The easiest way to build an online WordPress directory website is to install Web 2.0 Directory plugin. As well it is really easy to convert any existing site into a fully featured directory business website with the directory plugin. WordPress directory plugin for any purposes, and examples would be classifieds, events directory, cars, bikes, boats and other vehicles dealers site, restaurants, pets, real estate portal, wedding site, yellow pages, local directories, map store locator.
There are multiple options to to set up revenue generating streams and control them on your personal WordPress dashboard. You can use the plugin for both free and paid listings. The plugin allows visitors to submit new listings or even packages of listings, claim and manage existing listings using the website frontend. Moreover, it also features location based directory. Maps & map markers functionality gives users fast and easy ability to find nearby places by powerful search system.
The plugin offers tons of features. Print listing, save in bookmarks, download in PDF, SEO friendly pages, images, YouTube and Vimeo videos attachments, custom fields, custom icons, customize colors and much more customization options.
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Possible revenue
- listings activation* – after successful payment the listing status becomes “active” and displays at the frontend
- listings renewal* – this feature processes directory listing renewal
- listings raise up – raise up listings to the top of all lists, those ordered by date
- listings upgrade/downgrade – charge users if they wish to make their listings featured or sticky and auto-downgrade after expiration
- listings claim* – after successful approval of claim new owner need to pay to renew the listing
* PayPal subscriptions available
WooCommerce directory plugin
With WooCommerce payments system you can:
- manage orders and products in WooCommerce dashboard
- set up additional payment gateways available as WooCommerce Extensions
- compatible with WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin
- make scheduled sales
- give users discount coupons
- manage fees and taxes for listings products
- build reports of sales
- give refunds to users
- realize lots of ideas for your business model with WooCommerce Extensions
How to use WooCommerce with directory plugin
Features of wordpress directory plugin
- Restrict ads by listings levels
- Sell packages of listings
- PayPal payment gateway including PayPal subscriptions
- Stripe payments service
- Frontend dashboard for regular users
- Invoices management
- WooCommerce payments system compatible
- Sticky and featured listings options
- Raise up directory listings – this option may be payment
- Renew expired listings – this option may be payment
- Upgrade/downgrade listings levels – this option may be payment
- 5-star ratings for listings
- Customizable content fields of different types
- Font Awesome icons for custom content fields
- Category-based content fields
- Order directory listings by rating, distance, content fields
- Powerful search by content fields
- Icons for categories
- Search by categories and locations
- SEO friendly – fully compatible with Yoast WordPress SEO plugin
- Locations search in radius – results displaying on map
- Multiple locations for one listing
- Google Maps and MapBox (OpenStreetMap) integrated
- Search form on a map
- Custom map markers
- Draw search area on a map
- Comments on listings
- YouTube and Vimeo videos attachments for listings
- Images AJAX uploading
- Contact listing owner form + integration with Contact Form 7 plugin
- Bookmarks functionality
- Print listing option
- Get listing in PDF option
- Adapted for reCaptcha
- Fully customizable and easy in configuration
- The plugin uses custom post types and taxonomies
- Responsive design based on Twitter Bootstrap
- Fully compatible with Visual composer and SIteOrigin page builder
- directory shortcodes, including: listings, maps, categories, locations, search box, slider
- directory widgets: search widget, categories widget, locations widget, listings widget, buttons, map, slider, sidebars widgets
- Custom Google Map and MapBox styles
- Supports RTL (Right To Left) – layout, functionality, UI widgets
- CSV import/export/bulk update with ability to import images files
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Please, note, that Google Maps is no longer free. You must enable billing with a credit card and have a valid API key for all of your projects. https://developers.google.com/maps/billing/understanding-cost-of-use
Google Maps Platform gives $200 credit monthly which gives near 28.000 map loads per month for free.
This is requirement of Google Maps service and not the plugin itself.
WordPress directory plugin conception
Levels of listings control the functionality amount of listings and their directory/classifieds conception.
Each listing may belong to different levels, some may have eternal active period, have sticky status and enabled Google Maps or OpenStreet Maps (MapBox), other may have greater number of allowed attached images or videos. It is perfect base for business model of your directory site.
Each content field belongs to the type that defines its behaviour and display. You may hide field name, select custom field icon, set field as required, manage visibility on pages. Also listings may be ordered by some fields. Note that you may assign fields for specific categories. This is important feature allows to build category-specific content fields.
For instance: there may be special ‘price’ field especially in ‘Classifieds/For sale’ category and all its subcategories, so this field will appear only in listings, those were assigned with this category.
Changelog
Version 2.7.7 - May 13, 2021
- improvement: MapBox GL version was updated
- bug fix: php error in directory_controller.php after last update
Version 2.7.6 - May 10, 2021
- new shortcode: [webdirectory-page-title]
- improvement: 'hide_listings' parameter in listings shortcode to hide listings on load before search
- bug fix: noindex meta enabled in Yoast SEO plugin in Imitation mode
- bug fix: [webdirectory-listings] shortcode 'order_by' parameter did not follow on search
Version 2.7.5 - April 21, 2021
- new feature: Imitation mode - some themes require imitation mode to get working listings/categories/locations/tags pages
- bug fix: slider shortcode was not working after previous update
- bug fix: show search button by default on custom home pages
- bug fix: close button at the map marker info window did not work on MapBox maps
Version 2.7.4 - April 6, 2021
- improvement: better compatibility with popular themes
- new feature: directories="ID" parameter was added into [webdirectory-dashboard] shortcode
- improvement: paid listing will not become expired after auto-downgrade to free level
- bug fix: "Save listing in PDF" button was not working in Chrome
- bug fix: bulk frontend submission page creation
- bug fix: [webdirectory-listing-page] shortcode did not follow directory=ID parameter
Version 2.7.3 - March 22, 2021
- new setting: hide search button on the form
- new setting: auto-scroll to listings on search submit
- improvement: map marker info window generated in template now
- bug fix: do shortcodes on [webdirectory-listing-page]
Version 2.7.2 - March 16, 2021
- improvement: adapted for Elementor
- bug fix: wrong content on categories pages
Version 2.7.1 - March 10, 2021
- improvement: flush rewrite rules on update
Version 2.7.0 - March 10, 2021
- improvement: custom post type pages used now
- bug fix: PDFmyURL service URL repaired
- bug fix: wrong CSS in grid columns on iPad
Version 2.6.13 - February 24, 2021
- improvement: MapBox geolocation service follows language
- improvement: WooCommerce Subscriptions updated to fit new listings level subscription on listings upgrades
- improvement: display sibling categories and locations when current term does not have neither children, nor listings
- bug fix: removed wrong opengraph tags of the SEO plugin
Version 2.6.12 - January 29, 2021
- improvement: updater message was added
- improvement: additional map marker info field was added in CSV import
- bug fix: sticky-scroll maps have not been resized after page load
Version 2.6.11 - December 28, 2020
- bug fix: wrong categories and locations listings counts
Version 2.6.10 - December 15, 2020
- improvement: custom sorting of Categories and Locations items
- improvement: reCAPTCHA v3 was added
- bug fix: listings did not apply from listings packages
Version 2.6.9 - November 4, 2020
- improvement: added levels parameter into the [webdirectory] shortcode
- bug fix: wrong UK address autocomplete code for the MapBox geocoder
- bug fix: php errors on listings level creation
- bug fix: wrong categories and locations listings counts
Version 2.6.8 - October 17, 2020
- improvement: added scroll to the map when "show on map" icon was clicked on a listing
- improvement: [webdirectory-submit] shortcode with levels parameter was not working in SiteOrigin editor
- improvement: added invoice ID column in the Directory invoices table and search by invoice ID
- new setting: enable/disable HTML and shortcodes in the listing description field
- bug fix: MapBox clusters did not clear after map update
Version 2.6.7 - September 28, 2020
- new feature: specify which users can submit listings by user roles
- improvement: better compatibility with the new version of Yoast SEO plugin v14 (Open Graph meta tags)
- bug fix: separate translation strings of expiration email notification subjects
- bug fix: missing CSS slider on certain occasions
Version 2.6.6 - September 14, 2020
- bug fix: error message after v2.6.4 update
Version 2.6.5 - September 12, 2020
- bug fix: error message after v2.6.4 update
- bug fix: jQuery deprecated methods were removed
- bug fix: lighbox gallery did not open on some mobile devices
Version 2.6.4 - September 8, 2020
- improvement: categories and locations listings count related to their directory only, listings count per each directory individually
- improvement: rating_stars parameter in [webdirectory-listings] shortcode
- improvement: MapBox library version was updated
- bug fix: compatibility with wpDiscuz plugin
- bug fix: wp_update_post() in payments checkout fall into inifinite loop on certain occasions
- bug fix: RTL support on delete image button
Version 2.6.3 - August 12, 2020
- improvement: ability to set post status along with the listing status in CSV file
- improvement: better compatibility with the new version of Yoast SEO plugin v14 (canonical URLs)
- bug fix: show login form after logout from the invoices dashboard tab
- bug fix: payments addon templates missing customization paths
- bug fix: summary field does not show since 2.6.0
- integration_hooks.php file explaining some w2dc filters
Version 2.6.2 - August 5, 2020
- bug fix: pagination of related listings shortcode did not work on certain occasions
- our plugins section updated
Version 2.6.1 - July 29, 2020
- improvement: listing level name on the WooCommerce checkout page
- bug fix: listings comments template appear in regular WP posts and pages on certain occasions
- bug fix: empty places when "No Maps" selected
Version 2.6.0 - July 22, 2020
- new feature: add predefined locations at the frontend submission form
- new feature: specify which users can see listings by user roles
- improvement: better compatibility with the new version of Yoast SEO plugin v14 (follow default titles of taxonomies items)
- improvement: load bxslider on single listing only when multiple images
- bug fix: broken comments counter at the single listings page
- bug fix: wrong "select map marker" dialog
Version 2.5.20 - June 2, 2020
- improvement: better compatibility with the new version of Yoast SEO plugin v14 (content fields snippets support)
Version 2.5.19 - June 1, 2020
- improvement: ability to limit number of tags per listings level
- improvement: better compatibility with the new version of Yoast SEO plugin v14 (robots metadata)
Version 2.5.18 - May 22, 2020
- bug fix: CSS issue after 2.5.17
Version 2.5.17 - May 22, 2020
- improvement: license keys information was added to the debug
- bug fix: breadcrumbs have left a home link even disabled
- bug fix: do not auto-zoom on a map when auto-geolocation enabled
Version 2.5.15 - May 20, 2020
- bug fix: map markers icons by category problem
- bug fix: implode() php error in ajax controller
Version 2.5.14 - May 19, 2020
- improvement: related_listing parameter was added to slider shortcode to display images of current listing
- improvement: text value instead of ID in the checkboxes/select/radio content fields CSV export
- improvement: Contact Form 7 _post_ shortcodes compatibility
- improvement: ability to delete pending listings at the frontend dashboard
- improvement: take listings map markers icons from the most relevant category on the search
- improvement: adapted for the new version of Yoast SEO plugin v14
- new setting: hide listing title on a single listing page
- bug fix: map AJAX search on certain occasions
- bug fix: CSS issue on checkboxes on mobile devices
Version 2.5.13 - April 2, 2020
- new shortcodes: [webdirectory-content-field] and [webdirectory-content-fields-group]
- new widgets: display certain content field and content fields group on a single listing page
- new setting: enable/disable map on a single listing page
- bug fix: 0 value in CSV import of digital content field was missed
- bug fix: contact form does not appear on certain occasions
Version 2.5.12 - March 11, 2020
- improvement: images slider was updated
- improvement: upload own image icons to content fields
- improvement: 'more filters' search section appears only when filters ready for the search
- bug fix: hide empty categories does not work on certain occasions
- bug fix: hidden content fields in the metabox on certain occasions
- bug fix: 'w2dc-listing-level-{LEVEL_ID}' CSS class was moved to relevant div
Version 2.5.11 - February 16, 2020
- improvement: 'search nearby' label was added in addresses search dropdown
- improvement: 'w2dc-listing-level-{LEVEL_ID}' CSS class was added
- improvement: Vafpress Framework was updated to avoid conflict with select2
- bug fix: listings links in WPML
- bug fix: bounce map markers animation on hover a listing when clusters enabled
- bug fix: avoid conflicts in WP Query from another plugins on sertain occasions
Version 2.5.10 - January 28, 2020
- improvement: the plugin was adapted to work with Ratings & Reviews plugin for WordPress
- deprecated: richtext reviews in Ratings addon
- bug fix: php warnings and error messages after the previous update
Version 2.5.9 - January 23, 2020
- bug fix: REST API and Loopback Request issues were fixed
- bug fix: missing Listings Directories section after the previous update
Version 2.5.8 - January 21, 2020
- improvement: setting to change the size of Font Awesome map markers
- improvement: automatic update by access token
Version 2.5.7 - January 20, 2020
- improvement: correct redirect on login/registration/claim listing
- improvement: avoid broken lazyload images of some optimization plugins
- improvement: dashboard notice on how many listings a user has in his packages
- improvement: review info metabox at the frontend dashboard
- improvement: bounce map markers on hover a listing
- improvement: listing-thumbnail (800x600) image size was added into WordPress
- bug fix: breadcrumbs micro-data schema issue on sertain occasions
Version 2.5.6 - December 25, 2019
- improvement: breadcrumbs micro-data schema was improved
Version 2.5.5 - December 16, 2019
- bug fix: javascript errors on widgets page on certain occasions
- bug fix: force to convert json input into UTF-8 on AJAX responses
- bug fix: the setting to hide Listing ratings metabox did not work
Version 2.5.4 - December 4, 2019
- improvement: scroll to search input top on click on touch devices
- bug fix: search input reset did not work on certain occasions
Version 2.5.3 - November 26, 2019
- bug fix: JS error in conflict with Revolution Slider after the last update
- bug fix: PHP warnings on update
- bug fix: PHP warnings on checkboxes content fields
Version 2.5.2 - November 19, 2019
- improvement: re-calculate listings ratings after reset action or reviews changes
- improvement: highlight map markers on hover a listing
- bug fix: paypal IPN was not valid when French characters persist in serialized metadata
- bug fix: php warning on tags pages
- bug fix: missing search field on the mapbox full screen mode
Version 2.5.1 - November 7, 2019
-improvement: 'ratings' parameter was added to [webdirectory-listings] shortcode
- bug fix: hide export options when reviews disabled, use listings export by default
- bug fix: images upload AJAX response was not converted into JSON for some reason
Version 2.5.0 - October 28, 2019
- new feature: checkboxes content field has ability to add icons near items
- new feature: new content field type "phone", allows to add special meta tags to make call by click or open needed app (Viber, WhatsApp, Telegram)
- new feature: content fields groups on submission page now have own metaboxes and could be sorted
- new feature: listing info metabox at the frontend dashboard
- new feature: added images metadata info (file size and dimensions) on the submission form
- new feature: import images by URLs in CSV file
- new setting: PDF page orientation - either portrait or landscape
- improvement: MapBox library version was updated
- improvement: listings counter in checkboxes search field follows directory parameter
- improvement: added notice to enable maps first when no maps is used for the maps shortcode
- improvement: Google Places autocomplete service displays more relevant suggestions
- improvement: layout wraps images gallery by the first fields group
- improvement: removed empty space when all fields names are hidden in fields group
- bug fix: submit and manage images on Android devices
- bug fix: conflict with WooCommerce Admin plugin
Version 2.4.7 - September 26, 2019
- improvement: 'open listing' label on the listing content in AJAX text search
- bug fix: invisible search fields depending on selected category
- bug fix: missing position field in breadcrumbs Schema.org microdata format
- bug fix: custom map markers path was broken when using files outside a folder
Version 2.4.6 - September 12, 2019
- improvement: white-space CSS rule was added to prevent broken layout in some themes
- bug fix: missing paragraph formatting in review content
- bug fix: broken Google Maps draw area feature
- bug fix: wrong address format on certain occasions
Version 2.4.5 - August 20, 2019
- improvement: sorting fields appear according to their directory
- improvement: leave comments system of installed theme after update to 2.4.x
- improvement: disable listings height re-calculation on mobile devices
Version 2.4.4 - July 28, 2019
- bug fix: missing post_ID field on CSV listings update
- bug fix: improvements in categories and locations widgets CSS
Version 2.4.3 - July 22, 2019
- improvement: MapBox map tiles follow browser language
- new feature: ability to add custom options in submission levels table
Version 2.4.2 - July 17, 2019
- improvement: better compatibility with PHP 7
- bug fix: error on CSV demo data import
Version 2.4.1 - July 14, 2019
- bug fix: miles instead of kilometers in visible search params
- bug fix: error on CSV demo data import
- bug fix: some CSS issues in ratings & reviews styles
- bug fix: php errors on listing with empty ratings & reviews
Version 2.4.0 - July 8, 2019
- new feature: richtext reviews and directory comments
- new feature: reviews widget
- new feature: import/export reviews in CSV file
- improvement: more userfriendly listings sorting links
- improvement: select specific levels for a content field on its own settings page
- improvement: ability to translate and switch languages MapBox Directions widget
- bug fix: Yoast SEO plugin meta description compatibility issue
- bug fix: page header shortcode subcategories/sublocations featured images
- bug fix: limit images upload and videos attachment
- bug fix: incorrect decimal numbers search
- bug fix: date-time content field in the map marker info window
- bug fix: javascript error on submission page
Version 2.3.3 - May 8, 2019
- new feature: sort listings images by drag & drop
- improvement: search prices and numbers content fields by min-max numbers into the text inputs
- improvement: MP4 mime type added for file upload content fields
- bug fix: image upload AJAX request does not call success in admin on certain occasions
- bug fix: date-time field incorrect end date when empty
Version 2.3.2 - April 14, 2019
- bug fix: page content was displayed instead of listing summary on certain occasions
Version 2.3.1 - April 12, 2019
- improvement: better responsiveness of search checkboxes and radio items
- bug fix: sort listing tabs by fields groups
- bug fix: listings packages counter increase instead of decrease on renewal
- bug fix: full width of the map for custom home page 2 on some themes
- bug fix: import CSV locations coordinates without addresses
Version 2.3.0 - March 29, 2019
- new feature: custom registration and lost password pages
- new feature: listing report form
- new feature: sort listing tabs
- improvement: CSS of listings tabs for Enfold theme
- bug fix: duplicated map markers on certain occasions
Version 2.2.10 - March 22, 2019
- improvement: display site logo on listings print and pdf, invoices print
- improvement: better responsiveness of listings sidebar on the map
Version 2.2.9 - March 18, 2019
- new option: checkboxes columns on single listing page
- improvement: images gallery swipe on touch screens
- improvement: double-click zoom on map enabled
- improvement: listing level name in invoice
Version 2.2.8 - March 1, 2019
- new feature: show contact form only for logged in users
- improvement: increased speed of the search by text content fields
- bug fix: remove map canvas when maps are not used on frontend pages
- bug fix: big font size on submission tables with packages
- bug fix: error on missing locations levels
Version 2.2.7 - January 4, 2019
- improvement: MapBox clusters zoom in on click
- bug fix: auto-updater downloads limit issue
Version 2.2.6 - December 18, 2018
- new feature: visible search parameters
- new feature: settings to edit Sticky and Featured listings labels
- new feature: ability to export listings status in CSV files
- improvement: listings carousel more responsive
- bug fix: disable hyphens to dashes conversion in listings search autosuggestions
- bug fix: PHP Notices on Email Notifications settings tab
Version 2.2.5 - November 29, 2018
- new feature: ability to import listings status in CSV files
- new feature: option to hide content fields from another users except admins and listing author
- bug fix: setup autocomplete javascript error
Version 2.2.4 - November 12, 2018
- new option: Number of listings columns for mobile devices
- bug fix: AJAX paginator issues
Version 2.2.3 - November 10, 2018
- new feature: MapBox Custom Map Style
- improvement: warning messages on license verification
- deprecated: Initial AJAX loading option
Version 2.2.2 - November 1, 2018
- new feature: demo data import
- bug fix: transparent categories and locations search dropdowns background
Version 2.2.1 - October 23, 2018
- new feature: ability to import CSV files with WPML translations
- new feature: ability date-time content field to set up a range of dates
- improvement: added INR and RUB currencies in the payments currencies list
- bug fix: hide decimals option of price content field
Version 2.2.0 - October 8, 2018
- new feature: MapBox (OpenStreetMap) support
- new feature: search input reset button
- improvement: added .w2dc-body CSS class
- bug fix: disable autosuggestion on search inputs
- bug fix: auto-updater new version notification
Version 2.1.8 - September 20, 2018
- improvement: "Enter a location" Google Places placeholder was removed
- bug fix: Google Maps fit bounds issue
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