesome! I am so excited that I found your theme and plugin. I was thinking of adding a directory to my main site, but this works out good to have it’s own domain.
I am going to have to work on customizing the look a little, but it’s great.
BTW, can I borrow your TOS? hehe…..
check it out, just over an hours worth of work. http://www.HealthArticleDepot.com
Any idea why my pages are not appearing at the top. Only one page that I created has shown up.
Thanks
May be you did not enter IDs of pages. See information about this in «Features» block at the top of this page.
Got it, awesome thank you!
Would you happen to know why a simplepress forum plugin does not work properly with this theme?
Cheers!
Pat King, I don’t know.
Dimox,
Great plugin and theme, the one issue I see is the category page only lists one article.Is there a work around for this?
Solved MY own problem sorry. Super script!
I’m not RSS guy, how do I set up RSS feed for categories?
There is no need to setup RSS feed for categories. But if you need to get the list with the categories feeds, read the middle of this article.
Is there any plugin which will detect if a writer has posted a duplicate content? As a article directory we all look for original content. If such a plugin is made then a huge burden gets lifted off from our shoulders
Great theme. Can it be used as a standard wordpress theme without all the plugin info? Did you create a version of this theme just for a regular blog?
rumblepup, I don’t plan to create this version. Its easy to rework for the regular blog. Info from WordPress Codex will help you.
I love the plugin and theme set. It is exactly what I am looking for except it’s not fully compatible with wordpress 2.6. After installing this plugin the media uploader stopped working.
THe wordpress support site (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164999) says this is a known issue with some older plugins.
Do you plan on updating for wordpress 2.6? Is there any way I can entice you? 🙂
Bard’s Art , probably you mean this (comments #100). Plugin already updated.
Thanks! I didn’t notice the update. I appreciate your quick response and everything is working great now.
Hi Dimox,
Thanks for such a great theme and plugin set! It’s very versatile.
I’m using it for a review site that includes a «rating» from the author. We use a custom field for the rating and would like to be able to sort by the custom field on the categories page where you currently have sort by title, newest, oldest.
IE: It would be sort by title, rating, newest.
Can you help or provide the code to sort by a custom field?
Hi.
Unfortunatelly, I don’t know how to do this. Sorry.
Hi,
Superb Theme !
Superb Plugin !
One of Thousand wonders of wordpress…..
two thumbs up for DIMOX. (you rock dude)
please allowed me to use this theme and plugin also
regards,
krishna
krishna, there is no need to request permission. Just download and use them.
rumblepup, if you still want version of this theme for regular blog, you can get it here.
AWESOME
I have this up and running and it looks like a great tool — thanks! I am interested in using this for a series of articles, but ran into one issue. The articles will have 5 major categories, each with a set of sub-categories. For this group of articles, I want all articles to be tied just to a sub-category and not to any main category. When I tried to do this using the theme/plug-in, I ran into a problem. Specifically, if you do not have an article tied to the main category, then when you click the main category link you get a Page Not Found. Ideally, I’d if someone clicked on that link I’d like it to just go to the page that shows all of the subcategories so the user can click around. Is this possible?
Dimox,
I have 2 menu problems I haven’t been able to properly solve.
The include function parameters in header.php are not showing the right page(s) for the top line or the lower menu line.
In the statement
I am not sure what the 2,5 parameters mean in your code above.
According to your instructions they should be the pages to exclude, but changing them to correspond to my pages does not seem to work properly no matter what I have tried. It does not show or exclude the correct pages. Only 2 out of 6 pages seem to be affected by those parameters.
Those parms do not appear to be page sequence numbers, or sequence of the pages. They don’t seem to exclude pages or include pages in any particular manner that I can figure out.
I tried giving each page a sequence number, but that does not work properly either. With the default zero sequence it does not work properly either. It does not exclude or include according to the original page creation order either.
Same exact problem occurs in the menu bar too. The parms don’t seem to correspond to actual sequence numbers, zero sequence numbers, alphabetical sequence or any thing I have tried.
I am using WP Ver 2.6 and server has php ver 5
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Charles
Dimox,
I just solved the following search problem.
The Search Everything plugin caused the search error. It works ok with the WP default search.
I am sending this in case anyone else has a problem with the search function and is using the Search Everything plugin.
————————————————————
I had a search box problem.
I got the following error if it cannot find the search term. I entered xxq and got the following error showing under the Recent Articles column.
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 ‘(wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’) OR ( tter.slug LIKE ‘%xxq%’) ORDER BY wp_po’ at line 1]
SELECT DISTINCT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships AS trel ON (wp_posts.ID = trel.object_id) LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS ttax ON ( ( ttax.taxonomy = ‘category’ ) AND trel.term_taxonomy_id = ttax.term_taxonomy_id) LEFT JOIN wp_terms AS tter ON (ttax.term_id = tter.term_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.(wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’) OR ( tter.slug LIKE ‘%xxq%’) ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5
I have Search Everything 4.7.1 plugin.
I am using WP Ver 2.6
software support: PHP 4 w/Zend & eAccelerator and PHP 5 w/Zend
Database: MySQL v.5
Charles
Kvotch, if you have not change the 404.php file of this theme, it should be exactly as you want.
Charles, this is my mistake. I wrote ‘exclude’ instead of ‘include’, i.e. it should read as follows:
and specify in the include option comma-separated list identifiers pages you wish to INCLUDE into the list.
Thanks for reporting. I will correct this mistake.
Oops. (RTF….)
OK, thanks again for your help.
Hi Dimox,
you did mention you wrote this theme in 2 languages — the other one is not in German by chance?
Would save me a lot of editing 😉
The theme is exactly what I’m looking for — super job!
Dougi
Hi Dougi,
No, this theme is made in English and Russian (because I’m Russian 🙂
You are welcome 😉
Hi,
My site dosn’t have the ‘next page’ link at the bottom of the screen.
Any ideas why?
E.G.
http://thearticlebase.com/category/entertainment/humor/
Thanks again for you help.
Hi,
Please ignore my question. I found your comment about ‘WP-PageNavi’ on the Plugin page.
Thanks again for the great plugin!
I am working on setting up an article directory. I installed your plugin and everything you recommended. I still do not see the register widget for visitors to register as authors or the like.
Hi.
This looks like a great Theme and a fantastic plugin. Just what I was looking for. Thank you.
I am having one small problem which is probably just me being stupid. I have submitted a test article and when I click the link on the author name it doesn’t go to the author’s profile but instead go’s to the blog’s home page.
Any ideas?
Laura, I don’t understand what is the reason.
Alastair, I have no ideas.
How can i translate your theme to portuguese_brazil?
please let me know
Congrat.
this package is superb.
how can i change index.php to show only the number of authors (people how write articles) not all subscribers. subscribers do not have permission to send articles on my site.
any help would be appreciated.
tr
tchauradar, you need to translate all the text in theme files.
Most likely, it is impossible to do so.
Hello,
I been trying to set up the themes and plugins on my article site and all work great. But my question is, how can I add an immediate number of articles and categories? Can I get articles from articledashboard.com for a large no. of article for one time setup. Is it possible?
Thankyou..
well done. very nice job
Don’t understand what’s the problem.
You should solve by yourself.
Hello,
I used your theme and category plugin to be my wordpress powered lyrics site and you can found it at http://www.eilyrics.com.
However, there are a lot I am thinking to change. I do some editing on some codes (which I am not good at and my head is aching) and I think still needs of some customization. Let me know what you can do or suggest to give on.
Hope you can do or transform like worpress themes and plugins especially built for powerful lyrics site.
Thank you.
this a good themes and plugin. I download one and will use it on my health article.
thanks for great job. May God bless you.
interlin
indonesia.
Adsense code is not working why?
Sunil
Fantastic theme and plugin!
I’d love to use this on another site but would like to have my logo instead of the text pulled from page title in wordpress settings. I’m new to this coding and can’t find where I would put my logo, and don’t know what dimensions to resize the logo to.
Can I just put the code in the wordpress settings like <img scr=»… or can you tell me how to revise the code (and where?)? Thanks!
Fantastic !! I appreciate the answers you share.
hi there,
i want to have it so the parent categories show maybe 5 child catgegories on the main page. i have categories setup to be in main child and subchild and some even in subchildcat. i just want to have those subchildcat hidden.
like so
-category
-childcat
-subchildcat
i want to show only parent and 5 childcat like so..
-category
-childcat
-childcat
-childcat
-childcat
-childcat
is this possible?
hi,
i figured that out..thanks for making it easily done. 🙂
New author cannot post pictures. The media uploader buttons are not there when making a post. I use wp 2.6.3 for this site that uses your plugin and theme.
The buttons are there for me as admin, no problem there. Just as author..
I have checked other wordpress sites of mine that are using wp ver 2.6 and the media uploader is there for the author. So i am not sure what to do.
thx for any help…
» Lovin the Package you offer here !!!! «
I specially hid it. If you want to restore it, find following row in article-directory.php and remove it:
#media-buttons {display: none !important}
How can you put your logo on this theme, I dont know how.
I am having the same problem as Laura above no Register buttons. I am using the latest version of WordPress. Installed it today.
Laurie
Another problem, When I go to post an article I get this:
Not Acceptable
An appropriate representation of the requested resource /articles/wp-admin/post.php could not be found on this server.
but those pages are in my directory.
Laurie
Requires knowledge of CSS technology. Example is in this comment.
Please try to ask this question on WordPress forum. I don’t know.
How can i change the Sort by selection of Title by default instead of Newest in the Category view ??
Priyan, in category.php file find this row:
$s2 = ' selected="selected"';and replace 2 on 1.
Dimox, Great Plugin & Theme!
Thank you very much…I’ve been looking for something like this for some time.
Everything seems to be working well. There is one concern with the way that the Categories show on the main page.
They show as bullet list. Not nice categories with subcategories.?
I’ve read all comments and posts but do not see anything why this could be issue.
Please let me know what could be. Thank you again,
Jeremy
Also, the «Submit Comment» box, like below, cuts off at the «m» in comment. So box says «Submit Com» and box ends.
Jeremy, may be you have not connected a categories.css file.
Thanks. Will be fixed.
Dimox, Thanks for quick reply.
I am using both Plugin and Theme from this site. The categories.css file is already there. I looked at it and they are same.
Is there something that need to do additional if using both together?
Yes, this written on plugin page.
Hi there, thx for the fix
i was wondering if it is quite difficult, to use this plugin with a different theme? I have tried to past the article directory call up code in other themes and it doesnt look right.
thx
JohnieO, plugin can be used with any theme. The essence consists only in a CSS-file — categories.css.
Sorry, I just figured it out. It is conflict with other plugin…please delete my comment from post above. Thanks again.
Jeremy, ok, I’m glad what you have solved it.
I have figured out the above problems. It doesn’t work when html is pasted in post, but when text is put in it works alright. The posting problem mentioned above.
My other question. How do I had links like the privacy policy, submission guidelines, terms of service to the top of the page like you have here, they are not showing up on my site.
Thanks in advance,
Laurie
This is written in article above.
I’ve released new version of theme with changes for WordPress 2.7.
Hey Dimox!
Thanks for the quick reply on getting the upgrade for WP 2.7 😉
Quick question: I’ve done some small modifications, so is it possible you could highlight which files are needed to be updated specifically? Thanks so much.
P.S. I’m going to «digg» this and I suggest other users do also.
Yes i have extensively modified the theme too, nd would not like to loose my changes..Can you tell us what bit of code you added to which files?
thx dimox
These files are changed:
style.css
comments.php
sidebar.php
header.php
functions.php
style.css — many changes: updated markup from em unit to px, new styles for threaded comments.
comments.php — absolutely new file (for WP 2.7), old comments.php renamed to comments-old.php (for earlier versions).
sidebar.php — small change of code for ‘Logout’ link in management list.
header.php — added this code:
<?php if ( is_singular() ) wp_enqueue_script( 'comment-reply' ); ?>and changed markup in header.
functions.php — added code of function with filter in the top of the file.
Thanks 😉
I still can not get the excerpt to show up in the sidebar. I have reinstalled the theme, and wordpress and nothing is working. The excerpt code is in the sidebar but it brings up the whole article. Can you help?
I have just installed the theme and plugins. My question is either it is possible to get a plugin (or work arround) to keep the Article submission inside the «Article Directory Theme». It goes to default wordpress admin page (and theme) layout. With a plugin I can remove dashboard but it’s still the layout (theme) from the WordPress «Add New Post» page. Can anybody help a.s.a.p.?
Real Rumors, may be this is possible, if you find a plugin, which can do this.
Dimox, did you get my request for help? Do you have any idea what my problem is?
Mary, I don’t understand why excerpt not working on your site. May be reason in third-party plugins.
Hi, Dimox,
Is it possible this article directory and plugin providing options for author to add their different pen name same as the article dashboard.
Hey Dimox! Happy New Year;)
I was wondering if there is a way to create «ezine» ready format of articles. You know on article sites they have button to click and takes you to page with boxes to copy text and bio boxes, etc.
Right now only way is to get articles is to copy paste from actual post. Is there anything you can think of to do this?
raymond, no, only one.
Jeremy, please show me an example.
i noticed the tags are showing up on articles if your theme is changed. Is their a way for tags to show, with your theme in tact. Tags are extremely useful when submitting to bookmarking sites…. automatically
sorry about the duplication in plugin section
Sean
sean, you can independently insert a code for tags in templates.
Hey Dimox,
In reference to question #104, take a look at these pages:
miscellaneous article on ezinearticles.com
and this one:
Misc. article on article directory site
You are able to get to these pages by clicking a button like «Ezine Ready».
It takes you to a page that you can «copy paste» the text or HTML very simple if you are an publisher looking for content. As it is right now, they would have to scrape your screen to get the article or subscribe to the RSS feed and only get what it gives them that way.
Unless I’m missing something….
Can this be done with your template or part of plugin?
I think it would be really cool. I remember you said you modeled this after Article Directory, most of them have this type of option.
Also, everything is working out Great right now! Thanks for the last update!
Jeremy
Jeremy, I will look what I can do about it.
Dimox,
You have anyways done a great job by giving a wonderful theme and plugin and the new version has in fact become even more user-friendly.
I am somehow unable to achieve the user-friendliness of an article directory.
I want you to let me know as to what all editing should I do so that:
1) When I click on a particular category on the home page, I should get to a page which can show list all the articles ON THAT category on the left hand side of the 2 right side bars.
&
On the main content area ONLY ONE article from that category should appear.
2) On the same level 2 page of that clicked category, on the right side of the sidebar, the complete list of article directory can appear.
I can definitely achieve the above….all I request is to give me some tips and guidance.
Regards,
Rajul Kaushik
«Dimox [ January 6th, 2009 at 4:09 am ]:
sean, you can independently insert a code for tags in templates.»
Has this code been removed?
can you give me the code so i can paste it back/ let me know where to paste it.
Thanks
Sean
I create a post, add my stuff including a link. However the only time the link is active is if I go into the post. If I click on its category parent from the front page, I see the post and it shows all the text but the link isn’t active. Same with its display in the Recent Articles area in the sidebar.
Is that a Article Directory setting? Can I make it so that the links are active wherever I’m viewing the post?
Rajul Kaushik, I don’t know how to do this.
Sean
It there has never been.
<?php the_tags(', ') ?> — this code is for display tags of post. How to work with templates please read in WordPress manuals.
stevemg, links are not displaying in excerpts. This is behaviour of WordPress.
Hi Dimox,
I am surpised at your answer.
I am asking you all those components and things that you have done on your article directory.
1) How to ONLY DISPLAY the article titles on the category page
2) I should be taken to the page where the complete article is there FROM the page as mentioned in oint (1) above.
Thats what I want to do………….nothing more.
To my previous question about the displaying of hyperlinks in excerpts. Do you have an easy link to a bit of helpful text on how to mod that?
Thanks again.
Never-mind, found some.
Hi,
Good theme and plugin. I’ve just installed them and try to figure out how to change the backgroung and make it like this one, I mean like in this site.
Can you give some instructions to do this, because I don’t like very much the default colour theme.
Hmmm,
Actually when i opened my new article directory in Internet Explorer, the background is white, and in Chrome too, but in Firefox 3 it is ugly gray background?
Do you know something about it?
I recommend you to learn CSS technology.
May be you have removed any HTML-tag of markup.
NO, I opened right after installing the theme, I haven’t made any editions.
Other Article directories, who use this theme also have the same problem in Firefox, but this site articlesss.com doesn’t have this problem, Strange?
Could you please open my site with Firefox 3 and see what I mean?
Plamen, i have opened your site in FireFox 3 and not see any problems.
Request Request Request
Hey anyone out here who has tried some good hand on this theme:
I want you to let me know as to what all editing should I do so that:
1) When I click on a particular category on the home page, I should get to a page which can show list all the articles ON THAT category on the left hand side of the 2 right side bars.
&
On the main content area ONLY ONE article from that category should appear.
2) On the same level 2 page of that clicked category, on the right side of the sidebar, the complete list of article directory can appear.
I can definitely achieve the above….all I request is to give me some tips and guidance.
Regards,
Rajul Kaushik
Hi,
anyone can help with this case:
How to make new posts to wait for moderation from admin?
I assign Author Role to new subscribers, is it correct?
What options should I change?
Plamen…You need Role Manager.
Hi
Im using your theme at my humoursite, but Id like to have the pics displayed on the categorypages, like they are on the frontpage, how do I do that?
thanks a lot, its an awesome theme 😀
Bingeling, in archive.php find the_excerpt() a and replace on the_content().
hello dmox. thanks for great themes.
i want to ask some questions.
i already put logo here
and i already change my css style:
#logo {
float: left;
color: #808080;
line-height: 0.85em;
font-size: 3.3em;
margin: 5px 0 5px;
padding: 9px 0 10px 78px;
background: url(i/indo-logo.jpg) no-repeat;
}
#logo span {
display: block;
font-size: 0.38em;
font-weight: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
but this logo not appear on my header. what should i do to resolve this problem?
may be you want to know my header file: is it need change to anything?
<a href=»»>
i am using WP 2.7 and article directry 1.5.
Thanks,
Chodirin.
Thanks for the support……but the tough thing is I also couldn’t control the admin panel well……I know I am doing something silly…..cause One of my friends owns http://www.contentwritingsolutions.com and his site and functions are working very smoothly as he told……But why not mine……is there any ebook that I could become eligible to fix my problems……..????
chodirin, your styles is works. I’ve saved your site home page and tested it — I not see a problem, logo appears.
tiherp, what is your problem?
Hi Dimox, firstly thanks for this theme and plugin, very much appreciated. I started playing with it a few days ago and I although I tried to not come and bother you for any guidance, ive stumbled into abit of a road block, also I think the solution for it will be simple sticks, i just cant find it right now -)
Ok so here goes.
The comments are not working. — I just can not seem to get the list of comments to display. the call to the comments is working, or at least partly, and the comments box is running ok, comments inputted are also being stored ok.
But alas the list is simply not present, I thought i may have to call to this seperately, wp_list_comments or something, but doesnt seem right, from reading up it seems to all be set up right to work, ive got a feeling im just missing a trigger somewhere. (cant find it in settings either).
Im using v 2.7.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Hey, ok scratch that request for help, turned out it was because I tried to place the related articles request inbetween. I do want the related articles to be directly under the story though, but havent yet explored it, bar this mistep, so will retrace and see how it goes, imagine it will be pretty simple right?
Hi again Dimox.
Im taking a shot in the dark here, because you havent introduced the fix onto this site, but alas ill divuldge, I have an issue with ordering posts by the sort by functions in the theme.
All is fine for the first page, but then working inline with page-navi, moving through to the 2nd, 3rd pages etc, will cause the ordering to filter back to its default (or chosen ordering $s2 = ‘ selected=»selected»‘; )
I guess we are refeshing the page and it caues it to jump back to its original order by mode.
I need to find a way to fix this, somehow the post ordering on page load needs to told to inherit the last chosen sort by option i.e oldest and continue with that path, I figure its less an issue with page-navi and more a case of adding some variables to the order by list/function.
Have you explored this previously? Is it a dreary road that im better off just avoiding?
Please let me know your thoughts…
So far I do not know how to do this.
Bugger.Ok fair enough, ill let you know if i get anywhere with it.
Love the theme!
We just installed this Article Directory themes, plugin and pagenavi, but we had a problem. The site not looks like this (articlesss.com).
Please advice us.
regards,
Esaul Daris
Owner’s.
Esaul Daris, because there is wrong html code in your posts.
Could you please be specificly?
Now, I have a new problem with the theme. My site not showing the categories like yours. Please advice me.
Looks like you have changed something in it. By default theme not looks so.
Hi. I have installed plugin and theme but i have got problems with theme i think. When i try to do search and if there are no search results than additional «search box» appears at right top on my page and not below «No results. Try different search». I’ve noticed that some websites have the same problem (but i think they didn’t notices this problem yet). I’m using the latest plugin and WP 2.7.1
John, this is my mistake. To resolve this bug in
searchform.phpfindsearchformand replace it on any another or delete.That solved the problem. Thank you a lot. I’m really pleased with the theme and the script so far. Great job. Do you accept donations (paypal)?
John, thanks.
I have nothing against, but paypal, unfortunately, is excluded (I’m from Russia).
I have got problem with log out at sidebar. It doesn’t redirect me to current url but to previous. If i just rollover mouse cursor and check url from log out button at the comment area and log out button at the control panel at sidebar there are not the same. Do you maybe know how to solve this problem? The next question i have is how to reduce words in Recent articles? The article summary is too long for me. How can i reduce it? Thanks in advance.
In
sidebar.phpfind this row:<li><a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url(get_permalink()); ?>">Logout</a></li>and replace
get_permalink()on$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'].Try to find a plugin which can do this. I don’t know such.
hi buddy,
i have accidentally uploaded wrong files and now my site home pages does not appear as article directory…. but i am able to login into my wp…
how to recitify this, how to get back my blog same as article directory layout.
regards
BRIAN
http://BrianAnan.com
Hi, Dimox
Would you mind to show me which part of the CSS file that i need to edit to include the background image to the site?
Example, your site at articlesss.com is using bg.gif as the background image.
So where can i include the background image?
Thanks a lot. 🙂
@Brian — reload the correct files.
@Raymond —
body {...
background: url(i/bg.gif);
}
Thank you very much for your reply, Dimox.
I really appreciate it. 🙂
Dimox — For some reason, the tag on this front page theme is only pulling the information from the blog name. What can be changed to have it pull the description also? I’ve tried many different combinations, but can’t seem to get it to work. The post pages are fine, they pull from the all in one SEO pack that I have installed. I’d just like to be able to SEO the front page more.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Kelly Ling
Previous post should have referenced the TITLE tag.
Thanks!
Kelly
The link for Fancy Excerpt is incorrect. Please change from:
http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-fixes/fancy-excerpt/
to
http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/fancy-excerpt/
Cheers
Stephen Spry
@Kelly Ling, I have no ideas.
@Stephen Spry, thanks, changed.
@Dimox — Thanks. I went ahead and hard coded what I needed into my theme.
Good Evening,
I just installed your theme and plug in, and it looks great.
I know that you don’t use Google Adsense, but is there anyway that you can set it up so we can? I’ve tried several different plugins and widgets, and nothing works.
Thanks for the help.
James
My theme have a problem with Internet Explorer 6 or 7. The right column display below the others. Go to my website with IE 6 or 7 and you will see that. Could you help me?
My website: http://viet-ebook.co.cc
@James A, it means you doing something incorrectly. There is many plugins. Try again.
@hoangxu, in source code find code like this:
<h2>Th?ng K?</h2><ul><li>Th?nh vi?n: 7976</li><div class="pfwidget"><li>Ebooks: 575</li><li>Comments: 279</li></div></ul>Here using of the
<div class="pfwidget">and</div>is not correct. If you will delete them, bug will be fixed.Hi Dimox,
I needed help with making changes to the color scheme of your most amazing theme. I will leave the credits and linkback to dimox.name as I always have, but I’d like to have a change in the color scheme. Needed some guidance on where I could change this. Couldn’t make out much from the stylesheet. Please advice.
-Anup
@Anup , you need to learn CSS for this. There are many of CSS manuals. I don’t give such an advice.
Dimox,
Yup, I’m on my way to getting closer to CSS. But all I’m looking for is for tips on where I could make adjustments to the current stylesheet for the bg, font and links color. I’ve adjusted themes before but I’m not proficient enough to edit the stylesheet you’ve made. I thought you’d help cause I saw you help out someone who wanted a logo placed in their header. Its cool 🙂 I’ll manage. Thanks though and totally love your theme.
-Anup
Hare Krishna Anup,
You may use a wordpress plugin called Theme Tweaker, you can change colors etc.
If everyting doesnt work out, you may email the author and have have him tweak the Theme Tweaker. He is very helpful.
Adsense Plugin:
The same author has a plugin called Easy Adsenser and it works great.
I personally, dont use a plugin for adsense, instead use adsense code directly, in the page, single.php
once before the
Content()
and after
that way it will not interfear with any of the other plugins.
Blog > Wp Content > Theme > single.php
I uploaded the theme and keep getting the message that the style sheet is missing. I uploaded it through a cpanel and unzipped it.
I am using the latest wp.
Thanks
Julie
Hi Dimox
First of all thank you for such a nice plugin.
I was playing around with it and i found that siddenly the extreme right column became blank:
exampe in this site th e»RSS links» and the «archive is on the extreme left column. But in my site, the «rss» is displaying on the bottom on the column, below the «authorisation» and the «recent articles» colum is
I even tried deleting the templates and uploading it but it is still the same.
please advise.
I want the RSS, archive and the Blogroll strictly on the extreme right column permanently.
rgds
jason
@Jason, there are wrong markup in your source code. You need to add
</div>before<h2>Popular Posts</h2>.Hi Dimox
Im not sure if i am understanding you right. Now i have removed all widgets except 2 on my page:
i think i have to edit the page: sidebar.php. Im not able to understand where i should add this code in the sidebar.php file to make everything below the RSS move move to the extreme right: Can you please elaborate:
example this is the code in that area:
RSS <a href=»»>RSS
Articles
Find in sidebar.php
Free for Signing up!</b></div>and insert after it this:</div>.Thank you Dimox, it is now resolved.
I would like to move the left sidebar to the first colum, the content to the second colum, and leave the right sidebar where it is, how can i do this?
Thanks.
It seem like in «theme» folder some code is missing in header.php files 🙁
can you please fix it and email it ?
That will be very thankful you too!!!
Dear all
I’ve uploaded a copy of WordPress 2.7 on my site, install without any problems but when i add Article Directory Plugin & Theme .
But when the division of sub-menus and did not show me the lists on the home page
Business:-
-Advertising
-Article Marketing
-Careers
-Customer Service
==================
Internet Marketing:-
-Affiliate Programs
-Article Marketing
-Blogging
-eBooks
-eCommerce
-Email Marketing
=================
Communications :-
-Broadband Internet
-GPS
-Mobile Phones
-Satellite Radio
-Satellite TV
-Video Conferencing
-VOIP
How do I show this as my home page Rhymes is here at the site
http://articlesss.com/
* How can i add Privacy Policy in my site ?
* How can i add Terms of Service ?
Please email me amr2fathey@gmail.com
I don’t understand what is the reason of that. It must be shown.
Pages → Add Newin admin area.awww dimox you dint replied mine one 🙁
please check this… am using your theme
http://bohora.com/whyhow/5-reasons-domain-flipping-89625/
see i am getting only titles there is no whole articles ???
whats going on ? whats the issue there ?
@sagbee, try to deactivate one by one all the plugins you have installed and check the result after each deactivation.
Thank you for a terrific theme and plugin —
I am having the same issue as another person with the sidebar and everything else getting pushed to the bottom of the page (I am on 2.7.1). The odd thing is it only happens if you actually click on a direct article to read all the text, it happens no where else in the theme. I have been trying to figure out why this is happening but cannot.
Here is an example of it working right:
http://my-article-directory.com/category/arts/arts-humor/
If I click on a story listed there, then it is not right:
http://my-article-directory.com/2009/04/25/how-to-get-that-gorgeous-winning-smile-for-cosmetic-dentistry/
I am sure it is something simple, but I cannot tell what is causing the sidebars to be pushed down.
Any input would be appreciated.
Thanks
Chris
@Chris — there is a wrong structure of a
<div>‘s in your single.php. Compare it with single.php from my original theme and you’ll see a difference.Ah, I found it. Thanks for the help, I copied that code from another theme I had and inserted it in there and messed it up. I just got the single.php original and then put the adsense php stuff back in correctly and it works now.
Thanks again for a great theme and the help,
Chris
Hi,
Thanks for the plugin and theme. You will see it in action on my Redding Businesses listing site. I have a question, though. I can’t seem to figure out how to get my pages in the Header NAV BAR, above the categories page (ie. HOME PRIVACY POLICY SUBMISSION GUIDELINES TERMS OF SERVICE). Can you help me? Thanks!
@Chris — you need to create these pages and then configure theme (read about this in article above).
Ha, I got that prior response, but it was a different Chris. Anyways, I have a general question. What php page is the Home link on that shows up on the main page with all the categories. Maybe I am an idiot but I cannot find it. I would like to add more menu links to other static pages.
In addition, perhaps you can look at the distribution of articles by parent category on my site (listed in website section). It tries to sort them into 3 columns but one of them extends super far down because the sub categories within one parent are unusually large. Is there a way to get it to balance out the distribution of parent categories so it looks more balanced? I know there are options to do this, but my fiddling with it has not produced anything worthwhile.
Thanks for any input
Chris
Is there a function to import an article (category) database?
This menu is in
header.php, secondwp_list_pages().If no one of sorting option does not provide the necessary balancing of categories list, unfortunately I can’t do anything.
Not fully understand your question. WordPress have an import function in admin area. May be this is what you want.
Hi Dimox,
Thanks for your theme. I really still do not understand how to ad logo beside the title. how i can change logo on style.css?
and my second question «when i want to show my banner title ( i made oh photoshop ) instead of my blog title that emerge on header how i do that (like this site http://share-book.com/) ?
thank. have do this on my style css but it won’t work properly my logo did not show .
#logo {
float: left;
color: #808080;
line-height: 0.85em;
font-size: 3.3em;
margin: 5px 0 5px;
padding: 9px 0 10px 78px;
background: url(i/indo-logo.jpg) no-repeat;
}
#logo span {
display: block;
font-size: 0.38em;
font-weight: normal;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
Hi. I have a good site with this plugin
but how lines I change my css( or header) to put a background image in header?
thnks
hi tips mega, my question is the same as yours
how can i change title in header with my image or how i can give image near the title in header thx
hi dimox,
how do i change or increase the width of the side bars.
i would like to insert 2 images of 125×125 ads images — side by side. please advice.
regards
Brian
http://briananan.com
hi dimox,
how do i increase the width of the two side bars (250 x 2)
regards
http://briananan.com
Hi there .. I have just downloaded your theme but I don’t see the «Register» Option for users anywhere. Can you please say me how do i go about it.
Hi again. Is there anyway we can add TDO Mini forms to your theme as I would want to collect the data using the form which would automatically be converted into post rather than sending the users to the admin panel.
You need to activate corresponding option in admin panel.
May be, but I have not tried this.
I have just downloaded your theme but I don’t see the “Register” Option for users anywhere.
you write into the addmin panel or into the register form and i dont see it
can you help me, more specific?
thank you
Hi — Fantastic plugin. Up and running great!
Quick question — How do I add pages such as ‘submission guidelines’ etc as you have on the front page if your directory?
Cheers
JohnnyC
@JohnnyC, using admin menu Pages -> Add New.
Thanks for the quick reply — All working now!
Cheers
JohnnyC
hi,
how hard would it be to move one of the sidebars to the left side, so it would be left sidebar, content, right sidebar? could you post it? thanks!
Hi Dimox,
Great job. Thank you very much. I have one question. Where in which css is the font color located? I would like to change the red to another color. I want the typical blue for links, and a different color for the rest of the red text.
Thanks so much,
Laura
Laura, in
style.cssseecolor:parameters.where do you put cube logo in css?
Could upgrade to the wp version 2.8.0x?
Thanks for the theme Dimox. I have just converted my site to an article directory. Your theme-plugin combo is really awesome. Here’s my site http://moneylinkreviews.org/.
I want to modify the meta data, specifically title of page for the User Profiles. Can this be done?
Hello there.
Where is link to download theme you use in articlesss.com
Sorry for my bad english….
Hello,
went I click Author don’t go to the Author page
Please can you tell me
Sorry for my bad english….
Hi Dimox,
Thank you for the great theme and plugin. I have install both theme and plugin. But I can’t found «Register» link at my site. Anything I can do about this?
Thank you,
Happylang
Happylang, because you have not activated corresponding option in admin area.
http://www.communityarticles.com
Seems as though my categories disappeared from my front page. All I was doing was Adding some more categories is this an error? Or is there a quick fix for this?
How can I change the width of the center column and the side bars without loosing content? (I tried to change it on style.css and part of the page desappeared)
Dan, can you reset plugin options to default and check is still categories disappeared?
That did the trick, I feel like a fool. When I was on the laptop that sensitive, annoying touch pad probably slicked something I didn’t want 😛
How do i get rid of the meta data???
Where can I redownload the article directory theme — the link on this site is broken.
I have it installed on a site, but some idiots tried an iframe hack on it (unsuccessful) and broke/erased part of the index.php file so I need to re download it.
chris, you can download it now, I have fixed error.
Hi Dimox
Thanks for the great article directory theme and plugin
this is really nice
I want to activate your plugin and theme in my directory site (currently active) with almost 800 articles now. Is it easy to migrate, while having my all current widgets and plugins.
I activated your plugin in my test site, but upon clicking author link at article – it is giving error.
Regards / NB
Hello,
We posted comments yesterday requesting for the followings:
a. author link is giving error at test site (http://www.prafulla.net). How to fix this.
b. Will your plugin and theme work well with our existing widgets. It is critical, as we want to shift to your plugin and theme. AND since site is live — can not really afford to mess it up.
regards / NB
You can:
1) change permalink structure (to not default);
or
2) replace this code:
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/author/<?php the_author_login(); ?>/"><?php the_author() ?></a>to this:
<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>in following 4 files: archive.php, category.php, search.php, single.php.
Must to work.
Hi
It fixed — many thanks.
Now one critical issue — If I activate this theme and plugin in my live site, is it easy to revert back to earlier one — should there be any problem? I mean — does it replace any files in wp-admin or else where, so that I need those files to be backed to restore back to older theme.
Just see iJyotish.com as live site and I do wish to shift to your theme / plugin; but want to exercise caution.
regards / NB
Is it possible to remove one of the column of the sidebar or bring it underneath the first sidebar.
I need a bigger content area (as you might see at iJyotish.com) — else migration of theme might distort the content graphics / layour. Alternatively, Is there alternative template for post page i.e. single?
regards / NB
Does not replace. Problem with the reverting back will not. But in any case I recommend to keep a backup copy of the site before the changes.
You need to find a web developer who make this for you.
Hi Dimox, is there any update for 2.8?
RvG, what you waiting for 2.8?
Dear Dimox,
Just wanted to thank you for this awesome plugin. I just changed my article directory using some buggy script to yours and it was a breeze to setup.
Thank you once again!
Daryl
Hi Bimox.
Your theme and plugin have solved a problem I have been working on for about 3 months now. I love it and thank you very very much.
I need to make one change to the category pages. How do you remove the subcategories from the categories pages.?
My categories are 3 levels deep and when I click on the top level see the subcategories for the second level, but this is not what I need.
I just want the categories for the second level with no subcategories.
PLease help me if you can. Thank you and great work.
Jay, if I understand you correctly, find this row in
category.phpfile:<?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&child_of='.$cat.'&hide_empty=0&title_li='); ?>and replace it with:
<?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&child_of='.$cat.'&hide_empty=0&title_li=&depth=1'); ?>Thank you! It works perfectly.
You have helped me greatly
Dimox, I’m loving the potential functionality that your plugin could bring my site, but I’m seeing the categories listed twice and I’m wondering how to remove the second instance. The list of categories appears both in the content of the page and also in the footer, but I’ve been unable to figure out why it’s loaded in the footer. Any help would be appreciated. (http://www.jackrabbitfactory.com)
I forgot to mention that the home page shows the list of categories below the footer (I need to remove that). The Articles page is the one I’m referring to, that has the Categories listed twice (http://www.jackrabbitfactory.com/?page_id=48). Also, on the articles page, when the second appears, the number of articles listed in parenthesis turns to «RSS» instead of the number.
Trevan, may be you have inserted plugin’s code in
footer.phpfile of your theme.Becouse you’ve inserted wrong code, read carefully about plugin installation.
Dimox, Thank you! Yes, I’m a noob. I found that I had inserted the code into the wrong index.php file (instead of inserting it into the index.php file that resides in the theme folder, I’d placed it in the index.php file at the root of the WP folder. Thanks for helping me figure that out! One more question: How can I change the category display width?
Just edit
width: 175px;parameter in thecategories.cssfile.Hi,
Thanks for the plugin and theme. I am new to WordPress and have read all the postings on the site and have not seen this addressed.
When I installed the plug in and theme, it shows this
http://www.directlinkarticles.com/archive
As you see, the categories are in Sidebar 1 instead of as shown on your site.
I installed an Adsense plugin, but it was the same with the default install so I know it is not a problem.
How do I get my site to look like yours…
Thanks for your time.
Darell
Thanks Dimox- That did the trick!
Hello again.
If you could, I would like to change the layout of the list of categories on the category page. Right now they is 1 column and I would like to make it 3 columns. For example
COLUMN 1 COLUMN 2 COLUMN 3
Finance Food Footware
Eyeware Movies Music
Please help me if you could as I have to have about 75 subcategories and 1 column is making it look real bad.
Thank you very much.
Darell, firstly theme you are using is not Article Directory Theme, secondly deactivate the «Categories» widget.
Jay, connect the
categories.css, as specified in the plugin installation instructions.hi,
is it possible to create a specific page without the columns… for example for the page «store» i just want a full page without columns, but for all other pages i need to have those columns…
Regards
Tim
Hi Dimoz,
Thanks for pointing out my error. I have corrected theme theme and all is well. I decided to use the AD Simple on some other sites…
The purpose of this post is to tell you how much I appreciate what you have given to me.
YOU ROCK!!!!!
hello Dimox,
i have created a new template «blank page» by deleting sidebar + footer, but how can i delete the vertical column lines ?
Tim
Remove this row from
style.cssfile:background: url(i/dots.gif) 550px 0 repeat-y;hi dimox,
but i just want to remove these lines for just 1 page, not for the whole theme… the idea is to have a plain page without the columns… i copied the default template and modified it (took out the get_sidebar and get_footer) but i can’t delete the sidebar empty columns with the lines…
Tim
Tim, you need to find a web developer who do this for you, or learn the CSS technology.
hi dimox,
can’t you do it for me ? i will pay for your work of course, since you know better your own script than anybody else. And i am sure there is very small thing to do, but as i am not developer at all…
Regards
Tim
CSS is quite easy to learn, Tim. I would love to do it for you but unfortunately I don’t really have time to do so. Nice theme by the way, Dimox.
How do I add menu to the theme. Like: «About», «contact» and the likes. I created pages but they ain’t showing on the menu.
Dboy, read carefully an article above.
I’ve edited the theme as instructed above, but nothing seems to be happening.
Hi Dimox, I have starter my own articles directory site using your theme and Article Directory plugin, but I don’t know how to put banner on the header like yours? I try to put but it will mass up the header. Can you guide me where tp put the code in? Thank you.
Why would anybody not want to help me here?
Thanks for the help & silence. Fixed it, I had to remove the include tag, and just left it to display all pages.
I actually have another question, but the support here is nothing to write home about, so I’ll start messing with the codes myself.
Thanks though for a great theme and plugin.
Got any ideas how I can export all my current articles from the AD site and import into WP?
Hi Dimox,
can I add custom logo to article directory theme Please help..
Thanks.
hi dimox,
how can i have the outside background (grey stripes) as yours ? i would also change to different other colors too..
Regards
Tim
Hi Dimox,
I would also like to humbly ask how you manged to place a banner in your header and move the search bar & button down.
Thanks in advance!
Daryl Lau
hi dimox,
another question also is, how can i just display for example a limited number of categories on the hompage. Because i have sites with alot of categories and i want only show the most active ones where there are latest posts in it.
Thanks
Tim
Also use an option “Comma separated IDs of categories, which should be excluded”. Only way.
I also do not have the «register option» showing up on my install. I notice that this blog does not have the register option under the login — only «Lost Your Password?» How do I get new people to register and add articles?
David, activate the ‘Membership’ option on ‘General Settings’ page.
Great theme and plugin. I too would like to know how to move the search bar down in the navi bar as it is on this site.
Hi Dimox,
I need to add custom logo to my site before site name How can I do it?
Hi where would i find my directory on my website is it in a sub folder? where is it usually?
any help is appreciated thank you
Steve, your question is not clear.
Hi, how can i add extra pages to the info bar next to home page link?
Theme download doesn’t work 🙁
It comes up with a page full or php errors and gibberish underneath!
Andrew Hook, read article above.
Get the Snip, try again.
Hi,
How can I add a privacy policy, etrms of service to stick on the front page. Sorry, but I don’t know how to do it.
I followed directions but i must have missed something when i install it give me this message
Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/beaver/public_html/wp-includes/theme.php on line 180
any idea what i forgot to do
Bob W, sorry, I can not imagine why this.
Dimox — This theme is the bomb!
I have written a post about setting up my article directory at http://fishingnihon.com/how-to-set-up-a-multi-user-wordpress-article-directory
For the guys having issues it might be worth checking out.
@Andrew Hook — My post explains how to edit the header.php file.
Word.
thanks for your help…I have doing for using this theme 🙂
hi, I am a user of adsimple 1.2.1. Thank you for developing this simple but beautiful theme. But it is not compatible with firefox. The format in firefox is wrong.
My firefox version:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Please correct this bug~
I have to use adsimple, it’s the theme I love most in so many ones I’ve even seen.
dimox,
in order to get the plugin to work with a different theme, which files are mandatory to copy? category.php I IMAGINE IS ONE? THANKS!
manio, you are using an outdated version of FireFox, it does not support HTML5. I recommend you to upgrade your browser.
james, the plugin is independent from the theme.
Thank you very much for your reply. I like your style~
dimox,
on my single post pages, i am not seeing the category tree; for example if i was using
Home » Internet Business » Blogging » , on your site all posts under «blogging» show the category tree Home » Internet Business » Blogging » , but on my site, once i get to the individual post the category tree is not there. i assume there is a snippet of code that may be missing from the single.php file?
james, I have not included this tree in Article Directory Theme, this made only on the current site.
Snippet of code looks like this — http://dumpz.org/15972/
Thanks Dimox. Worked like a charm!
Hey D,
I have been using your outstanding theme and plugin for over a year now. I am now ready to move to a new theme, but I do not want to lose my categories and article/author statistics. What do I have to do to keep the statistics and categories on a new theme? I searched some of the posts, but could not find the answer.
I thank you in advance for your response.
Chris
APlus, preservation of data in WordPress does not depend on a theme you are using.
Hey D,
Perhaps I was not clear in my explanation. I apologize. I would like to have the categories with number count show on my new template. Any ideas?
Thanks 🙂
APlus, I not see a problems, plugin have a corresponding options.
Hi Dimox,
at first, thanks for the great plugin and theme. the question is: I’m trying to put an adsense 728×90 below the header, but its not showing correctly. Please how can I put down the left sidebar to make it ok?
please, visit my website http://www.murall.com.br and you’ll understand better
(my site and me are brazilians, sorry for my bad english)
any help will be so good! tnks
Awesome theme. I am looking for a way to display subcategories (modified categories.php) just like the main categories table on the Main Index (rather than the ul-class of «child-categories») .
Anyone have any ideas?
Hey congrats, y edited the template… im working right now on it… you can see the template?
Hi, I installed the plugin but not the theme. Very helpful thank you! Do you know any easy way of editing the internal section so it looks less wordpress-ish?
Ezineshopper, sorry, i don’t know.
Hello,
Your Theme and plugin is cool. Thank you so much.
My trouble is I can’t remove the «Management» from my sidebar
My website is http://www.topbestnow.com
How can I remove it?
Mike, code of this block is in sidebar.php file.
From this:
<?php if (!current_user_can('level_0')) { ?>to this:
</ul>
</div>
<?php } ?>
Hey, i have installed everything and fixed the header but i still cant get the pages to show
.. i have created another 2 more pages but only the contact us shows..
here is my website : http://www.five-star.co.il
i have changed the line to this:
title_li=&include=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
need help 🙂
hi, Just ask you what plugin for your widget ‘Recent Articles’. Using default ‘Recent Post’ in WordPress, I can only get a title. Is that integrated in your theme? I tried in my site, but it does not.
5star, sorry, I can’t understand the reason of that.
QuantMinds, it’s not a widget, I’m using this snippet.
would looking at the code help u to help me ?
i have no problem giving you access
Thank you all for the wonderful discussion, questions. I’ve build myself a very good article directory using some of the customizations found within the comments.
I would like to add a blog category where I’m the only one that can post to it. Or add a blog. Can you help, Dimox? Also, would you like to
I think, there is a plugin, which allow to do this.
It is possible to build into the template front-end WYSIWYG editor that authors of articles do not have to enter the administration interface? Can you teach me? Thank you.
Hi, Please refer my website. I tried to add an navigation plugin in your theme, showing page 1,2…n sort of stuff.
When I selected category, or tag, it is fine. But on the frontpage, it is always showing the first three articles regardless the page number.
I use WP-pageNAVI plugin
the frontpage code is as follows, the last line is what the plugin needed on frontpage. Any thoughts?
Recent Articles
<a href="» rel=»bookmark»>
@
Hi, Thanks for helping me out last time. A quick one, I put your code on the mainindex to get ‘recent post’ with exerpt instead of just one title, however, I also use a WP-pagenavi plugin to add «page 1-n,1,2, ….n» at the bottom (please refer to my website).
The code that I add in main index.php is as it is show on http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-pagenavi.html
It looks like it does not work on my front page since it is only show the first 3 articles no matter which page number you choose. Any thoughts?
Thanks for this! I have a question, why does a little gray dotted border appear around the sidebars and the top nav? I’ve been tweaking the theme but I just can’t remove this little border that is not stated anywhere in the CSS.
Sorry, you had already answered this question, but I hadn’t seen it. The little dots are declared in background: url(i/dots.gif). Problem solved.
Hi, I have just noticed that the link to the author page is not working on my theme. I get a 404 «Not found error». I am testing this on WAMP Server with WordPress 2.9.1. Any ideas why this is happening? Could it be some PHP module that needs to be installed on WAMP?
Darius, most likely you are using a default permalink template. Use this:
/%postname%/.Yeah, that solved it! Thanks!!!
Hi, wouldn’t it be useful to offer RSS for the articles of each author in his profile? How could this be implemented?
Lists of “pages” are available at two locations in header of page. To mutual exclusion repeated pages you must find in two places of the header.php file the code like this:
and specify in the include option comma-separated list identifiers pages you wish to include into the list.
can you guide me regarding this.. thanks.. 🙂
i have installed the wordpress script
http://www.legalservices.co.in/wordpress
but i could not install your theme can you do it for me i want it look and feel like this website
i am seeking professional service and i will pay for your service.
regards
tarun
What is the complexity?
can this plugin and templates work with wp-dtree?
As soon as I enabled the Article Directory plugin, I got a list of errors at the top of my page like this:
Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /home/linkches/public_html/contentsource6590778/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 2056
Warning: join() [function.join]: Invalid arguments passed in /home/linkches/public_html/contentsource6590778/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 2056
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/linkches/public_html/contentsource6590778/wp-includes/taxonomy.php on line 2063
Any thoughts on why this may be happening? I appreciate any help!
Mike, sorry, I don’t know the reason of that, may be it conflicting with other plugins.
Hello,
I would like to add a 468 x 60 banner ad to the right side of my header and move the search box down to make room for the banner as shown at http://articlesss.com.
I am using the Article Directory Theme and my website address is http://ezinearticlestar.com.
Can you please tell me what code I need to put in the header and/or the stylesheet to add the banner?
In addition, how do I move the search box down to the right even with the tabs as shown at articlesss.com?
Thank you,
Sandy
hi Dimox,
I am now using ADSimple.
I encounter a problem that all the widgets of the third sidebar (which I mean I set them to display in the third sidebar) are displayed in the second sidebar, in IE6.0. But in the latest Chrome and Firefox, I have no such a problem.
What is weird is that with IE6.0 I can view the demo of ADSimple with right format. For example, the page (http://freegplthemes.com/demo/adsimple/) is displayed rightly.
Could you tell me where the problem is and how to fix it?
Thank you for your nice theme~
Sandy L Murray, read this.
manio, I don’t know where is the problem, I not see the difference between the result in IE6 and any other browser.
visit my blog (http://manio.org) with IE6.0, and you’ll find that the rightest sidebard is empty. This is the problem.
hi dimox, I’ve found the reason. it’s the third party javascript that break the format.
this javascript displays a table with several images in it.
Thank you all the same. and thank you for your nice theme.
Hey Dimox,
thank you for the brilliant theme and plugin.
I have a quick question, I am trying to move the nav bar that has «Home — Privacy Policy — Submission Guidelines — Terms of Service ect….» that is below the logo, I am trying to move it to the right, is there any way you could shed some light on what I would need to change in the css to get it done, I’ve been playing around with it but have had no luck.
(P.s. If you look at my email, you will be able to see the domain I am using)
Regards,
Jason
Hi,
I was just wondering how you add a background the same way it has been done here?
thanks
Jason,
Place your background image file in the i folder and edit your css to be
background: #xxxxxx url(i/xxx.xxx); where xxx.xxx is the image file
Just found a problem. When I do a search on the search form on my article directory, I get redirected to this site. How do I fix this? I know its probably something in the search.php but what?
Niche Volumes, check the code of search form in header.php. There for some reason a link to this site.
Thanks. That was the problem. I got it fixed.
Hi Dimox,
Thank you for the wonderful theme and plugin. Its awesome.
I am having problems though with the permalink settings. tried to set it with %postname% and had changed my htaccess file, the url goes to the correct page but i get a 404 message when displaying the post.
I had All in one SEO plugin installed but disabling it does not solve the problem.
Any idea why this is happening to my site? Really wanted to change my permalink fr seo purposes.
Thanks for your reply.
site: http://pinoypen.com
well can’t this plugin work with any other theme.I mean will it work with a customized theme of my own
Hi Dimox
I need to insert logo my site like your one how can I do it please help My site :
http://www.agroarticles.info/en/
Dimox, Is there a piece of code I could add to the post page that will force people to add tags (keywords) to their post?
Gary, no, but you can delete them on «Posts -> Post Tags» page.
Hi,
A couple of questions if I may;
1) I have thousands of articles to upload is there a way to automate the process of preparing & uploading them ?
2) Using your plugin & theme, is there a way to have a free & a premium part of the site?
3) is there a way to have other sites use my articles directory either free or paid via a plugin & can you suggest such a plugin please?
Thanks
You need to find a service or a program, which can convert your articles in XML format. WordPress has an «Import from RSS» feature.
2), 3) — no.
Would it be OK to use the cube graphic that’s shown before the title in the header?
And if so, how would I incorporate this — by editing style.css?
I would also like to incorporate a banner as shown above.
thanks for your help
Tom
Thanks a Lot for this excellent theme and plugin! They are very useful to me!
Hi Dimox,
How do you set the post excerpts in a category to show in a list like in articlesss.com?
I only get one post excerpt showing then <<older entries
Thanks for your help
Rich Thorne, you’ll find an answer here — http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt
Hello,
Good theme, but it would be nice to create a submit page with a form to send the new articles without having to use wordpress wp-admin.
I agree with Miguel.
You can easily create a premium edition of this plugin with all the mods that people suggested.
Anyway, to my question: I keep getting a 404 message on any category page that doesn’t have a post designated to it yet.
You know anyway to solve this?
Thanks
This is standard behavior of WordPress — if category doesn’t have a post, it displays 404 error.
Hi Dimox,
is there any way to prevent it? or to display categories even if they’re empty and to show there the sub categories?
Thanks
In this theme I already made this, but I don’t know why you get 404 error.
Thanks for this theme and plugin. it is really good..
hi, great theme. I wonder how you decorate the font of your blog title. Looks like a shadow and line height was included. I am quite familar with css. Here is a guy who is using ur theme but made a minor change as well. If you can tell me how to do it in style.css, I really appreciate.
http://www.businessfinancemag.co.cc/about
For everyone wondering how to get the background and lines around the article directory i have created a .txt file with the code you will need. You can download it for free at http://www.avavo.tk/article-directory.html
I simply did some changes to the Body and Wrapper. Hope it helps!
Owner of FullArticles.tk
Here is an example of how it looks when you change your style.css code with my code: http://www.comuler.comule.com (It’s just a test site)
Great theme so how about starting a thread to show off some sites that are made based upon this wonderful design. I’ll start with mine at http://www.dailydealwebsites.com and I’d love to see what others have done with the theme and the plugin!
Hi, Mike
Your website looks great using Chrome and Firefox. but not adaptable with IE, i am using 7.0.
Btw, welcome to my site, i am using this theme for a while — great experience.
http://www.quantminds.com
QM
Thanks Quant, I appreciate the feedback. It is just css related issues you see on my site? I’ve been making some changes but I’ve yet to do cb testing. I’ve got Safari and FF, no IEs. Oh well. Its all in fun.
As far as your site I liked seeing what else can be done (I like the slider, flags etc……. ). Great job and thanks for the link and thoughts.
Ok
I have been trying to figure out how to increase width of sidebar one of my site:
ataarticles.com
by referring to the css template here:
http://www.ataarticles.com/wp-conten…tory/style.css
When i try to increase the sidebar, it increases but the light grey vertical line which divides sidebar one and two does not change. I moved all sidebar 2 content onto sidebar 1, hence sidebar 2 is blank so that i can remove it
Which code in the sidebar section needs changing so that the grey vertical line increases along with the text.
Thanks.
/* Sidebars
——————————————————————————*/
#sidebars {
float: left;
width: 440px;
font-size: 11px;
line-height: 17px;
}
* html #sidebars {height: 1%;}
#sidebars:after {
content: ‘.’;
display: block;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
height: 0;
}
#l-sidebar {
float: left;
width: 210px;
padding: 0 10px;
}
#r-sidebar {
float: left;
width: 180px;
padding: 0 0 0 10px;
}
Also, why is it that although i have used the same code as this article directory (besides the colour) the template seems slightly different. For example, the search button does not touch the side background on this site, yet the search button on my site ataarticles actually touches the right side.
background: #BDEDFF;
border: 0px;
color: white;
cursor: pointer;
font-weight: bold !important;
height: 24px;
overflow: visible;
padding: 2px 7px;
Another point is the categories container, it is slightly more to the right compared to my site, although they css, categories and other templates have the same code.
Hi Guys,
How can I add a ‘Next Page’ link to the category pages?
If I have more than 10 articles in a category, the remaining are not displayed at all.
Thanks
David, you have to install the WP-PageNavi plugin.
I’d appreciate an answer to my query. Even if you don’t know, a reply is common courtesy since you answered David’s question.
Thanks Dimox! 🙂
Ata, sorry, I have no time to answer to such a questions.
That’s fine. I assume since it is related to ‘this’ theme, it would be relevant.
The next option is wordpress forum.
Hello Guys and Dimox.
Got a quick question with this plugin and theme. I;ve been looking around and I’ve found quite a few Article scripts and so far I’m drawn to only 2 out there. But I need to know few things before I make up my mind. Like most articles directories out there, Does anybody if this one offers the opportunity for the HTML code of an article to be copied so that it can be placed or posted on another site and still maintaining all links, and also how easy is it to submit this scripts to articles publishers directories.
THanks
My plugin has this feature.
Sorry, could not understand.
Ok, any idea when the new theme ADSimple will be compatible with WordPress 3.0 as i cannot install it yet?
Ata, I’m not planning.
Thank You very much for quick response.The second question is not really a major concern,
So i understand to that, to use this Theme «Adsimple» and have the design like your site, i Must not use WordPress 3.0 as its not compatible yet?
I would like to know so i dont upgrade my WordPress.
Thank you very much
ADSimple works with WordPress 3.0.
Thanks Dimox, I have downloaded and Used AD pluging and AD theme but i have not used the ADsimple.. Site looks okay, is the ADsimple meant to do anything different?
Thanks again
Hi Alex I cant seem to find the file. Can you please repost? Thanks
Samuel, ADsimple it’s just a theme for a blog.
Oh lol..
Here is My gratitude for a very nice and simple to use plugin and template.
I have no issues at all and it’s been very straightforward.
Here is test look at the site HERE
As i said earlier i did not use the «adsimple» and i love it!
Thanks Lemme know if there is anything i have not done properly and i will change it.
Thanks again
Ok i have got a quick question guys. I am able to move the search button down in to the Top menu bar. But once i move it into there,its impossible to type into the search box to search. Can someone please advice where i need to adjust after adjusting the search box into the top menu bar to make it clickable again.
Thanks
Here is what i have been up to on my site about a week old Dimox. I have found a way round the search box and header,it took me a while but got around it. I changed the Recent posts to display excerpts, changed colour.. Im quite happy for a guy that knows absolutely nothing about coding, you have made a Theme and Plugin that is quite easy to manage.. Thanks again mate
You Can See My Site In Action Here
Can anyone tell me how to change the background on this theme please? I’m new to CSS!
A quick question on the sidebar.php
Although my site works well on this theme, but I never activiate the following stuff in sidebar from day1 I use this theme, as introduced in the theme’s sidebar.php;
1. Recent Articles; 2. RSS; 3. Archive by Month; 4. blogroll
I add other widgets to get those stuff done!
I thought the dynamic sidebar is activated right, but sth got be wrong. I upgraded from 2.92 and now I am using WP 3.0;
Thanks for clarification.
e.g.,
»
Recent Articles…..»
do you have any demo of the theme,
it would be nice to see how it looks before downloading
This site is the demo.
HI Dimox.. I need some help and advice please. I noticed something on the Template that when you click on the Author’s name in a post, it takes you to the Authors page.But that only works if the author has the same name as the alias for example Author name: John Smith UserID: Johnsmith, or Author name: Linda Carol Userid: lindacarol
If the user id is not the same as the name it says not found as in Linda Carol as authors name and user id maybe LindaC..
Is there a way to change the code so that it searches for the author by name and not be User ID pls?
Thanks.
Samuel, strange, I not see such a problem and I can’t reproduce it.
Thanks for swift reply as always Dimox.
Take a look at this post
http://www.articletopia.net/in-home-plumbing-a-re-piping-job-is-to-be-taken-very-seriously/
Try clicking the Author’s name, it says not found. This is because it is searching for author USer ID. If there is a way to search for Author names instead of user ID in code i think it will fix problem, im not sure how to do it as i dont know php 🙁
But from what i noticed, the Author’s name links point to the Authors user id and not name.
Hope my explanation helps
Thanks a Million again
Samuel, try to replace the following code:
<a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/author/<?php the_author_login(); ?>/"><?php the_author() ?></a>on this code:
<?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>in these files:
archive.php
category.php
search.php
single.php
Dimox, You are a Genius!
Works perfect now.
Thank you very much 🙂
Hi,
I’ve problem with the theme. i’ve noticed that in the home page in the welcome message section welcome message is shown like this
Мы рады приветствовать Вас в элитном каталоге статей Article Snack, на страницах которого собрана интересная и полезная информация на самые популярные темы.
В настоящее время в каталоге содержится 319 статей и зарегистрировано 5 авторов.
And in the widget User Registration & Login Section also same problem
Could please help me how to convert those sections in to english.
Thanks in Advance…!
Snacker, download theme from this page.
How to I place the search bar from the top of the header into the navigation bar like this site shows?
Thanks
Vince
Hi Dimox,
I’ve already studied the FAQ’s but haven’t found what I was looking for.
I just want to know what do I have to do to translate the user frontend / the theme into gernan language?
Thank you!
Regards
Horst
Horst, for translating the plugin use article-directory.pot file, which is in plugin’s folder.
For translating the theme just translate text in all php files in theme folder.
Sorry im new in blogging, but, is the theme used here? articleee.com
its powered by wp too i guess?
I feel so silly asking this. I can not get rid of the uncategorized off of the home page. I have no articles with that category checked and I deleted the original welcome post.
any help would be great! Thanks
trevor, just rename or delete it.
Firstly, cracking theme and plugins.
Secondly, I havent set up sub categories in each individual category. Is there anyway that I can remove the «No Categories» message under each category? Or do I at least have to add 1 sub-category to do this?
Cheers in advance for the help.
See plugin options page.
Omg, I did think I’d seen it somewhere and swear I looked through there a few times. Times to get the ol eyes tested me thinks. Cheers
Admin panel, right side near bottom, Article Directory and you will find it.
Sorry Joe, I don’t know my right from my left today. Look on the left side of the admin panel.
Hi — your theme and plugin are so amazing — thanks!!
I was wondering why my subcategories don’t show up anywhere except when posting an article — can’t figure out how to get them showing up on the front page and each top category page… I checked through your Q&As, but can’t find this addressed…
Thanks
Joy, try to deactivate the option
Exclude the child categories articles from the parent categories pages?I tried it, but it’s still not working (it was already set to «no») but I can’t find any other way to fix it… 🙁
Joy, look to see what your «Hide empty categories» option is set to.
It is set to «No»…. I wonder what I did wrong….
It is currently set to «no», and I have tried to deactivate the plug in and reactivate it, but it just shows «no categories» beneath each top level category still. I know the sub categories are there, because they show up when posting an article…
Is it compatible with WordPress 3?
It seems to be easier to manage an article directory with WordPress than other CMSs
JT, in general, yes, but doesn’t work several options related to admin area.
is there only avaible 1 theme only???
Yes, only one.
Dimox,
I have installed your theme and plugin and tried to register as an author. The email it sent me provided the user name but no password. Do you know what is wrong.
Joe, sorry, I don’t know.
Dimox,
I figured it out. The email sent to me as an administrator had no password which is the way it should be. the email sent to me as an author had user name & password. Everything is fine!
Dimox, what code can I use to link to other pages of articles and comments? 1 2 3 4… like you have below. The way it is set up now will hold 25 comments but if there are 50 comments, there is no way to go on to the next page.
Awesome theme by the way, I like the new colors and layout.
There is a pagination plugins for that.
New theme is awesome!
Welldone mate
Thanks for developing such a nice theme. How can download the theme you are using here?
Sorry, this not possible.
how to make the category list .. like u have . i mean with commas for sub category, under the parent. How u do it ? .
I’m using this code.
Hi, the upgrade looks great.
When I updated the theme everything got shifted around and my site now looks terrible. I have tried everything — starting from over, installing, deactivating all plugins a number of times but I still can’t get the theme to look right — please see what i mean here southafricanarticledirectory.co.za
Do you have any ideas what could be wrong?
I’m seeing there the default theme.
check now, I am trying to fix it
Now I see it. This problem is only in IE. This version of theme contain HTML5 tags and there connected this script — http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js But for some reason script is unavailable now.
I seriously thought I had the same problem, but I shut off the theme (activated the default), and then RE-FTP’d everything again, and it was fixed «auto-magically». Maybe just clean everything out and try again. I think my first ftp must have had errors I did not notice.
Sorry if this doesn’t help.
thank u .
Hi,
I installed new version of this theme but after installation I can see earlier version. Could you pls help me?
Most likely you doing something wrong.
So I have been attempting to get the article directory to work with a different theme. There is one area that I am stuck on and that is getting the «Authorization» & «Management» boxes to show up in my sidebar.
I am trying to add the .php code that I copied from the sidebar.php file that displays these sections in your theme into a widget. I am running the exec-php plugin to allow .php code in widgets but for the life of me cannot get it to work.
Any help getting this to work is greatly appreciated.
My site is http://www.lopso.com
Paste this code directly in sidebar.php, not through widget.
Hi Dimox and Rellek .. I’ve got the same problem and don’t know where to put the .php login code.
How were you able to fix it in please Rellek, i’ve tried all avenues.
Thanks
Site can be found here
Fixed it!
Thanks
Hey,
Is there any way to «Nofollow» all category links on the front page. I’ve downloaded a few nofollow plugins,and it nofollow’s the sub-category links but none are able to get the Main category links.
I’d actually, just like to nofollow every link on the front page.
I’d pay for a special update to the theme that can no follow everything, or at least the category links.
Thanks
Find the following piece of code 2 times in article-directory.php file:
<li id="cat-'. $catcount .'"><div><a href="and replace there
a hrefona rel="nofollow" href.It worked! You’re a brilliant man!! Thanks so much.
I encourage everyone to donate, this guy goes above and beyond for Nothing. This is an amazing plugin and theme. I for one will be rewarding him!
You are welcome! Very nice to read such a comments.
Hey Dimox,
I’m not sure if this is an theme or plugin question, but When a user is already logged in, there is a «Login» link at the top and when you click it , the page says:[theme-my-login-page] .. is this normal?
I don’t know what is this.
This is an answer for Nicky. Your issue is that you have the plugin theme-my-login-page installed. You need to deactivate it if you don’t want to use it or remove one of the login page menu from the nav bar.
Thanks Kenai! I figured that out shortly after I wrote that. I felt real dumb lol.
Thanks for the great job u’re doing here. I was just wondering if you can create a support for this project. I feel that’ll make management of comment and upgrade better and creating a community around this will give it a life of it own. Thanks
I don’t use a cell phone except for emergencies. How can I get the new, updated theme.
Kelly
What themes can we use beside this original one. Is there a list or links to other themes?
You can use any themes.
No, only this one.
I don’t get it.
First you say «you can use any theme» and then » No, only this one».
So what is your answer. Because I have use two different themes and no one worked.
I mean, that I offer only one theme. But you can make other theme by analogy, taking the desired functionality from Article Directory Theme.
What do you specifically mean by «no one worked»?
New articlesss.com main theme looks great, any chance we can get this theme for our websites?
Btw, you’re a genius to create this plugin and theme. excellent stuff man.
Thanks.
Sorry, but not.
There seems to be an issue with comments overlapping other text. I’m using Firefox. Here’s an example:
http://ezineblogs.com/2010/09/13-steps-to-successful-blogging/
hello Dimox
But this green, yellow and blue awesome theme, where i can download it?
I can pay for it…..
Sorry, I will not share it and will not sell.
Please Dimox, i have add your contact to Skype, please accept my invite…
see you soon
You can see in my site that i have add featured to the theme and now i see that you have add same featured to this new theme!!! Please contact me in private, i like buy this blue,green, yellowe theme (or other colors)!!!
Dimox please accept me on Skype «Stefano»
Bye
I did a new translation file.
What file do I edit in order to make the theme point to it?
You can find all info in WordPress Codex.
Hi how i can add two block in the theme same articless?
First block uo, with Categories listing and sidebar
Secondo block with last articles on two column
I have try do it but the sidebar move in bottom of the page, can you help me?
BYe
Hi Dimox
in my theme the reply button in comment page not show…why?
Thanks
I can help you
Because you have not activated the threaded comments in WordPress options.
It is an improved version of one of my latest wordpress themes.. Thanks
Hi!
I have problems with the TINY MCE Editor and the design looks bad if I’m not logged in 🙁
Hi! The bad look from the design is solved. I found some files from old cache that wasn’t deleted.
The problem with Tiny MCE editor continues…
Tiny MCE editor is shown only for logged in users.
Hi Dimox,
I have an user registered too and I have the same problem. Please see:
http://yfrog.com/5lcaptura01p
http://yfrog.com/necaptura02p
Hi, Why don’t the page menues show up?
Hi there,
what do you think about french translate (.po & .mo file) for free. Please, let me know.
Sincerely,
Jean Michel
You can publish it on your own website.
I have a problem with the authors profiles.
The author profile URL is setting to the first name and last name the people have used in their profile rather than their «username» or «display name publically as name».
What would I be doing wrong to cause this?
Thanks (URl is under my name so you can see what I mean)
Actually I mean the url’s for their profiles are set to their real name rather than user name or display name publically as name.
Do you know how to make the URL’s use something differnt than the persons name fields. Maybe the username instead?
Thanks
I don’t see this on your site.
Thnx for this great theme… am gona try it later on today. Google loves wordpress and wordpress with an article theme is gona be indexed fast…. cheers mate.
Much respect & thanks to you Dimox. I’ve been thinking about an article directory site for over a year now. Well I started with a new WP acct. I downloaded the Article Directory plugin easily & activated it, but I’m having no luck with the Article Directory Theme plugin. The WP Plugin results page returns this message:
Install Failed
Article DirecDestination folder already exists. /home/content/57/6642257/html/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/tory Theme
Please help me Dimox, People have been laughing at me because I’ve been talking about building my own article directory for almost a year now, I got to get this baby up and running.
Please give my some help with this.
Thanks Buddy
Sheppard
P.S. — Even without thw ADTheme plugin installed, should the Article Directory’s categories appear on my homepage already?
The message saying, what «Destination folder already exists». What do you don’t understand?
Yes, if you followed the installation instructions.
The Article Directory Theme plugin is not listed on the plugin page at all. (The Article Directory plugin & Post Corecttor pligin are listed.)
I think the problem is the field for the I.D. of author panel page, I have no idea where to get the required info. for this field. I’m searching for the answer. Maybe once I find what to put in this field my categories and the theme will show up on my homepage. Any tips on finding the I.D. of author panet page will be appreciated.
Thanks
Cancel the last post.
Sorry, just found the answer at the top of this page.
Thanks for the help.
PLEASE HELP ME!
I’ve been reading the WP support boards and it seem lots of people get the message I’ve been getting concerning various plugins.
Unpacking the package…
Installing the plugin…
Destination folder already exists. /home/content/57/6642257/html/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/
Plugin install failed.
I have followed the advice on the support boards of going to my hosting company (Go Daddy) and deleting the plugin files. Then downloading the plugins again and installing them. No problem there.
MY PROBLEM IS: I can successfully install the Article Directory OR the Article Directory Themes plugin BUT NOT HAVE BOTH SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED AT THE SAME TIME.. I delete one via my hosting comapany and I can install the other. But both can’t be installed at the same time.
When I did successfully install the Article Directory Themes plugin, it did NOT SHOW in the listings in the WP plugin page. Why?
MY QUESTION IS: How can I successfully install BOTH the Article Directory & the Article Directory Themes?
I just upgraded my Article Directory to version 1.1, My homepage still shows no categories at all.
The Post Corrector plugin is installed, no problem with that.
Please somebody help my get this up so I can start customizing and posting to my site.
Thank you very much.
There is no such a plugin like «Article Directory Themes», as you wrote. There is the plugin «Article Directory» and theme «Article Directory». Plugin must be placed in
/wp-content/plugins/folder, but theme must be placed in/wp-content/themes/folder.Forget it. I really tried & followed the directions but its still not working.
I’ll have to go find another plugin for my article site or hire somebody to install this plugin for me.
Thanks
@ Sheppard. This plugin is awesome. You will not find another one like this. If you are not able to install, you ask for my help.
I would love some help on this.
Are you associated the creator of this plugin?
I have the Article Directory & Post Corrector successfully installed.
My problem is I can’t find the file/code for the AD themes, yes I looked in the host file WP/content. So far no categories are listed on my homepage.
Once I do that I’ll be able to customize & post to my site myself.
Please contact me at ByGollyArticles@Gmail.com
Sheppard
I keep trying to download the theme, but the .zip file is 0kb. Am I missing something? I didn’t put anything is the ‘pay’ box, and it said to download for free. I’ve tried in FireFox and IE.
Fixed. Try now.
Gosh I love the plugin! Trying my best to create themes for it.
Have all figured out except the author panel. It appears fine on all themes I create using the install instructions. But…
The gray bar with the visual / html tabs span 100% of the theme page. This pushes all the sidebars down below the post area.
Have looked at the provided theme and just cannot figure out how to control the width in the author-panel.php. In css I am assuming. Please help so I can make some new themes.
Thank you,
Susan
Sorry, meant to give a URL for reference Click
Not a real working theme, just want to show my problem. This happens on all themes I have downloaded or created.
Thanks again,
Susan
You have to use
<div id="content"></div>container in the page template, as it made in template of the homepage of your site. This will fix the problem.Thank you for the fast response.
I am not clear on where you say to use ?
Tried in the author-panel.php, but of course got a unexpected > error. Could you tell me what page template to use in.
Susan
I mean the page.php file of you theme.
Thought page.php is were you meant. Already had it like:
Have even had people trying to make work on WordPress forum with no luck. Oh well, least I tried to make themes.
Thanks again,
Susan
so is there a way to upload images to server from post editor, or even add images NOT in html view..
and how to make html view NOT default. ?
Sorry, not possible.
This will be done as option in next version of the plugin.
Hello, is there a way to show autho url link in the autohrs posts bottoms ?
*in the bottom of the post. (like info about the author)
You can use this code.
yeah i tried to put it in single.php (your theme) but it does not show up..
and when tne new version of plugin will be released?
Here’s a working method:
<a href="<?php the_author_meta('user_url'); ?>"><?php the_author_meta('user_url'); ?></a>When I will find a time.
one minor bug, if the user does not fill his website, the name «WEBSITE» still shows above the post, but withought a link…
I have not such a bug.
@rere Yes it is possible to show that
Hey man
I tried to download it without paying and… it works !
Thanks a lot : I’ll give a try, if I am satisfied with the results I’ll come back here and pay for it.
Thank you everything works, now waiting for new version. 🙂
thanx very much
sorry, everything works.
ohh, sorry again, the previuos problem still appears.
Thank you for Great Theme.
Just want to make a question.
How to translate this Theme, for example to Spanish?
Thanit
Theme contain the .pot file. You can use it for translation. More info about translating you can find in WordPress Codex.
Hello, i want to ask you , where to edit recent comments css setting? Because now, when i turn on recent comments, the arrows (arrow.jpg) goes on letters and are in place.
Hi,
How do you remove «Other Subcategories of the same category» when someone clicks on a subcategory?
thanks
Hi, thank you so much…
im having a problem… i dont understand why i am supposed to put a ID in the author panel box in the settings. And I dont understand why I am supposed to make a page called «author panel» and take the post ID and place this in the ID author panel box area. All it does is take me to a blank page. How are people going to post article?
Thanks
Confused
I agree with you!
i was going to pay for this but your payment method isn’t easy to do. i am not in US. please use paypal.
Sorry I posted theme related question in your plugin post.
Thanks for the nice plugin and theme.
I checked the theme for CSS validation and W3C validation came up with tons of errors and warnings. Result is here http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Farticlesss.com%2Fdemo%2F&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1?=en
I entered your demo site in the Validator.
Would you be fixing these?
Cheers
Hello again Dimox,
I’ve also translated this theme in french today, feel free to download this translation here : http://www.wptrads.fr/article-directory-2/
Hi Sir, would you please guide me.
I try to setup author page, but suddenly my categories list not display. Would ypu please help me?
Thank you very much
Does not show submit-article page. It looks like ‘article_directory_author_panel’ function is not found or empty.
I could really do with some help. Everything has gone well with the install but for some reason I cant post articles. This is my web directory. I can post as admin but not as a registered user? Would this be something to do with permissions?
Does your article directory theme and plugin work on WordPress 3.0.1?
Yes.
Hello,
Plugin+Theme works great, but after upgrade to last version the submit page shows a blank page in browser with no content. Any clue about how to make it work or maybe an update coming to solve it?
May be you not logged in. I don’t see such a problem.
Sorry, it’s working fine, it was my fault. Thanks for your work!
Question is how much for the theme your using on this site/articlesss.com?
The default theme’s css and graphics is too skeletal, I appreciate that it’s being given out for free but I would pay for the theme you use on your website.
Sorry, it is not for sale.
@Nicholas. The theme is great. If it does not meet your taste I can help you get a customized theme.
Great plugin and theme for my upcoming project. Millions of Thanks Dimox . keep working
Wilson I would very much like that you can connect with me on facebook at facebook.com/sheriffjr
Thanks
new user when clicking on email link at registration,is brought to area that says-You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
any idea whats causing this?
Hay dimox,, thanks for the great article directory, I come from Indonesia, my difficulty in displaying a page, the page I’ve created does not appear, only the page (home & About) how do I add a page to appear in the header,, ,
thanks again 🙂
Hello Dimox,
Great theme and plugin. It handles a large db of almost 400Megs. Took a while to get cache working properly but I most bugs worked out with db except one. It is related to the theme and not the plugin. I get the same problem on theme without plugin as with plugin. In the article body it throws in some code like this:
AB Answers Publish Article 0 && $ .browser.msie ) { var ie_version = parseInt($ .browser.version); if(ie_version Hello Guest Login Login via Register Hello My Home Sign Out …
Not sure if this is just a config error on my part and a simple solution? If not can you recommend a freelancer that is familiar with your tool and large db implementations?
Eric
After I create the author panel page, only title, no content, and select the author panel template, but it shows up a blank page, I know what is the page ID, and I had registered to other wordpress blog using this plugin and theme, it works good. Am I do something wrong? Anyone can help me? Thank you.
How do I get images to post in the post article section. It seems no image option is availabe for clients to upload images. Is there a plugin for this? Or did I upload wrong?
How to use your theme in MU in two separate sub domains through supper admin? Setting up two sites one already good to go for Articles and one for a community blog (using the article theme NOT ADSimple) as it can not let users submit to my knowledge!?
Cause i have edited some of the code in the theme etc for text and color font etc it pulls it in to the second blog. What to change in the theme to make it work separate i uploaded a theme to the server and renamed it article-blog but it does not come into the themes supper admin.
I think a separate theme will be the way to go because i am making two sites two different colors so people can tell the difference.
Great plugin and thanks i like how it’s simple.
Hi, Dimox, can you share aerticle directory template like your site (articless.com), this theme very nice.
thanks
Dimox, I know this question is off topic but I don’t know where else to look for the answer. I’m taking the categories off the main page and replacing them with recent articles, do you or anyone here know if it will hurt my site in terms of seo?
Of course not.
This plugin Rocks! Anyone know of any simple way or plugin that will only allow a certain Country to Publish in and i can put in the Article Submission Notes that publishing is only allowed for that Country.
In my case people should still be able to read, comment and access everything else in the site!
Modified your themes.
Look at me: http://www.indoocean.com
Looks really good. How did you make the RSS Feeds page for each one? could you share with everyone how to make one. Hopefully it’s fairly simple.
You’ll find this info on Article Directory Plugin page.
Oh, you’ve made it just so can make a new page with the template. YOU legend!
Very nice, how did you make these adjustments?
How did you get this done. Are you looking to do some custom work for cash? 🙂 Let me know. You can email me through this link http://www.mototips.com/sendmessage.php. Really dont want the spam bots contacting me. I am willing to pay for make over from the default theme.
I also modified mine Look at me myezineonline.com
Its simple to adjust the css of the theme
As touched on above in my previous post.. any direction or what to do with installing two themes one for each separate sub domain. Will i have to rename all the references in the theme or something.
I created a thread at WP but no answering there:
Two Unique Subdomains same Themes used?
Hi,
Im working on a very large article directory with over 4 million articles on the database. I have tried your theme before and the site overloaded the virtual server its living on. After loosing all the data and after several panics and handfuls of hair, I finally found that it was not your theme or plugin which was at fault. It was auto publishing bots for eastern Europe.
Im back up and running with XML-RPC switched off. I noticed that using this api for my article posting and for others to post created a large number of httpd processes. The server just got overloaded and required an apache reboot every 30 minutes.
I love the theme alterations which are evolving, especially the adsense injections which are perfect for the sites i am building.
Best of luck with future additions, all your advice on large site caching etc… most appreciated.
Hi Dimox,
Im running wp 3.0.3 and i have the theme and plugin working fine until i encountered this message after posting an article ….
Warning: Cannot modify header information — headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/x/x/x/xxxxxxxxx/html/wp-content/plugins/article-directory/author-panel.php:1) in /home/content/x/x/x/xxxxxxx/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890
the plugin is set to auto publish and i was using the latest firefox browser.
need your help thanks.
I don’t know the reason why.
I went for using this using this as a blog. This thing has the potential to be used as a forum all you need to do is present it.
All it will need is a couple of templates which i will end up doing sometime. I’ve set it up as a run of the mill blog (really the base code is still the same article directory) and called it «Blog Village» so I’m going to direct my existing users into making there own blog posts.
Even though they don’t know it it will probably end up structured as a forum :).
Enjoying the plugin so far and I am still laying out my pages, but have a question that maybe you can answer…somewhere in the coding I seem to have an issue that makes the page «jump» when I navigate through the site. Have a look:
http://www.ez-inearticles.com
Looking at some of the site examples I see here on the comments page, I notice that at least one other site does it as well.
It is a rather annoying little thing and is not in my opinion a pleasant experience. Any feedback or suggestions would be most appreciated and I will happily give any more details that I can.
Thanks
It is supremely annoying to have to log in to my WP admin every time I want to make a change and view it…
I can only presume there is a much more intelligent way of making changes than to have to constantly log-in and out. If there’s not then there should be
hey buddy, i just downloaded the plugin and the theme, but when i got to theme page i get an error saying article-directory Stylesheet is missing.
here is the screens hot
http://content.screencast.com/users/ebiznetwrk/folders/Jing/media/a9378f94-a0f1-44cd-9c90-25801d48895d/2010-12-23_0408.png
please help
Try to download again. I don’t see any problems.
Is there a way to limit or set the number of recent posts that show under the categories?
Thanks
Is it possible to download the exact theme that this website is using, not the demo option — but rather the yellow theme that you are using on the main articlesss.com website?
I might be prepared to even pay a small amount, please contact me ASAP as I really want to start a Article Directory.
Sorry, but not.
So I cannot even buy a copy?
How much would you charge me for it?
It is not for sale.
Hey I would like to purchase your theme. I have tried through the liqupay site you have but for some reason they are unable to send me a SMS. They want me to delete all my SMS in my phone, and for the $14 price point I don’t think that was worth it. Is there anyway else I can pay you directly via PayPal or something for this theme?
Please let me know,
Keisha
Unfortunately, only via LiqPay.
Thank you for sharing. I am redesigning the web page, this certainly inspires me to do something different
Is Here any more moded themes ?
I have all of a sudden ended up with more authors than articles and those new author emails just keep on coming. I could be wrong but I think I might be a victim here.
Is there any way to put a captcha on the new author registration form?
Hello, I have a quick question about your theme. I have uploaded it to mine and have no issues of purchasing it, but like all software products that are purchased, I expect customer support.
I see your registration is momentarily suspended. What I would like to know is a couple of things.
1. What is your upgrade policy as your theme grows and your increase in major or minor versions?
2. I see there are some site redirect a logout of a user back to the site home page. How can I get my visitors to logout of this theme and then return to the home page?
Thank you
Hi,
I have tried to install a couple of plugins on my article directory that should generate a lightbox style pop up but both have failed to work with the theme — I would really like to use the Popup Domination plugin but although it installs and activates fine, it refuses to show the popup on the site.
Any ideas or suggestions as to why such lightbox style plugins won’t function with the theme would be much appreciated, thanks.
Hi, Great theme and plugin. I am just having some problems with the author page. I have both the theme and plugin installed but when you try to log in using the Authorisation panel the home page just re-loads. If you login using the wp-login page you get taken to the Author page which is blank. I created the page as blank and set the author-panel as the template. I have put the ID in the plugin settings as well.
Do you have any idea why these things are happening and what I can do to fix it please?
All the best,
Michael
Hello Michael.
I have went to your site and have registered, but another interesting thing I noticed is after I logged in, the site actually went to the Author Page but I wasn’t logged in. I’m not a trouble shooter of this theme but I would simple delete it from my server and then reload the theme and then the plugin. Then don’t forget to put in the ID again.
Good Luck
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I completely wiped everything and started again and it seems to have installed perfectly. Thanks for the help.
Michael
You are quite welcome Michael. I am just happy that it works.
If you are a PHP programer or know of any plugin that will redirect the logout to the home page, please let me know. I have modified my logout screen from my site but would really like the logout to be redirected.
I am not sufficient in PHP so I don’t understand some of the other tutorials on WordPress and they seem limited.
http://www.lifetimeupgrades.com/blog/
Been trying to figure this out but can’t get it to work, sorry.
hi
How to i will sort by category for my choice?
Gazeteler, I am not sure what your asking here.
If you are looking something to sort the order of your categories, you may try this Plugin.
My Category Order at this location: http://geekyweekly.com/mycategoryorder
Hope this helps
I have downloaded both the theme and the plugin, so I don’t know what the problem is. I have spent my entire morning hitting everything I can to try and make things work and I got nothin’.
I can’t seem to make a registration and/or login page come up. I don’t know what’s wrong. I also don’t have all those snazzy columns and such. I have one big place to put one thing. I tried to add a page with the login and registration, but I’m pretty sure that’s not normal. I have tried uninstalling and re-installing and it doesn’t make any difference.
Suggestions would be appreciated.
Hello Amy. I just checked and it seems that you have gotten what you needed on you site.
Is that correct?
Sincerely
Lifetime Upgrades
Was helping a friend. Installed Article Directory theme and the plugin. But getting — «Warning: preg_split() expects parameter 2 to be string, object given in C:\inetpub\vhosts\xxxxxx.com\httpdocs\wp-includes\formatting.php on line 34» in the header area beside the site’s name.
Please advice to solve this weird problem. Thanks in advance.
Hello,
I want to start by thanking you for the theme and plugin. I just installed the theme and plugin and everything seems to work fine except when you sign up as a user, it says you have no authority but lets you click on the author panel link. It this normal? I don’t want to lose new sign ups due to confusion.
http://noast.com
Tim.
If I remember right, you need to go to your Admin Panel: Settings: Article Directory.
From there I believe you need to enter the ID of the Author Panel Page.
Hope this helps
Does anyone know this one.
Why is it that I can view my admin posts but when someone else posts an article, the page does not show when clicked on.
I have uninstalled the theme and used the default WordPress theme and it works fine, but when I reinstall the theme, the publishers post goes blank.
Problem Solved.
For anyone who has this issue, be advised that I had to deactivate…Keyword Statistics Plugin Version 1.7.7 | By Alexander M?ller.