Getting Started

The settings available on the Email tab of your directory plugin settings allow you to control how email notifications appear.

You can control the default sort order of your listings from the Listings Sort Options tab on the settings page of the Directory. These settings can also be set and/or overridden via shortcode.

The Featured Listings settings allow you to display listings on your directory home page. From this tab you can control whether or not to display featured listings, how many, and in what order.

Most of the settings found under the “Other” heading are set once and forget type features. From here you can enable or disable anonymous usage tracking (we recommend enabling it, this information helps us improve future versions of the plugin), determine whether your directory accepts public submissions and more.

The first two settings on the “General” tab tell the plugin where you’ve placed the shortcodes [directory] and [directory_submit]. Don’t forget to set these, as a few functions rely on them to return proper permalinks. The taxonomy and post type slugs determine how a URL will appear when viewing either the category display pages or

Once you’ve installed and activated LDD Directory Lite, you will notice a new alert asking you to provide the Google Map API Key. This is necessary in order for the plugin to make use of the Google Maps JavaScript API.

As with all WordPress plugins, there are two distinct methods for installing the directory on your web site. The most common and often the easiest is to install directly from your dashboard, also known as the admin area, using the built in Plugins management screen.