HivePress

HivePress is an easy-to-use, extensible, and highly customizable plugin that allows you to create any type of directory website.
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Whether it’s a business directory, job board, real estate, classified ads, or staff directory, HivePress is an excellent choice for it!
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This plugin comes with all the essential features for building a directory website to allow users easily add, manage and search listings:
<ul>
<li>Listing Categories – Add categories for different listing types.</li>
<li>Custom Fields – Add custom fields to the listing form.</li>
<li>Search Filters – Turn any custom field into a search filter.</li>
<li>Location Search – Enable the location-based listing search.</li>
<li>Ratings & Reviews – Allow users to leave reviews for listings.</li>
<li>Private Messages – Allow users to send private messages.</li>
<li>Favorite Listings – Allow users to keep a list of favorite listings.</li>
</ul>
Crucial features like user registration, listing moderation, and captcha protection are also available by default.
Moreover, if you ever need to customize any of the HivePress page templates or email notifications, you can do this without coding skills using the familiar WordPress editor.
<h4>Monetization Options</h4>
With HivePress, you can create a business, not just a website. There are at least a few ways to monetize your directory, for example:
<ul>
<li>Paid Listings – Charge users for adding listings.</li>
<li>Featured Listings – Charge users for advertising listings.</li>
<li>Claim Listings – Charge companies for claiming their listings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free & Premium Extensions</h4>
Enhance your website functionality with just a few clicks using HivePress extensions. While you can build a fully functional directory using free extensions only, <a href="https://hivepress.io/extensions/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=wordpress.org" rel="nofollow ugc">premium extensions</a> may also be useful depending on your website requirements.
<h4>Niche-Specific Themes</h4>
HivePress comes with a free <a href="https://hivepress.io/themes/listinghive/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=wordpress.org" rel="nofollow ugc">ListingHive</a> theme that is fully compatible with HivePress and its official extensions. Also, there are a few <a href="https://hivepress.io/themes/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=wordpress.org" rel="nofollow ugc">premium themes</a> with more tailored design and functionality for various directory and marketplace niches.
<h4>Developer Features</h4>
If you have at least basic coding skills, then look no further because HivePress is powered by a highly customizable and extensible <a href="https://docs.hivepress.io/developer-docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">framework</a> for directory websites:
<ul>
<li>Structured Code – We follow the WordPress coding standards, so the codebase is well-structured and readable.</li>
<li>Easy Theming – Styling and overriding layouts is very intuitive due to block-based templates and BEM CSS notation.</li>
<li>Hooks API – A collection of actions and filters for customizing or extending the core HivePress functionality.</li>
<li>REST API – There’s an API endpoint for every action, so you can integrate HivePress with third-party platforms.</li>
<li>Docs & Snippets – Never get stuck with our collection of ready-made code snippets, API references, and docs.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Support & Community</h4>
HivePress is directly supported by its developers, people who know the plugin inside and out, so any issues are resolved in the optimal way possible. Join the <a href="https://community.hivepress.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">community</a> to report a bug, suggest a feature, or vote for suggestions to help us make HivePress better!

HivePress – Business Directory & Classified Ads Plugin


Lots of good things to say about this theme and the team behind it. They have a wonderful support forum that is very active and responds quickly. If their support doesn't have an answer to something that is more customizable (like custom code), often other members do. I have enjoyed it so much that I am using it on a second website now. Kudos!


Lightweight, fast, easily customizable, active support forum

A simple yet powerful plugin to create a business directory, job board, real estate, classified ads, or basically any type of directory website.

Steph Wells

Steve Wells

AWP Classifieds Team

<a href="https://awpcp.com/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Main Site</a> | <a href="https://awpcp.com/knowledge-base/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Classifieds Docs</a> | <a href="https://awpcp.com/showcase/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Showcase</a> | <a href="https://awpcp.com/premium-modules/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Modules</a>
Add a classified ads section to your WordPress site, quickly and easily with AWP Classifieds (formerly known as AWPCP or Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin). Create classified listings from cars to yard sales. 
Lots of features, very configurable. Easy to setup. Great support. 
We’ve been the #1 WordPress Classified Ads Plugin for 10+ years.
Looking for other types of directories? Check out <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/business-directory-plugin/" rel="ugc">Business Directory Plugin</a> for more easy WP directories.
<h3>Classified Ads Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Search your classified directory by city, state, country, username, or keyword</li>
<li>Allow AdSense ads to be displayed in your classified directory with configurable ad placement</li>
<li>Control over HTML use in your ads</li>
<li>Limit the text size of ad postings</li>
<li>Standard form fields can be enabled or disabled, depending on your needs (title, website, name, country, etc)</li>
<li>Allow or disallow image posting with listing ads</li>
<li>Automatic expiration of ads (free or paid)</li>
<li>Ads can have a “Tweet This” button in their layout</li>
<li>Ads can have a “Share on Facebook” button in their layout</li>
<li>Ads can be flagged by community for bad/offensive content</li>
<li>Ads can imported via CSV files</li>
<li>Ad listings support embedded videos</li>
<li>Ads can have character limits, supported by plans (different plans can have different limits)</li>
<li>Ads can be displayed on any page for a single category using shortcodes</li>
<li>Auto-verify ads with email links to post immediately upon click</li>
<li>Ads can be ‘Sent to Facebook’ inside of ad management</li>
<li>Support for displaying ad events in BuddyPress activity stream with <a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/buddypress-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress module</a></li>
<li>Ads can be edited via front end, back end with or without registration (depending on settings)</li>
<li>Multiple levels of directory categories supported</li>
</ul>
<h3>WordPress Classified Plugin Notification Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Allow posters to be notified of expiring ads, renewals, and approvals of ads</li>
<li>Allow admin to be notified when new ads are posted, ads are edited and much more</li>
<li>Ad users can contact the ad poster without exposing the poster’s email (blind email system, similar to Craigslist)</li>
<li>Admin can (optionally) be notified of expiring ads</li>
</ul>
<h3>Ad Listing Payment Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Allows for paid or free ads</li>
<li>Supports PayPal, PayPal Pro, Authorize.net, Stripe and 2Checkout for paid ads</li>
<li>Allow for image posting limits higher than free ads</li>
<li>Multiple fee scales for posting ads (allows you to have longer ad postings with higher fees)</li>
<li>Variable ad expiration lengths connected to fee scale (e.g. allow ads to run for 30 days for $10, 60 days for $15, etc)</li>
<li>Supports a “credit system” or pay with regular currency per ad. Mix and match if you want.</li>
<li>Support for ad memberships (packages of ads for a single price)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Posting Controls for your WordPress classified ads</h3>
<ul>
<li>Allow admin to approve ads prior to posting</li>
<li>Allow admin to approve images prior to posting</li>
<li>Users can edit or delete their own ads</li>
<li>Admin can edit or delete all ads in the system</li>
<li>Secure system gives users a unique editing key to administer their own ads</li>
<li>Allows for limiting image posting (by image size, height, width and total count if desired)</li>
<li>Anti-spam checks for all ads posted via Akismet.</li>
<li>Flagged ads can be viewed separately to determine violations, and then deleted or unflagged.</li>
<li>Ad Management panel, visible by users and admins for easier ad creation/editing/delete.</li>
<li>Admin can post ads on behalf of other users with the ads displaying as if the user posted them initially</li>
<li>Email verification step can be used to auto-post ads upon successful verification link click</li>
<li>Ads can be posted to a Facebook page manually or automatically</li>
</ul>
<h3>Classified Directory Image Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Allow image posting or shut it off completely</li>
<li>Control the number, filesize, height and width of images posted</li>
<li>Allow for different numbers of images to be posted with paid ads vs. free ads</li>
<li>Allow for image approval prior to posting</li>
<li>Allow users to add a primary image to their ad listing (Great for car listings and real-estate listings)</li>
<li>Now supports multi-image asynchronous loading</li>
</ul>
<h3>Add-on modules, not included in our free classified website builder</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/extra-fields-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Extra Fields</a> – allows you to add any custom fields for display. For example, if you have a pet-related board, you might have “Sex”, “Breed”, and “Dam/Sire” as additional fields you require for display. Supports search and custom ordering of fields.</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/regions-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Region Control</a> – allows you to restrict viewing of ads based on locale, so users don’t see items they aren’t physically near them, also allows customization of the region types, such as village, borough, etc.</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/featured-ads-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Featured Ads</a> – allows you to promote certain ads over others by charging a fee for them, featured ads are displayed using CSS to highlight them. Featured ads are always returned first in a category, the overall ad list, or in search results. Also has a widget for placement anywhere on your site. Full admin control of featured ads, too</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/buddypress-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">BuddyPress</a> – allows users to manage their listing ads in the BuddyPress profile directly, see events from ad posting in the activity stream and more</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/fee-per-category-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Fee per Category</a> – allows you to charge for certain categories and not others, giving you more freedom on how to configure your classified section. Allows for multiple fee plans per category, as well as a default plan to cover “all other unspecified” categories</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/subscriptions-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Membership to Post</a> – allows power users to place blocks of ads at a time, great for real estate agents, car dealers, anyone who wants to place ads in bulk</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/comments-ratings-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Comments/Ratings</a> – allow users to rate classified ads, and add ratings and comments on listings</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/rss-feeds-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">RSS Feeds</a> – allows you syndicate your ads for your users to download in their favorite RSS reader and come back to your site more often!</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/coupons-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Coupons/Discounts</a> – allows you to offer coupon codes for ad promotions to your users, coupons can be a percent off, or a fixed amount, have expiration dates and be tracked by usage</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/category-icons-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Category Icons</a> – adds small icons to give visual cues to your user for each directory category in AWP Classifieds Plugin</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/mark-as-sold-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Mark as Sold</a> – allows users to mark for sale items as sold to keep content in your classifieds, but clarify availability</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/attachments-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Attachments</a> – allows users to attach PDFs, text files or other images to their classifieds (great for job boards!)</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/campaign-manager-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Ad Campaign Manager</a> – add your own advertisements in 5 different positions</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/zip-code-search-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">ZIP Search</a> – search for ads that have address fields within a radius of a postal code</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Payment Gateways for Paid Listings</h3>
Want to accept credit cards on your site for paid listings in your classifieds directory? Choose from any of our extra payment processors.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/stripe-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Stripe</a> – accept payments via Stripe for ads</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/paypal-pro-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">PayPal Pro</a> – allows you to have an embedded payment form on your site for use with PayPal Pro accounts</li>
<li><a href="https://awpcp.com/downloads/authorizenet-module/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">Authorize.net Gateway</a> – allows users to purchase ads and credit plans using Authorize.net</li>
</ul>
These are just some of the features of our easy WordPress Classifieds Plugin.
For more information and support please visit <a href="https://awpcp.com?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">awpcp.com</a>
If you love AWP Classifieds, <a href="https://awpcp.com/premium-modules/?utm_source=wprepo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=liteversion" rel="nofollow ugc">please consider purchasing a Module</a>!
<h3>External Services and Domains</h3>
This plugin connects to the following external services to provide its functionality:
Google reCAPTCHA (www.google.com) 
* Used for spam protection and form validation 
* Domains: www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js, www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify, www.google.com/recaptcha/admin 
* Data transmitted: reCAPTCHA responses and site verification tokens 
* Required for: Anti-spam protection features
PayPal (paypal.com) 
* Used for payment processing and IPN (Instant Payment Notification) verification 
* Domains: ipnpb.paypal.com, ipnpb.sandbox.paypal.com 
* Data transmitted: Payment verification data, transaction details 
* Required for: PayPal payment gateway functionality
Facebook (facebook.com) 
* Used for posting ads to Facebook and cache management 
* Domains: graph.facebook.com 
* Data transmitted: Ad content, user access tokens (if Facebook integration is enabled) 
* Required for: Facebook posting features (optional)
Strategy11 (strategy11.com) 
* Used for collecting anonymous onboarding feedback and usage analytics 
* Domains: feedback.strategy11.com 
* Data transmitted: User email, name, and plugin usage information 
* Required for: Onboarding wizard feedback collection (optional)
HTTPBin (httpbin.org) 
* Used for determining the server’s external IP address 
* Domains: httpbin.org 
* Data transmitted: Server IP address detection requests 
* Required for: Server IP address identification functionality
Additional Payment Gateways 
* Authorize.Net (authorize.net) – Payment processing gateway 
* Stripe (stripe.com) – Payment processing and subscription management 
* 2Checkout (2checkout.com) – International payment processing 
* Domains: www.authorize.net, stripe.com, www2.2checkout.com 
* Data transmitted: Payment information, transaction details, customer data 
* Required for: Premium payment gateway modules (optional)

AWP Classifieds

Create a classified listings directory, from auto listings to yard sales with AWP Classifieds plugin.

HivePress – Business Directory & Classified Ads Plugin vs AWP Classifieds