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.
I recommend you to learn CSS technology.
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?
Plamen, i have opened your site in FireFox 3 and not see any problems.
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
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?
Plamen…You need Role Manager.
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
Bingeling, in archive.php find the_excerpt() a and replace on the_content().
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.
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……..????
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?
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
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?
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…
So far I do not know how to do this.
Bugger.Ok fair enough, ill let you know if i get anywhere with it.
Love the theme!
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.
Esaul Daris, because there is wrong html code in your posts.
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.