How to Start Your Own Article Directory on a WordPress Blog!

Ever tried to create your own article directory? You might be familiar with the article directory scripts like ArticleMS and ArticleDashboard which are often used to create an article directory with unlimited number of authors and articles. But you may not have enough technical knowledge to install these scripts on websites successfully.

What if we can convert a WordPress blog into a dedicated article directory? You should be wondering how this differs from a normal multi-authored wordpress blog. Well there is no much difference. But it’s not quite easy to get a relevant article directory theme and plugins to make wordpress blog looks like a real article directory! You may even resort to tweaking of themes which might cause errors often. To avoid these headaches, I have found an excellent Article Directory WordPress Plugin and a relevant Theme from Articlesss. The primary task of this plugin is deduce on the main page with the structured list of categories which can be easily customized.

Article Directory Plugin features:

• Amount of articles in parent and child categories.

• Category description in link title.
• Showing the empty categories.
• Using hierarchy for subcategories.
• Exclude selected categories.
• Ability to display the specified amount of child categories.
• Ability to display categories on specified amount of columns.
• Ability to hide all subcategories.
• Ability to get article source code.

Admin Interface options:

• Ability to show warning to authors if no category is selected..

• Ability to hide unnecessary dashboard elements from non-administrators.
• Ability to specify the height of the categories block on Write/Edit Post page.
• Ability to put the Terms of Publication on Write/Edit Post page.

Visit HERE to download, install and customization tips.

Why don’t you give a try!

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6 Responsesto “How to Start Your Own Article Directory on a WordPress Blog!”

1. Phil says:

   June 21, 2010 at 6:37 am

   I have tried this and it works perfect…..but i think we have very less choice on styles of directory as well as customization for SEO point of view as compared to PHPld
2. Shafar@TipsBlogger says:

   June 21, 2010 at 2:49 pm

   @Phil
   I don't think so! WordPress platform has been considered as the heaven of customization. If it's accompanied by an Article Directory plugin like this, it would be one of the best article directory!
3. Yuma Locksmith says:

   May 26, 2011 at 8:59 am

   I tryed it for my website it works great thanks for the info
4. Live Cricket says:

   July 26, 2011 at 8:11 pm

   Awesome Article for beginners to get started with….
5. Siju George says:

   October 17, 2011 at 11:32 pm

   Thanks for informing such a cool wordpress pluggin. I was looking for a wordpress article directory pluggin.
6. Maricopa Locksmith says:

   October 30, 2011 at 5:28 am

   it works great thanks for the info