linkpublishers

The Link Publishers plugin allows the Link Publishers team to publish articles directly to your WordPress site as an Author. When an article is published, the site administrator will receive an email notification about the new article.
The plugin also includes Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities for enhanced security.
This plugin communicates with the <a href="https://dashboard.linkpublishers.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Publishers API</a> to authenticate users and notify admins about new articles.
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
This plugin communicates with external servers.
<ul>
<li>The plugin connects to the following domain: <code>https://dashboard.linkpublishers.com</code> to update the status of the WordPress site with the Link Publishers dashboard.</li>
</ul>
No personal or sensitive user information is transmitted, only necessary status updates for functionality.
<h3>Third-Party Service</h3>
This plugin integrates with the Link Publishers API to handle user authentication and article notifications.
<ul>
<li>Service URL: <a href="https://dashboard.linkpublishers.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Publishers API</a></li>
<li>Terms of Use: <a href="https://linkpublishers.com/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Publishers Terms of Use</a></li>
<li>Privacy Policy: <a href="https://linkpublishers.com/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Link Publishers Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>

Link Publishers

Link Publishers allows the Link Publishers team to publish articles as an Author, and notifies the site admin whenever a new article is published.

Paul

Dave Goodchild

!! WARNING: Before activating this plugin, please DO NOT deactivate the previous Article Directory plugin if you have it installed !!
If you do deactivate, you will lose your settings. Once you have activated this new plugin, you may go to the plugins page and deactivate the old one. 
That way we make a backup of your settings because the old plugin is set to delete your settings automatically when you deactivate.
Please note: I’m not the original author but I’m open to suggestions on ways to add to and develop out the plugin. Please feel free to leave suggestions in the forums.
This is taken directly from the original <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/article-directory" rel="ugc">Article Directory plugin</a> last updated 3 years ago (2011-1-16), and made compatible with WordPress 3.9 and 
it’s updated database system.
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 an example at <a href="http://articlesss.com/" title="Article Directory" rel="nofollow ugc">Articlesss.com/</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 Redux

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

Link Publishers vs Article Directory Redux