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.
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.