Article Directory WordPress Theme

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:

  1. Article Directory – plugin, that displays the structured list of categories.
  2. 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.

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”

  1. Is there any plugin which will detect if a writer has posted a duplicate content? As a article directory we all look for original content. If such a plugin is made then a huge burden gets lifted off from our shoulders

  2. Great theme. Can it be used as a standard wordpress theme without all the plugin info? Did you create a version of this theme just for a regular blog?

  3. rumblepup, I don’t plan to create this version. Its easy to rework for the regular blog. Info from WordPress Codex will help you.

  4. I love the plugin and theme set. It is exactly what I am looking for except it’s not fully compatible with wordpress 2.6. After installing this plugin the media uploader stopped working.

    THe wordpress support site (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/164999) says this is a known issue with some older plugins.

    Do you plan on updating for wordpress 2.6? Is there any way I can entice you? :)

  5. Bard’s Art , probably you mean this (comments #100). Plugin already updated.

  6. Thanks! I didn’t notice the update. I appreciate your quick response and everything is working great now.

  7. Hi Dimox,

    Thanks for such a great theme and plugin set! It’s very versatile.

    I’m using it for a review site that includes a “rating” from the author. We use a custom field for the rating and would like to be able to sort by the custom field on the categories page where you currently have sort by title, newest, oldest.

    IE: It would be sort by title, rating, newest.

    Can you help or provide the code to sort by a custom field?

  8. Hi.

    Unfortunatelly, I don’t know how to do this. Sorry.

  9. Hi,

    Superb Theme !
    Superb Plugin !

    One of Thousand wonders of wordpress…..
    two thumbs up for DIMOX. (you rock dude)

    please allowed me to use this theme and plugin also

    regards,
    krishna

  10. krishna, there is no need to request permission. Just download and use them.

  11. rumblepup, if you still want version of this theme for regular blog, you can get it here.

  12. I have this up and running and it looks like a great tool – thanks! I am interested in using this for a series of articles, but ran into one issue. The articles will have 5 major categories, each with a set of sub-categories. For this group of articles, I want all articles to be tied just to a sub-category and not to any main category. When I tried to do this using the theme/plug-in, I ran into a problem. Specifically, if you do not have an article tied to the main category, then when you click the main category link you get a Page Not Found. Ideally, I’d if someone clicked on that link I’d like it to just go to the page that shows all of the subcategories so the user can click around. Is this possible?

  13. Dimox,

    I have 2 menu problems I haven’t been able to properly solve.

    The include function parameters in header.php are not showing the right page(s) for the top line or the lower menu line.

    In the statement

    I am not sure what the 2,5 parameters mean in your code above.

    According to your instructions they should be the pages to exclude, but changing them to correspond to my pages does not seem to work properly no matter what I have tried. It does not show or exclude the correct pages. Only 2 out of 6 pages seem to be affected by those parameters.

    Those parms do not appear to be page sequence numbers, or sequence of the pages. They don’t seem to exclude pages or include pages in any particular manner that I can figure out.

    I tried giving each page a sequence number, but that does not work properly either. With the default zero sequence it does not work properly either. It does not exclude or include according to the original page creation order either.

    Same exact problem occurs in the menu bar too. The parms don’t seem to correspond to actual sequence numbers, zero sequence numbers, alphabetical sequence or any thing I have tried.

    I am using WP Ver 2.6 and server has php ver 5

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks,

    Charles

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  14. Dimox,

    I just solved the following search problem.
    The Search Everything plugin caused the search error. It works ok with the WP default search.

    I am sending this in case anyone else has a problem with the search function and is using the Search Everything plugin.

    ————————————————————
    I had a search box problem.

    I got the following error if it cannot find the search term. I entered xxq and got the following error showing under the Recent Articles column.

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(wp_posts.post_status = 'publish') OR ( tter.slug LIKE '%xxq%') ORDER BY wp_po' at line 1]
    SELECT DISTINCT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships AS trel ON (wp_posts.ID = trel.object_id) LEFT JOIN wp_term_taxonomy AS ttax ON ( ( ttax.taxonomy = ‘category’ ) AND trel.term_taxonomy_id = ttax.term_taxonomy_id) LEFT JOIN wp_terms AS tter ON (ttax.term_id = tter.term_id) WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.(wp_posts.post_status = ‘publish’) OR ( tter.slug LIKE ‘%xxq%’) ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5

    I have Search Everything 4.7.1 plugin.

    I am using WP Ver 2.6
    software support: PHP 4 w/Zend & eAccelerator and PHP 5 w/Zend
    Database: MySQL v.5

    Charles

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  15. Kvotch, if you have not change the 404.php file of this theme, it should be exactly as you want.

    The include function parameters in header.php are not showing the right page(s) for the top line or the lower menu line.

    Charles, this is my mistake. I wrote ‘exclude’ instead of ‘include’, i.e. it should read as follows:

    and specify in the include option comma-separated list identifiers pages you wish to INCLUDE into the list.

    Thanks for reporting. I will correct this mistake.

  16. Oops. (RTF….)

    OK, thanks again for your help.

  17. Hi Dimox,

    you did mention you wrote this theme in 2 languages – the other one is not in German by chance?
    Would save me a lot of editing ;)

    The theme is exactly what I’m looking for – super job!

    Dougi

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  18. Hi Dougi,

    No, this theme is made in English and Russian (because I’m Russian :)

    The theme is exactly what I’m looking for – super job!

    You are welcome ;)

  19. Hi,

    My site dosn’t have the ‘next page’ link at the bottom of the screen.

    Any ideas why?

    E.G.

    http://thearticlebase.com/category/entertainment/humor/

    Thanks again for you help.

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