Listings Tab
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Listings Tab
Most of the important settings for listings are handled on this tab. General Settings Listings per page: This setting is used for pagination–it indicates the number of listings that will show on a directory page (search, category, or main listings) before a “Next” or page number link will display. It’s important to set this to
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Appearance Settings
The Appearance tab is where you handle miscellaneous display settings for the Directory. This includes menu options, images, and listing layouts. Styling Button style Choose whether to override WP theme button styling or not. For consistency, you may want to use the WP theme style for buttons. This setting is limited to Business Directory pages
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Payments Tab
The Payments tab is where you will handle the configuration of all general payment settings, including your Payment gateway which will handle the collection of payments made with the directory. Business Directory Plugin comes with Stripe and Authorize.net integrations by default, but supports a number of others. They include: General Settings The generic payment settings
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General Tab
The General tab is used to configure overall settings for the Business Directory. There are 4 sub-tabs on General: SEO Settings Permalink Settings These indicate what values will appear in various URLs used by Business Directory. Categories Slug The slug used in the category display URL, to which the category name will be appended. Example:
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Settings Menu
The Directory → Settings section is where all of the key Business Directory configuration options are entered, edited and maintained. You will spend some time learning about all of the options available, as BD is highly configurable and lots of options are available to control what you users can see and do. The Settings are
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Directory Tags Menu
Directory Tags The Directory Tags section is where you can create/edit/delete Tags for your Business Directory. It functions very much like the standard WordPress Tags area with a set of actions that can be performed on each listing. It looks like this: To see the actions, you must hover your mouse over the listing to
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Add and Edit New Listings for Admins
Add a new listing to your directory by going to Directory → Directory Content → Listings and choosing the Add New Listing button. This button will take you to the back-end form submission for listings. Be sure to: Complete all required fields Assign a fee plan – Fee plans are necessary for all listings to
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Directory Categories Menu
Directory Categories Menu The Directory Categories section is where you can create/edit/delete categories for your Business Directory. It functions very much like the standard WordPress categories area with a set of actions that can be performed on each listing. It looks like this: To see the actions, you must hover your mouse over the listing
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Directory Menu
Directory Menu The Directory section is where you can browse and filter your existing listings by various criteria, such as Paid, Expired, Draft, and so on. It functions very much like the standard WordPress pages or posts area, where some summary information about the business listing is shown (Title/Category/Expires on/Author/Date/Attributes) along with a set of
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Edit Listing Page
This page is accessed when a user clicks the “Edit” button from the front end. The Edit button is only visible for listings owned by a user. The administrator can edit any listing from the front end, so all listings will show the Edit button when the administrator is viewing them. The content and functionality
