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. Can you give some instructions to do this, because I don’t like very much the default colour theme.

    I recommend you to learn CSS technology.

    Actually when i opened my new article directory in Internet Explorer, the background is white, and in Chrome too, but in Firefox 3 it is ugly gray background?

    May be you have removed any HTML-tag of markup.

  2. May be you have removed any HTML-tag of markup.

    NO, I opened right after installing the theme, I haven’t made any editions.

    Other Article directories, who use this theme also have the same problem in Firefox, but this site articlesss.com doesn’t have this problem, Strange?

    Could you please open my site with Firefox 3 and see what I mean?

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  3. Plamen, i have opened your site in FireFox 3 and not see any problems.

  4. Request Request Request

    Hey anyone out here who has tried some good hand on this theme:

    I want you to let me know as to what all editing should I do so that:

    1) When I click on a particular category on the home page, I should get to a page which can show list all the articles ON THAT category on the left hand side of the 2 right side bars.
    &
    On the main content area ONLY ONE article from that category should appear.

    2) On the same level 2 page of that clicked category, on the right side of the sidebar, the complete list of article directory can appear.

    I can definitely achieve the above….all I request is to give me some tips and guidance.

    Regards,
    Rajul Kaushik

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  5. Hi,
    anyone can help with this case:

    How to make new posts to wait for moderation from admin?
    I assign Author Role to new subscribers, is it correct?

    What options should I change?

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  6. Plamen…You need Role Manager.

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  7. Hi

    Im using your theme at my humoursite, but Id like to have the pics displayed on the categorypages, like they are on the frontpage, how do I do that?

    thanks a lot, its an awesome theme :D

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  8. Bingeling, in archive.php find the_excerpt() a and replace on the_content().

  9. hello dmox. thanks for great themes.
    i want to ask some questions.

    i already put logo here

    and i already change my css style:
    #logo {
    float: left;
    color: #808080;
    line-height: 0.85em;
    font-size: 3.3em;
    margin: 5px 0 5px;
    padding: 9px 0 10px 78px;
    background: url(i/indo-logo.jpg) no-repeat;
    }
    #logo span {
    display: block;
    font-size: 0.38em;
    font-weight: normal;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    }

    but this logo not appear on my header. what should i do to resolve this problem?

    may be you want to know my header file: is it need change to anything?

    <a href=”">

    i am using WP 2.7 and article directry 1.5.

    Thanks,
    Chodirin.

  10. Thanks for the support……but the tough thing is I also couldn’t control the admin panel well……I know I am doing something silly…..cause One of my friends owns http://www.contentwritingsolutions.com and his site and functions are working very smoothly as he told……But why not mine……is there any ebook that I could become eligible to fix my problems……..????

  11. chodirin, your styles is works. I’ve saved your site home page and tested it – I not see a problem, logo appears.

    tiherp, what is your problem?

  12. Hi Dimox, firstly thanks for this theme and plugin, very much appreciated. I started playing with it a few days ago and I although I tried to not come and bother you for any guidance, ive stumbled into abit of a road block, also I think the solution for it will be simple sticks, i just cant find it right now -)

    Ok so here goes.

    The comments are not working. — I just can not seem to get the list of comments to display. the call to the comments is working, or at least partly, and the comments box is running ok, comments inputted are also being stored ok.

    But alas the list is simply not present, I thought i may have to call to this seperately, wp_list_comments or something, but doesnt seem right, from reading up it seems to all be set up right to work, ive got a feeling im just missing a trigger somewhere. (cant find it in settings either).

    Im using v 2.7.

    Any help would be much appreciated.

    Cheers

  13. Hey, ok scratch that request for help, turned out it was because I tried to place the related articles request inbetween. I do want the related articles to be directly under the story though, but havent yet explored it, bar this mistep, so will retrace and see how it goes, imagine it will be pretty simple right?

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  14. Hi again Dimox.

    Im taking a shot in the dark here, because you havent introduced the fix onto this site, but alas ill divuldge, I have an issue with ordering posts by the sort by functions in the theme.

    All is fine for the first page, but then working inline with page-navi, moving through to the 2nd, 3rd pages etc, will cause the ordering to filter back to its default (or chosen ordering $s2 = ‘ selected=”selected”‘; )

    I guess we are refeshing the page and it caues it to jump back to its original order by mode.

    I need to find a way to fix this, somehow the post ordering on page load needs to told to inherit the last chosen sort by option i.e oldest and continue with that path, I figure its less an issue with page-navi and more a case of adding some variables to the order by list/function.

    Have you explored this previously? Is it a dreary road that im better off just avoiding?

    Please let me know your thoughts…

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  15. Have you explored this previously?

    So far I do not know how to do this.

  16. Bugger.Ok fair enough, ill let you know if i get anywhere with it.

  17. Love the theme!

  18. We just installed this Article Directory themes, plugin and pagenavi, but we had a problem. The site not looks like this (articlesss.com).

    Please advice us.

    regards,

    Esaul Daris
    Owner’s.

  19. Esaul Daris, because there is wrong html code in your posts.

  20. Could you please be specificly?

    Now, I have a new problem with the theme. My site not showing the categories like yours. Please advice me.

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