DirectoryPlus is a complete solution for building a business directory website. DirectoryPlus is a standalone PHP script that does not require other platforms and allows you to create a directory website in just a few clicks.
– Extremely fast page load times (<500ms on average)
– Works great on cheap hosts with shared, even with thousands of listings (demo runs on a shared host)
– Super easy to install, set up and run in 5 minutes
– Bootstrap 4 based templating system
– Customizable pricing plans (free, paid, one-time, monthly, annual, recommended listing)
– Google Maps, Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, HERE, TomTom, Wikimedia Maps compatible
– Geolocation support (HTML 5 API)
– Coupons: Business owners can create coupons to display on their listing pages
– Payment gateways: Paypal, Stripe, subscription possible
– Custom fields for specific categories or all categories
– Custom field search
– Request listings so you can populate your site with listings and then allow business owners to claim and pay data
– Contact form with each owner
– Create static pages and blog posts using TinyMCE
– Rating system
– User reviews and comments
– Login with Facebook, Twitter and email
– Multiple currencies support
– Responsive design looks good on mobile devices and computers
– SEO optimized, friendly URLs, custom meta descriptions
– Translation files in text format (editable in notepad or similar) including admin area
– Intuitive and simplified file and folder structure, no complex subfolders makes editing easier
– Built-in contact page (site owner contact) with email form
– Set up in less than five minutes
– DirectoryPlus comes with a one-click installer to get you up and running quickly. Just download the files, edit the config file, go to the installation page and click Install.
The Bootstrap-based
DirectoryPlus design makes extensive use of Bootstrap 4’s layout grid, components, and utilities, and has a very neutral theme that can easily adapt to multiple types of businesses. It also allows third-party designers to easily make layout changes because they only need to be familiar with the Bootstrap framework.
Custom fields
DirectoryPlus allows you to create “Custom Fields” at the category level or create global custom fields. For example, you can create a Delivery (Yes / No) field and it only appears for ads in the Food category. Or you can create a Free Wi-Fi box so users can search for listings that offer free Wi-Fi. Custom fields can be required / optional and also searchable.
Monetization
Flexible pricing plans allow you to create one-time payments, as well as monthly and yearly recurring subscriptions. Current payment gateways are supported:
Claims
With this feature, you can launch your catalog by creating listings and allowing business owners to claim and pay for listings so they can edit, correct and add more information.
Fast loading
According to Google engineers, pages should load within 1000ms.
This means that the user experience degrades and changes the mental context if the pages are not fully loaded in less than 1000ms (1 second). Directory Plus was designed with page loading as a feature. All pages load quickly and take 400 to 800ms to fully load. You can check the page load times in Pingdom: https://tools.pingdom.com/. Note that the only important metric is the load time in milliseconds.
Create Pages
DirectoryPlus comes with a CMS that allows you to create blog posts and pages, and uses the popular TinyMCE wysiwyg editor. You can specify whether to show the message in the feed, if not, then it will be a separate page.
Maps
DirectoryPlus supports several map providers: Mapbox, HERE, TomTom, Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap, and Google Maps. You can choose one or several. If you select multiple map providers, DirectoryPlus will randomly select one of them on every page load. Useful if you want to take advantage of the free quotas of multiple map providers.
Coupons
Allow business owners to create coupons for deals and discounts. Users can view all coupons available on the site.
Business Logos
Each business can upload its own logo to display as the main image in the catalog. The logos will appear on the results pages (search, category, city, etc.) and on the business page as the main image next to the company name.
Fully branded
DirectoryPlus is a standalone PHP script that does not require any other CMS platform. If you create a directory for your client, it won’t show that you are using another platform like WordPress.
