Directory Features Overview
- All native PHP, easy to modify code
- Extremely fast page load times
- Can handle thousands of listings with speed
- Responsive design works well on mobile and desktop
- Works fine on shared hosts even with thousands of listings
- Super easy install, get up and running in 5 minutes
- Configurable permalink structure for the single listing page(similar to Wordpress)
- Templating system based on Bootstrap 4
- Configurable billing plans (free, paid, one time payment, monthly, annual, featured listing)
- Google Maps, Mapbox, OpenStreetMap, HERE, CartoDB, Stamen, TomTom, Wikimedia Maps compatible
- Geolocation support (HTML 5 API)
- Filter results by distance from the user’s geolocation (with configurable distance values)
- Mass import cities for your target country (sql file provided based on the Maxmind Free Database)
- Embed video (Youtube, Vimeo)
- Coupons: business owners can create coupons to show on their listing pages
- Payment Gateways: Paypal, Stripe, subscription possible
- Sitemaps XML generation and automated submission (NEW)
- Custom fields (category based or global custom fields)
- Custom fields groups: organize your custom fields in separate groups
- Search by custom field (range select, range input, text, number, drop down, checkbox, radio input)
- Easy to update (just transfer the modified files via FTP)
- Claim listings so you can populate your site with listings then let business owners claim and pay for the listing
- Contact owner form for each listing
- Whatsapp click to chat integration
- Create static pages and blog posts using TinyMCE
- Multiple categories per listing
- Rating system
- Child theme support – Don’t lose your customizations when updating
- User reviews and comments
- Login with Facebook, Twitter and email account
- Multiple currencies support
- SEO optmized, friendly URLs, user-defined meta descriptions
- Intuitive and simplified files and folders structure, no complicated nested folders makes it easy to edit
- Built-in contact page (contact site owner) with form to email
- GDPR compliance tools
- Maintenance mode
- Translated to ES, PT, DE, FR (including admin area)
- Translation for other languages can be done in the admin area (or by editing the sql file)
Use Cases
You can use dListing to build niche directories, here are some examples:
- Restaurants and bars directory
- Health care directory
- Automotive listings (dealers, repair, parts and supplies, tires, etc)
- Church listings
- Local area directory
- Night life directory
- Pets directory
- and much more
Configurable Permalink Structure
Similar to Wordpress, you can define the permalink structure for the business listing page. Available tags are region , city , category and slug
Map Providers
dListing supports multiple map providers: Mapbox, HERE, TomTom, Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap and Google Maps. You can choose one or multiple ones. If you select multiple map providers dListing will randomly select one on every page load. Useful if you want to take advantage of the free usage quotas of multiple map providers.
Create Pages
dListing comes with a CMS system that allows you to create blog posts and pages and uses the popular TinyMCE wysiwyg editor. You can define whether to show a post in the feed, if not, it will be a stand alone page.
Claim Listings
With this feature you can kickstart your directory by creating listings and let business owners claim and pay for the listings so that they can edit, correct and add additional information.
Monetize Your Directory
Flexible pricing plans allows you to create one time payments as well as monthly and annual recurring subscriptions. Current payment gateways supported are:
