This is a pretty strait forward plugin. It turns any page into a directory. I kinda used the DMOZ or open directory as a guide and put this together. If you are in need of a directory this one is easy to use and fits into your site without any advanced setup techniques. As always feel free to let me know what you think or report and bug and suggestions to the support forums!
Version - 1.1
Version Release Date - Sep, 4th 2007
Download Link - WP-Directory
~~Change Log~~
SEP, 4th 2007
-Added permalinks option!!!!
-Added widget
-Added screenshots
-Made it so you can use categories, subcategories, or both
Aug, 11th 2007
-Fixed install bug
-Fixed subcategory bug!
Aug, 10th 2007
-Added Subcategory option so you canhave categories and subcategories or just categories.
-Fixed bug displaying subcategories
-Added the option to disable directory name, in case you use the page name as the directory name it won’t be there twice.
-Fixed bug on sponsor page in the admin area
~~Installation~~
1) Upload the wp-directory folder into your plugins directory.
2) Activate the plugin through the plugin admin area.
3) Create a page to put your directory on, or choose an existing page.
4) Add this to the code section of your page < !- -w p - d i r e c t o r y- - > with no spaces, the spaces are there so you can see that there are two dashes!
5) Set the options in the admin -> Directory -> Options page “make sure if you are using permalinks to turn that option on”.
5) To use the quick add widget go to your widget control panel and add the directory widget to your sidebar. If your theme doens’t use widget add <?php widget_wp_directory(); ?> to sidebar.php
6) If you are going to use screenshots make sure you chmod the images/screenshots directory.
You can now start adding categories, subcategories, and sites!
August 10th, 2007 at 4:06 pm I've installed the plugin (Wordpress 2.2.2) and set up the page as instructed. I created a couple of categories, added two sites, and I can see the header of the directory showing up on my new page. But... the sites don't show up, either on the page or in the Directory manager. I know they are there, because I checked the Directory stats page and it says there are two sites and two categories. Any idea what the problem might be? If this works, it's exactly what I need, so I hope there's an easy fix! Thanks!
August 10th, 2007 at 4:08 pm Oh, also, I can't select my categories from the drop down menu in the Add Site form. They just don't show up there.
August 10th, 2007 at 8:09 pm I modeled this plugin off of the google directory or The open directory project and how that works is you make a category and then subcategories and then you put the sites in the subcategories. So on the add site form no categories will show up until you have added subcategories and the you would add a site for what ever subcategory you wanted that site to be in. I have a couple requests for a version that allows you to put the sites straight into the categories and not have subcategories. This would be for a smalled directory that didn't need subcategories. I have started working on it and that version should be done this weekend! Hope that helps!
August 10th, 2007 at 8:16 pm are you going to combine the two versions so that sites can be put into categories and sub categories or are you making two separate versions?
August 10th, 2007 at 9:22 pm It will be one version. I will just make it an option!
August 10th, 2007 at 9:25 pm awesome!
August 10th, 2007 at 9:57 pm ok, here are a few ideas I have for this plugin. With looking at this picture http://www.2brotherz.com/directory.png you can see the details for the following ideas. 1) Make the Main category text larger as to stand out 2) only display directory name once instead of twice 3) allow a config option to display subcategories vertically under the main category in addition to the current way 4) space out the category sections so they don't run together as seen in the middle column now, on the sub category page (when clicking a main category link) you can see in the following picture that after the first row, all sub cats are in one column instead of 3 which I have defined. http://www.2brotherz.com/directory2.png that is a good start to my ideas, keep up the good work!
August 10th, 2007 at 10:48 pm ok, I was playing around with it and have it a little better more to my likings and possibly others. take a look at http://2brotherz.com/directory3.png If you like the looks of this let me know and I can give you the small code change I made to do this.
August 10th, 2007 at 10:49 pm Okay! I am working on this plugin right now so it shouldn't take very long!
August 10th, 2007 at 11:54 pm Yeah just paste it in a comment. I added the options you suggested. I am just testing to make sure the database gets updated properly for people who will be upgrading instead of installing it for the firs time. It looks to be working good so I just uploaded it and updated the change log. Try it out and let me know what you think!