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<p>Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.</p>
<p>When you use WP as a “normal” CMS, you could want to add some custom boxes into the pages’ sidebars.<br />
Whith “Articles to Sidebar” you can write articles, put them into :</p>
<ul>
<li>a special category (in order to display to all pages)</li>
<li>a category called the same as the current page</li>
<li>both special category and category called the same as the curent page</li>
</ul>
<p>When the article is displayed into the sidebar, the fist images it contains is used to illustrate.<br />
The displayed content is the article’s excerpt. If there is no excerpt, the extend (before the <code></code> tag) is used and if there is no extend, one is computed (55 first words) and used.</p>
<p>You can choose to put a link to the article or not. That behavior can be chanched for each articles by using a custom boolean var (articles2sidebar_display_link : 1 force link | force no link).</p>
<h3>Versions</h3>
<p>1 first public release<br />
1.1 better handling of little images ; adding the link to image when present</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>Actually, there are no translations, but the plugin code is ready for them.</p>

article2sidebar

Articles to Sidebar allow you to put some articles into the sidebar of pages.

obus3000

<p>wpDirectory can show a structured list of categories on a page (home or any), easily customizable via CSS and localized compatible. This plugin can also modify the admin interface for posting articles or listings in the directory, for both contributors and admins in order to gain efficiency when posting entries.</p>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Category description in link title.</li>
<li>Show/Hide Subcategories</li>
<li>Show/Hide Amount of articles in parent and child categories.</li>
<li>Show/Hide empty categories.</li>
<li>Display categories on specified amount of colums with automatic reordering adjusting to user\’s resolution.</li>
<li>Use hierarchy for subcategories.</li>
<li>Exclude selected categories.</li>
</ul>
<p>Special features:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>div</code> powered listing, so design can be easily modified using CSS,a s you need. The parent category is inserted in a <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>Display the specified amount of child categories (2nd level).</li>
<li>Exclude child categories articles from the parent categories archive pages.</li>
<li>You can add icons for parent categories using CSS.</li>
<li>User can access to article’s source code.</li>
</ul>
<p>Future Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ability to show all subcategories in listing powered by ajax.</li>
<li>Show domain stats and relevant information about domain (for link directory)</li>
<li>Integration with TDO miniforms</li>
</ul>
<p>Admin interface options:</p>
<ul>
<li>Can prevent the listing have more than one category</li>
<li>Show warning to author, if not selected any category or if selected more than one category.</li>
<li>Hide unnecessary blocks from the “Write/Edit Post” page, if this is not the site administrator. It is “Comments & Pings”, “Excerpt”, “Password Protect” and other blocks. I.e. actually there is only a form of adding the article and the button to send it to moderation.</li>
<li>Specific height of categories block on “Write/Edit Post” page.</li>
<li>Custom “Terms of item publication” on “Write/Edit Post” page.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Version history</h3>
<p>Version history and list of changes you can see <a href="http://arielbustillos.com/wpdirectory-wordpress-plugin/#version-history" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


wpDirectory

A clean structured list of categories, which can be easily customized with CSS. Suitable for articles, links, business directory, etc.

article2sidebar vs wpDirectory