Article Directory WordPress Theme

11.02.2008 | Author: Dimox | Posted in Blogging

Represent your attention 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.

Features

Statistics on the total number of published articles and the number of registered authors.
Each author has a page with his profile and list of his articles.
The home page displays a list of the most recent articles. By default, 30 titles. The numbers can be changed in the template file index.php.
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:
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&include=2,3'); ?>

and specify in the include option comma-separated list identifiers pages you wish to include into the list.
On the categories pages displayed so-called “bread crumbs.”
The category page displays a list of subcategories and list of this category articles. That pages don’t contain articles from subcategories. Such articles are displayed on the subcategories pages.
The possibility of sorting a list of articles on the current category (title, newest, oldest). A similar possibility exists on the author page.
A page of a particular article contains a list of other articles from the same category.
The Article Directory theme is intended to work with WordPress version 2.3+. Working with earlier versions is not assured.

Supplement

For working the article directory at full capacity the following plugins are obligatory:

Article Directory – plugin, that displays the structured list of categories.
Role Manager – allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles – called Roles and their Capabilities.

Download

Article Directory WordPress Theme

Version: 1.6.1 | Downloads: 8015 | Last updated: 2010-01-10

Donation

If you enjoy this theme, you can thank me and leave a small donation.

Donation

FAQ related to 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.
When I make a page it does not show up in the menu where the “Home” link is located.: You need to specify the ID’s of these pages in the header.php file. Instruction about this written on the Article Directory theme page.
Is there a way we can place all submitted articles under moderation instead of being published straight away?: You need to install the Role Manager plugin. You can see a capabilities that are enabled on this site – look at the screenshot.
Is there a simple way to quickly add the categories (instead of adding it one by one)?: You can use the Post Corrector plugin for this.
How do I get my recent article posts to display like you have your “Recent Articles” in your first Sidebar?: If widgets are not used in this sidebar, the “Recent Articles” will be shown.
Is there a version of Article Directory theme just for a regular blog?: Yes, you can get it here – ADSimple WordPress theme.

Version history

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 category message.

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.

394 Responses to “Article Directory WordPress Theme”

APlus [January 14, 2010 at 10:24 pm]

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 :)

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Dimox [January 15, 2010 at 2:06 am]

APlus, I not see a problems, plugin have a corresponding options.
felipe [January 16, 2010 at 9:07 am]

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
Mike C [January 18, 2010 at 7:59 am]

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?

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Linka [January 25, 2010 at 11:57 pm]

Hey congrats, y edited the template… im working right now on it… you can see the template?

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Ezineshopper [February 5, 2010 at 8:06 am]

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?
Dimox [February 6, 2010 at 12:45 am]

Ezineshopper, sorry, i don’t know.
Mike [February 14, 2010 at 10:45 am]

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?

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Dimox [February 15, 2010 at 1:14 am]

Mike, code of this block is in sidebar.php file.

From this:

<?php if (!current_user_can('level_0')) { ?>

to this:

</ul> </div> <?php } ?>
5star [February 25, 2010 at 2:06 pm]

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 :)

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QuantMinds [February 26, 2010 at 5:33 pm]

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.

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Dimox [February 27, 2010 at 5:28 am]

5star, sorry, I can’t understand the reason of that.

QuantMinds, it’s not a widget, I’m using this snippet.
Sagive [February 27, 2010 at 1:00 pm]

would looking at the code help u to help me ?
i have no problem giving you access
Jay at Niche Volumes [March 8, 2010 at 12:19 am]

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

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Dimox [March 9, 2010 at 1:24 am]

I would like to add a blog category where I’m the only one that can post to it.

I think, there is a plugin, which allow to do this.
Maremon [March 16, 2010 at 3:05 am]

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.

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QuantMinds [March 16, 2010 at 12:57 pm]

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”>
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Quantminds [March 16, 2010 at 1:19 pm]

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?

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Darius [March 17, 2010 at 5:18 am]

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.
Darius [March 17, 2010 at 6:09 am]

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.

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