Directory, most powerful listings theme ever
It is your perfect choice for creating an online listings directory. Directory offers custom post types, subscription price packages, Google map search and unlimited searchable custom fields. The most comprehensive directory WordPress theme you will ever need.
Free Directory Child Theme Template
The ‘Free’ directory child theme template is there to save you from the hassle of creating a child theme for customizing your parent Directory theme. Consisting all the required files for a child theme, the template lets you over-write the files of the parent theme without actually changing or updating it. Keep your parent theme files intact and get the changes reflected by just tweaking the child theme and overcome the fear of losing your customization on updating the theme/plugins. This has its own benefits. Read the Directory Child theme template guide to know more what it has to offer.
Free Directory add-ons
You can extend functionality of your Directory website by using these free add-on plugins and other resources.
- Bulk Import/ExportBulk Import/Export allows you to populate the site with a lot of content in a short amount of time. If you already have a lot of content, this feature also allows you to export it. Both import and export work with CSV files.
Download Now - Coupon ManagerInstalling this extension will allow you to create discounts for your own price packages. This is great when running promotions (like for Christmas or Black Friday).
Download Now - IP BlockerThis extension will allow you to block specific IP addresses from your site and also implement SSL for the registration and submission pages.
Download Now - User filters for MailPoetUser Filters is a totally free plugin that will allow you to better specify which users should receive the email or newsletter you are sending. It works on top of the popular MailPoet Newsletters plugin.
Download Now - City PermalinkThis free add-on will allow you to select a primary city(it will be used in the URL of that listing) for your listing which is set to display in multiple cities from backend.
Download Now - ShortcodesStyle your pages and posts with dozens of different callouts, buttons and awesome designs. Get Templatic Shortcode to download the plugin. For instructions on how to insert shortcodes open the following page.
Download Now - Mega MenuUse this plugin to create multi-column menus like those displayed on our demo sites. For download and usage instructions just open this article.
Download Now - Free Map Icon SetsOne of the cool features inside Directory is the ability to upload custom icons/markers for the map. To save you the trouble of searching for appropriate map icons, we’ve created few of our own icons which you can use.
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Useful Plugins
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Showcase Directory in multiple languages using this premium WordPress translation plugin.
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Add meta tags for each listing, event, page and post + bunch of other stuff.
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Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7 & Ninja forms
Create new and awesome contact forms for your site using any one of these popular form plugins.
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It lets you customize your website by adding a front-end menu for all your users, giving them a more flexible way to modify their user profile or register users (front-end user registration)
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With ZM Ajax Login & Register, you can create a custom login and registration page.
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Limit the number of login attempts possible both through normal login as well as using auth cookies.
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W3 Total Cache, & WP Super Cache
Speed up your Directory website using any one these awesome caching plugins.
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Sell digital and physical products on your site. If you have Events add-on installed, you can use WooCommerce to sell tickets for your events.
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eZee reservation & Open table widget
It is a powerful WordPress widget that allows you to create powerful restaurant reservation forms for your website. Easily configure reservation forms that will look and function amazingly.
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This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.
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Google Analytics Dashboard for WP
Display Google Analytics stats directly inside your WordPress dashboard.
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Give listing owners the option to manage reviews submitted for their post; charge extra for this ability.
Useful Tutorials for Beginners
Just getting started with WordPress and our Directory themes? Don’t worry, we have created this list of tutorials you can refer. It will definitely help you get started with setting up your website.
- Beginners’ FAQs
- Directory theme guide
- Directory theme FAQ
- SEO tips for Directory sites
- Theme updating instructions + tips
- How to upload and edit files on your server
- How to create a mega menu
- How to install and use Templatic shortcodes
- How To Use Firebug to do minor CSS tweaks
- Set Custom Page as Homepage
- How to translate the Directory theme?
- Translate the themes to your own language
- Quick translations with Poedit
- Translating with Agent Ransack
- Getting strange signs in your translations?
Configuration Tips
Tutorials under this section are related to the configuration of the Directory theme, some useful tips are shared in these tutorials which will surely help you build a better website with our Directory based themes.
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Widgets Settings
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Submission Page
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Configuration Tips
- My Directory site is showing a blank page or Internal server error frequently
- Why the Events I have added are not appearing in front-end?
- Some of the common doubts you might face while configuring your site using Directory theme
- Benefits Vs. Drawbacks of Comments in Directory
- How to moderate comments on your Directory website?
- How to use custom fields in advanced search on your directory theme?
- How to change the icons of the homepage category menu in Classifieds theme?
- Adding/Removing Images for individual posts from WordPress admin panel
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Useful tips to increase business
- Increase your local visitors by using WPML + Directory
- Securing your WordPress Directory website
- How to create a Facebook App for enabling Facebook login?
- Make your own Global Directory
- Create your Events portal with Listings child theme for Directory
- FAQs curated specially for new Directory theme users
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Bulk Upload
Customization Tips
Tutorials under this section are regarding the small code tweaks which extends the functionality of your Directory theme powered website, we highly recommend that you go through this list of documentation section and use the search bar. There will be that one customization that you always wanted to do on your Directory theme.
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Map
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Header
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Home Page, Detail Page & Category page
- How to change default order of listings to Random on home page
- Show author info along with date, time on listing detail page
- How to change the size of image thumbnails on listing page?
- Customizing comments section on your Directory website
- How to enable infinite scrolling on Listing category pages instead of the traditional pagination?
- Sort events by “Start Date” by default in your events directory site
- Customizing Listing category pages with hooks
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Author Page & Submission Page
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CSS & Debugging & Hooks
- Make CSS changes without affecting the original theme code
- Some useful tricks for developer for debugging
- Customize with Tevolution’s title hooks & breadcrumb hooks
- Customize with Tevolution detail page hooks
- Customize with Tevolution’s listing page hooks & Search page hooks
- Customizing Tevolution & Customizing Tevolution 2
- Directory Back-end hooks & Widget hooks
- List of all Tevolution Events plugin action hooks
- Tevolution AdManager Developer Documentation
- How to activate custom.css & How to customizing the Admin bar
- Customizing the Directory theme
- How to use WP REST API in Directory and child themes?
- Detailed guide on how to develop a new payment gateway plugin for tevolution
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- Make CSS changes without affecting the original theme code
- Some useful tricks for developer for debugging
- Customize with Tevolution’s title hooks & breadcrumb hooks
- Customize with Tevolution detail page hooks
- Customize with Tevolution’s listing page hooks & Search page hooks
- Customizing Tevolution & Customizing Tevolution 2
- Directory Back-end hooks & Widget hooks
- List of all Tevolution Events plugin action hooks
- Tevolution AdManager Developer Documentation
- How to activate custom.css & How to customizing the Admin bar
- Customizing the Directory theme
- How to use WP REST API in Directory and child themes?
- Detailed guide on how to develop a new payment gateway plugin for tevolution
Useful Articles and Free Resources for Directory
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City CSV files
If you’re creating a large directory, the ability to quickly populate it with cities is extremely beneficial. To make this happen we created a forum thread where each member can share their CSVs. To entice members into sharing, we’re offering a free add-on of your choice for every CSV submission.
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Localized ready .po/.mo files
Similar to how city CSV sharing works, we’ve also made it possible to share your translations and get rewarded for it. Each member that shares his/hers fully translated file gets rewarded with a free add-on of their choice. Visit this forum thread to read more about how you too can share a translation file.
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Customization resources
To make customizing Directory easier, we are actively indexing customizations done by the staff and regular members inside our forums. An index of existing tweaks is available in this article . Along with that thread, we also have a number of general tutorials on how to customize themes, including How to use Firebug and a tutorial about custom.css.
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Securing/hardening your WordPress directory
This is one great article shared by one of our user on how you can strengthen the security of a Directory website, it explains everything in detail step-wise.
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Directory wishlist
Directory is our most popular project so we keep updating it, and we are always listening to your suggestions. If you have any feature request for Directory post it Contact Templatic Support
Helpful Tutorials for Some Frequently Asked Questions
Here’s a list of some frequently asked questions for Directory theme with their detailed answers. We recommend you to take a look at the list once, it might answer that one question you were having for a long time now.
- How to update existing .po file to add new stringsNew
- How to speed up your website?
- Stay safe from malware attacks
- Migrate data from GeoPlaces and Nightlife to Directory theme
- Migrate data from old Realestate theme to Realestate Directory add-on
- Directory theme compatible plugins guide
- T -> Post Listing widget
- T > Homepage Slider widget
- Not able to upload image on your site?
- No Password field on Sign up?
- How do Recurring Charges feature works?
- Latest changes in Twitter widget for all Templatic Themes
- CSV Bulk Upload with Custom Post Types
- Special characters in CSV files
- How to Use Google Fonts with WordPress
- Weather Forecast per City Selected
- Display Directory inside your current site using iFrames
- Facing Fatal errors or Blank Screen?
- How to Increase WordPress and PHP Memory Limit
You think we should write a tutorial on a particular topic regarding Directory? Write to us Contact Templatic Support to request a tutorial.
Customer stories of Directory theme users
We are encouraging Directory users who have built a successful Directory website using our theme to share their stories so that other users can learn and take inspiration from them.
- Customer Story: Video Site which Introduce Wushu Sports to the WorldNew
- Customer Story: How Templatic Real Estate WordPress Theme Helped a Non-techie to Find SuccessNew
- Customer Story: MiPuntoMap- A Feature and Information Rich Directory
- Customer Story: San Juan Del Sur – Real Estate
- Customer Story : We Love Koh Chang – Travel
You can share your success story with Directory theme too, write to us Contact Templatic Support.
Directory Specific Blog Posts
Recently we have published some articles on our blog which includes articles about how you can make the most of your Directory website, it gives you insights into the business part of the Directory websites. It also has case studies of successful websites created using our Directory platform.
- 5 Ways to Promote Your Content and Grow Your AudienceNew
- 4 Inbound Marketing Strategies for Your WordPress Directory WebsiteNew
- 6 Ways to Monetize a Directory WebsiteNew
- The Importance of Creating Engaging Content for Your Online Directory WebsiteNew
- Want to Create an Online Directory? First, Think About How Your Can Define and Serve Your Audience
- Creating The Best Directory Theme for WordPress
- 6 Ways to double your Business Directory Site Traffic
- Unique & Common Takeaways from 19 Local Directories of the USA
- Who is your Customer? How do you Recognize It?
- How does potential business decides to get listed on your directory site?
- The Golden Sales Pitch by John Durham to Increase your Paid Directory Listings
- How does potential business decides to get listed on your directory site?
- How to Start an Online Directory in 45 Minutes – Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
Special Bonus for all Club Members!
Note: ALL child themes are part of club membership. You are able to download one bonus plugin per month under your club membership. Join Our Club Membership.
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Child Themes
Using Directory child themes you’ll be able to drastically change the look of your Directory-powered website. All themes listed below inherit the functionality from Directory and do not work as standalone themes. Child themes are also fully compatible with Directory add-ons! All child themes featured on this page are completely responsive.
Theme Name Documentation Buy Now Business DirectoryNew Documentation Buy Now CityGuide Documentation Buy Now Classifieds Documentation Buy Now Cuisine Documentation Buy Now Emblem Documentation Buy Now Eventum Documentation Buy Now Explore Documentation Buy Now HomeQuest Documentation Buy Now Jobs directory Documentation Buy Now Listings Documentation Buy Now Locations Documentation Buy Now Splendor Documentation Buy Now SpotFinder Documentation Buy Now Travel Documentation Buy Now YellowPages Documentation Buy Now -
Plugins
Directory is our most popular platform that encompasses a parent theme, various plugins and a wide selection of child themes and add-ons. It is the most advanced system we’ve ever created with literally hundreds of custom features. Have a look at these add-ons to know more about how you can extend the functionality of Directory with these add-ons.
Plugin Name Documentation Buy Now Access Manager Documentation Buy Now Ad Manager Documentation Buy Now Admin Dashboard Documentation Buy Now Category Icons Documentation Buy Now Deals WordPress plugin Documentation Buy Now Duplicate Post Alert Documentation Buy Now Events Documentation Buy Now Fields Monetization Documentation Buy Now Global Location Documentation Buy Now Header Fields Documentation Buy Now Jobs Plugin Documentation Buy Now List Filter Documentation Buy Now Listing Badges Documentation Buy Now Listing Vouchers Documentation Buy Now Location Slider Documentation Buy Now Map Customizer Documentation Buy Now Multi Rating Documentation Buy Now Paid Claims Documentation Buy Now Post Type Linker Documentation Buy Now Proximity Search Documentation Buy Now Real Estate Description Buy Now Reviews Manager Documentation Buy Now Tabs Manager Documentation Buy Now WYSIWYG Submission Documentation Buy Now
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