Creating a web directory can be "easy" if you use the right tools. Today, I will go over the WordPress Directory Plugins and themes that I use.

Directory Plugin: https://wpgeodirectory.com/

WordPress Theme: https://wpgeodirectory.com/downloads/listimia/

My Website: https://autohailrepairnews.com

Welcome back to Casey's SEO this is part two of creating a web directory, so uh episode, one or part one. We had uh picking out hosting and finding a CMS, which is a content management system for my hosting i chose In-motion hosting and then I'm using WordPress. So to initially start your web directory you're going to need some type of plugin and a theme, so the two that i chose. I tried to go pretty much the most basic that i could. I wanted to save time um.

So i chose Geo directory, which is a plugin that has multiple plugins built into the main plugin, but that ended up costing. I believe it was 199 for the year, which is not too bad. I think the initial plugin is maybe a hundred dollars and then, if you just want to pick and choose uh different options, it was anywhere from like 20 to 30 dollars per option or you could just get the bundle for 199 and that is what i chose now for the plug-in i use the plug-in that they actually have set up for the demos, so i believe it i believe the theme name is listia and the theme is actually very basic, easy to use if you're really looking for A lot of customization, probably not a great theme for you unless you are great at CSS and all that other you know: cool WordPress, web design type of stuff. I do not know that so i like to try to keep everything basic and once again i just wanted to save some time. I already knew what the web directory would look like since i just looked at the demo and said yep that will work.

Let'S go ahead and get started now for the theme i did change. You know some colors um. I try to think. I don't even think i even really changed the page layouts if you actually go online and check out different web directories. A lot of companies use these plugins and theme already.

So for that matter you need to make yours a little bit different, but overall, pretty simple. I think that theme was like 40 for the year you get updates. I don't think it's ever been updated in the past six months that I've used it. It may not even be something that they update very often, but if you want something very simple, quick, you already know what it will look like definitely check out that that theme and the Geodirectory plugin another cool thing with that plug-in is it gives you maps you Can add locations very easily and then they will pinpoint on the map for you automatically, you can change the styles of the maps. If you would like to i have not.

You can sync it up with google maps. I found that to actually take me longer than what it should have, because you have to go in and get an API and everything and go ahead and set that up and honestly about a month ago, just randomly one day. The API didn't work anymore, um and it's not like i ran out. You know i didn't use a API too much uh, but i just said: let's kind of screw it I'm going to use what's built in which i think for built-in they use Openstreet, which is not the best, doesn't look the best, but it works free, instant and Quick, so you do have a couple different options. If you want to go that route and with a Geo directory plugin, you can once you pay, you can add multiple locations in different countries, different cities, wherever you want, you can add pictures to those.

You can actually import all the information from Facebook yelp, and i think there was another one that i didn't use, or you can put it in manually. But what's kind of nice is, if you have somebody that wants to. You know add to your directory: all they have to do is put in their like Facebook URL and it will import like 99 of the information uh. If you want to add videos, you can a lot of just a lot of different things you can do. That makes it pretty easy and quick.

You can also add one of their plugins and you can charge different amounts of money or whatever to add in your directory, so lots of things go ahead and check them out. I will leave links in the in the notes below, but i will also leave another link to my site just so you can check that out and see if there's any difference between what i have and what the demo is and go from there. If you guys have any questions, let me know and we'll be back. I will be back with part three here shortly and we'll get into just a little bit more of the specifics.