HivePress – Business Directory & Classified Ads WordPress Plugin

Description

HivePress is an easy-to-use, extensible, and highly customizable plugin that allows you to create any type of directory website.

Demo | Themes | Extensions | Docs | Support

Whether it’s a business directory, job board, real estate, classified ads, or staff directory, HivePress is an excellent choice for it!

This plugin comes with all the essential features for building a directory website to allow users easily add, manage and search listings:

  • Listing Categories – Add categories for different listing types.
  • Custom Fields – Add custom fields to the listing form.
  • Search Filters – Turn any custom field into a search filter.
  • Location Search – Enable the location-based listing search.
  • Ratings & Reviews – Allow users to leave reviews for listings.
  • Private Messages – Allow users to send private messages.
  • Favorite Listings – Allow users to keep a list of favorite listings.

Crucial features like user registration, listing moderation, and captcha protection are also available by default.

Moreover, if you ever need to customize any of the HivePress page templates or email notifications, you can do this without coding skills using the familiar WordPress editor.

Monetization Options

With HivePress, you can create a business, not just a website. There are at least a few ways to monetize your directory, for example:

  • Paid Listings – Charge users for adding listings.
  • Featured Listings – Charge users for advertising listings.
  • Claim Listings – Charge companies for claiming their listings.

Free & Premium Extensions

Enhance your website functionality with just a few clicks using HivePress extensions. While you can build a fully functional directory using free extensions only, premium extensions may also be useful depending on your website requirements.

Niche-Specific Themes

HivePress comes with a free ListingHive theme that is fully compatible with HivePress and its official extensions. Also, there are a few premium themes with more tailored design and functionality for various directory and marketplace niches.

Developer Features

If you have at least basic coding skills, then look no further because HivePress is powered by the most customizable and extensible framework for directory websites:

  • Structured Code – We follow the WordPress coding standards, so the codebase is well-structured and readable.
  • Easy Theming – Styling and overriding layouts is very intuitive due to block-based templates and BEM CSS notation.
  • Hooks API – A collection of actions and filters for customizing or extending the core HivePress functionality.
  • REST API – There’s an API endpoint for every action, so you can integrate HivePress with third-party platforms.
  • Docs & Snippets – Never get stuck with our collection of ready-made code snippets, API references, and docs.

Support & Community

HivePress is directly supported by its developers, people who know the plugin inside and out, so any issues are resolved in the best way possible. Join the community to report a bug, suggest a feature, or vote for suggestions to help us make HivePress better!

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Reviews

Kanûn 1, 2023 1 reply
I usually almost never leave reviews, but I felt compelled to write one as hivepress is an incredibly well done directory and marketplace. Keep up the amazing work guys! Thank you!
Mijdar 23, 2023
The plugin is very buggy.In my case, after properly creating a Woocommerce paid-listing product and a package, after a registered user ad submission there is no way to make the system redirect to choice of free-paid listing.I read tenths and tenths of support requests from users on this and similar topics.The answer of the developer always goes in the same direction:a) try with this snippet (the snippet never works)b) deactivate all third parties plugin (the problem is still there after deactivating)c) Test and test again till it works (!)The developers seem not to be in control of what they're doing.They don't seem to have all the knowledge they need to run such a plugin.
Cotmeh 19, 2023
please add more featured like agoda or booking.com...example star icon on listing attribute
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