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.
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