Description
Are you looking for a simple directory website builder for WordPress? With Business Directory Plugin, you can be in control without a developer.
You’ve found the most popular, versatile, and easy to use WordPress directory plugin available. Increase interaction on your WordPress site, improve customer retention and add a generate revenue with our WordPress business directory plugin!
Our easy WordPress directory plugin allows you to take the listings you want and build a local directory, simple directory of providers, a real estate listings site, a Yellow-Pages directory, a Yelp clone with review sections, an address book directory, a book review site (like Goodreads), and much more.
Not only can you create business listings, but you can also build any other kind of listings directory. Build a team or employee directory, company directory, medical directory, and other web directory sites with our easy listing plugin.
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Get Simple Listing Solutions
Here are just a few things our community is doing to build connections, help communities, and grow traffic with our directory website builder:
- Start a listing manager service for providers. (Like counselors, plumbers, electricians, house cleaning, locksmiths, therapists, wedding vendors, veterinarians, consultants, photographers, artists, authors, etc.)
- Make a Yelp-clone with reviews to connect travelers to hotels, tours, local businesses, and other visitor attractions.
- Help people find resources for a city or small community. (Like sporting club listings, a church directory, local farms with produce, and Chamber of Commerce.)
- Advertise businesses & sell listings to the owners.
- Offer listings as a membership feature.
- Help students make connections to study groups and an academic staff directory.
Create an online directory to become the “go to” source of your niche. Download Business Directory Plugin for WordPress now. It’s fast, easy, and flexible.
Free WordPress Listing Plugin Features
See all WordPress listing plugin features.
- Fully customizable form fields to submit listings
- Upload images per listing, allow restricted numbers of images based on fee plan
- Lots of image options: drag and drop image uploads, easy image ordering, primary image settings, thumbnail sizing and more
- Accept paid or free listings with Authorize.net
- Full support for recurring payments
- Allow for featured/sticky listings for an upgrade fee
- Widgets for Featured, Latest and Random listings, and a Search widget.
- Create multiple fee plans, which can be assigned to categories for posting
- Built in CSV import and export for easy directory listing creation
- Avoid spam listings with ReCaptcha
- Sorting options for categories, listings, and front-end for users to choose sort order
- Users who post can edit listings without access to the WP dashboard. Our directory software is a great listing manager.
- SEO Friendly using Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO
- Quick-search and sorting bar for listings for simple directory searches
- Advanced search screen with ability to show/hide fields available for search
- Mobile-friendly, responsive support when installed with a responsive theme
- Multilingual directories with WPML
- Integrates with popular plugins like NavXT Breadcrumbs and WP-PageNavi for easy use
Professional Directory Software Add-ons
Create an easy directory with more functionality with extra add-ons.
For a detailed list of features, please visit: BusinessDirectoryPlugin.com
- File Upload – Allow users to upload and manage attachments on listings. Include PDFs, text files, and images in business listings.
- Featured Levels – Assign features to paid or sticky listing plans to give users incentive to upgrade.
- ZIP Code Search – ZIP code/postal code radius and proximity searches supporting a number of countries.
- Regions – Location based listing result filtering.
- Ratings and Reviews – Create reviews with connections to each listing to rate listings (with Schema.org microformat). It’s a WordPress review plugin!
- Google Maps – Display the geo location of the listing for a geo directory (categories, search, details — with custom map sizes)
- Discount Codes – Ability to offer discount codes based on a % or fixed amount with expirations.
- Claim Listings – Post claimable listings that other users can pay (or not) to claim.
- Enhanced Categories – Display images or icons with categories, with Parent-Child Categories.
Payment Gateways for Paid Listings (Premium)
- Stripe Gateway – Accept paid listings with Stripe payments.
- PayPal Gateway – Accept payments using PayPal.
- PayFast Gateway – Accept payments using PayFast.
- Authorize.net Gateway.
Premium Directory Themes
Transform your WP directory site the easy way with a few clicks. Our business directory templates are designed not to take over as a full WordPress theme.
- Elegant Grid Theme
- Modern Theme
- Business Card Theme
- Tabbed Theme
- Elegant Theme
- Mobile Compact Theme
- Restaurant Directory Theme
For more information please visit businessdirectoryplugin.com
Docs
Please see our Documentation.We also have an FAQ Section and our Quick Start guide.
Installation
Please see our detailed Installation Guide, the Getting Started Guide for common how-to scenarios, and our Initial Setup page for instructions on how to get going quickly with our business directory software.
Full documentation for the plugin is also available.
FAQ
For the definitive FAQ section, please visit the FAQ Section, or our Getting Started guide.
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Can I accept paid and free listings?
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Yes it can. You can do this by creating fee plans for 0.00 and some other paid amount at the same time. For more details, read this article.
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Do you have video tutorials for building WordPress directories?
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Yes we do. They can be found here.
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Will this plugin work with my theme?
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Our WP directory plugin will work with any well-written, WP compliant theme. Generally speaking, paid themes tend to be higher quality than free ones.
Whatever theme you pick, we recommend using the Theme Check plugin (available for free on WordPress.org) to validate a theme. The more errors and warnings you see on the theme when you run that check, the worse the theme is. You can read more about it at https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-check/
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Can I translate my web directories?
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Yes! We offer many user-provided translations under the /languages folder. It is already available in the following languages:
- Spanish
- French
- German
- Russian
- Italian
- Polish
- Arabic
- Swedish
And you can also easily translate it yourself.
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Is this plugin compatible with WordPress Multisite (WPMU)?
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Yes it is. However, you cannot “network activate” the plugin (as this will share the database). Activate it on only the sub sites you need it.
This can be done under Plugins -> Add New as the Administrator user. Do not “network activate” as the “super admin”.
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What types of directories can I build?
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Our directory website builder software combined with our add-on modules is the most powerful directory plugin on the market. The options are limitless. Here are a few types of directories you can create:
- Business listings
- Company directory
- Team directory
- Member directory
- Staff directory / Employee directory
- Hotel directory
- Medical directory
- Restaurant directory
- Church directory
- Travel review directories
- Software review sites
- Professional directory
- Local provider listings (like a Yelp clone)
- A Yellow Pages directory
- Online magazine listings
- Website listings
- Book review sites
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Business Directory Plugin – Easy Listing Directories for WordPress” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
5.13.1
- New: Allow the part/templates to be overridden
- New: Include the author column on the admin listings page
- New: Show the count in the search results
- Fix: Get rid of a couple PHP warnings
5.13
- New: Add settings to change the words “Directory”, “Listings”, and “Listing” under Listings -> General Settings.
- New: Add wpbdp_custom_strings hook to replace additional strings.
- Security: Sanitize and escape more settings (fees, fields, general settings)
5.12.2
- New: Remove the id from listing url by default on new installs.
- New: Use css for the featured banner by deafult instead of an image. This makes the ‘Featured’ label translatable.
- Fix: Some of the filters in the admin listing table were causing SQL errors.
5.12.1
- New: Add a new validator option to fields to not allow urls. This prevents URLS that include http, www., or .com.
- New: Add wpbdp_is_bd_page filter for add-ons to load BD scripts.
- Fix: Don’t send renewal reminders for draft listings.
- Fix: Refactor and simplify the Ajax compatibility mode to work without creating a new plugin. If this ajax plugin is installed, it will be removed on update.
5.12
- New: Add an option to set a custom “Coming Soon” image.
- Code: A bit of cleanup for the more recent WP versions.
- Fix: An error prevented listings from being created from the back-end.
- Fix: When an image is removed from a link, don’t delete it from the media library if it’s still being used in another listing.
- Fix: Some listing images were not being removed correctly from a listing when removed from the back-end.
- Fix: Prevent an error when the default free plan is deleted.
5.11.2
- Security: Lots of security fixes after a security audit. This includes XSS, Cross-Site Request Forgery, and unprotected import and export files.
- Fix: Some combination of add-ons was preventing the listing form from progressing.
- Fix: Post duplicator plugins were resulting in an endless loop when updating or deleting a duplicated listing.