Dimox

Displays the structured list of categories (like in article directory), which can be easily customized with CSS. Also allows authors to publish articles and change their profile bypassing the admin interface. See the demo at <a href="http://articlesss.com/demo/" title="Article Directory" rel="nofollow ugc">Articlesss.com/demo/</a>.
Standard features for categories list:
<ul>
<li>Showing an amount of articles in parent and child categories.</li>
<li>Showing a category description in link title.</li>
<li>Showing the empty categories.</li>
<li>Using hierarchy for subcategories.</li>
<li>Excluding a specified categories.</li>
</ul>
Special features for categories list:
<ul>
<li>Simple and handy design using CSS. The structure of categories is the multilevel list, which can be altered easily with CSS, as you need. The parent category have the <code><div></code> container to mark it out with CSS as a parent.</li>
<li>Parent category is showing amount of articles in subcategories. The character also include the number of articles in this parent category.</li>
<li>Showing a specified amount of child categories (2nd level).</li>
<li>Showing a categories in specified amount of columns.</li>
<li>Hiding all subcategories.</li>
<li>Adding an icons for each category in the list using CSS.</li>
</ul>
Additional features:
<ul>
<li>Authors can add articles and change their profile bypassing the admin interface.</li>
<li>Displaying the “Terms of article publication” on article submission page.</li>
<li>Excluding the child categories articles from the parent categories archive pages.</li>
<li>Ability to get an article source code.</li>
</ul>

Article Directory

Displays the list of categories like in article directory and allows authors to publish articles and change their profile bypassing the admin area.

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With social Articles you can create posts, attach the featured image, set categories and tags, and more! Everything from your buddypress profile. 
It supports all buddypress themes, so you don’t need to be an expert to use it!
<h4>FEATURES</h4>
<ul>
<li>Administration area in your buddypress profile (access, create, edit and delete)</li>
<li>Status administration</li>
<li>Approval workflow</li>
<li>Form builder. You can arrange and select the fields however you need – NEW!</li>
<li>Individual configuration for each field</li>
<li>Direct publish workflow</li>
<li>TinyMCE editor</li>
<li>Support for featured image. Drag and drop uploader</li>
<li>You can set categories and tags using select2</li>
<li>BuddyPress notifications when a post is published (for you and your friends)</li>
<li>Your post will be listed in your buddyPress profile</li>
<li>Admin configuration (post per page, excerpt length, show buddyPress notifications)</li>
<li>Ability to turn on/off the edit and delete option</li>
<li>Responsive design</li>
</ul>
<h4>LANGUAGES</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (default)</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Serbo-Croatian</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Catalán</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Slovak</li>
<li>Italian</li>
</ul>
If you translate Social Articles, please send us the files (po and mo) to info@broobe.com. We will add them to the next version!
You can read more about features on the <a href="http://www.broobe.com/plugins/social-articles/" title="Social Articles: An open-source plugin to create posts from budypress profile" rel="nofollow ugc">Broobe website</a>.
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Social Articles

With Social Articles you can create and manage posts from your BuddyPress profile.

Article Directory vs Social Articles