Description

Helps you build business directories and category based local listings. Search or browse local businesses within the directory.

If you are looking to become a local business authority, the WordPress Business Directory plugin by CreativeMinds is the one for you. This business directory plugin gives you the ability to create an embeddable professional directory for your WordPress site.

The extra addition of an Add-On will support new entries and editable entries by your site users who wish to be listed.

The business directory plugin allows each business directory listing to include images, descriptions, contact information, hyperlinks and various customization options. The business directory plugin create local listings, staff listings, niche directories and exclusive directories.

The pro version of the wordpress business directory plugin lets you add social media links, include external ads, filter businesses by category or tag, allows admins to moderate new business listings, promote each business in search results and more.

This highly customizable plugin also supports various payment options and supports charging users for posting or renewing business listings. The community version of the plugin lets users claim, add or manage their individual business listings.

Add-Ons & Extensions

CM Business Directory Community AddOn

CM Business Directory Payments AddOn

CM Map Locations

CM Product Directory

Basic Features

Create directory categories
Display all businesses in a catalog list format
Create a business page for each business
Include business description and pitch
Include business logo
Search directory

Pro Version Features

Pro Version Detailed Features List | Demo Site

Include additional business info and social media links

Allow user to post and manage their business page

Allow user to claim existing business

Admin can moderate newly posted businesses

Ask users to pay for submitting, claiming and editing their businesses

Support ads (AdSense, etc.)

Export/import businesses

Support additional custom fields

Additional taxonomies

Google maps support

Search support

Search by zip and location

Filter by business category

Tags Support

More design options for business page and index page

Advertise in search results

Promote businesses

WhatsApp Integration

Permalink Settings

Editable Labels

Support Booking Calendar Integration

Related business widget

Include a form builder

Include a levels builder

Shotcodes support for category, tag and single business view

Keywords

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Screenshots

CM Business Directory business index
CM Business Directory business page
CM Business Directory business grid in admin panel
CM Business Directory backend edit
CM Business Directory index page settings in the plugin settings area

Installation

Upload the plugin folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Define your business directory settings – for example how many buisnesses will show in the index page
Create your first business page

Note: You must have a call to wp_head() in your template in order for the footnote js and css to work properly. If your theme does not support this you will need to link to these files manually in your theme (not recommended).

Reviews

alantomkins Fevral 14, 2023

I don’t like to leave a negative review but in this case I feel a warning is required. I think there's a reason the last review is 4 years ago... The plugin features drew me in, and with the community plugin addon this did all I needed, but features aren’t the full story. The plugin looks very old, circa 2010 or older. The all the display templates look drab and unimaginative, but I am sure some template work would fix this, however it’s sold as an out of the box solution. In our case we wasted many hours trying to fit this into a modern looking site and gave up. It was also a few days past the 30 day trial period so on top of that we lost our money, a lesson learnt. The business directory index was not correctly responsive, in fact is was a mess. Again I am sure this was fixable, but out of the box? There were 2 show stoppers even before we’d completed the integration: The category filters did not use Ajax. You actually had to select a category, e.g. Food and Drink, and click on a button called FILTER. Really, in 2023, just rubbish. MK in support came back and said the plugin did not support this, WHAT! The image gallery looked like a cheap plugin from 2005, really ugly, and we were promoting businesses in the directory so that was 100% unacceptable. Again MK replied to my question saying this was the only option. For the business details there were 3 main text areas, Business pitch, Additional info 1 and Additional info 2. This was a bit over the top but OK, until it transpired there was no formatting menu. All you could do was add plain text in an input box, no bullets, bold, or anything. We didn’t try html as by this time we’d decided it was a waste of effort. There were a massive number of backend fields and as our client was going to manage this themselves going forward it was a very confusing admin panel, and there was no way to remove the fields that you didn’t require. In fairness, MK in support listened to my comments and I hope they are acted on, but if you’re looking for a modern clean directory plugin I’m afraid this isn’t it. We have moved onto Geodirectory which is looking promising.

trifectacreative May 21, 2018

I tried several free plug-ins to accomplish what I needed and nothing was doing the trick. I got tired of wrestling with the content and decided my time was worth a whole lot more than the $$$ for the pro version of this one. Money well spent ... you should do the same. I had a couple of minor hiccups in the formatting of my directory and a couple of minor requests and they were very quick to respond and very thorough in meeting all of my requests. Data import was very easy to accomplish -- extremely important if you have more than a handful of listings. Very solid product.

lanakm Mart 7, 2018 2 replies

The plugin is inflexible. Support is horrific. I do not recommend this plugin. I was reassured that if the upgrade didn't work, they would either try to help me resolve issues OR refund. A week after requesting a refund on the day of purchase, we are still going back and forth. They are requiring "proof" of deactivation although it was deleted on my site AND on their server. These guys are scam artists. Buyer beware!

sikim Sentabr 3, 2016

Very Professionnal plugin and very easy to use We have baught the pro version and we are very satisfied The support team is great Hakim Bel

Sentabr 3, 2016

I want to give kudos to their tech support... I had multiple questions before and after I bought a 5 site license! Their response time was very acceptable and they helped me meet my client's needs! It's a very usable plug-in. I have used other business directory plug in's but this one is a bit more flexible. Since the client needed multiple directories, I was able to use subdomains to make it work for them. Happy Client and happy programmer!

MassCentral Sentabr 3, 2016

Turn around from support was faster than expected,,,

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Contributors & Developers

“CM Business Directory” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.3.7

Release Date: 17 Mar 2023
* Update package info

1.3.6

Release Date: 23 Feb 2023
* Added a code that fixes 404 problems after permalink change automatically

1.3.5

Release Date: 9th Nov 2022
* Replace Internal support links

View Release Notes in CM Business Directory Site

CM Business Directory