Blogs Directory

This plugin provides a paginated, fully search-able, avatar inclusive, automatic and rather good looking directory of all of the blogs on your WordPress Multisite or BuddyPress installation.

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Example of a blogs directory in action
Changing number of blogs listed oer page in the Blogs directory
Changing how blogs are listed in the Blogs directory
Detail

This plugin is possibly one of most powerful tool available for WordPress Multisite. It takes your sites on your network and list them in one spot.Packed full of features such as:

  • Auto creates a page called “Blogs” on the homepage of your network where it places a rather beautiful directory of all of the blogs on it.
  • Blogs can be displayed by Blog name (A-Z), newest or last updated from 5 to 50 listing per page
  • Ability to customize background color, alternate background color and border color of the blogs directory
  • Search field for easily locate specific blogs

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Once installed it should auto create a page called “Blogs” for you where it places a rather beautiful directory of all of the blogs on it. The blogs display alphabetically and in a paginated form – which you can easily change with a few tweaks. Alongside each blog is displayed it’s avatar (as set by our avatar plugin). At the top and bottom of every page you have Next and Previous pagination. And there’s even a search field :) Here it is in action….

Blogs Directory

Happy directorising! And here’s other similar WPMU DEV plugins for your WordPress multisite you might like:

  1. Global Site Search – provides global search across all sites on your network with ease
  2. Global Site Tags – Displays global site tag for your entire network

Enjoy!

Usage

Start by reading Installing plugins section in our comprehensive WordPress and WordPress Multisite Manualif you are new to WordPress Multisite.

To install:

  1. Download the plugin file
  2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
  3. Upload /blogs-directory/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
  4. Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate it there.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

  • That’s it! No configuration necessary!

To use:

It should auto create a page called “Blogs” on your main blog where anyone can search to locate a blogs. On the off chance the page isn’t auto created all you need to do is create a page with the slug “blogs” without the quotes. Creating the blog page

Changing how blogs are displayed in your Blogs Directory is as simple as:

1. Go to Network Admin > Blogs Directory

2. Select your preferred sort by option i.e. display by alphabetical order, newest blogs created, or most recently updated blogs

Changing blog order in Blog Directory

3. Select the number of blogs you want to display per page

Changing number of blogs displayed per page in Blogs Directory

4. Adjust the color scheme, if you want

5. Click Save Changes

Searching for a blog for your user’s it is as simple as:

1. Go to your Blog Directory on your homepage.

2. Click on the blog you want to check out

Using the blogs directory

3. Alternatively add the blog URL you want to locate and then click search.

  • The Blog Directory searches blog URLs not blog titles
  • It must be entered as theedublogger.com and not http://theedublogger.com/

Customization

You can change the page slug used by Blogs Directory by opening blogs-directory.php and editing the slug on line 34, which by default reads as follows:

$blogs_directory_base = ‘blogs’;

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