Business Directory Community Add-On Description
The WordPress Business Directory Community AddOn by CreativeMinds allows users to add a new listing to the business directory, claim an existing business which was already listed and manage their listings.
This AddOn is a supplement for the Business Directory Plugin and empowers it by letting the users submit and manage their own listings within the business directory.
What Happens when a User Submit a New Business
In cases when the business owner forgets his password, near each business page which is assigned to a business owner, a forgot password link will appear allowing business owner to receive a new password to a registered email
Creating Community DirectoryBusiness Community gives you full control on how your visitors can submit their business info for approval.Learn how to create a directory where users suggest businesses. |
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Administrator Tools to Manage Listings
Modifying the Business Submission Form
User Dashboard for the Business Submissions
The plugin support a user dashboard for logged-in users which let them see all their existing listings and manage them.
Since business owners are not necessarily defined as WordPress users this dashboard will be usable just in cases where new business submission is made by logged-in users.
Claiming an Existing Business
Online Demo: ListWP.com
Use Case Examples
- Business Listings – A quick way to list investment, career, real estate and consulting services with user-generated content
- City Listings – Make a website directory of your city plumber, law professionals and cleaning service listings, purely generated by user inputs. Encourage users through marketing campaigns and let the content generate itself
- Niche Listings – The plugin concept can be used for any listing imaginable, from tech companies to beauty practicians, and the best part it is powered by user content generation. All you have to do is market your website and give users a reason to submit listings
Using the Business Directory Community
- Submit Business Listing – Allow users to submit a new business listing Preview
- Update Your Business Page – Allow users to edit and update an existing business listing Preview
- Claim an Existing Business – Allow users to claim an existing business listing already in the directory Preview
Business Directory Community Prerequisite Plugin
You need to have CM Business Directory plugin installed before using the community addon
Business Directory Community Related Plugins
Business Directory Community Plugin Features
- Shortcode support a form with Captcha for submitting and managing businesses
- Define what fields are mandatory in the new business form
- Turn On/off business claim feature
- Turn On/off forgot password feature
- Let users attach documents of any extension to their page/li>
- Manage users username and password for managing their business
- Send notifications to the business owner
- Change all labels related to the business form
- Moderate new business postings
- Let logged-in users manage listings via a dashboard
Business Directory Community Features in Details
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
Add a Business form – Using a shortcode admin can place a form where business owners can post new businesses and edit existing. The form mandatory fields are controlled from the admin settings. | |
Terms of Service – Require users to accept a TOS prompt before suggesting a business. Imprescindible for following GDPR rules | |
Claim your Business – Each business page which is not already assigned to a business owner can show claim your business form. Once posted admin can moderate and assign a business owner to this business page. | |
Password Recovery – Once business is claims, business owner can ask to recover password. An email notification will be sent to the business owner registered email address. | |
AddOn Settings – AddOn settings includes Moderation settings of who can moderate new businesses added and notifications settings. | |
Business Owner Email – Once claimed business owner email appear in the business edit page from the admin dashboard. Admin can update email and also send password recovery notification. | |
AddOn Labels – All labels related to the business details and form are editable. Admin can also define which field is mandatory. | |
Claims Dashboard – Manage all claim requests from a single dashboard |
Business Directory Community Image Gallery
Back-end Gallery
Business Directory Online Demo
![]() ![]() ![]() | This demo shows a form for submitting new business listing. Once form is submitted admin is notified. Admin can moderate the listing before it appears on the directory. ListWP Business Submission Live Demo |
Business Directory Community Frequently Asked Questions
Please check the user guide to learn more about this plugin.
What is the benefit of this add-on?
The Community add-on for the Business Directory plugin allows visitors to your site to Create new business listings or to Claim existing listings.
This can allow you to outsource some of the work of creating and managing content on your site to your users. It also means that business owners can have the creative control over their listings and who knows a business better than those who set it up in the first place?
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Can I create listings and reach out to the business owners to see if they would like to manage them?
Yes, there is a Business Claim feature built into the add-on. You can also hide the Add new Business form from users, leaving them with only the option to Claim business that you have added.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Is there any sort of User dashboard for managing directory listings that have been submitted or claimed?
Yes. Once a user logs into your WordPress site they can go to the Dashboard page which you can create on any page or post on the site with the insertion of the included dashboard shortcode.
From here they can View their previously added or claimed listings, edit them or delete them if they choose (still pending admin moderation if you have this feature enabled.
They can also suggest new business listings from here.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Is there any way to charge my site users for adding or claiming business listings on my directory?
Yes, you can charge for both adding new businesses to the directory and claiming existing ones. For this you will require the Business Directory Payments add-on.
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Would you recommend this for adding a directory of professional individuals? (E.g. a Carpenders Directory or other tradespersons?)
This addon could effectively manage this, but we have another addon that is more suited for this purpose called the Members Directory add-on which might better match your needs.
Is there any way to prevent Spam or Malicious content from being added to my directory?
There are two safety features built into the add-on. Re-captcha and Moderation.
Re-captcha can help to prevent attacks by bots harming your site content quality and performance and Moderation allows you to manually filter out nuisance visitors submissions and to check content quality before it goes live
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Do listing owners have to have access to or be registered users on my WordPress site to be able to own and managing directory listings?
No, not at all. When a business owner creates a new listing or claims an existing one and passes moderation (if the moderation features is enabled) they will receive log in credentials and a link in their email.
Using this link they can then go to your site and manage their listing without having to be logged in on the site. They don’t have to have a user account at all!
To learn more about this feature see this Help article.
Business Directory Community Changelog
Version 1.9.4 from the 24th Jan 2022
- Bugfix related to email field
- Improvement in community form
Version 1.9.3 from the 12th Nov 2021
- Improved category field dropdown
- Bugfix related to tags update
- Improved notification emails
Version 1.9.2 from the 13th October 2021
- Added support to add second logo for business
Version 1.9.1 from the 22nd September 2021
- Removed PHP warnings
- Added stripslashes on form field placeholder
Version 1.9.0 from the 28th August 2021
- Added custom taxonomies fields in form
Version 1.8.10 from the 17th August 2021
- Implemented functionality to assign business to user by owner user email.
- Implemented functionality to check access to edit Business on frontend
- Fixes to identify business owner
- Added option to create business owner if not exists
- Fixed problem with access for anonymous users
- Fixed problem with updating business for anonymous users
- Fixed warnings
Version 1.8.8 from the 24th May 2021
- Updated license package to version 1.9.1
Version 1.8.7 26th April 2021
- Improved CSS of GDPR disclaimer feature
Version 1.8.6 15th April 2021
- Added banner field support with community form
Version 1.8.5 15th Jan 2021
- Bugfix related to user access email after publish
Version 1.8.4 8th Jan 2021
- Bugfix related to claim feature
Version 1.8.3 2nd Jan 2021
- Added support to publish/unpublish fields
- Bugfix related to placeholders
Version 1.8.2 13th Oct 2020
- Bugfix related to community login form
Version 1.8.1 8th Oct 2020
- Added support to show/hide username and password fields from community form
Version 1.8.0 19th Sep 2020
- Added support to add multiple addresses with each business
Version 1.7.9 8th Sep 2020
- Added support to override community form template in theme
Version 1.7.8 10th August 2020
- Added delete option with documents
Version 1.7.7 26th JULY 2020
- Added terms of service field support with community form
- Added support to select tags with checkboxes
Version 1.7.6 4th JULY 2020
- Bugfix related to gallery lightbox caption
Version 1.7.5 11th June 2020
- Resolved PHP warnings
- Updated package 1.9.0
Version 1.7.4 13th May 2020
- Bugfix in send login and password feature from admin
Version 1.7.3 30th Apr 2020
- Bugfix in change username and password feature with community form
Version 1.7.2 27th Apr 2020
- Added change username and password feature with community form
Version 1.7.1 13th Apr 2020
- Bugfix in GDPR disclaimer feature
Version 1.7.0 9th Apr 2020
- Added claim request listing
- Added new email notification for user claim on submit
- Bugfix related to community form submit button label
- Bugfix related to form fields visibility issue
Version 1.6.9 17th Mar 2020
- Updated package 1.8.10
Version 1.6.8 25th Feb 2020
- Bugfix related to pitch field in community form
Version 1.6.7 9th Feb 2020
- Added support with cm business directory levels addon
Version 1.6.6 19th Dec 2019
- Added support to add documents with each business
Version 1.6.5 27th Nov 2019
- Bugfix related to additional links & fields validation in form
Version 1.6.4 14th Nov 2019
- Bugfix related to recaptcha v2 invisible
Version 1.6.3 12th Oct 2019
- Replaced deprecated function
- Bugfix related to login form
- Improvement in html
Version 1.6.2 25th Sep 2019
- Added support to community form contact email set as owner email
Version 1.6.1 9th Sep 2019
- Added main image as featured image
- Bugfix related to owner email field in form
Version 1.6.0 19th Aug 2019
- Added some text in labels section
- Improvement in statusObserver method
- Bugfix related to send notification
Version 1.5.9 21st July 2019
- Bugfix related to post data with double quotes
Version 1.5.8 15th July 2019
- Bugfix related to community form submit
- Removed some warnings
Version 1.5.7 6th July 2019
- Compatible with php 7.2
Version 1.5.6 8th June 2019
- Resolved output buffer issue in loadView function
- Added loader on form submit
Version 1.5.5 15th May 2019
- Added video gallery update support in community form
Version 1.5.4 05th May 2019
- Bugfix related to custom css
Version 1.5.3 23rd Apr 2019
- Added gallery update support in community form
- Updated package 1.8.9
Version 1.5.2 16th Apr 2019
- Bugfix related to business pitch
- Updated package 1.8.8
Version 1.5.1 17th Mar 2019
- Google+ profile field replace with YouTube
Version 1.5.0 24th Feb 2019
- Added reCAPTCHA instructions in settings
- Removed gray overlay after submit community form
Version 1.4.9 30th Jan 2019
- Added stripslashes for GDPR disclaimer text
Version 1.4.8 28th Jan 2019
- Added stripslashes for labels
Version 1.4.7 23rd Jan 2019
- Bugfix in access notification email
- Updated license package 1.8.6
Version 1.4.6 16th Jan 2019
- Added business form section heading text change settings
- Added visible and mandatory setting for year founded field
Version 1.4.5 9th Jan 2019
- Bugfix in community dashboard structure
- Improvement in CSS
Version 1.4.4 5th Jan 2019
- Bugfix in community dashboard shortcode
Version 1.4.3 26th Dec 2018
- Added custom css support on community form
- Updated license package
Version 1.4.2 10th Dec 2018
- Improved galley features
Version 1.4.1 23rd Nov 2018
- Bugfix in gallery and videos feature
Version 1.4.0 21st Oct 2018
- Added business images gallery and videos feature
Version 1.3.19 21st Oct 2018
- Added CSS classes on community form sections
Version 1.3.18 15th Oct 2018
- Added Latitude and Longitude from community form if map locations integration enabled
Version 1.3.17 31st July 2018
- Fixed bug with maximum number of categories limit issue if set empty
Version 1.3.16 27th July 2018
- Added admin panel notification visible only for admin and editor
- Fixed the fatal error in gdpr class
- Added paragraph spacing support in emails
- Updated license package
Version 1.3.15 13th July 2018
- Fixed bug with password recovery email
Version 1.3.14 19th June 2018
- Added the display of the login/password of the expert profile owners to admins
- Added community form fields show/hide option
- Fixed bug with community form fields label
- Fixed bug with reCAPTCHA
Version 1.3.13 110h June 2018
- Added GDPR Feature
Version 1.3.12 11th Apr 2018
- Added the display of the login/password of the expert profile owners to admins
Version 1.3.11 17th Mar 2018
- Bug: Fixed the error with the undeclared class constant
Version 1.3.10 23rd Jan 2018
- Feature: Added the option to display the categories as checkboxes
- Feature: Added the option to assign tags on business form
- Bug: Fixed few small bugs
Version 1.3.9 19th Dec 2017
- Improved the error handling of the form
- Fixed the bug with the address not being saved properly
- Fixed the bug with the facebook, twitter not being properly saved
- Updated the Licensing Package
Version 1.3.8 10th Aug 2017
- Fixed the bug when displaying an error on the suggest a business page
Version 1.3.7 4th Aug 2017
- Fixed the notice in one of the views
Version 1.3.6 29th July 2017
- Fixed the rare bug
- Fixed the bugs with editing
- Fixed the User Dashboard edition option
- Changed the User Dashboard links to open in new tab
- Improved the Image Upload library
Version 1.3.5 9th March 2017
- Changed the old Captcha v1 to brand new invisibleCaptcha
Version 1.3.4 11th February 2017
- Fixed the problems with the e-mails with password not being sent after claim
- Fixed the problems with wrong passwords after claim
- Fixed the bug with the [business] shortcode missing in the admin e-mail notification
- Added the filter allowing to display custom fields in the form
- Improved the support for logged users to edit their businesses
- Fixed some small bugs
Version 1.3.3 12th January 2017
- Fix a security issue.
Version 1.3.0 16th Aug 2016
- Updated licensing dashboard
Version 1.1.9 28th July 2016
- Fixed adding/editing business logo and required setting
- Added setting to moderating edited businesses
- Fixed the problem with captcha
- Updated Platform version
Version 1.1.8 13th July 2016
- Small code issues fixed
- Fixed the rare notice in the CMBD_Cookie on admin screens
Version 1.1.7 11th June 2016
- Security improvements
- Fixed post creating/updating functions
- Fixed post status value after modification
- Fixed a bug during deactivation of the main plugin
- Updated the Licensing API
Version 1.1.6 19th April 2016
- fixed displaying shortcode tips
Version 1.1.5 11th April 2016
- Add user dashboard shortcode for showing logged-in user businesses they have submitted
Version 1.1.4 21st Mar 2016
- Fix small bugs
Version 1.1.3 12th Mar 2016
- Added support for Custom Taxonomy
- Added support for Business Video
Version 1.1.2 25th Feb 2016
- Added automatic updates from plugin dashboard
- Replaced plugin admin interface including license activation and userguide
Version 1.1.1 01th Feb 2016
- Integration with the Payment system
Version 1.1.0 13th Dec 2015
- Added the sliding to top after filling the business form
- Fixed some small styling issues
Version 1.0.10 4th Dec 2015
- Added the background color for the overlay
- Fixed the problem with the editor content not being saved when pasting content
Version 1.0.9 20th Nov 2015
- Fix licensing issues
Version 1.0.8 11th Nov 2015
- Added the option to show the login form on the business page
- Fixed the problem with claiming the business
- Fixed some small styling bugs
- Fixed the integration with the CM Business Directory (free edition)
- Fixed the false-negative checks on some mandatory fields
Version 1.0.7 23rd Oct 2015
- Fixed the warning on the backend, when the claims list was empty
- Fixed the bug with the address not being saved
- Fixed the bug with categories not being saved
Version 1.0.6 9th Sep 2015
- Fixed the problem with the Business Claim not appearing for some option combinations
- Added the option to change the Suggest a business page ID
- Updated the licensing system
Version 1.0.5 7th Sep 2015
- Fixed bug with captcha
Version 1.0.4 18th July 2015
- Fixed the bug with message being displayed when Captcha is disabled and key not provided
- Fixed the error messages
- Fixed the bug with mandatory fields
- Added the shortcode to the list of available shortcodes
- Added the link to the Suggest Business page
Version 1.0.3 11th July 2015
- Add support for captcha in claim process
- Add support for email template once claim is rejected
- Add support for claim in process label
- Add support for a single claim at a time process
Version 1.0.1 20th June 2015
- Fixed Ajax bug with submitting business