Directories Pro plugin for WordPress

Description

With Directories Pro Plugin, Unlock Your Website’s Potential on WordPress

The Directories Pro WordPress plugin is an all-in-one solution that will elevate your website into a fully functional directory website. Whether you want to build a local business directory like Yelp, a user directory, or a property listing website, this plugin has all the tools and features that you need.

Manage All of Your Directories

• All-Inclusive: No limit to the number of directories created. All can be created under a single installation of WordPress.
• Fully Customizable: Each directory can have categories, tags, locations, reviews, claims, and payments settings enabled or disabled separately.
• Easy Data Handling: Seamlessly export and import directory settings and content to help with backups and transitions.

Fully Customizable Content

• Integration of Custom Fields: Supersize directories with additional custom fields to enhance listings, reviews, claims, categories, tags, and locations.
• Conditional Logic: Set rules where fields can appear based on criteria chosen by the user.
• User Role Control: Access to content visibility can be controlled depending on the user role.

Advanced Filtering and Search

• Improved Searching Capability: Advanced searching can be provided using an advanced search box with auto-suggest for users to easily navigate through the website.
• Options for Filters: Adjust the filter forms with dynamic facet counts so that users can further filter their search results.
• Support for Geolocation: Allow users to search and filter through listings that are relevant to their current locations.

Opportunities for Monetization

• Integrating WooCommerce: Monetize your directories with a fee to users to submit new listings or to claim existing ones with effortless integration of WooCommerce.
• Flexible Pricing Options: Provide add-on plans with prorated discounts to cater to varying user needs for maximum revenue.
• Subscription Management: WooCommerce Subscriptions i.e. recurring payments provide reliable income.

User Submission & Contribution Made Easy

• Frontend Submission Forms: Users can easily submit listings and reviews directly from the front end, providing ease of contribution.
• Comprehensive User Dashboards: Users can view submissions, claims, and reviews through a comprehensive and intuitive frontal dashboard.
• Guest Capabilities: Increase content by enabling guest users to post listings and reviews without creating an account.

Different Ways to Show with Views

• Flexible Presentation of Content: Listings, reviews, categories, tags, and locations can be shown as list, grid, or even a masonry view.
• Engaging Media Integration: Properties can be slide through and showcased using photo sliders and carousels to promote listings.
• Custom Queries Modification: Users can modify the default queries to suit their information needs and expect to find relevant content.

Thorough Review System

• Multi-Faceted Reviews: Add advanced mechanisms for feedback by setting up adjustable multi-criteria rating where details of the satisfaction level could be captured in a 5-star system.
• Filtering by Review Ratings: Users can filter listings based on review ratings for easier sifting through options when making decisions.
• Review Star Rating Statistics: Provide star or criteria rating breakdown to them for better understanding of the performance of the listing.

SEO Features

• SEO Plugin Compatibility: Compatibility with the most popular SEO plugins, like Yoast SEO, Rank Math, etc., to make sure your directory is on the top of search results.
• Permalink Structure: Add custom URL structures for more optimization of the listings, categories, tags, and locations for SEO.
• Support for Structured Data: Create custom schema.org JSON-LD and OpenGraph meta tags to enhance the presence of the business on the search engines.

Other Features

• Map Display: Show the listings on maps using Google Maps API or free OpenStreetMap with Leaflet.js for the users to see where they are located in reference to other places.
• Privacy Policies: Allow your directory to comply with user data regulations in order to gain the trust from your users.
• Content Translation: With the help of WPML and Polylang, reach out to audiences from all over the world by presenting content in various languages.
• Claim Your Business Listing: Enable businesses to claim their listings and keep/edit to ensure correctness of the information presented.

Conclusion

With the intent of helping small business owners and web designers, we offer premium priced WordPress plugins, themes, and template kits for sale.

Our products are GPL-licensed unlike our competitors, allowing us to sell unlimited domain means. Support for installation is offered to aid seamless installation, but product support is not inclusive.

It is advisable to purchase directly from the author for support.

Frequently Asked Questions

During installation, how do I fix, “Invalid plugins or invalid themes found” error?

The downloaded file contains more than one plugin or theme. Unzip the downloaded file to view its contents. Each one must be uploaded and installed independently.

In case I come across the “style.css not found” error, what am I to do?

If a plugin is uploaded in the theme installation section, this error is likely to occur. Instead, it needs to be done from “Plugins” > “Add New” > “Upload Plugin” to perform the desired action.

How do I fix “PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT” error?

This error means that the file has multiple themes or plugins. Unzip the main downloaded file, then upload or install each plugin or theme one at a time.

What are the steps I would need to take in order to update or install a theme or plugin?

For Updating or Installing Themes:

• Head to the WordPress Dashboard.
• Go to “Appearance” > “Themes.”
• Click on “Add New” and then “Upload Theme.”
• Upload the zipped file and activate the theme.

For Plugins:

• Go to “Plugins” > “Add New.”
• Click “Upload Plugin.”
• Upload the zipped file and activate the plugin.