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 here – Articlesss.com/demo/.
Theme features
- The Article Directory theme is intended to work with WordPress 2.9 – 3.0.4.
- 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
Version: 1.7.1 | Last updated: 2010-09-12
Donation
If you enjoy this theme, you can thank me and leave a small donation.
FAQ about Article Directory Theme and Plugin
How can I have the outside background (grey stripes) and the border like on this site? How to add a logo in the header before the site title? How can I change the width of the sidebars? How to place a banner in header? Etc.
Sorry, I can't help you with such a questions. Please read and study CSS manuals or find a freelancer that make this things for you.
I have installed your theme "Article Directory", but I don't see the "Register" link on my site.
You need to activate the "Membership (Anyone can register)" option on the "General Settings" page of admin area.
Is there a simple way to quickly add the categories (instead of adding it one by one)?
Yes. You can use the Post Corrector plugin for this.
Is there a version of Article Directory theme just for a regular blog?
Yes. You can get it here - ADSimple WordPress theme.
What should I enter in the "ID of author panel page" in the plugin options? What should that look like?
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Go to the "Pages" in admin menu. Hover the mouse cursor on the title of the author panel page you have created. Now look at the status bar of your browser. You'll see something like this:
The number after
post=is the ID of author panel page. Is there a way let users edit their posts not in WordPress admin area?
Sorry, but that's not possible.
How do I allow authors to upload images?
Unfortunately, it's impossible in the author panel. But they can upload an image on the free image hosting (for example imageshack.us) and then paste a link on it.
Can you share or sell theme like on your site articless.com?
No, this theme is not for share or sale.
Version history
Version 1.7.1 (2010-09-12)
- 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) – downloads: 308
- Changed the method of reading WordPress version.
- Small minor corrections.
Version 1.4 (07.19.08) – downloads: 1112
- 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) – downloads: 172
- 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) – downloads: 145
- 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.
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 :P
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