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Directorist – AI-Powered WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings

Directorist – AI-Powered WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings

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Struggling to create a niche directory or classified ad website that stands out?

You’re not alone—many find it overwhelming to manage listings and keep everything organized.

Discover Directorist, the AI-powered solution that simplifies directory & classified creations smarter, faster, and more secure. And, eventually, it enhances user experience like never before.

Using Directorist, the opportunities for scalability in a directory site go beyond the boundary. At
Directorist, the Preferences tab in the Dashboard is where you can easily customize settings, like hiding contact forms or showing emails, to suit your style.

Moreover, serving as a multifaceted platform, it offers different avenues for generating income, providing community service, supporting business operations, enhancing existing ventures, and more. The secret of creating a powerful and lucrative directory and classified website lies in the shell of the Directorist.

Let’s jump right straight into the juicy part of Directorist.

🎉 Use Best Listing FREE multi-purpose directory theme for a quick start.

THE ONLY WORDPRESS BUSINESS DIRECTORY PLUGIN YOU NEED

Introducing our robust Directorist, optimized for scalability to an ocean of listings, providing a dynamic experience for managing your online directory and classified website. With Directorist, easily create directories and classifieds by location, category, and interests—all without any coding required.

🔥🔥🔥 Directorist Mobile App for Android & iOS 🔥🔥🔥
Boost your directory website’s accessibility and interactivity while turning visitors into paying customers with the Directorist mobile app!
🔥🔥🔥 AI-Generated Directory Creation 🔥🔥🔥
One of our standout features is AI-driven directory creation, which accelerates and streamlines the content creation for directories, making it faster, smarter, and more efficient.
Enhanced Integrations with Popular Page Builders Like Bricks
The enhanced integrations of Directorist with Gutenberg, Elementor, and the latest integration with Bricks, Directorist provide the flexibility you need to build a lucrative directory in the blink of an eye.
28 Pre-Made Templates
Directorist now offers over 28 pre-made templates, allowing users to quickly set up their directories without having to start from scratch. Amazing, right?
Redesigned Login and Registration Forms
We’ve also redesigned the login and registration forms to provide a more user-friendly and visually appealing interface, making it easier for users to interact with your site.

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👉 Official Support : Contact

The design of Directorist has been completely revamped with a sleek, modern look that elevates the aesthetics and usability of your directory site.

WHY SHOULD YOU USE DIRECTORIST – THE AI BUILDER FOR CLASSIFIED AND DIRECTORY WEBSITE?

👉 Multi Directory: Boost your business directory possibilities by creating multiple directory types within the same directory.

👉 Custom Form and Layout Builder: Directorist form and layout builder allows you to build custom add listing and search form using drag and drop technology.

👉 Listing CSV Import/Export with Custom Field: The new Directorist, the best AI directory builder allows you to import listings with custom fields from the CSV file for no cost.

👉 Beginner Friendly: Thoughtfully designed user interface lets users operate the plugin with zero coding skills and get the most compelling user experience.

👉 Monetize and Earn: Expand your business with amazing monetization features that allow you to create an additional income stream and generate unlimited revenue flow.

👉 Highly Extensible and Customizable: Enhance the functionalities of your directory site with robust extensions and customize using the most popular page builder— Elementor.

👉 Booking System*: Develop a service or event-oriented booking directory with scheduling functionality to hoist the possibilities of your directory business.

👉 Live Chat*: Integrate a private messaging system on your directory listing website that allows users to have a real-time private conversation with business owners.

👉 Gutenberg Blocks: Directorist offers 16 blocks/widgets for the Gutenberg editor, which is the default visual interface for editing WordPress posts and pages.
👉 ** Sleek Checkout and Payment Process

Let’s take a look at some of the core features that set this AI Directory Builder apart from others:

CORE DIRECTORIST FEATURES AT A GLANCE

  • Compatible with all themes including popular ones such as Avada, Divi, Astra, and OceanWP.
  • CSV Import/Export (listing, category, location, tag, media, etc.).
  • Highly optimized and rocket-fast performance to ensure scalability.
  • 25+ Elementor Page Builder widgets.
  • Gutenberg support and 16 Gutenberg blocks.
  • Advanced search filters with custom filter.
  • Front-end and Back-end listing submission.
  • Front-end user dashboard to manage listings.
  • Open Street Map and Google Map Integration.
  • Unlimited custom fields on the listing form.
  • 100% responsive and modern-day design.
  • WooCommerce multi-vendor plugin compatible [Exclusive].
  • Built-in SEO optimization system as well as Yoast SEO compatibility.
  • Personalize the directory using a wide range of shortcodes.
  • GDPR compliant.
  • Ajax-powered listing and review submission.
  • Listing owner contact form.
  • Bulk or individual user announcement
  • Listing image slider.
  • Listing and Review submission without login (Guest Submission).
  • Listing reviews and ratings.
  • Google reCAPTCHA
  • Custom sidebar for single listing page.
  • Custom user Registration and Login.
  • New, Popular, Featured, and Open/Close badges.
  • Create an Unlimited listing based on location and category.
  • List and grid view for categories, locations, and listings pages.
  • Translate to any language effortlessly using the Loco Translate plugin.
  • Sustainable for long-term use.
  • Updated regularly for flawless operation.
  • Multiple directory templates within a single theme
  • Intuitive and seamless UI
  • Brand-new sidebar filter layout
  • Modern and improved form for Add listings

Advanced Review System
Introducing a new review system that supports multi-criteria and media. Now users can provide more detailed feedback, increasing trust and engagement.

Beautiful Modern Design and 100% Responsive Attire

Directorist offers modern, responsive designs with flexible grid, list, and map views. Instantly launch your business directory with popular theme compatibility, including Astra, Avada, and Divi.

Easy Translation, RTL & Built-in SEO Solution

Easily translate your business directory or classified websites with the Loco Translate plugin, which lets you edit translations directly in the browser and boosts your site’s SEO.

👉 Multilingual Facility: Directory listing websites created by Directorist Business Directory are 100% translatable and can be translated into multiple languages.

👉 Built-in SEO: Directorist Business Directory plugin lets you set custom meta titles and descriptions on every directory page. It is also compatible with the Yoast SEO plugin.

👉 RTL (Right to Left): Directorist Business Directory plugin is fully compatible with RTL languages like Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, etc.

Powerful Ajax-Powered Instant Search and Advanced Filters

The Directorist & Classified Listings’ advanced filter allows users to search listings with precision, using criteria like custom fields, tags, and price range, as well as default text, category, and location fields—taking their search experience to a whole new level.

  • Filtering using numerous fields to yield accurate results.
  • Geolocation and nearby listings.
  • Radius search based on address and zip.
  • Use custom fields as search filters.
  • Search widgets with 14 different filters.

CSV Import/Export

Get a compelling user-friendly system that simplifies the migration process by letting you import thousands of listings from a CSV file.

  • Complete migration to Directorist Business Directory in just a few clicks.
  • Import thousands of listings or more in no time.
  • Map any field types to Directory listing fields.

Unlimited Custom Fields

Add unlimited custom fields to accommodate custom requirements on the listing form also, you can use custom fields as search filters to get the best search results. You can add fields like select, file, URL, radio, checkbox, and many more

  • Create unlimited custom fields for the listing form.
  • Create custom fields by choosing from 11 different field types.
  • Search using custom fields for accurate search results.

Extensive Monetization Facility

Directorist Business Directory & Classified Listings allows you to monetize your business directory website in various ways. Let’s take a look at them:

👉 Featured Listing: Earn money by featuring each of the listings of your site users according to their purchase. In this process, you make listings featured and promote them that are displayed at the top of the listing page.
👉 Paid Listing*: Get paid for each listing your users submit! You can create unlimited pricing plans by providing different sets of values to get paid by listing the submissions. To make it happen requires a cost-effective premium extension.
👉 Claim Listing*: Make money by allowing business owners to claim their listing and get verified.
👉 Pay Per Submit*: Earn by charging users to create a listing on your site.

*Requires Additional Purchase

Frontend Listing Submission and Listing Management

Directorist Business Directory & Classified Listings allows users to submit and manage listings from the front end of the site without having to log in to the admin panel.

  • Add listings using the frontend listing form.
  • Renew/Change plan from the frontend.
  • Intuitive user dashboard for managing the listings.

Multiple Mapping Source

Location or address search is an important aspect of a business directory and classified ads site. Directorist Business Directory provides a flexible mapping source offering Google Maps and OpenStreetMap to help users to find their desired service.

Robust Payment Gateways

More options for getting paid means more ways to earn revenue. By default, Directorist Business Directory allows you to use an offline payment method for free.

If you want to scale up your payment gateway using an online payment method, and you can use PayPal , Stripe or Authorize.Net by purchasing cost-effective extensions. Using this WordPress directory plugin, taxes and recurring options can be added into your online payment system respectively.

Developer Friendly

🎉 Templating: Directorist offers a robust templating system that allows you to override all the Directorist default template files without amending any of the plugin codes.

WordPress developers can extend the plugin functionalities infinitely using available hooks and filters.

Extensive Extensions

Directorist Business Directory offers cost-effective premium Extensions to extend the functionalities of your directory listing website.

👉 Pricing Plans – This feature extension allows you to create unlimited pricing plans with no time. Create private plans and set up recurring payments to your system which enhances your pricing plans on your directory listing website.

👉 WooCommerce Pricing Plans – This extension enables you to use all the payment gateway supported by WooCommerce itself.

👉 PayPal Payment Gateway – Get paid through the PayPal payment gateway on your directory listing website.

👉 Stripe Payment Gateway – This extension is used to accept payment through Credit Cards. Debit Cards, Visa Card, MasterCard, Apple Pay, Google Pay, AliPay, and many more. This 3D secured extension supports 135 currencies all through the world.

👉 Authorize.Net Payment Gateway – A secured payment solution that accepts a great number of payment options for Directorist Pricing Plan like Visa, MasterCard, Discover, AmEx, JCB, PayPal, and more.

👉 Booking(Reservation & Appointment) – Set up a system for booking online shows, consultations, seminar, wedding invitations, training classes, restaurant, saloon reservations, doctor appointment, lawyer, consultancy firm, and so on.

👉 Claim Listing – This add-on allows business owners to visit your site and pay to get the ownership of their specific listing just like Foursquare and Yelp with a few clicks.

👉 Post Your Need – You can hardly find this unique feature extension in any other directory listing plugins. It supports business owners to communicate with consumers and solve their problems on a personal level.

👉 Listing With Map – If you want to add a new layout that will show your listings with the map side by side bearing advanced filtering options, this feature extension would be the best bet for you. In this case, when you filter the listings, the search results will be updated without even loading the page.

👉 Live Chat – Integrate private messaging system on your directory listing website and make your business more credible by ensuring customer satisfaction.

👉 Image Gallery – This feature extension allows you to add unlimited images for your gallery on your directory listing website. You can use a lightbox with an image cropping facility on your website.

👉 Mark as Sold – This allows the listing authors an opportunity to let their visitors know if a particular item is sold or not on their directory listing website.

👉 Google ReCAPTCHA – Protect your directory site from spam registrations with this feature extension, using Google reCAPTCHA to block bots during user sign-up.

👉 Listing Slider & Carousel – Showcase your listings with stunning, customizable sliders and carousels anywhere on your site, using 18 slider and 28 carousel shortcode options.

👉 Business Hours – This feature displays business opening and closing times with customizable timezones and badge options.

👉 Listing FAQs – Add an FAQ section to your directory site to engage and convert visitors into loyal customers.

👉 Social Login – Let users register and log in via social media for a quick, hassle-free signup process on your directory site.

👉 Rank Featured Listings – Easily rank all featured listings on your directory website with this affordable, comprehensive extension.

👉 Compare Listings – Allows visitors to add a set of listings in a list and compare its features by viewing in a comparison table.

👉 Oxygen Builder Integration – It combines all the functionalities needed to create a complete WordPress directory website using Oxygen Builder.

👉 BuddyBoss Integration – It integrates Directorist with BuddyBoss, combining features to build a full community-driven directory website on WordPress.

👉 BuddyPress Integration – Directorist – BuddyPress Integration is a premium extension that seamlessly combines Directorist and BuddyPress, enabling you to create a hybrid directory and social network.

👉 Multi Directory Linking – If you are running multi-directories on your directory website, Multi-directory Linking will be an awesome extension that will allow your users to connect to other types of directories.

👉 Mailchimp Integration – Directorist Mailchimp Integration Connects Directorist with Mailchimp. It helps you to make your directory business grow faster and smarter with more leads.

👉 GamiPress Integration – Directorist GamiPress Integration combines GamiPress with Directorist activity events, enhancing your directory website’s interactivity and appeal through a points-based rewards system.

👉 WPML Integration – Directorist WPML Integration allows you to create multilingual directory with few steps.

👉 Digital Marketplace – If you want to create a marketplace of fixed-price services or digital downloads, then the Digital Marketplace Extension will be a worth-investment to kickstart.

👉 Connections to Directorist Migrator – Directorist offers a user-friendly tool to simplify the migration process by letting you import thousands of Connections listings data to Directorist without the need to import/export CSV.

👉 Helpgent Integration – Connect your audience through video & audio messaging, screen recording, and text messaging asynchronously. Which helps to connect listing owners to their visitors.

Privacy Policy

We use WordPress REST API to confirm the authenticity of a user attempting to gain access to directorist account to manage and install themes and extensions.

Directorist – Business Directory Plugin uses Appsero SDK …

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Blocks

This plugin provides 20 blocks.

  • Listings Create directory listing grid view, list view or map view.
  • Checkout Create checkout page and this block only works on checkout page set from settings.
  • Author Profile Create author profile page.
  • Search Modal Display Directorist search modal.
  • Authors Create authors grid.
  • Sign In & Sign Up Create user sign in and sign up form.
  • Locations Create directory location listing grid view and list view.
  • Search Form Create directory listing search form.
  • Payment Receipt Create a payment receipt page and this block only works on payment receipt page set from settings.
  • Single Tag Create directory listing tags grid view, list view or map view.
  • Categories Create directory category listing grid view and list view.
  • Search Result Create directory search result grid view, list view or map view.
  • Dashboard Create user frontend dashboard.
  • Single Location Create directory listing locations grid view, list view or map view.
  • Single Category Create directory listing categories grid view, list view or map view.
  • Single Listing Create listing single view
  • Registration Create a custom registration page and this block only works on registration page set from settings.
  • Add Listing Form Create a listing entry form.
  • Account Button Directorist login-registration popup with account management dropdown menu.
  • Transaction Failure Create a transaction failure page and this block only works on transaction failure page set from settings.

Installation

  1. Unzip the downloaded zip file and upload the plugin folder into the wp-content/plugins/ directory. Alternatively, upload from Plugins >> Add New >> Upload Plugin.
  2. Activate the plugin from the Plugins page.

Usage

Click here for the Documentation.

FAQ

Is Directorist – WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings freemium in type?

Directorist is a free business directory plugin that offers a number of paid extensions to extend the functionalities of your directory listing website.

How to make a listing featured?

You can make a listing featured according to the respective pricing plans.

Is there any widget facility with Directorist Business Directory plugin?

Absolutely, you will get 35+ custom widgets using this awesome plugin.

Is Directorist – WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings compatible with any themes out there in the market?

Yes, Directorist is built in such a way that it works smoothly with all the major themes in the market.

Can I translate the Directorist – WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings to my language and make it multi-lingual?

Yes, you can use the Loco Translate plugin or Poedit tool to translate your directory into your language. You can also make it multi-lingual using the gTranslate or Polylang plugin. For more information and guidelines refer to the blog post here.

What types of directories can I build?

Directorist is a complete directory solution and in combination with its advanced extensions, you can build directories of any kind. For example:

  • Booking directory
  • Classifieds directory
  • Service-based directory
  • Hotel directory
  • Local directory
  • Restaurant directory
  • Professional directory
  • Car directory
  • Member directory
  • Real-estate directory
  • AI tools directory
  • Therapists directory
    • and many more

Reviews

November 9, 2024
I have been using the full paid version of this plugin for a few years, and I have to be honest I wish I’d gone elsewhere. The latest problem created by allowing their support access to my website is that they’ve edited a users listing and the url’s of every single listing in the directory, and now aren’t replying. When they have to access the website I always feel worried as they leave behind new plugins they have used, test posts they have made, and worse this time. And they don’t notify you of this. Problems that have been brought up in the dedicated Facebook page often go unresolved such as the one where the business owner can edit any user reviews on their business. Sorry, but I can not recommended Directorist.
October 28, 2024 1 reply
I tried Directorist, and it works great. The platform is user-friendly, and support has been quick and efficient. Highly recommend!
October 25, 2024 1 reply
We are building our website and we have found everything we need in Directorist, the interface is friendly and easy to set up, it gets up and running quickly and looks great. Directorist is growing and they add new features and improve its performance, when you have questions you have a good support team, but what I like most is that we have requested some customizations as we have progressed in the project and they have shown interest in giving us custom solutions and integrating them into the Directorist package.
October 22, 2024 1 reply
I am very satisfied with the Directorist plugin and the support team. The plugin’s functionality is comprehensive and has allowed me to create a directory with many advanced options that perfectly fit my website’s needs. The interface is intuitive and user-friendly, even for those with less technical experience. What I appreciate the most is the incredible customer support. I had a customization request related to importing business hours, and the team responded quickly, providing a precise and effective solution. In summary, I highly recommend Directorist for anyone looking for a robust directory plugin with top-tier support.
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Contributors & Developers

“Directorist – AI-Powered WordPress Business Directory Plugin with Classified Ads Listings” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

8.0.1 – Nov 10, 2024

  • Fix – Search form removal issue with AI created directory
  • Fix – Search-form fields label migration & removed search-form BG image
  • Fix – All listing sidebar conflict between setting and attribute
  • Fix – Issue in search form icon
  • Fix – Listing import
  • Fix – Builder style issue
  • Improve – Settings panel

8.0 – Nov 5, 2024

Enhancements:
* New: Complete design overhaul for a modern and intuitive interface.
* New: Improved drag-and-drop builder experience and added live previews for smoother customization.
* New: Added section navigation in the add listing form for quick navigation to specific sections.
* New: The “All Listings” page has been redesigned with a modern interface.
* New: New REST API endpoints for easier integration with external platforms.
* New: AI-powered directory creation feature (coming in November).
* New: Redesigned login, and registration, and checkout processes for a better user experience.
* New: Added a Preferences tab in the dashboard with new customization options for listings.
* New: Added min/max values, step control, and text display options in Number custom field.
* New: Pagination added to “All Categories” and “All Locations” pages.
* New: Introduced Bricks Directorist Blocks (Pro version).
* New extension: Listing Search Alerts (Pro version) to notify users based on their search criteria.
* Improved: Optimized performance with reduced database queries for faster page load times.
* Improved: Improved instant search with AJAX search functionality.
* Improved: Improved Gutenberg and Elementor block integrations.
* Improved: Mobile App v2.0 now supports listing submission and payment integration.
Fixes:
* Fixed category custom field issue in search forms.
* Fixed mobile search functionality problems.
* Fixed category filtering issues in author profile listings.
* Fixed conflicts with custom field values in the builder.
* Fixed directory type and listing count issues on “All Categories” and “All Locations” pages.
Other:
* Separated the announcement feature into the Directorist Announcement extension.
* Reorganized and optimized settings for better usability and performance.

7.9.0 – Apr 2, 2024

  • Add – New shortcode to show listing’s meta (#1725)
  • Fix – Phone number plus prefix missing issue (#1720)
  • Fix – Single taxonomy archive page title issue for Yoast SEO plugin (#1721)
  • Fix – Contact listing owner email reply to issue (#1712)
  • Fix – widget checkbox boolean value (#1724)
  • Improve – Add listing price field (#1715)
  • Update – Promo banner nonce validation (#1723)
  • Tweak – Directories query and general config use (#1716)
  • Test – Compatibility with WP 6.5

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