WordPress Directory Theme

(2,834 votes) — 4.8 out of 5 stars

Overview

Vantage is the most popular business directory theme for WordPress. It’s powerful, robust, and easy to use. That’s not all — Vantage is fully responsive which means it scales perfectly on mobile devices.

Quit messing around with other directory themes that only cause headaches and hours of troubleshooting and maintenance. Vantage is simple and pain-free. Within minutes of downloading Vantage, you can create the killer directory site you’ve always dreamed of.

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Pinpoint Accuracy Search

Our location and keyword based search is accurate to the exact latitude and longitude. Listings are geo-coded so address and proximity queries bring back the closest radius results.

Flexible Pricing Plans

Vantage pricing plans give you plenty of ways to generate income. Create multiple pricing plans. Assign plans to categories.

Offer featured listings on home page and category pages. Your imagination will be the only limit to the kinds of plans you create.

Claim Listings

Don’t wait for business owners to come to you! Entice them to sign up with our claim a listing function.

Populate your site by importing or inputting tons of listings, mark specific listings as “claimable”, then let business owners claim and pay for the listing.

Custom Fields & Forms

Vantage is flexible enough to fit your specific needs. Need to collect data that is unique to your niche?

Use our custom form builder to add the custom fields you need with text, radio buttons, checkboxes, emails, urls, uploads, select menus, and more.

User Dashboard

The dashboard is the nerve center for your users. Business owners can manage their listings, edit their profile, manage their favorites, and view reviews.

Monetize Your Site

Charge business owners to be listed on your site. Sell featured placements at a premium for even more revenue. With Vantage, you’ll be able to generate a stable and reliable source of income.

Listing Reviews

User-generated reviews are a great way to provide businesses with feedback. Business owners can moderate and respond. (Requires Critic plugin which is sold separately in our Marketplace.)

Advanced Search

The most advanced, customizable, and speedy WordPress search around. Search across all business listing fields (including custom fields you create). You can even narrow it down by location radius.

Recurring Payments

Increase your revenue stream with a subscription model. It’s easy to setup recurring options within your pricing plans. Choose from three different models and start those automatic payments.

Easy Administration

Running your AppThemes site is easy. We include options for just about everything so you’re comfortable managing your business operations.

Google Maps

A powerful maps widget is available for your single listings. It shows the precise location of the business. Drop a pin on the map during the create a listings process for a simple, precise, location marker.

Dedicated Blog

Keep the marketing beat going by writing content on your blog. It’s part of the theme, yet completely separated out using the native WordPress posts module.

User Favorites

Let your users mark listings as “favorite” so they can view them in their customer dashboard. It’s a great tool to use instead of bookmarking each listing in their web browser.

Social Integration

Both businesses and users can list their Facebook and Twitter accounts on their business and/or user profile pages to make social networking easy.

SEO Friendly

We understand how important SEO is for your business. Our themes are built to instantly take advantage of SEO best practices. All you need to worry about is running your business.

Child Themes & Plugins

Change the look of your site with a 3rd party child theme. Add additional functionality with an aftermarket plugin. All our themes make it easy to bolt on other items.

AppThemes API

Developers can easily customize functionality without having to modify the original code. We use WordPress action and filter hooks which makes it a breeze to build on top our products.

I tried a competitors’ theme on my current site but Vantage is far more impressive. I switched over and have never looked back!

Shelley Gammon Facebook Post

Thank you AppThemes for your great support! I’ll be buying more themes from you in the future.

Andy Shawcross

Search engines really seem to like the Vantage theme. My site comes up first on Bing, Yahoo, and on the first page with Google!

David Parise AppThemes Forum

Additional Benefits

Free Product Updates

Product updates are complimentary the first 12 months. As our products continue to evolve, you'll be able take advantage of all new features and fixes.

Quick & Easy Setup

It won't take long to get up and running as most features work out of the box. Spend time selling instead of getting bogged down with configuring options.