Users Management

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For any website, user registration is one of the main modules. In this section we will see how we can manage the registration and users on our website. The registered users will be the ones to post listings on your website. So let’s see how you can manage them.

Enable disable registration

To allow or disallow registration, Navigate to Dashboard ⇨ Settings ⇨ General settings ⇨ Membership. Checkmark “Anyone can register” to enable front-end registration on your website. If unchecked, the website will not allow users to register on the frontend.

Add users

From the back-end, you can manage users from Dashboard  ⇨ Members⇨ Add user.  Fill the required details in the form and register the users. The users can also register themselves from the front end.

Manage existing users

The existing users will be shown at Dashboard⇨ Members⇨ All users. From here, you can change the role of the users, add, update or delete the existing profiles. This page also shows the number of posts of the each user in each post type. From here bulk delete of users is possible.

Registration form and User profile fields

For the front end submission, the user registration is already available at Dashboard ⇨ Pages ⇨ register. When the registration link is clicked, a pop-up will appear that will show the fields to enter the username and the email address. the password to login will be sent to the submitted username. To manage the User profile custom fields, navigate to Payment Settings ⇨ Custom fields ⇨ User Profile fields.

Click here to know how you can setup individual custom fields.

Managing Custom fields

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With Directory theme you can add innumerable custom fields and manage them. These fields can be added to your forms and associated with the custom post types. To add/manage the custom field Navigate to Payment Settings ⇨ Custom fields.

Custom fields

First of all, you will need to select the post type in this tab. This will show a list of all the custom fields pertaining to that post type on the page. Hovering the custom field name will display an “edit” option.  You can manage each custom field from here.

Refer this link for a detailed explaination on how to add or manage the custom fields.

User Profile fields

The user profile fields you can manage the fields a user  will see on the registration and user profile management pages. These fields can be managed from here and new fields can be added as per the requirements. Refer this link for step by step setting up of user profile fields.

Post type

With this you can add and manage custom post types in your website.

When you create a new post type, the settings and configurations of the existing post type. Click here to know how you can create a custom post type
These are the articles to show how you can setup a custom submission form or a custom registration form with the Directory theme.

Monetization Options

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The main characteristic of Directory and all of its child themes is its monetization facilities. With these options, you can charge your users for the listings they post on your website. With these ,you can set currency, create desired number of price packages, configure payment options. Navigate to Payment Settings ⇨ Monetization, to set up the pricing options in your website.

Currency

From here you can manage the currency of the website. Select a currency, that you want your users to make payment in. Enter the currency symbol and the currency code. Also set the basic currency settings, like position of currency symbol (prefix/suffix) and the specify the thousand and decimal separator and the number of decimals.

Price packages

With this option, you can create and configure number of price packages. You can offer different schemes for each package. These price packages will be shown to the users on the front end while submitting event. They can select the price package that suits them the best.

Free and multi-listing price options are available pre-installed with the Tevolution plugin. Click on Add a price package to create a new price package.

Clicking on the settings, will allow you to configure the payment package for use in your website.

Click here to learn how to configure the price package.

Payment gateways

To accept payment from the registered users, you will need to integrate payment gateways through which they can pay and you can receive the sum. This can be configured from this page.

The paypal and the pre bank transfer methods come pre-installed. Besides this, there are number of payment gateways compatible with Directory that you can integrate and use into your Directory website. All the payment gateways you integrate in your website will be listed into this page.

Clicking on the setting will open a page that allows you to configure the integrated payment option.

Managing transactions

With the user payments, it’s sure that you will have transactions in your website. This transactions can be managed at Payment Settings ⇨ Transactions.

Click here to know more about Directory Transactions Management.

Moderate the user submitted listings

To moderate the user submitted listings, navigate to wp-admin ⇨ Listings section. Here, all the listings posted from the back end as well as the front end will be shown. From there you can draft, publish or edit them. Another place from where you can manage them is Payment Settings ⇨ Transactions. Use that section to bulk confirm or bulk reject transactions/listings. For more information about Transactions click here.

To set the default status for submitted listings (publish/draft) navigate to Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Submission page settings ⇨ Default status for free/paid submissions.

With the claim ownership feature, visitors of your site can claim a listing on your Directory website as their own. is claim will be visible at the backend and after proper verification, you, as an admin can decide whether you want to grant the ownership of the claimed listing or not.

The claim ownership feature can be enabled at Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ General settings ⇨ Claim ownership. Enable claim ownership for listing by checking the checkbox and a “Claim ownership” button will appear on the front end to the visitors. They can click the button and fill up a simple form to claim the ownership of the listing. you can manage the claims and grant or deny them from Payment Settings ⇨ Submitted claims.

Manage pages

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The layout and design of the homepage, category pages and detail pages should be constructed automatically as soon as dummy data was loaded. Read the below section to learn more about each element and how to re-create it in case you can’t rely on dummy data.

Homepage

1 – The logo

To change your logo go to Dashboard ⇨ Appearance ⇨ Customize ⇨ Site logo. Upload a new image under the “Upload image for logo” option. You can upload a new favicon as well from here.

To change the sites headline expand the “Site title & tagline” area and add your new description under “Tagline”.

2 – Main menu

To setup the main menu navigate to Appearance ⇨ Menus. When done creating the menu assign it to the “Secondary” location. For detailed instructions on using menus watch this video

How to create a menu with multi-column items (mega menu)?
To create an extensive navigation menu visit our mega menu article. To get a better idea how this menu looks open the Directory 2 live demo and hover over the “Theme Features” menu item.

Want to style your navigation bar with icons?
If yes, just use Front Awesome icons. To apply an icon expand the menu item you want to edit and insert the icon code inside the “Navigation Label” field (next to your item name). For example:

<i class="fa fa-home"></i> Home

<i class="fa fa-spoon"></i> Restaurants

If you did everything correctly, your menu should look something like this

3 – Primary menu

To create a primary menu go to Appearance ⇨ Menus. Create a menu and assign it to the “Primary” location (under Menu Settings). For more details on how the menus actually work, check out this video.

Quick note: Login and Register buttons are added automatically to this menu. Also, the Register button will show only if the “Membership” option is turned on in Settings ⇨ General.

 

 

4 – Add Property button

Follow these steps to create a button that looks like that.

1. Navigate to Dashboard ⇨ Appearance ⇨ Widgets.
2. Expand the “Header” widget area and insert a “Text” widget inside of it.
3. Paste the following code inside the Text widget

   <a class="submit-small-button button" href="URL">Add Property</a>

   URL = the URL of your “Submit Property” page.

5 – Homepage map

The homepage map can be enabled by going to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and placing the “Homepage map – multi city” or “Homepage map – single city” widget inside the “Homepage Banner” widget area. The theme will display only one of these widgets at the same time. The “multi city” variant will display when Location Manager plugin is enabled and “single city” variant will display when it’s inactive. For more details on single city functionality click here.

If you loaded the dummy data your homepage map should already be showing. In that case head over to Payment Settings ⇨ Manage Locations to edit the map. The map you see on the homepage is directly connected to the city it’s supposed to show. In other words, to edit the map, edit the city. You can edit your city from the “Cities” tab inside the Manage Locations area. Screenshot.

When editing a city use the small map displayed under the “City Name” field to set the position of the map. You can alter the position after entering the address by dragging the pinpoint icon within the map. Control how much (or how little) of your city is shown by adjusting the “Map scaling factor”.

Why aren’t my listings showing up inside the homepage map?
Here are the most common reasons (and solutions) to this problem:

1. You haven’t selected any categories to show for that city (fix it by editing the city inside Payment Settings ⇨ Manage Locations ⇨ Cities).
2. The listing you submitted (are looking for) doesn’t have a city assigned to it. Edit the listing and assign the city. I’m assuming here you’re not running Directory in single-city mode.
3. You’re looking inside the wrong city, i.e. not the city you assigned the listing to. Change the active city from the city selector in the top left corner.
4. You already have over 400 listings on the map. To reduce load times Directory will display only 400 listings on the map. To display all available listings open the pluginsTevolution-LocationManagerfunctionsgoogle_map_widget.php file and locate this code around line 239.

   'posts_per_page' => 400,

   Replace it with

   'posts_per_page' => -1,

5. The wrong widget is entered inside the “Homepage Banner” area. The widget you should use is T – Homepage Map (either multi-city or single-city). Map widgets such as T – Category Page Map, T – Detail Page Map or T – Google Map Location should not be used for this purpose.
6. If you’re using Directory in single-city mode make sure the coordinates are entered correctly inside Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Map Settings (tab).
7. The address field contains an empty space at the end. This can happen when pasting address from another source. To resolve the problem edit the listings address and remove the extra space.

Want to display a slider instead of the map?
To achieve this just go to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and place the “T – Homepage Banner” widget into the “Homepage Banner” widget area. To display static images inside the slider check the “Use custom images” box inside the widget and enter image URLs. Images can be uploaded from Media ⇨ Add New. Don’t forget to copy the “File URL” value after uploading an image.

Note: If you don’t want your slider displaying across the full width of the site go to Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Map Settings and disable the “Show map in full width” option

6 – Map categories

Just like the actual map, map categories are also assigned while creating/editing the city. Head over to Payment Settings ⇨ Manage Locations ⇨ Cities and edit a city (or create a new one). To make sure your categories are displayed make sure to make a selection inside the “Post Type” and “Categories” field.

Note: If you choose to use the “single city” homepage map variant you’ll have to select the categories inside the map widget.

7 – Slider search

To display a search field within the big homepage map navigate to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the “T – Instant Search” widget inside the “Homepage Banner” area. Make sure the search widget is located under the map widget.

Once you add the widget choose the post types and custom fields for which the search functionality should work.

8 – Welcome text

To re-create this section go to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the “Text” widget inside the “Above Home page content” widget area. Set the title of the widget to whatever you want. The default content is available here.

9 – Featured properties

This section is created using the “Homepage Display Properties” widget. To re-create the section go to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the “Homepage Display Properties” widget inside the “Homepage – Main content” area.

Despite the fact the title of the section says “Featured properties”, you can actually display anything properties you want in here. You can change the title of the section by changing the title of the widget. To choose what is displayed by the widget focus on the “Sorting Options” dropdown. To display just featured properties choose the “Featured Listing” option.

10 – Homepage sidebar

To add widgets inside this section navigate to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and a few widgets of your choice inside the “Homepage Sidebar” area. Widgets displayed inside the image above are:

• Pages
• T – Display Authors

11 – Callout section

To re-create this section go to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the “Text” widget inside the “Below Home page content” area. The default widget content is available here.

12 – More properties

This section is created using the “Homepage Display Properties” widget. To re-create the section go to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the “Homepage Display Properties” widget inside the “Below Home page content” area. To make sure everything looks as on the screenshot above insert this widget below the “Text” widget.

13 – Business logos

To create this section go to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the “T – Homepage Banner” widget into the “Below Home page content” area. To make sure everything looks as on the screenshot above insert this widget below the “Homepage Display Properties” widget.

By default the “Homepage Banner” widget looks like a giant slider. To enable this smaller look click on the “Settings for Carousel slider option” box. Here’s a screenshot of the settings you should use for the carousel option.

Note: Don’t forget to enable the “Use Custom images?” option and add your images. Upload them from Media ⇨ Add New and then paste the File URL of the image inside the “Banner Slider Image Full URL” field.

14 – Main Footer

To re-create this area navigate to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the following widgets inside the “Footer” area.

• Categories
• Text
• Text
• T – Newsletter

15 and 16 – Social icons and credits

You can change these things by going to Appearance ⇨ Customize ⇨ Footer.

Add a link to each of the social icons by swapping # with your social media URL. For example, change this

<li><a href="#"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></a></li>

To this

<li><a href="http://facebook.com/templatic"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></a></li>

Category page

1 – Breadcrumbs

Displays the path to the category you’re viewing. The only breadcrumb option is available in Appearance ⇨ Theme Settings. It allows you to turn breadcrumbs On or Off.

2 – Category title

The name of the category you’re viewing. You can change it by editing the category itself. Do that from Dashboard ⇨ Properties ⇨ Property Categories.

3 – View switchers

Controls how properties are displayed. You can choose from List, Grid and Map view. Settings related to this area can be found in Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Category page (tab).

4 – Sorting dropdown

Choose the order in which the properties will be displayed. You can control which options are available from Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Category page (tab).

5 – The actual properties

This area displays the properties within your category.

How to set a featured image?
When adding an property from the back-end use the “Featured Image” box located inside the right sidebar. You can also do it by simply uploading an image to the property image gallery.

How to edit the “No Chain” or “Freehold” tags?
These tags are controlled by the default custom field called “Property Status”. Assuming the custom field is active, you can select the status while creating the property.

To edit the default status titles and colors go to Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Category page (tab). To add new statues (or remove existing ones) navigate to Payment Settings⇨ Custom Fields ⇨ Property (tab) and edit the “Property Status” custom field. Add/remove entries from the Option Title and Option Values fields.

6 – Category sidebar

To re-create this area navigate to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and insert the following widgets inside the “Property Category Page Sidebar”

• T – Property Filters
• T – Display Authors

7 – Pagination

To control the number of property displayed per each page go to Settings ⇨ Reading and edit the “Blog pages show at most” option. To make each category display all available properties just add a really high number.

Property detail page

1 – Big gallery image

The main (or big) gallery image is the first image added to the gallery. While editing the property in the back-end it’s the image on the far left side.

The image is designed to stretch across the whole width of the page so make sure to upload large images. The width of the image should be at least 1920 pixels.

How to make property owners upload larger images?
Go to Payment Settings ⇨ Custom Fields ⇨ Property (tab) and edit the “Post Images” field. In the “Description” write something like: To ensure your image looks good on the detail page please upload large (Full HD) images. The width of the image should be around 1920 pixels.

2 – Other gallery images

This section displays other images uploaded to the gallery (of that particular property). When you click on the thumbnail the theme will load the full image.

If you want to remove this section add the following code to Appearance ⇨ Custom CSS Editor.

#silde_gallery {
display: none !important;
}

3 – Property name and address

You can control the property title simply by editing the actual property. Whichever address was entered for the property will display here.

4 – Review total

The area displays the number of submitted reviews as well as the average number of stars.

5 – Property price

This section will display the price entered inside the “Price” field while submitting the property.

Want to change the currency? Navigate to Payment Settings ⇨ Monetization ⇨ Currency.

6 – Property icons

This area displays the information assigned to “Bathrooms”, “Bedrooms” and “Area” custom fields.

How to change the sq ft unit into meters (m)?
“sq ft” is static text that you can edit my using the Real Estate plugins translation file. The file is available in the following location: /wp-content/plugins/Tevolution-RealEstate/languages/en_US.po. Use the search function (inside Poedit) to locate the correct string. Search for “sq.ft” and “sq ft”.

For details on how to translate using PO files open our translation article.

7 – Send to fiend button

Allows visitors to quickly send a link to the property to their friends. The button can be disabled from Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Email Settings & Notifications (tab).

8 – Send Inquiry button

Allows visitors to send a message to the person who submitted the propery. The button can be disabled from Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Email Settings & Notifications (tab).

9 – Add to favorites

The favorites button allows website visitors to save specific property for later viewing. Once saved (favorited), the property will become available inside the visitors front-end profile, under the “My Favorites” tab. Screenshot.

10 – Print button

Prints out the current page. To hide this button enter the following inside Appearance ⇨ Custom CSS Editor.

li.print {
display: none !important;
}

11 – Tabs

These tabs are displayed automatically based on details provided for that property . For example, if you add a Video to the property (using the Video field), that video will be displayed inside a separate tab.

12 – Detail page sidebar

To edit this area go to Appearance ⇨ Widgets and place widgets inside the “Property Detail Page Sidebar” area. The widgets used inside the image above are:

• T – Finance Calculator
• T – Display Authors

13 – Actual property content/description

This is the text added inside the “Property Description” field in the front-end, or the main content box inside the back-end. The area can display HTML and Shortcodes.

14 – The property category

This area displays the categories in which the property is submitted. If you want to remove it just add this to Appearance ⇨ Custom CSS Editor

.bottom_line span {
display: none;
}

15 – Sharing buttons

These allow visitors to quickly share the detail page on their social media profiles. You can control which social sites appear here from Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Detail page (tab) ⇨ Show sharing buttons.

16 – Previous/Next buttons

These buttons allow visitors to quickly navigate to the next property within the same category as the one being displayed. If you don’t need these, hide them by adding the following code to Appearance ⇨ Custom CSS Editor.

.singular .pos_navigation {
display: none !important;
}

17 – View counters

Display how many times the page was visited today and since it was published. View counters can be disabled from Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Detail page (tab).

18 – Comments/Reviews

Comments can be moderated from Dashboard ⇨ Comments. Comment settings are available from the Appearance ⇨ Theme Settings ⇨ Comments Settings (tab) section.

If you want to disable comments for a specific property the best way is to Quick Edit it (from Dashboard ⇨ Properties) and untick “Allow Comments” in the quick edit window.

To disable ratings and use regular comments go to Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Detail Page ⇨ Ratings. If you want to make it so that a rating must be provided while submitting a comment, turn on the “Force Ratings” option.

19 – Related properties

This section shows properties from the same category (or tag) as the one currently displayed. For editing related properties settings navigate to Payment Settings ⇨ Settings ⇨ Detail page. There are several options available that control the Related Properties section.

Location Management

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The listings added to the Directory website will be based on the location. Therefore, before we proceed with adding and managing listings, these are few location related settings.

Countries and States

To add and manage countries and states, navigate to “Countries” and “States” tabs inside the Payment Settings ⇨ Manage Locations section. Probably, you’ll find the country in the preloaded countries but if you don’t you can create a new country easily. Similarly at Payment Settings ⇨ Manage Locations ⇨ States, you can add the states to the country.

Add a city

Unless you add the cities, the listings won’t be submitted. Therefore, before we proceed on how to add and manage listings, we need to add the cities. Three default cities are provided with the Location Manager, but you can add as many cities as you want. To add cities navigate to Payment Settings ⇨ Manage Locations ⇨ Cities. Before adding cities, don’t miss adding the Country and the state to which the city belongs. Click here to set up the cities.

Manage Locations

From here, you can set the general options for managing the locations of the website. The options are available at Payment Settings >> Manage locations.
City selector style – To select the way the cities are shown on the homepage header.

City Selector levels – Control the level of selection offered to the users on the homepage.

Location Tracking Method – Select the location tracking method for the tracking location for the pinpoint functionality. Only change this if you are experiencing problems with the default service, i.e Freegeoip.

Homepage displays – Through this you can decide what the homepage will display. The “default city” option will show the listings of the default city. Default city can be set from the cities tab. With the “Ask to show nearest city” will show a strip at the top asking them to share their location. And the “Nearest city” will show the city nearest to them without the ability to stop the process.

Activate location Manager for – You can disable or enable location manager for each post type from here.

Track city visits (city logs) – To keep the track of visits of the users in each city. This will be useful in deciding the most popular cities of the site.

The country, state and cities tab will allow you to add and manage the countries, state and cities respectively. The City logs tab will allow you to track the visits on each city of the website.

The city logs

The city log will show how many times a city is selected and its listings are viewed. The report will show the city, state and the country name with the Total Count and view details. On clicking on views – the details of the city views will be shown. This includes the IP address and number of times the city is viewed from the IP address.

To turn on or off the city logs, navigate to Payment Settings ⇨ Manage locations ⇨ and enable or disable the option Track city visits (city logs).

Map Shortcode

Use the below shortcode to display content (one or most post types) within a specific city. To create a page using this shortcode navigate to Pages ⇨ Add New and paste in the code.

cityid – the ID of the city you want to show. The city ID is displayed when hovering over a city inside Manage Locations ⇨ Cities (tab). Screenshot.
post_type – enter the post type you want to show (e.g. listings). To display multiple post types separate them with a comma. For example, to display listings and properties, enter the value like this: ‘listings,events,posts’.
height –set map height in pixels.

Bulk upload cities

If you do not wish to add the cities one by one, use the bulk upload option. Using the bulk upload feature, you will be able to insert a number of cities together using a CSV file.

Single-city mode

If you plan on using Directory for a single city only, deactivate the location manager plugin from Dashboard ⇨ plugins ⇨ Installed plugins. Don’t forget to replace your map widgets with “single city” map widgets. Without the Tevolution – Location Manager plugin, your URLs won’t have the /city/city_name slug within them.

If you do not require to display the listings of multiple cities and only want to maintain a single city listings guide, then disable the Location Manager plugin. This will enhance the performance and fetch noticeably faster results.

 

What is the perfect size for the logo?

The default logo size is 248×39 pixels. Ideally, that’s the size you should use for your own logo as well. However, the theme will work with smaller/larger logos as well.

How to set a custom background?

The background in Directory can be changed from the Appearance ⇨ Customize section. When you open the section, expand the Background Settings area, click on No Image and then on the select a file link. Locate an image on your hard drive and upload it. Once the upload is done tweak the available options (repeat, position, etc) and hit the Save & Publish button at the top.

Quick Tip: Use FullHD images (width = 1920px) for the background image. An image of that size should look good on the majority of screen sizes.