Thread: Wordpress Business Directory

Hello

I have a site which is running under Wordpress 2.9. I have been wanting to add a business directory to the site. The site is related to Montreal, and I had the site for about four or five years, but have never gotten the time to add a business directory.

Back in 2006, I added over 200 business listings by hand. It was a plain HTML site back then. In 2008, I switched to Wordpress.

So again, do you guys know of any good business listing plugins I can use for Wordpress? If not, would you guys recommend any good business directory systems?

I am looking it to be under a free license, but I don't mind paying either. I have a budget of about $100, if I need to buy one.

Thanks

Would you not be better to use a dedicated system like PHPLD and have it in a folder in your site?

Just found this plugin: WordPress › Business Directory WordPress Plugins

That might be of some help?

Corey

Thank you CoreyFreeman! I have installed it on my site, lets see how it goes

Please reply here if you get some good results.

Thanks

Its been working fine, but it does not display the business addresses. It only shows the company name and phone number/email or website.

Originally Posted by 5starpix

Its been working fine, but it does not display the business addresses. It only shows the company name and phone number/email or website.

I think they have it when they launch premium plugin

Originally Posted by 5starpix

Its been working fine, but it does not display the business addresses. It only shows the company name and phone number/email or website.

I don't have this plugin installed so I can't test this, but after having a quick look through it, I may be able to help you with that.

Open functions.php (make a backup first) of the plugin and around lines 255-257 you'll find :

PHP Code:

        if(!empty($l->company_phone))
            $directory .= @$l["company_phone"]."<br/>";
        $directory .= "</td></tr>"; 


After $directory .= @$l["company_phone"]."<br/>"; and Before $directory .= "</td></tr>"; insert

PHP Code:

        if(!empty($l->company_street1))
            $directory .= @$l["company_street1"]."<br/>";
        if(!empty($l->company_street2))
            $directory .= @$l["company_street2"]."<br/>";
        if(!empty($l->company_city) && !empty($l->company_state) && !empty($->company_zip))
            $directory .= @$l["company_city"].", ".@$l["company_state"].", ".@$l["company_zip"]."<br/>";
        if(!empty($l->company_country))
            $directory .= @$l["company_country"]."<br/>"; 


So it now looks like this:

PHP Code:

        if(!empty($l->company_phone))
            $directory .= @$l["company_phone"]."<br/>";
        if(!empty($l->company_street1))
            $directory .= @$l["company_street1"]."<br/>";
        if(!empty($l->company_street2))
            $directory .= @$l["company_street2"]."<br/>";
        if(!empty($l->company_city) && !empty($l->company_state) && !empty($l->company_zip))
            $directory .= @$l["company_city"].", ".@$l["company_state"].", ".@$l["company_zip"]."<br/>";
        if(!empty($l->company_country))
            $directory .= @$l["company_country"]."<br/>";
        $directory .= "</td></tr>"; 


Now that should hopefully produce an address output which looks like the following (assuming each field has a value):

Code:

123 Fake Street
Suite #1
Fake City, Fake State, 12345
Fake Country

Again, this was from just a quick look at the plugin's code. I have no idea if it will actually work. So make a backup of the functions.php file and give this a shot and let me know if it works or not.

That does not seem to work. I can not access my site at all.

The error message;

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting T_VARIABLE or '$' in /home/montraal/public_html/wp-content/plugins/business-directory/functions.php on line 261

Whoops, I left out a character, sorry!

Change

PHP Code:

if(!empty($l->company_city) && !empty($l->company_state) && !empty($->company_zip)) 


to

PHP Code:

if(!empty($l->company_city) && !empty($l->company_state) && !empty($l->company_zip))