WooThemes Listings WP Theme Review
WooThemes Listings is the most advanced WordPress Directory Theme to ever hit the Market. It is loaded with custom features and has a well thought out overall style. in edition it is designed to be a parent theme. Check out the WooThemes Listings first Child theme the Book club Theme at this link!
WooThemes Listings WP Theme includes a very well thought out list of professional quality features that are laser focused on this Themes Purpose – To create a Highly Functional WordPress based Directory Website that is easy to use and manage but with all the bells and whistles of a custom coded website at 10 times the price!
Whether you are listing your inventory of cars, books, records or downtown hot spots, Woothemes Listings has you covered. Even if you want users or subscribers or paying advertisers to do the listings for you, Woo Themes Listings can handle it.
There are so many things that I like about the Woo Themes Listings Theme that it is hard to pick a favorite. But if I had to it would be all the functionality focused around the individual listings in woothemes listings. From creating your own custom template to the ease that a newbie user, advertiser or supplier can add a listing on the fly it is just fantastic!
Check out the impressive custom features in woothemes listings further below.
WooThemes Listings Functions
Woothemes listings is one of WooThemes most powerful themes that allows any niche business to create a listings/directory based website thanks to a Woo-powered content builder for custom post type, taxonomy and custom field generation.
The woothemes listings theme showcases your listings in a minimilistic style with advanced search capabilities and the ability to upload a listing from the front end. Watch the video below to better understand it's capabilities and how it can help your business.
WooThemes Listings Unique Features
Custom homepage
The homepage in woothemes listings showcases your directory listings custom post types, taxonomies and latest posts, or any combination of these, with an optional featured slider, search module and widgetized areas.
Featured slider
The featured slider found on WooThemes Listings can be enabled/disabled and displays any custom post type content tagged with a particular tag setup in the theme options. Great to highlight your best listings/content.
Advanced search module
Woothemes listings lets you Specify exactly what custom post types / taxonomies / custom fields to use in the search module. The front end displays it neatly in a collapsible container accessible from any page.
Custom single listing template
The single listings page in Woothemes listings displays all your information in a neat modular layout. All images uploaded using the WP image uploader gets added into a js gallery tabber, your Google Map location is displayed if specified, and similar listings are displayed below.
Upload a listing page template
From your website front-end you can allow for site visitors to upload listings in Woothemes listings directly to your WP backend, ready for review and publishing. All the Woothemes listings custom fields are pulled into the upload form and the site administrator can specify whether users must register to post or not.
Google Maps
Associate a Google Map address to your listing in Woothemes listings and enable street view and location maps allowing your site visitors to browse the neighbourhood. You can also add this custom field to any CPT using the content builder documented below.
The WooThemes Listings Content Builder Features
Create/edit custom post types
The content builder in Woothemes listings allows you create new custom post types, for example: vehicles, books, artists, musicians, jobs, the options are endless. You can then edit/delete those custom post types at a later stage.
Create/edit custom taxonomies
Once you've created new custom post types in Woothemes listings you can create taxonomies for them, for example: car makes, artist and musician genre, or job types. You can then add new listings and assign them to the taxonomies, like you do with posts and categories.
Create/edit custom fields
You can then use the content builder to create custom fields that will appear below your WYSIWG editor for your custom post type, for example you might want to have a Google Map field for your job location, or the ISBN number of a book.
Standard WooThemes Features included in the Listings Theme:
These features are just as special as the one's above, but you'll find these standard within most of our wide range of themes:
Backend theme options
Making simple changes without editing code, like adding your own logo, changing to an alternate colour style, adding Google Analytics code, couldn't be easier with our WordPress backend theme option's panel.
Cross-browser compatible
We've tested our themes to ensure they are compatible with all the popular web browsers like Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer 8, 7 and even the not so popular 6! They should also all be web standards compliant.
Auto-sizing thumbnails
An image resizer script built into the Woo framework automatically scales your post images for pixel perfect display in our templates. No need to upload new cropped images when re-designing your website.
Localized for translations
WooThemes come packaged with a .po file for easy WordPress theme translations into your desired language – editing one neat little file without hunting down text in all our theme templates. Supports WPML plugin. (WordPress only)
Woo framework
All our themes are built on the same stable WooThemes framework – modifications are a breeze, whilst all is neatly coded for search engine readiness and further theme development.
Custom page templates
Our themes come packaged with a full width page template without the sidebar, and sitemap/archives page templates for efficient quick links to all the hidden posts you wrote ages ago that still deserve to be seen.
OK thats it for our WooThemes Listings Review
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