The Listdom Pro Addon is the premium extension for Listdom that introduces a wide range of advanced features. With Listdom Pro, you can allow users to submit and manage listings from the front-end, customize how listings are displayed, and take advantage of powerful new tools for search, mapping, and data management. This addon is essential for creating a professional and feature-rich directory.
Listdom Pro enhances nearly every aspect of the core plugin. Below is a breakdown of the major features it unlocks.
Pro supercharges the front-end user experience with advanced submission and management tools.
- Independent Add Listing Form: Use the
[listdom-add-listing] shortcode to place a dedicated submission form on any page, separate from the main user dashboard.
- Custom Dashboard Menus: Add new custom menus to the user dashboard. You can include any content, such as shortcodes from third-party plugins, and reorder all menu items via drag-and-drop.
- Guest Submissions: Allow visitors to submit listings without creating an account. You can configure how guest accounts are handled:
- Once Approved: A user account is created for the guest only after an admin approves their listing.
- Once Submitted: An account is created for the guest immediately upon submission.
- Disabled: No user account is created for the guest submitter.
Gain granular control over the appearance of your listings with new skins, display options, and embed features.
- New Archive Skins:
- Side-by-Side Skin: A practical layout for showing listing details next to each other.
- Mosaic Skin: A modern, visually appealing mosaic grid for your listings.
- Accordion Skin: A responsive accordion layout to display listings compactly.
- Display Options Per Listing: Admins or listing owners can override the global design for individual listings, choosing a specific style or toggling elements (like the map or gallery) on or off.
- Display Options Per Category: Assign a unique single listing style to each listing category, giving different sections of your directory a distinct look and feel.
- Advanced Listing Links: Control what happens when a user clicks a listing in an archive view:
- Lightbox: Open the listing details in a pop-up lightbox.
- Side Panels: Open details in a panel sliding from the right, left, or bottom without reloading the page.
- New Window: Open the listing detail page in a new browser tab.
- Embed and Video Features:
- Embed Elements: Embed external content like iframes or widgets directly into listings.
- Featured Video: Assign a featured video to a listing, which can be displayed prominently on its detail page.
Pro adds powerful tools to the Search & Filter Builder, allowing for more precise and user-friendly searches.
- Hierarchical Dropdowns: For taxonomies like Categories or Locations, display filters as chained dropdowns. Selecting a parent term (e.g., a state) will populate a second dropdown with its children (e.g., cities).
- Radius Search: Add a radius search to the address field, allowing users to find listings within a certain distance of a location.
- Range Slider: Use a range slider for numeric fields in search forms, perfect for filtering by price or other numerical attributes.
- Search by Custom Fields: Allow users to filter listings based on the values of your custom fields (attributes).
Upgrade your directory’s maps with powerful new tools and providers.
- OpenStreetMap & Mapbox: Display maps using OpenStreetMap with Leaflet.js (a 100% free alternative to Google Maps) and enhance them with custom Mapbox tiles.
- Map Draw Tools: Allow users to draw a shape (e.g., a circle or polygon) on a map to see only the listings within that specific area.
- Map GPS Search: A “Your Location” button allows users to find listings available around their current GPS location.
- Advanced Map Search: When a user drags or zooms the map, the displayed listing results automatically update to match the new map viewport.
Pro provides developer-focused features for data management and integration with other services.
- Hierarchical Directory URL Structure: Enable “Advanced Slug” mode to include taxonomy terms (like categories or locations) in your listing URLs for better SEO and structure.
- JSON Importer/Exporter: Import and export listings using JSON files.
- Schema Options: Define Schema properties for your taxonomies (Features, Attributes, Categories) to improve how search engines understand your content.
- API Support: A comprehensive REST API allows you to integrate Listdom with third-party applications, enabling you to manage listings, users, and more programmatically.
Customized Look per Category
A multi-category directory uses Pro to make Hotel listings use a gallery-centric layout, while Restaurant listings automatically show a reservation form. This is achieved by setting different display styles for each category.
Seamless Guest Posting
A visitor posts a new listing without an account. Because guest submissions are enabled, the system automatically creates a new user for them upon submission. The process is smooth and happens entirely on the front-end.
Radius and Feature Search
A user on a real estate site searches for a “3 Bedroom” house with a “Pool” within a “5-mile radius” of a specific address. Thanks to the advanced search features, the site returns only the listings that match all of these specific criteria.
