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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.

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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 Gutenberg, Elementor, Bricks, Oxygen 🔥🔥🔥
The enhanced integrations of Directorist with Gutenberg, Elementor, Oxygen, and the latest integration with Bricks, Directorist provide the flexibility you need to build a lucrative directory in the blink of an eye.

🔥🔥🔥 14 Pre-Made Full-Site Templates 🔥🔥🔥
Directorist now offers over 14 pre-made templates, allowing users to quickly set up their directories without having to start from scratch. Amazing, right?

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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.

👉 Elementor, Bricks, and Oxygent Builder Integration: Directorist seamlessly integrates with popular page builders like Elementor, Bricks, and Oxygen, offering customizable elements. Build and design your directory exactly the way you want with ease!

👉 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 filters.
• 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.
• Built-in SEO optimization system as well as Yoast SEO compatibility.
• Personalize the directory using a wide range of shortcodes.
• Ajax-powered listing and review submission.
• Listing owner contact form.
• Listing image slider.
• Listing and Review submission without login (Guest Submission).
• Listing reviews and ratings.
• Google reCAPTCHA
• 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
• Brand-new sidebar filter layout
• Modern and improved form for Add listings

Advanced Review System (Arriving December 2024)

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

Beautiful Design, Fully Responsive

Enjoy sleek, modern layouts with responsive grid, list, and map views. Compatible with popular themes like Astra, Divi, and Avada, Directorist helps you launch a stunning directory effortlessly.

Translation-Friendly, SEO-Ready & RTL Support

Easily translate your directory into any language with tools like Loco Translate. Boost SEO with custom meta titles, descriptions, and Yoast SEO integration. It fully supports RTL languages like Arabic.

👉 Multilingual Support: Translate your directory into multiple languages.
👉 Built-in SEO: Optimize every page for search engines.
👉 RTL Ready: Perfect for right-to-left languages.

Powerful Search & Filters

Find what you need instantly with advanced search and filtering options.

👉 Ajax-Powered Search: Results load instantly.
👉 Custom Filters: Filter by category, location, price, and custom fields.
👉 Geolocation: Discover listings nearby with a radius search.

Effortless Data Migration with CSV

Easily import/export thousands of listings via CSV.

• Complete directory migration in just a few clicks.
• Map your data fields effortlessly.

Unlimited Custom Fields

Tailor your directory with custom fields for any requirement.

• Add unlimited fields (checkboxes, URLs, files, etc.).
• Use custom fields to refine search results.

Monetization Made Simple

Turn your directory into a revenue-generating platform.

👉 Featured Listings: Highlight top listings for extra revenue.
👉 Paid Listings: Charge users for submitting listings.
👉 Claim Listings: Let business owners claim and pay for their listings.
👉 Pay Per Submit: Charge users to create listings.

Frontend Listing & Management

Users can easily submit and manage listings without accessing the admin panel.

• Add listings via a user-friendly form.
• Manage and renew plans directly from the frontend.
• User dashboards for seamless management.

Flexible Mapping Options

Help users find businesses with Google Maps or OpenStreetMap integration.

Robust Payment Gateways

Get paid effortlessly with built-in offline payments or expand with online gateways like PayPal , Stripe or Authorize.Net. Taxes and recurring payments are supported.

Developer-Friendly for Unlimited Customization

Directorist is perfect for developers who want to customize or extend functionality.

• Override templates without touching plugin code.
• Use hooks and filters for endless possibilities.

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 to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster & make product improvements.

Integrating Appsero SDK DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY start gathering data, without confirmation from users in any case.