Directory Page - Directory View Demo
Business DirectoryBusiness Directory View
This demo page shows the appearance of the business directory with the Business Directory View.
Below the directory, you can find the guide about how it was done.
Businesses Found: 375
Sprout Apps
Sprout Apps is a Sprout Venture by Dan Cameron (me).
The TL;DR Sprout Apps Story
Sprout Apps was built because of the many frustrating years using invoicing services Freshbooks and Harvest as a freelancer at Sprout Venture. With our experience in building and supporting premium WordPress products for clients we made the decision to start Sprout Apps on our own in mid-2014.
“ɯe” or “me”
Sprout Apps is not a company full of staff, nor is Sprout Venture. At the moment Sprout Apps development, support, and janitorial work is all done by me. Don’t fret, this isn’t some one-off project—I’m committed to Sprout Apps for the long run. I also have plans, as soon as possible (and when necessary), to create a support and development team similar to what we have for other Sprout Venture client projects.
Sprout Venture
Sprout Venture started in 2008 to kick off my freelance web development “career”. Over the years I’ve been lucky to work with a lot of great designs and developers, and we’ve been lucky to work on some awesome projects. One of those projects is Smart eCart (formally Group Buying Site), a Premium WordPress Social E-Commerce plugin that we’ve been developing and supporting since 2009. This project amongst others have provided us with some great experience with premium products and made me determined to build Sprout Apps on my own.
More
If you want to know more about Sprout Apps get in touch. Twitter is probably your best option but we have a contact form.
Pragmatic
Pragmatic is a Brighton-based web agency specialising in WordPress that’s transforming the way that companies operate online, across the nation and around the world.
We’re now one of the UK’s biggest non-distributed WordPress agencies. Cool!
Approach
We’re pragmatic by name, pragmatic by nature.
Your website needs to reflect your business objectives and priorities – every page and feature must justify its existence and cost.
A good website is never finished. We build for iteration and put value on maintaining flexibility and agility; leveraging the power of the WordPress ecosystem for your benefit.
Theme of the Crop
What does it mean to talk about theme development done right? The WordPress ecosystem is vast and there is plenty of talent in the market. I’d be lying if I said that Theme of the Crop was the only source out there for great WordPress themes. From all-in-one “multi-purpose” themes to solid, rigorous theme frameworks which pack in piles of customization options — there’s a lot to choose from.
But each developer brings their own talents and priorities to the table. Here are the principles which guide theme development at Theme of the Crop.
Content and functionality matter
User testing has made it clear just how impatient our digital tribe is. Users who struggle to find what they want will turn away in just a fraction of a second — yes, it’s rather sad but true. Theme of the Crop focuses on designs with clear, consistent patterns that foreground the information your visitors need and present them with clear pathways to finding it, so that they won’t give up before you’ve had a chance to prove yourself.
Not all businesses are the same
So websites need to be different too. Theme of the Crop researches the target business niche for a theme, identifies what features and information are critical in that industry, and tries to come up with creative solutions to these problems. Maybe all you need is an existing plugin. Maybe you need a custom solution — like the Food and Drink Menu that was created for CaféCultura. But in the end, your business has particular needs and a theme should cater to those.
Not all WordPress users are the same
Some are competent developers. Some don’t even know what HTML is. Theme of the Crop makes sure that key functionality is simple, easy to use and well-documented, so that small business owners can get publishing quickly and easily.
Solid foundations
Theme of the Crop goes to great lengths to follow common standards for web and WordPress development. This limits the risk that themes will break as WordPress development continues and ensures your website has a solid core — search engine optimized, schema.org markup for rich Google listings, validated code to improve performance across all devices, and more.
H1
We design, develop, maintain and further develop websites. We are the most experienced WordPress professionals in Finland.
H1 is a self-financed company that is owned by its employees. We employ eight experienced web professionals.
How to Create and Configure the Directory Page?
Automatically Created Directory Page
First of all, the plugin automatically creates the index page. This is a simple page which contains the shortcode [сmbd_business]
The link to this page can be found on above the plugin settings. The page is defined as the index page by specifying it in the option "Business Index Page ID".
In the plugin settings, you can configure what should be displayed on the business directory page - how many businesses per page, search/sort/filter bars, pagination, etc.
And there are also settings for the business directory appearance configuration - choosing the view style and options for each view style.
Manually Created Directory Page
The business directory can be placed on any other post/page, and some global plugin parameters can be overridden with the help of the shortcode.
To display business directory on the current page, we used the shortcode with the following parameters:
[сmbd_business view="directory" page_business="5"]
For displaying, we used Business Directory View and defined to display maximum 5 businesses per page.
You can see the full list of the shortcode parameters on the screenshot below:
CreativeMinds Business Directory Plugin for WordPress allows to build a local online directory of business listings similar to Yelp, Yahoo, or Yellow Pages on your WordPress site. Easily list cafes, restaurants, IT companies, music venues or any kind of business. Add images and video to individual pages and boost SEO. Supports payments and Google Maps via add-ons.
For more information go to the plugin product page
Try Other Business Directory Demos
Available Business Directory Community Demos