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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.
Features:
<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>
Special features:
<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>
Future Features:
<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>
Admin interface options:
<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>
Version history and list of changes you can see <a href="http://arielbustillos.com/wpdirectory-wordpress-plugin/#version-history" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.

wpDirectory

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

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Does your website utilize categories and tags? Does it use custom taxonomies? If so, this plugin will find similar content 
based on all your taxonomies. There are two ways to show related posts within your page.
<ul>
<li>The first way to show related content on your post is to use the widget provided. This only works when is_single() is true</li>
<li>The second way to show similar content on your site is to use the pk_related_return($post->ID); function which can be 
called programmatically anywhere you wish!</li>
</ul>
The Widget included with this plugin gives you the option to limit the amount of posts; it allows you to determine which 
fields to show: Featured Image, Author, Date, and Excerpt (Title is required); it allows you to determine which 
variant of the featured image to show: thumbnail, medium, large, or full. As of version 2.0, you can now decide whether the 
‘similar posts’ sorting prefers posts that are newer or posts that were created closer to the date of the post you’re 
viewing.
If you find the Widget doesn’t meet your needs or is too limiting, you can call the functionality programmatically using 
this function:
<pre><code>pk_related_return($post->ID, $args);
</code></pre>
Where $post->ID is the ID of the post for which you are wanting to show related articles.
The $args parameter is an array with the following values available to you (more coming soon):
<ul>
<li>posts_per_page (int defaults to 5)</li>
<li>thumbnail_size (string consisting of one of these values: “thumbnail”, “medium”, “large”, “full”. Defaults to thumbnail).</li>
<li>sort_prefer (string consisting of one of these values: “newest”, “closest”. Defaults to newest).</li>
</ul>
An example might be:
<pre><code><?php
$args = array (
 'posts_per_page' => 6,
 'thumbnail_size' => 'medium',
 'sort_prefer' => 'closest'
);
</code></pre>
The return value of pk_related_return is an array of objects that includes most of the fields within WordPress’s posts 
table plus permalink and featured image.
Future Additions:
Allow the user to specify only certain content types (posts, pages, custom) in a request. This would allow you to specify 
only products get returned, or only blog posts. This would only be an issue if content types share taxonomies.

wpDirectory vs Similar Posts Ontology