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7 Best Real Estate Listing Plugins for WordPress (Reviewed)

Are you looking for a way to list properties on your WordPress site easily? If so, you’ve come to the...

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7 Hacks to Increase Community Engagement on your Website

Are you tired of talking to yourself on your website? Feeling a little lonely in the vast expanse of the...

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7 Tips For an Effective Price Table Design (+ Examples)

When a customer is at checkout, it's a high-stakes moment for everyone. They're at the point of purchase, and you're...

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How to Build a Business Directory Website in 7 Easy Steps

Some people need a map, compass, and a pack of hunting dogs to find the business they're looking for. Others,...

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How to Create a User Registration Form on Your WordPress Site

Looking to put a face and name to your visitors? Let them register an account on your WordPress website with...

How to Get Businesses to Buy Premium Listings: 4 Incentives
How to Get Businesses to Buy Premium Listings: 4 Incentives

If you’re starting (or already running) a business directory, one of the ways to monetize your directory website should be...

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How to Create a Classified Ad Website: The Step-by-step Guide

Are you looking to build a classified ad directory faster than you can say "classified ad"? Then you've come to...

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Maximize Your Online Directory's Potential with the 'Claim Listing' Functionality: A Simple Guide to Implementation

A business owner is casually strolling through the internet, looking for a website that can help him promote his business....

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Seven ways Airbnb Hosts can increase revenues with a directory website

If you're an Airbnb host, chances are you're always looking for ways to increase your bookings and revenue. But aside...

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How to build a Community Directory with Advanced Search

A robust and feature-rich member directory can be the backbone of your organization's community. When it's easier for members to...

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9 Smart Ways to Increase Your Average Order Value

It takes a lot to get someone to the checkout page of your online store. From capturing their attention to...

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Boost Your Directory Website's Traffic with This Comprehensive SEO Guide.

Lost on how to get your online directory business out of the depths of page 13 in search results? You're...

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The Elements of an Effective Landing Page: An Online Directory Case Study

Creating a high-conversion landing page is one of the most effective ways of marketing your online directory. In this case,...

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How to Create a Marketing Strategy for Your Online Directory

Creating an online directory is an excellent business, but it won’t generate revenue until you get the word out. That’s...

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How to Create a Church Member Directory

An accurate directory is necessary to run a successful Church organization. With the proper setup, you could easily store and...

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The easiest way to sell Kadence Cloud Access Keys [100% no-code].

In this blog post, we will be discussing how to sell Kadence Cloud Access Keys with GetPaid. A 100% no-code...

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Top 3 Payment Plugins compared | GetPaid vs WP Simple Pay vs SureCart

So, you're in the market for a plugin to accept payments on your WordPress site. You want to pick the...

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9 Mistakes to Avoid When Building a Successful Online Directory

Starting an online directory can be a very profitable endeavor. There are many things to keep in mind when starting...

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(2023) 6 Surefire Ways to Make Money With WordPress: Full Guide

WordPress is one of the world's most popular content management systems, powering almost half of all websites. Unsurprisingly, many entrepreneurs...

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7 Little-Known and Unique Ways to Monetize Your Online Directory

When you learn how to make a directory website with your chosen directory listing software and you get set up,...

How to Build an Online Community For Your Side Business
How to Build an Online Community For Your Side Business

If you ever wondered how to sustain a successful side business, the answer lies in building a community around it....

Best WordPress Events Calendar Plugins Compared
(2023) The 8 Best WordPress Event Calendar Plugins Compared

Are you looking for the best WordPress event calendar plugin to keep your customers informed about upcoming events? Whether it’s...

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Online Directory Websites FAQ

Online directory websites are a valuable resource for individuals and businesses alike. These websites provide a comprehensive list of businesses,...

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Create a Directory Website with Elementor

What is the best way to build an Elementor Directory Website? To build an Elementor Directory Website, Elementor.com suggests using...

8 Ways to Monetize a Directory Website
8+ Ways to Monetize a Directory Website

If you’re wondering how to make money with websites, creating an online directory is one of the easiest ways. It’s...

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6 Outstanding WordPress Invoice Plugins in 2022

There are way too many people who are still using Microsoft Excel and Word to send their invoices. Collecting orders,...

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How to create a restaurant directory in WordPress with a free plugin

You are a passionate foodie and want to build a side hustle to generate extra income. You have tried many...

Test Credit Card Numbers for the most popular Payment Gateways
Test Credit Card Numbers for the most popular Payment Gateways

Here you will find some example test cards that you can use to test processing payments through the sandbox of...

Stripe payments WordPress plugin
The best Stripe Payments WordPress Plugins to start accepting money online

Are you trying to find the ideal Stripe Payments WordPress plugins? If you are running an online business, you will...

GeoDirectory Events Tickets Marketplace
Events Tickets Marketplace Released

Today we released the highly anticipated Events Tickets Marketplace plugin for GeoDirectory. This plugin can be used to sell Events...

GeoDirectory 2.2 improved setup wizard
GeoDirectory 2.2 - Improved backend UI/UX

In this latest release of GeoDirectory, we focused on improving the website admin experience, rather than adding new features. At...

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How to add Facebook App Login to Your WordPress Website

one of the most difficult tasks, when you start running an online business, is convincing visitors to turn into members,...

How to start an Online Subscription Business
How to start an Online Subscription Business

We humans, we love our convenience. Anything that saves us extra steps, steals our hearts. What if we could replace...

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Top Payment Form Plugins for WordPress Compared

Accepting money from your online customers should not be rocket science. If the check-out process is cumbersome, there are good...

WordPress User Registration Plugins

WordPress has long supported user signups and registrations. In fact, user management is a core feature of WordPress as a...

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GetPaid + SliceWP = A Winning WordPress Affiliate Marketing Combination

Affiliate marketing can prove to be a stable source of sales for any online business. At GetPaid, we make it...

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Online Directory Business Model Explained

Did you know that Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet, started his Business empire with an Online Directory...

Conditional Fields

GeoDirectory version 2.1.1.0 introduces a new, highly anticipated feature: Conditional Logic for Custom Fields This new feature allows you to...

Wordpress Store Locator Plugins Compared
7 sophisticated Store Locator Plugins for WordPress

Are you looking for a WordPress Store Locator plugin to help you increase sales at your store or shop? If...

SliceWP
SliceWP - Free Affiliate Marketing Plugin for WordPress

At AyeCode, We Love Affiliate Marketing! Affiliate Marketing is one of the things, which made GeoDirectory as successful as it...

GeoHome Elementor Version
How to Create a WordPress Real Estate Listings Directory in Minutes

ever wanted to start a professional Real Estate Listings Website for your city using WordPress without spending too much time...

Introducing GetPaid
The easiest and fastest way to start selling online with WordPress

a few months ago, we started working on the re-branding of our Invoicing plugin. Because of all the new features,...

WordPress directory theme
WordPress Directory Theme, what's the best [updated 2023]

How the WordPress Directory Theme niche started When we started this journey, there were only a couple of other players...

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9 Powerful Directory Website Builders In 2023

Do you remember the days when you had to flip through thick, dusty phone books just to find a plumber?...

GeoDirectory 2.1 release
GeoDirectory 2.1 - What's New

The first and most important new feature of GeoDirectory version 2.1 is the implementation of the AUI (AyeCode User Interface)....

Add WordPress Custom Body class (2022)

WordPress Custom Body classes WordPress Custom Body classes are something any WordPress developer will need to deal with sooner or...

WordPress profile picture. How to change avatar via Gravatar, a plugin, or custom code. (Full Tutorial)
WordPress profile picture. How to change avatar via Gravatar, a plugin, or custom code. (Full Tutorial)

Everyone developing WordPress websites, sooner or later, will face the need to change a user's profile picture. That's when they...

Moving to an email-based support system

After 6 years of providing support through bbPress based forums with a total of 43,165‬ topics and 239,801‬ replies, we...

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The 6 rules to monetize a directory website

How to make money with a business directory website When Blogs still didn't exist, directories were already making money online....

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Customize the design of GeoDirectory Templates with Elementor Pro

A Directory Plugin for Elementor pro today we released GeoDirectory V 2.0.0.85. In this version, the integration with Elementor is...

Event Schema for Disrupted Events and Listings' Temporarily Closed Field for COVID-19

Google recently added some new schema properties to help with disrupted events. Our Events addon from version 2.0.0.17 now support...

A few things we can do to help our communities during the COVID-19 emergency

We can all help stop COVID-19 and if you are not a health care professional, the best way to do...

ayecode connect
Introducing AyeCode Connect

AyeCode Connect is a small plugin available on the wp.org repository that allows you to connect your website to your...

UsersWP
The best user profile plugin for 2023

A little bit of history UsersWP has been around for a while. We decided to develop this plugin because many...

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Create an Airbnb-like listings page with GeoDirectory and Avada

approximately 6 months ago we released V2 of GeoDirectory and we promised it would be a lot easier to customize...

Rank Math

today we released V2.0.0.65 with several fixes and 1 exciting new feature: Rank Math Compatibility untill today, the only SEO...

Compare listings add-on
Compare Listings add-on released

the possibility to compare listings is a feature that many of you requested in the past. A way to compare...

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Listimia By Addicted2web

We always tried to attract theme developers. We wanted them to build Directory themes for WordPress, using GeoDirectory as their...

geodirectory v 2.0.0.61
Release of GeoDirectory v 2.0.0.61

The release today of GDv2.0.0.61 brings a few little new features that we will go over here 🙂 Classifieds Dummy...

Embeddable Ratings Badge & WP All Import Add-ons

These are the 1st two add-ons that we release since GeoDirectory V2 was officially launched. Both add-ons are designed to...

GeoDirectory V2 out now!

We are glad to announce that we finally released GeoDirectory V2 on the WordPress.org plugins repository. We released the Directory...

UPGRADING GUIDE GeoDirectory V2
Upgrading to V2 - A practical step by step checklist with video

The release of GeoDirectory v2 on the wordpress.org plugin directory is imminent. As we explained several times, GeoDirectory v2 is...

GeoDirectory V2 - Design Customization

GeoDirectory V2 and all its add-ons are finally out of BETA. If you haven't heard about it yet, GeoDirectory V2...

Claim Listings V2 BETA released

Today we released the 1st BETA version of the Claim Listings Add-on for GeoDirectory V2. You can download it from...

BuddyPress Integration V2 BETA released

Today we released the 1st BETA version of the BuddyPress Add-on for GeoDirectory V2. You can download it from your...

The Font Awesome v5 WordPress Problem

This blog post is mainly to draw attention to the brewing problem with using Font Awesome v5 in your WordPress...

GeoDirectory V2 Release Candidate

Today GeoDirectory Version 2 comes out of BETA and the Release Candidate can be downloaded here. This has been a...

Is Google declaring war on Web Directories?

Google Maps Platform new terms of service are not clear Last month we published a post about the Google Maps...

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Most WP sites won't be GDPR compliant by May 25th

The GDPR is the hottest topic of the moment and unless you are very comfortable with lawyers jargon, it can...

Google Maps Platform
Google Maps Platform New Pricing Model

Google Maps Platform, did you hear about it? Google announced today the launch of the Google Maps Platform. They described...

Gutenberg vs Page Builders (will they survive?)

In the last few years, several successful Page Builder Plugins for WordPress have appeared on the market: Elementor, Divi Builder,...

GeoDirectory V2 meets Ninja Forms

GeoDirectory V2 and Ninja Forms integration we decided to integrate GeoDirectory V2 with Ninja Forms, here's why: While GeoDirectory V1...

geodirectory v2
GeoDirectory V2 first BETA release

LAST UPDATED 13/06/2018 today we are releasing the BETA version of GeoDirectory V2. See change log at the end of...

GeoDirectory V2 Final Roadmap

February though a short month, has been a busy one for GeoDirectory V2. Our original hope was to have a...

GeoDirectory Translation in 2018
GeoDirectory Translation in 2018

Join the GeoDirectory translation team to translate GeoDirectory into 20+ languages in 2018! Read on to learn about how you...

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Refunds for digital products [2023 edition]

Dealing with refunds for digital products in 2022 Whether you are selling WordPress Themes, Plugins, or services, dealing with refunds...

Road to V2, the New GeoDirectory Dashboard

It's time for a new GeoDirectory Dashboard and this new GeoDirectory Dashboard will be integrated into the Core plugin, still...

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GeoDirectory V2 Goals and Development Plan

This is our 1st official post about GeoDirectory V2! WooHoo! 🙂 We have been working on GDv2 for a few...

New addons: Online Users & Restrict User Signups

Hello Everyone, We have some good news. We released two new addons yesterday. Online Users Restrict User Signups Online Users Go to...

UsersWP 1.0.7 released

Version 1.0.7 comes up with some major code refactoring. Its been almost 2 months since the release of 1.0.6. Sorry...

gutenberg drama
Enough with the Gutenberg Drama

The Gutenberg drama started on June 22nd. On that day, the Gutenberg Team released the Gutenberg plugin in beta for...

WordPress User Profile Plugin
WordPress User Profile Plugin | UsersWP

The WP plugin directory has been missing a lightweight WordPress User Profile plugin for too long. Popular user profile plugins...

WP Invoicing + GD Payments Manager V2

If you are upgrading from GD Payments Manager V1 to V2, you must carry out some additional steps. Our new...

WP Invoicing now called GetPaid

We are happy to announce WP Invoicing (now called GetPaid) is now live for its first public beta. In this...

Is the WordPress economy shrinking?

Yesterday Chris Lema published a blog post asking the same question: is the WordPress economy shrinking? He tried to answer...

Advanced Custom Fields Scalability limits
Advanced Custom Fields does not scale

Advanced Custom Fields is a fantastic plugin used by millions that convert WordPress into a full-stack CMS, allowing you to...

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Loading WordPress language files correctly

WordPress localization features allows you to make plugins and themes easily translatable through WordPress Language files (po/mo files). This is...

WP Easy Updates

WP Easy Updates We are happy to introduce WP Easy Updates! WPEU is our new update plugin, we will be...

Distance to custom field

Update Sept 2019 This has been added as a predefined custom field in V 2.0.0.67. The snippet below will only...

Custom fields in custom places

The Request Today we had a user ask how to show certain custom fields in a custom place, in her...

Event Calendar Newsletter GeoDirectory Integration
Event Calendar Newsletter & GeoDirectory Integration

Event Calendar Newsletter is a nifty plugin that allows users to embed Events from some of the best Events calendar...

We added a 50% discount code in our T&C's to see what would happen

The Story In April 2015 GeoDirectory became 1 year old, at that time we celebrated by running a discount over...

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Move bbPress Multisite plugin and the story behind it

Are you hosting your bbPress powered support forum within your main install? That's going to slow down your money website....

Making your WordPress site slow

In the coming days we will be writing a series of articles on how to keep you WordPress site lean...

WordPress Child Themes in 2016

What is a Child Theme? WordPress introduced the concept of child themes in early 2010, at least that is when...

Google Maps API Key and new limits

Google announced on Wednesday Updates to Google Maps APIs Standard Plan. Here you can read the full article. For all...

This page didn't load Google Maps correctly

This post will tell you how to fix the "This page didn't load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console...

Adding a SSL Certificate to your website

There are many good reasons to add a SSL to your site, we won't go into detail here but to...

Snazzy Maps support for GeoDirectory

We are delighted to announce support for Snazzy Maps in our Custom Google Maps addon (1.0.5). What is Snazzy Maps?...

PayPal SHA-256 Compliance and what it means

This week PayPal have been sending out scary emails and causing a lot of panic, these emails are titled: "IMMEDIATE...

Contact Form 7 vs Simple HTML Form

This post is related to my last blog post about my efforts to speed up our site, by removing plugins where the benefit...

Are pricing tables slowing down your site?

The Story: Recently I did a small audit of the plugin we use on this site, the main goal of...