Directorist Review | BEST Directory Listing Plugin!

so if you've been watching my channel lately you know that i like creating websites that either generate leads or income so today i'm going to be taking a look at a type of website which i think is very important and also a great opportunity to make money with your wordpress website today i'm going to take a look at directorist this is a directly plug-in which is very very easy to set up now i was playing around with this with my divi installation and this is what i was able to achieve so as you can see this is really neat it's very very well laid out and it is very very easy to use in fact all these are short codes which i can just go in and just enter in there so let's dive in let's take a look and uh see how easy it is to install and use directorist stay until the end because i have a special link that will give you a great discount so without wasting a lot of time let's dive in and let's take a look at directorist all right so i'm here in my wordpress admin dashboard i've already gone ahead and installed divi but you can use this with any page builder out there all right so i'm going to come over here now and install directorists so i'm going to click on add new plugin click on search so we need to search for it first so here it is i'm going to click install i'm gonna activate it so this is the first welcome screen that we get so i'm gonna say let's go and here you can see that we have these four steps so we need to uh allow our system to add these recommended pages so i'm going to go ahead and do that i also need to have all cat in fact you know what i don't need all categories let's hit continue we're going to go with the defaults next uh our type of map we're going to use there's google here and openstreet you know what i'm going to leave this with open street click continue so far it looks like it's very very straightforward to install i like the interface it's very clean and it's very very easy to understand so thumbs up for that one all right so let's continue here i'm going to skip the step to import any listings and then over here now it says visit the dashboard or create your first listing okay so let's go to our dashboard here so there we go so this is our dashboard so you can see here directory listings is our entry here on the top which i think is very straightforward so here it says add new listing we have locations categories and so on so let's go through these so add new listing is right here so i can just add it here we're going to come back here and do that locations so we can add new locations here okay that's pretty straightforward categories so i guess if you want to have a directory with different categories you can add all your categories here uh tags directory builder okay this one here is quite interesting so i guess we can add more custom fields here so let's say we want to add maybe a date to this i can just drag and drop it here and now the date is added so view count if you don't need that you can always delete that so let's say i want to delete the tag you can just go ahead and delete that so this becomes now your form okay these are your form fields so i think this is really cool i really like that so let's just hit update here right so next we're going to come over here to the settings because i think here this is where everything needs to be set up correctly so here we can also enable a multi-directory so i'm going to leave that as it is and here is the icon library we have a few here we have font awesome i think i'll go with font awesome here okay so we also have all listings here so these are all the features that we have for for all the listings and i think this is pretty straightforward to follow i really like the interface i like the icons it looks like directorist is a very very easy to use plug-in okay so i'm going to go through each and every uh each and every step here i just want to go through like the most important ones so here are the pages so this is where you can come over here and add all your shortcodes so it doesn't really matter uh what page builder you're using you could be using even gutenberg and just copy your short code paste it there and it will show everything that you need and i think this is very very good because sometimes when you use all these plugins there's too many settings to go in and fix so what i want to do now is i'm going to add a listing and then add a few of these short codes and see what it looks like on my website so let's go ahead and do that all right so let's add our first listing so i'm going to come over here to directly listings and click on add new listing all right so i'm going to paste my text in here and this also needs a title so i'm just entering dummy text here because i mean i can't be bothered to go in and uh type everything out my typing is really slow all right so here it's asking for a tagline i'm going to leave that as it is the date here should we enter the date yeah why not so i'm going to enter my date in here and let's also add the price so we're going to say 9000 uh view count i'll leave that as it is so here we can also add contact information so i'm going to hide contact from a single page listing and then over here we also have the address which is i think very very good let's see how good this is so i want to add my city here okay so we have birmingham west in west midlands i think that's really cool so i could uh further go deep and enter my precise address but you know what i'm gonna leave this as it is and then here we have our images and video i also like the fact that you can add your youtube url here or your vimeo url but for now let's add an image so i'm going to come over here now i have a few images here in my library let's add this image here like that and then you know what i think this is enough information i'm gonna hit publish now i need to take a look at this page and see what it looks like so now i've just opened this in a new tab and this is what it looks like so out of the box i think this looks really nice i know the image is way too big but here you can see everything seems to be in place i've got my map here as i'm scrolling through wow okay i really love this you can also add your rating here if you wanted to so i think this is fantastic because over here you can also add a review you can view the profile here and yeah pretty good also like the map as well right so what i'm going to do next now is to add a few more of these listings and so we can get like a grid and see how this is gonna look all right so back over here we're just gonna do pretty much like how we did we're gonna you know uh copy our dummy text here add a new listing i'm just going to paste it in here like that so that's going to be my title here so i'm going to leave the tagline and the dates let's add our image okay that's my image here and let's publish it i know i've left out quite a bit of information here but it doesn't really matter uh let's do one more so i'm gonna copy that and add another listing so i'm just going to paste it in here and this is going to act as my title so now i have three listings let's just add an image i insert my image here okay pretty cool uh let's add a price so let's say this is 20 000 like that so we're going to publish that okay pretty cool so let's take a quick look here and see what this looks like again i'm going to open this in a new tab and here it is now the image is a bit too big i wonder if we can go in and try and fix that but basically everything looks great apart from this all right so now that i have added all my listings i think that's looking great so the next step now is to come over here to my settings because what i need to do is to customize all my pages now so let's see how easy that is so if i come over here to page setup we can create a page for add listing so i know right now in fact you know what i did go in and allow this to add pages let's see if my pages were added and yes they were so i can see now we have a ton of pages here so let's take a quick look here at the add listing page i'm going to view this in a new tab as well and here we go so this is what it looks like you can add your listing in here and enter your title your description here the tagline and so on so this is for your users or your customers they can just come in and add their listings in here which i think is really cool so the question now is can i really customize this with divi so i'm going to enable the visual builder here all right so i'm going to use existing content and i think all we have here is this short code which is pretty cool so i'm just going to make sure i uh copy it because i want to add it in a different way so in fact you know what let me just delete this so i'm gonna go in now and redesign this by clicking here on my single column and in here we're going to add a text module now i'll let you know in a moment why i'm doing this so i'm going to override this text and add our shortcode so what i'm going to do now to give this a bit more customization is to come over here to design go to text and i'm going to change this font now to pop in so let's say this is my font the font that i'm going to use for my website so you can see here this has changed and i really like that this is fantastic now let's see if we can add a background to this so i'm going to come over here add a background and yep i really love that i like the fact that this remains in that color so this is looking great so far i like the uh customization so uh let's add a very light gray like that we're gonna go in give this some rounded corners so we're gonna go to the border here so the reason why i'm doing this is some of you may have already gone in and invested a lot in your page builder but all these customizations i'm doing you can pretty much do them in any page builder i'm just going to show you how easy it is to customize this so if i come over here now to spacing i can actually add a bit more padding here to the top like that so in fact let's add it as a percentage there we go so do we need to add it to the bottom yes so we're going to add this both the top and the bottom and i think that looks nicer so now we have a design that fills the whole page so let me save this and exit the visual builder all right great so we can actually give this a title as well so now this looks much nicer we can go in give this page a title we can say add your listing in fact let's go ahead and do that so i'm just going to duplicate this one here and then go in and let's add our title here okay so let's customize our text let's make it all caps let's make it black we can also make it bold here like that increase the size and then we can save that so i think this is really cool i like that we can go in customize all our pages okay so now that we've done this i'm going to exit the visual builder so the customization is great so the next step now is okay so if we are going to create our directory how do we actually monetize it and are there any other features that we can add to our directory because this directory right now is free as you can see i haven't added anything else so the question now is what else can we do to our directory to really turn this into a money making machine and this is what i need to see what extras they have if this is really worthwhile so what i'm going to do now is i'm going to go to the main website and in fact you know what there's a black black friday and cyber monday sale 55 off and for you to get all these extras you need to sign up for a membership so i'm going to come over here to my extensions and take a look at all the extensions now all these are premium extensions which you can add to your directory to really add more functionality and make more money so we have multi directory linking here we also have buddypress integration body boss integration that's if you use any of those now over here we have oxygen authorize.net this is for payments we also have a coupon code so let's say you're running a promotion you can always use a coupon code uh to have all your customers to sign up for the directory with a coupon code i think that's really cool i love that okay so moving on and we also have the ads manager this is where you start to see how you can really turn this into a money making machine if you can add all your ads make sure they are placed on different places of your directory and charge for those spots this is a great way of monetizing your directory so you definitely need this type of extension moving on you can compare listings you can also uh have this feature for ranked listings i really like this by the way we also have bookings and reservations perfect so let's say this is a directory for let's say a gym for your local area they can actually go in and make some bookings you know on whatever they have chosen to uh to sign up with i think this is great too all right so moving on there's also live chat mark as sold this will be great for real estate or even for cars for a car directory or real estate social login i think this is great as well because sometimes we forget our username and password so having a social login is really powerful and i like this that it has this feature right here okay so moving on i'm not going to go through pretty much every single one of these but you can see here that the membership is worth your while so as we scroll through this we also have capture to reduce any spam this also shows business hours nice and now here are the payment gateways we've got stripe and paypal pricing plans as well i think this is fantastic and if you want to use woocommerce uh woocommerce is there as well so let's take a look now at the pricing so if i say get your plan here i've already gone ahead and signed up for this there's a black friday and cyber monday offer and i also have a special link in the video description below if you use that i'm going to do even more tutorials to help you get up and running really fast okay so if we come over here let's take a look and see the pricing so for three months normally it's 79 but you only pay 55 for the three months so that's 30 off and i think that's a great offer now if you want this for a year it's 99 per year and all you need is just a few listings on your website and this project will pay for itself so that's how you need to look at it i mean don't look at the initial price right now so just think about it this way if you have say three or four uh people that list on your website that's pretty much paid for the whole licensing and i think that's a great great great offer okay so there's also a lifetime offer here so if you're one of those people that really enjoy just paying once for your service there's an offer here it's 449 one time so you could go for this and it's definitely worth it okay now what you can do with this lifetime is you can add a hundred websites so if you want to create directories for other companies this is the license that you need to uh to go with but of course you also have this here for the yearly one it has unlimited website licenses so it depends which one you want to go with but still a hundred websites to maintain that's a lot of websites so i would recommend that okay they also have a money back guarantee and some testimonials here so i think you've just noticed that uh in the setup and in the basic usage of this it is very very easy to use and in fact you know what i used to have a directory i used to run uh years ago it was really really difficult to use but with this i was really shocked at how easy it is to set up you can see here in a few minutes i was able to set this up and of course it will take a bit longer to do the customizations but the fact that all these uh pages can be created ahead of time for you i think is fantastic all right so uh what i'm going to do now is to take a look at also their themes so if you don't want to spend too much time with the design and customizing it yourself they have also themes here now the themes are also part of the membership so let's take a look here so let's explore the themes and take a look so these themes you can see here they give us a brief overview so this is one listing one listing pro uh this is d place this is for real estate uh this one here is for restaurants but anyway you know what let's do a quick live preview so now we're going to have an idea of how these themes look so as i mentioned these will be available for you to download as soon as you become a member so it has a search feature here so you can choose here from the drop-down it also has an option to choose your your city now these are the the listings you can see they're nice beautiful very clean they look very professional so if i were to uh for example click here on this one uh you can see here we have some nice images here at the top which i think is fantastic i'm really loving this and in fact i may even create a website and run a directory service definitely so let's go ahead now and take a look here more information wow i love this and then this is the contact info business hours and you also have the ability to add a youtube video i think this is really really nice okay so this is uh if you want to choose to use a template but of course you know me i prefer to customize everything myself so i'll rather use my page builder for all of this so overall i think this is a fantastic plug-in to uh set up your directory and as i mentioned before i love working with websites that help generate money so this is one of those examples that you can use in trying to use your website as a money making machine so i would highly recommend this i've also spoken to the team over there directorist they're very passionate about the design in fact there's also an app version which i will be talking about in the next couple of days so overall i would say definitely go for this if you want to create a directory for your local community your area and you can create pretty much any type of directory all right guys let me know what you guys think in the comments box below don't forget to use my affiliate link uh i will be giving you a lot of tutorials on how to set this up and also show you my project that i'm going to be working on so you can see how i'm getting on with that all right guys until next time thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one take care

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Length: 18min 56sec (1136 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 26 2021