I am Creating A Directory Wordpress Theme | Tell Me Your Wishlist For Directory Theme

by rizy
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Hey Warriors, I am working with a developer to create a robust, featured pack, yet simple and easy to use directory theme for website owners, business owners, and customers. The reason I even started working on this is because I hated all the other themes that were out there, almost all of them were either too complicated or didn't provide enough features.

So I am creating a directory theme which is inspired by simple and minimalistic designs of google and apple store. I want to create it so its easy to see and easy to use, with feature packed front end submission and backend management.

Now before I give everything away here, my realy purpose of this post is 'What are the main things you want in a directory theme?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author DoubleOhDave
    I spent all day looking for a directory theme and none were any good. I am trying to make a directory site of discount links to Amazon. The thing that doesn't seem to work in the ones I have tried is adding different levels lik menswear, apparel, 50% off etc.. Would love a good theme for this
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  • Profile picture of the author rizy
    I am not sure if I completely understand your last sentence, but yes I am planning on allowing each specific listing to contain deals.

    But I think what you are looking for is a classified listing theme, I am creating a local business directory based theme.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      Here's what I wanted:
      • Clean design and layout
      • Responsive
      • Easily modified
      • Many colors and child themes
      • Free listings or can charge for listings
      • Categories and sub-categories
      • Geographic searches
      • Google maps
      • User uploads for their images/advertising
      • Lifetime excellent free support
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      • Profile picture of the author rizy
        Clean design and layout (Check)
        Responsive (Check and hell yes, but our responsive theme will be extremely fluid on mobile, because it uses nice to see boxes for information)
        Easily modified (You mean easily customized?)
        Many colors and child themes (Check)
        Free listings or can charge for listings (This is something I don't understand why its not included in other directory themes, because personally I like to run free directories, and I know mostly others like to run paid listings)
        Categories and sub-categories (hmmm wasn't thinking of sub-categories considering these are only certain location based, and honestly if your search engine is good no body even cares to go through categories, but will consider)
        Geographic searches (check)
        Google maps (custom google maps)
        User uploads for their images/advertising (absolutely)
        Lifetime excellent free support (check)

        Other Features:
        Front End System
        Paypal Integration
        Ability to Upload Video (Charge Extra For Video, from front end)
        Abilitiy to grant certain features free and certain features paid, such as video to be paid

        Few Questions?
        What do you guys want out of your review system?
        And do you want to show categories on side of a Business Listing or when its about Biz Listing give all spotlight to them, and only under them put related businesses.
        Do you want related businesses in that category to be related businesses or featured businesses in that category (this one's gonna be hard to do but...)
        Design: We are going with a Flat Minimalistic design w/ beautiful colors, is that okay for the most part.

        Thank you so far for support, and will be letting some of you above take it to the test once its done.
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        • Profile picture of the author jetsetpeasant
          Hey Rizy,

          It's been a little over a month since the last update on this and since I'm in the market for one of these themes, I thought I'd check to see how yours is coming along. I have Geo Places already and it seems ok with a decent amount of customization, but I've read several posts online about sites that use that theme being hacked and I've noticed that the theme seems to really slow down some sites. I'm looking at the new Directory Theme by Templatic, but it seem kind of overally templatized. My ideal directory theme would:


          1. Offer easy styling and appearance customizations in the back end
          2. Be responsive
          3. Allow for pages that don't include the giant map
          4. Lazy site load - where different widgets and elements paint on the site quickly and the more cumbersome ones load in the background.
          5. Have a tangible difference between the premium listings and the basic setup.
          6. Have paypal integration
          7. have integration for email service like Aweber and Mail Chimp


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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    I have been having issues for the last few months....

    It needs to have a great search function.....

    I am using geocraft at the moment :-) seems to work ok :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author rizy
      Originally Posted by Danny Cutts View Post

      I have been having issues for the last few months....

      It needs to have a great search function.....

      I am using geocraft at the moment :-) seems to work ok :-)
      This is one thing I am extremely serious about, a good search function is one the most important key features that separate two same sites from one another the most.
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