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.
Hi Dimox,
Thanks for the small code change, now it does show the subcategories when you click on the parent but I do get the posts under, Kinderlose still doesn’t work (404 error) and I’ll try and see what’s wrong with it and if I can’t, submit it to WP to see if there’s something in the code that is causing this.
That could be debatable, in the profile section, you can choose your “Nickname”, maybe the author page could fetch that field. Some people could have some strange username such as hyw4387qw and a Nick (not Nik) like John28 and I’m sure that serious authors would rather be known by their screen name. Only my opinion…
OK, I got:
#logo {
float: left;
color: #808080;
line-height: 0.85em;
font-size: 3.3em;
margin: 14px 0 15px;
}
How would I modify that part to include my graphic? I usually hard code my graphics in the PHP files but I would rather be consistent with your CSS structure.
Thanks again, you’ve been very helpful,
Gene
Sorry to be such a pain but I’m also trying to change the vertical lines that separate the sidebars to a darker color as I did with smalldot.gif and some of the border colors in the CSS on my site and just can’t find the code.
Cheers,
Gene
Me again, just want to explain why I’m making all the changes in the CSS for everything to be darker and more prominent, I already own a forum that deals with the same issue (Alternative Medicine) and more than half of the members are over 45 and some have all kinds of age-related visual problems (cataracts, near-sighted, etc.).
Visit my site to see the changes I’m making.
Thanks again,
Gene
Okey, i will change the authors block.
This is my example:
#logo {
…
padding: 9px 0 10px 78px;
background: url(i/box.jpg) no-repeat;
}
1) Vertical lines – it’s a dots.gif image, which is in “i” folder of theme.
2) Find all of:
border-bottom: 1px solid #EEE;
#EEE – is color.
P.S. I recommend you to study the CSS, I can’t advise on every question related to CSS.
Is it possible to show only certain categories in recent articles?
jase, yes, it’s easy. Just find the following code in the sidebar.php file:
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5');and replace is to this:
$myposts = get_posts('numberposts=5&cat=1,7,11');where 1,7,11 is the comma separated list of categories ID.
Awesome, thank you so much.
I’m missing something. Can you tell me how to display the rss the way that you have ie articles, comments, categories. My display shows the categories under pages (I used the Rss categories) template and under RSS there is the articles and the comments by default I presume. Should I create a RSS Page for the articles and comments?
thank you. Hope this is not too confusing.
Leanne
No, you sould only create RSS Categories page, if you need. RSS for comments and articles is default WordPress function.
Hi Dimoz,
I don’t know if I’m the only one experiencing this problem; when using a contact form plugin and sending an email, the recipient (admin) receives as many copies of the message as there are posts, meaning that I had 5 posts on my test install and when I sent myself a test message, I received 6 copies of the same email.
I tried it on a fresh WP install with only the original WP post, sent myself a message and got 2 copies. I had a friend try it and the same thing happened to him.
This doesn’t have anything to do with other plugins, the fresh install only had your plugin and the contact form activated. I also tried 3 or 4 different contact form plugins and tthe same thing happened.
Could this have something to do with the RSS coding in either the theme or plugin?
Thanks,
Gene
Neither the plugin, nor a theme do not do anything, that concerns e-mail sending.
thanks but still it did not work, how if i have different project but i want the same setup of template with a bit extra features..? you don’t have a contact us page..?!!
thanks,
ali
Dimox,
This site is awesome! I am so excited that I found your theme and plugin. I was thinking of adding a directory to my main site, but this works out good to have it’s own domain.
I am going to have to work on customizing the look a little, but it’s great.
BTW, can I borrow your TOS? hehe…..
check it out, just over an hours worth of work. http://www.HealthArticleDepot.com
Any idea why my pages are not appearing at the top. Only one page that I created has shown up.
Thanks
May be you did not enter IDs of pages. See information about this in “Features” block at the top of this page.
Got it, awesome thank you!
Would you happen to know why a simplepress forum plugin does not work properly with this theme?
Cheers!
Pat King, I don’t know.
Dimox,
Great plugin and theme, the one issue I see is the category page only lists one article.Is there a work around for this?
Solved MY own problem sorry. Super script!
I’m not RSS guy, how do I set up RSS feed for categories?
There is no need to setup RSS feed for categories. But if you need to get the list with the categories feeds, read the middle of this article.