You can easily create a directory Website in WordPress; if you are looking to manage directories online. Consider the most popular directory-based websites like Yelp, Facebook, Bing, eBay, Yahoo, and much more other websites used across the globe. You get it right? An online directory can generate a lot of money if you know what you are doing. Not only that, but you can also list almost anything with a directory website, and manage your content easily using WordPress.

What is a web directory?

A directory simply can be thought of as a place where you list information and details. Also, you can think of it as a database. Moreover, you can easily browse or edit through the listed information presented as ‘catalogs’. Whether it be a phone directory, or an office directory, or even a location-based geo directory, you can easily set up a site as per your need.

Here, given are some of the different types of directories you can create in WordPress,

• Website Directories:
• Business Directories.
• Job Directories.
• Real estate related Directories.
• Vehicles rental Directories.
• Cupons and daily deals Directories.
• Local Directories.

Note: A web directory is different from a search engine. Web directories are for organizing websites content into subject categories. Furthermore, a web directory is manually created by the user. Whereas, a search engine is an even bigger database of web pages, collected by the machine itself.

With a bit of concept about what a directory is, we move on to how you can easily create a website directory in WordPress.

Steps to create a website directory in WordPress

Let us assume, you want to create a directory of phone numbers, listing all the numbers of the people working in your office. What do you do? Sure, getting a directory theme is pretty easy and a smart move. But, here we are talking about creating our very own directory using WordPress. Furthermore, talking about picking WordPress, use WordPress.org to have the liberty to customize your directory site and if you have any queries. Also, on an important note, have a look at the difference between WordPress.org and WordPress.com.

If you are still too stubborn about sticking to a theme, then we got the best option for you; Robolist. If not then, we also have a guided step-by-step procedure to create a website directory in WordPress.

• It always begins with planning.
• Land on your website Platform (i.e WordPress.org)
• Define your goals and objectives.
• Know who your directory is for.
• Customize your site with themes or Do it with plugins.

Using plugins

This so just happens to be a vague concept of what you need to do before you actually start building your site. If you are looking to do all the work manually then first you will need to ensure you got all the tools required. Let’s start with,

• Install all the necessary plugins like Elementor, Elementor Pro, JetEngine, JetSearch, and JetSmartFilters.
• Create a custom post type; that is done using JetEngine.
• Make sure you have turned on the Hirearchical option and then move on to specify the Menu Position.
• Fill out the Meta Fields as per need.
• Select Taxonomies from JetEngine, and fill in the necessary details.
• Now, with Taxonomies set, you can customize your Businesses option categorically as set up by you.
• Make necessary customizations to Smart Filters.
• Create necessary Listings in JetEngine.

Now, we dive into the Elementor plugin to start creating an actual layout for your website.

• Specify your business information with the Listing Settings.
• Use the Edit Dynamic Field to add depth to your website.
• Now, you can access the Theme builder too from Templates to create your first Archive.
• Create your layout and exploit widgets in Elementor.
• Add styling to your page and then Publish settings.
• Wrap things up after you create the homepage.

Creating a website using plugins can be a bit overwhelming. But, now we move on to an even easier way of building your directory website. That is using a WordPress theme.

Here, we have Robolist to ease things up for you. Let us take a look at what it is all about.

Robolist

Robolist is the best listing directory WordPress theme you can ask for. It is a powerful theme, however very easy to use and customize. What makes it powerful and easy? well, it is packed with prominent plugins like WP Job Manager and Elementor Page Builder. Also, we already know how easy these plugins make it for us to customize as well as style our website.

You can rest assured that your website will load smoothly on all devices as it is very much responsive and is based on the BootStrap framework. Also, these awesome features are what you don’t want to miss.

• Structured Data
• Custom Elementor Elements
• Woocommerce Compatible
• Location Filtered
• Customized Single Page
• Translation ready
• SEO-friendly
• RTL Support

Not only that, you can monetize your website using Robolist.

If you are looking for more premium quality features and services, you can always count on Robolist Pro(Demo) to deliver results.

This is if you are using a theme to create a directory website in WordPress.

• Download and install your directory theme.
• Install the necessary plugins.
• Import Demo content.
• Customize your directory theme page.
• Information listings.
• Customize directory theme settings.
• Style, Finalize, and Publish.

Conclusion

Working on WordPress is really easy and time-saving. You can create a powerful job site in no time and with less effort using WordPress-based themes and plugins. Also, if you are very much motivated you can start your thing from the scratch. As well as, feel free to leave your thoughts and opinion in the comment section below. 

Article By Aditya Singh Rawal

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