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.
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)