Listdom Frontend Dashboard Settings Menu Documentation

Listdom provides a practical, easy-to-use Frontend Dashboard through which users can create and manage listings without needing access to the WordPress admin area. In this dashboard, users can submit listings and (with the appropriate add-ons) even manage things like memberships, bookings, or applications related to their listings.

Once you have created a page for the dashboard, head over to Listdom → Settings → Frontend Dashboard to configure its options. The settings in this section allow you to control Add Listing behavior (general settings, guest submissions, fields, and restrictions) plus the dashboard menus.

Add Listing

General

Pages

• Dashboard Page: Select the page that contains your frontend dashboard. First, create a WordPress page and insert the shortcode [listdom-dashboard] into it. Then choose that page here.

• Independent Add Listing Form Pro: Enable this option for a standalone “Add Listing” page, separate from the full dashboard. After enabling, insert the [listdom-add-listing] shortcode on a page of your choice and select that page in this setting.

Listings

• Listing Status: Choose the default listing status for submissions from the frontend dashboard. Options include Let Listdom Decide, Published, and Pending.
• Apply to Guest Listings: When enabled, the selected listing status also applies to guest submissions.

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Status rules set by add-ons such as Subscriptions or Network can override this setting.

Membership Auto Confirm behavior

With the Membership addon, package-level Listing Auto Confirm is what controls status override behavior:

• If Listing Auto Confirm is disabled in the package, Listdom keeps the normal/default status logic (for example, a Listdom Publisher submission can still publish according to role/default rules).
• If Listing Auto Confirm is enabled in the package, the listing is auto-published from the package flow, even in cases where role defaults might otherwise leave listings pending (for example, Listdom Author).

This is the expected behavior.

Guest Submission Pro

These settings control whether non-logged-in visitors can submit listings.

• Status: Toggle this on to allow guest submissions. By default, this is disabled. When enabled, guests can access the Dashboard page and see the Dashboard menu alongside the Add Listing experience without logging in. When disabled, you can enable Redirect to Login to send users to the WordPress login page instead of showing Listdom’s login prompt.

• User Registration: Determine if and when a new user account is created for a guest submitter.

  • Once Approved: (Default) The guest is registered as a new user only after their listing is approved. The submission form collects their Email and Full Name.
  • Once Submitted: The guest is registered immediately upon submission. The form includes Password and Full Name fields for instant account creation.
  • Disabled: No user account is created. The listing is submitted as a one-time action.

The Best User Roles for Listdom

When you install Listdom, it adds two new user roles: Listdom Author and Listdom Publisher. It’s recommended to use these roles for users submitting listings via the frontend.

• Listdom Publisher: Users with this role can have their listings published immediately without review.
• Listdom Author: Users with this role will have their submitted listings marked as “Pending Review, ” requiring an admin to publish them.

Fields

Configure how certain fields appear on the Add Listing form.

• Locations: Choose whether this selection is presented as checkboxes (default) or a dropdown.
• Features: Choose whether this selection is presented as checkboxes (default) or a dropdown.
• Additional Categories: Choose how the additional categories selector appears. Options are Checkboxes or Dropdown. The dropdown keeps long category lists compact by showing overflow categories in a secondary menu.
• Limit Additional Categories: When enabled, additional category selectors only show subcategories of the selected primary (parent) category.
• Tags: Choose how the tags field is presented. Options are Text Input (default), Checkboxes, or Dropdown.
• Gallery Method: Select how users upload gallery images. Options are WordPress Media (default) or Simple Uploader.

Contact Fields

Use the new Contact Fields controls to enable or disable individual contact inputs on the frontend Add/Edit Listing form.

• Email: Show or hide the listing contact email field.
• Phone: Show or hide the listing contact phone field.
• Website: Show or hide the listing contact website field.
• Contact Address: Show or hide the listing contact address field.

If a contact field is disabled here, users will not see it in the frontend submission form.

Terms Builder

Allow users to create new taxonomy terms (Categories, Locations, etc.) directly from the frontend form. For each taxonomy, you can set it to:

• Disabled: (Default) Users can only select from existing terms.
• Express: Users can quickly add a new term by entering a name.
• Detailed: Users can add a new term with a more detailed interface (e.g., adding a description or icon).

Required Fields

Mark which fields on the Add Listing form are mandatory. The following fields are always required by the system:

• Listing Title
• Category
• Guest Email (when guest submission is used)
• Guest Password (when using the “Once Submitted” guest registration method)

Restrictions

Impose limits on certain inputs. Leave blank or zero for unlimited values.

• Maximum Gallery Images: Set the maximum number of images a user can upload to a gallery.

• Maximum Image Size Allowed: Set the size limit in kilobytes (KB) for each uploaded image (e.g., 2048 for 2 MB).

• Image Aspect Ratio: Choose an aspect ratio requirement for uploaded listing images. The default is No restriction. Available options include common ratios such as 16:9, 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 2:3, 3:4, and 9:16. When Image Aspect Ratio is set to a value other than No restriction, Listdom validates uploaded images by comparing width ÷ height to the target ratio and allows a deviation of ±5%. For example, if the required ratio is 1.5, the accepted range is 1.425 to 1.575 (1.5 ± (1.5 × 0.05)). Likewise, if the required ratio is 16:9, an image like 810×440 is still accepted because it falls within the ±5% tolerance. This aspect-ratio rule applies to all listing images uploaded from the frontend dashboard, including Featured Image, Gallery images, and Custom Field images. It does not affect Add/Edit Listing screens in the WordPress admin area.

• Maximum Description Length: Set the maximum number of characters allowed in the listing description.

• Maximum Number of Tags: Set how many tags a user can add to a single listing.

Modules (Field Sections Availability)

Control which form sections are visible to frontend users. Each module can be set to:

• Enabled: Visible to all users who can add listings.
• Editor + Admin: Hidden from regular users but available to editors and administrators.
• Disabled: Removed for everyone.

This lets you hide parts of the submission form (such as Price, Address/Map, or Custom Fields) or reserve them for admins.

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Core fields like listing title, category, and description cannot be disabled. Modules from certain add-ons may appear only if those add-ons are active.

Dashboard Menus Pro

This section allows you to customize the frontend dashboard’s menu items in a redesigned panel that unifies ordering and visibility controls across all menu types. These menu management controls are available with the Pro add-on. You can rearrange the order by dragging and dropping them, and you can disable items to hide them from the frontend dashboard navigation.

What you can manage:

• Reorder all menus together: Built-in menus, add-on menus, and custom menus are listed in one place, so the ordering is global rather than separated by type.

• Disable menus: Built-in, add-on, and custom menus can be disabled. Disabled items are hidden from the frontend dashboard navigation without deleting their configuration.

• Edit label and icon (built-in + add-on): Built-in and add-on menus let you adjust the displayed label and icon directly in the list.

• Dashboard + Logout are included: The Dashboard and Logout items are now manageable like any other menu entry.

• Add Custom Menu: Click this button to create a new menu item. For each custom menu, you can configure:

  • Label: The title of the menu item.
  • Slug: A unique slug for the menu, used in the URL.
  • Icon: The icon displayed next to the menu title.
  • Login Status: Choose whether the menu item is gated behind login. Options are Required (only logged-in users) (default) or Optional (visible to all users). If Required, the menu stays hidden from guests; if Optional, it appears for everyone.
  • Content: The content to display when the menu is selected. You can include text, images, or shortcodes from third-party plugins (e.g., Elementor, Divi, WooCommerce).

Use Listdom as a general user system (free)

You can use Listdom’s frontend dashboard for general membership or user-account workflows without running a directory. This is available in the free version:

1. Disable the Add Listings menu so listing features are hidden.
2. Add your own custom menus for account pages, resources, or custom shortcodes.
3. Reorder the menus (including Logout) so the navigation matches your user experience.