Best WordPress Directory Plugins and Themes for Businesses

Directories are perfect for organizing all kinds of data. It is one of the most essential features in order to run a website with a considerable amount of data. Therefore to make your website more attractive and easy to use, for you and your visitors, you will definitely require a powerful directory building tool that works the best for you!

Here are some of the Best WordPress Directory Plugins and Themes:

POSTS TABLE PRO WORDPRESS DIRECTORY PLUGIN

Posts Table Pro is the ideal plugin to create any type of WordPress directory. It’s incredibly flexible and displays WordPress posts, pages or custom post types in a searchable, filterable directory. This makes it perfect whether you want to build a directory of business listings, members, staff or employees, contact details, or something else.

As a WordPress table plugin, Posts Table Pro displays your directory listings in a grid or table layout. You can choose which columns of data appear in the directory. As well as supporting all the usual WordPress fields such as title, description, excerpt, author and featured image, it even supports extra data such as custom post types and taxonomies. And if you want to bring your directory to life with multimedia content then you can also add embedded audio and video players to the main directory page.

This means that you can create a WordPress directory with whichever fields you like and display it on the directory page. You can also choose how the table behaves responsively on mobiles and whether or not users can click from the directory to the single listing pages.

Barn2 Media, the WordPress company that created Posts Table Pro, have provided step-by-steps tutorials about how to build a range of WordPress directory websites. There are tutorials on building a WordPress staff directory, member directory, audio library, and even a video directory. This will help you to create a WordPress directory quickly and easier, without having to write any custom code.

• • Add text, images, audio, video, playlists & other multimedia content
  • Supports any WordPress post type, plus custom fields and taxonomies
  • Fully responsive and mobile-optimized
  • Integrates with other plugins such as Gravity Forms so that users can create

directory listings and pay online

• Full documentation and expert support from the plugin developers

Business directory plugin

This is one of the top rated and most downloaded directory plugins. It is simple as well as a powerful plugin that helps you transform your site into a complete directory for ratings, reviews, payments and much more. This plugin has more than 120000 downloads and a rating 4.3 out of 5. One can easily build local business directories as well as business listings. With this plugin anyone can  start listing businesses that they want to highlight. It has an integrated reCAPTCHA to help in spam control, which according to me is one of the best features about this plugin.

Some of the other unique features of Business Directory plugin are

• Offers fully customizable form fields
• Gives an option to accept payment for featured listings
• Added features such as Google Maps, Star Ratings etc

Connections business directory Plugin

This is another popular plugin, that is also downloaded many times for directory sites. Connections business directory plugin, allows you to create amazing directories online. As directories make everyone’s life a lot more easier, this plugin can help you to easily turn your website content into a directory be it an address book, a staff directory, links or a business directory. This plugin can be easily be customized with all kinds of templates. The best part being that you can display your entries according to your own taste.

Furthermore, the plugin is SEO friendly and localization ready. It comes along with 5 language options such as French, Hungarian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Polish.

The plugin is also convenient to use since it requires you to add, select and enter edits with its custom entry types and shortcodes.

Directory WordPress Theme by PremiumPress

With PremiumPress one is sure to build a search engine friendly directory junction with the help of variety of features and widgets.  This theme is suitable for beginner as well as for advanced users. The theme provides easy customization options to anyone with basic knowledge of WordPress. The admin page consists of several options to create and edit listings in no time. This themes is also ideal to start an affiliate site, travel directory and property listing portal.

Featured images can be used with several other details to make your listings look creative and attractive. The sidebar on the homepage provides advanced search options, where user can easily search for any information. It comes along with a latest news widget that helps to convey any important information to the visitors.

It will allow you to generate your own listings and questions with simple registration field generator
Some of the features

• Multimedia Content Upload
• Optimized for mobile
• Create your own unique logo, tagline and branding
• Google map Integration
• Easy translation tool
• Featured listings to earn extra income
• Order manager to track payments

Directory by Templatic

The purpose of this theme is to enable you create a powerful yet easy to use directory. This theme will help you to display  listings such as business services, landmarks, places of interest, or events. Any address or location, that would interest your visitors can be listed as well as found easily.

This theme provides options to break down listings into categories as well as subcategories,making it easy to manage and display. The visitors can easily browse the listings by using the click-able markers on the Google Map or by using search tool. The theme can also use the Visitor’s IP address to determine their location.

Some of the featured offered by Directory Theme by templatic are

• Easy to create listings using dashboard
• Option to create featured listings
• Custom field options include Multi checkbox, Radio, Multi-Image Uploader, File Uploader, Geo Map etc

The above selected themes and plugins are sure to provide you with easy and interesting options to create an informative  directory sites. Do try these themes and share your experiences with us.