WordPress as Directory

  • Hi

    I need to do a directory blog for small businesses in our city. The site must have the different categories of business, and when you click on each category you must be see all the businesses in that category. Users must be able to list their own businesses as well.

    Has this been done using WordPress?

    I know this is a sort of CMS functionality I’m looking for – but people on this forum have said that WP beats Joomla.

    Thanks!

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    It could be done, but it would be a bit of custom coding. Mostly in the theme, mind you, the category functionality is already all there. You could make each business as a single post, with any relevant categories associated with it.

    Getting users to be able to add their own entries would take some custom form building as well, and might require some plugin work.

    You might be better off with a wiki package for this specific application, although without knowing more about the design, it’s hard to say.

    Thread Starter jamaal

    (@jamaal)

    Hi

    Do you think I should use Joomla for this?

    What is a wiki package?

    I’m looking for an answer on this very same topic. I need to be able to pull the business address data along with a description of the business from a database as I don’t want to have to enter each one by hand. I don’t want people to add their own listings, so I don’t care about that functionality.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    IMO it would take a LOT of code to hack WP to do that… you may be better off going with drupal or something that’s specifically built to be used as a CMS. Joomla could work as well however I’m not as familiar with that app.

    >>IMO it would take a LOT of code to hack WP to do that.<<

    I don’t agree. You could easily set this up in categories. Say, have a category for restaurants, and one for tree services, one for dog kennels. Please the businesses that match, with their info and description (just by writing a post). You could set the sidebar to bring up businesses by name, location, etc. The search function would already look for that stuff.

    WordPress is as good a CMS as any.

    hmm after reading that again…

    You’d just have a ton of authors basically… each one editing only their one post. But you’d have to create a custom user basically and make it so they can’t create a new post – only modify the one they’ve got so they couldn’t post multiple businesses…

    Otto42 is right, im using the method he stated on eventsforlondon.co.uk.

    Although i don’t think you want somthing similar to eventsforlondon site, i think this plugin will be of help:

    https://www.ebrandmarketing.com.au/wordpress-link-directory/

    thats what i used for my directory: https://lucky-stars.info

    i am also trying to install the plugin at

    https://www.ebrandmarketing.com.au/wordpress-link-directory/

    but i must be really stoopid… how do you activate the plugin, if it is not loaded into the plugin directory???

    i’m tearing my hair out trying to get round this silly problem…

    any help most appreciated.

    ssling,

    It’s been a while since I used this plugin; and when I did, it was for someone else. But if I remember correctly, it creates a link in your Admin Section that says “Directory.” It will be on the same line as Dashboard, Write, Manage, etc.

    Trying it now on a new site. The link on the admin menu says “Link exchange.”

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