Business Directory Plugin
Add to ListBuild a business directory or member directory on WordPress, complete with a listing manager and directory website builder. No developer needed.
Business Directory Plugin for WordPress
The Business Directory Plugin is the easy WP directory plugin for building a business directory or member directory without writing a line of code. Run a restaurant directory for your town, or a staff directory for your own team, and it’s live in minutes.
If you’re not a developer, no problem. This WordPress directory plugin doesn’t require any coding knowledge. Activate it, then click the setup notice’s “Create required pages for me” button, and your directory page is live with the [businessdirectory] shortcode already in place. Need to show listings somewhere else, too? Drop the [businessdirectory-listings] shortcode into any page to display a specific category or tag, or add the Featured, Latest, Random, or Search widgets to any sidebar. See the full shortcode reference for everything else you can do.
Business Directory Plugin Premium Plans
This free plugin covers the core of your business directory. Paid annual plans add features like Google Maps, ZIP code search, ratings and reviews, claim listings, and discount codes. Which ones you get depends on the plan. See plans and pricing.
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An Easy WordPress Directory Website Builder
Already have a list of businesses, staff, or members in a spreadsheet? Import it in one upload instead of typing every entry by hand. Add whatever fields your directory needs, like a phone number, hours, a price range, or a photo.
Take the listings you want and build almost any kind of directory: a real estate listings site like Zillow, a local business directory like Google Business Profile, a services marketplace like Thumbtack, a connections directory for an address book, a web directory for curated local links, or a book review site like Goodreads. It’s a listing manager and directory website builder for whatever you build.
Need a classifieds listings site instead? Try Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin – AWPCP.
Build a Member Directory or Company Directory
Build more than business listings: a team directory, company directory, medical directory, or any other kind of listing site. Use the same plugin as a member directory for an association, a staff directory or employee directory for your company, a chamber of commerce business directory, or a professional directory for any licensed trade. The setup works the same way no matter who’s listed.
Simple Listing Solutions for Every Community
The Business Directory Plugin has thousands of users. Here are a few things they’ve already created with this listing manager and directory website builder.
- Start a listing manager service for providers: counselors, plumbers, electricians, house cleaners, locksmiths, therapists, wedding vendors, veterinarians, consultants, photographers, artists, and authors.
- Build a ratings-and-reviews directory for local recommendations, connecting travelers to hotels, tours, local businesses, and other visitor attractions.
- Help a city or small community find local resources: sporting club listings, a church directory, local farms with produce, or a chamber of commerce business directory.
- Advertise businesses and sell listings directly to the owners.
- Offer a member directory as a paid membership perk.
- Build a faculty or staff directory for a school, department, or university.
Build the directory your niche doesn’t have yet.
Accept Payments for Directory Listings
Choose how your directory earns. Offer free listings or paid plans, one-time or recurring, and assign different plans to different categories so premium listings and free listings live side by side. Add featured or sticky placement as a paid upgrade. Stripe and Authorize.net both process real payments in the free plugin. You don’t need a paid plan for either one. Stripe comes with pay-as-you-go pricing (3% per-transaction, on top of Stripe’s own fees) until you upgrade to a paid plan. Authorize.net has no per-transaction fee, ever. Every plan and price stays fully in your control from your own WordPress dashboard.
Full Free WordPress Listing Plugin Features
This WordPress listing plugin handles the basics free: form fields, image uploads, search, and payments included. See the full list of Business Directory Plugin features. The free plugin has no listing limit and no trial period. Create as many listings as you want, for as long as you want, at no cost.
- Fully customizable form fields for every business listing
- Upload images per listing, with limits set by plan
- Drag-and-drop image uploads, easy reordering, primary image settings, and thumbnail sizing
- Accept paid or free listings with Stripe and Authorize.net
- Full support for recurring payments on paid listings
- Featured and sticky listings available as a paid upgrade
- Widgets for Featured, Latest, and Random listings, plus a Search widget
- Multiple listing plans, assignable by category
- Built-in CSV import and export for fast directory listing creation
- Block spam listings with reCAPTCHA
- Sorting options for categories, listings, and front-end search
- Listing owners edit their own listings without WP dashboard access
- SEO friendly with Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or All in One SEO
- Quick-search and sorting bar for simple directory searches
- Advanced search screen with configurable visible fields
- Mobile-friendly and responsive with any well-built WordPress theme
- Multilingual directories with WPML
- Integrates with popular plugins like NavXT Breadcrumbs and WP-PageNavi
Full Premium Directory Plugin Features
The free plugin already runs a complete directory on its own. These premium directory software features are there when you want more control over payments, categories, and search.
- File Upload – let listing owners attach PDFs, text files, and images to their listings.
- Ratings and Reviews – connect reviews to each listing, with Schema.org markup. It’s a WordPress review plugin built right into your directory.
- Enhanced Categories – show images or icons with categories, including parent-child category structures.
- Google Maps – show each listing’s location on a map, with custom sizes for category pages, search results, and listing details.
- ZIP Code Search – ZIP code and postal code radius and proximity search, supporting a number of countries.
- Regions – filter listing results by location, so visitors can browse by area.
- Discount Codes – offer percentage or fixed-amount discounts on paid listings, with expiration dates.
- Claim Listings – publish claimable listings that other users pay (or don’t) to claim as their own.
- Restrictions – assign features to your paid or sticky listing plans, giving your customers a reason to upgrade.
Payment Gateways for Paid Listings
Stripe and Authorize.net both come included with the free plugin. Connect Stripe with one click, or add your Authorize.net credentials in settings, to turn either one on. Stripe runs on pay-as-you-go pricing: a 3% fee on each transaction, on top of Stripe’s own processing fees. Upgrading your license removes that 3% fee.
PayPal and PayFast are available on premium plans:
- PayPal Gateway – give buyers another way to pay if they already have a PayPal account.
- PayFast Gateway – accept payments through PayFast, a popular gateway for South African businesses.
Premium Directory Themes
Transform your WP directory site the easy way, in a few clicks. These business directory templates are designed to style your listings without taking over as a full WordPress theme.
Built by Strategy11
The Business Directory Plugin has helped WordPress site owners build business directories and member directories since 2011, with more than 10,000 active installs and a 4.6-star average across 500+ ratings today. Support comes from a small team that reads and answers tickets personally instead of routing you through tiers — when something breaks, you talk to someone who fixes it.
Better Than Hosted Directory Software & Membership Platforms
If you’ve looked into directory software before, you’ve probably run into a hosted directory or membership platform. Most lock your business directory behind a monthly SaaS fee and someone else’s server.
The Business Directory Plugin runs on your own WordPress site. You own your listings, your member directory, and your data, with no recurring platform tax just to keep your web directory online. The core plugin stays free forever. Premium plans start at $99/year, backed by a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Branding Guidelines
The Business Directory Plugin is a product of Strategy11. When writing about this WordPress directory plugin, please use the correct branding:
- Business Directory Plugin (correct)
- BD Plugin (correct, short form)
- BusinessDirectoryPlugin (incorrect – no spaces)
- business directory plugin (incorrect – not capitalized)
