WordPress · Free forever · Directory plugin
Free foreverBuild a business directory, restaurant directory, real estate listings site, niche job board, event directory, or any vertical listings site. Free Listora ships ten listing types, reviews and ratings, business claims, frontend submission, full search with filters, OpenStreetMap, and one-click migration from Business Directory Plugin, Directorist, GeoDirectory, and ListingPro.
Open source on GitHub · Built on Gutenberg + Interactivity API · No API keys required
What free Listora can do
The carousel below auto-cycles through five capabilities you get the day you install free Listora. Click any tab on the left to lock to it.
Showing 142 of 380 listings · Brooklyn, NY
Lilia
Italian · Williamsburg · ★ 4.9 (264)
5 listings on this map. Click any pin to preview.
Add a listing · Step 3 of 5
Duplicate check: no match at this address. Looks good to submit.
"Best gnocchi in Brooklyn. The waiter remembered my husband from last year."
Credit plans
Sell Featured + Premium listings priced in credits.
Lead forms
Contact Owner on every listing. Spam-locked.
Google Maps
Places autocomplete in the submission form.
Saved searches
Daily email digest of new matches.
Analytics
Per-listing views and click tracking.
Verification + moderators
Verified badge + scoped moderator role.
White-label
Hide every Listora reference under your brand.
Needs Marketplace
Reverse directory: buyers post needs, businesses respond.
Ten listing-type packs out of the box
Each listing type ships with the right fields for its vertical. Pick one, import the demo, replace demo entries with real listings. Under an hour to launch. Hotel, healthcare, and education packs also ship; ten listing types total.
Yellow-pages style local directory. Owners claim, members review, you monetise featured slots. Schema.org LocalBusiness on every listing.
Cuisine, price band, hours, dietary tags, booking link, photo galleries. Schema.org Restaurant so listings render in Google with stars and prices.
Price, beds, baths, square footage, agent contact, map view. Save searches (Pro), follow agents, new-listing alerts.
Remote, healthcare, freelance, tech, hospitality boards. Employer profiles, applications, salary band filters, location radius.
Conferences, meetups, workshops, gigs. Date filters, recurring events, venue + map, RSVP counts. Schema.org Event in search.
Buy and sell classifieds plus service-provider directories. Photo upload, location, category, price, auto-expire, lead forms (Pro).
Free vs Pro · clear boundary
Every capability below. Free covers the public, searchable, member-submitted directory. Pro adds the business-model layer (credits, leads, Google Maps, saved searches, analytics, verification, moderators, white-label, Needs Marketplace). Pro requires the free Listora plugin installed.
| Capability | Listora Free · 10 caps | Listora Pro Free + 14 extra · 24 total |
|---|---|---|
| 10 pre-built listing types (business, restaurant, real estate, hotel, job, event, classified, healthcare, education, place) | ||
| 11 Gutenberg blocks (grid, search, map, detail, reviews, submission, dashboard, categories, featured, calendar, card) | ||
| Frontend submission with photo upload, location picker, duplicate-check, draft reminder | Plan picker + paid submission tiers | |
| Business claims (owners take over an existing listing) | Verification badge on approval | |
| Reviews: 5-star, helpful votes, owner replies, reporting flow | Multi-criteria scores + photo reviews | |
| Full-text search with category, location, distance, rating, amenity filters | Saved searches + advanced field builder + infinite scroll | |
| OpenStreetMap (no API key, no per-view charges) | ||
| Google Maps with Places autocomplete + marker clustering | Pro only | |
| Schema.org JSON-LD on every listing (LocalBusiness, Restaurant, RealEstateListing, Event, LodgingBusiness, MedicalBusiness) | ||
| 39 REST endpoints for headless apps and custom integrations | ||
| One-click migration from BDP, Directorist, GeoDirectory, ListingPro | ||
| Credit-based pricing plans (Free / Featured / Premium / Sponsored) | Pro only | |
| Coupons (discount codes reduce credit cost of a listing plan) | Pro only | |
| Webhook payment receiver (Stripe, PayPal, Paddle, custom) | Pro only | |
| Contact Owner lead forms on every listing detail page | Pro only | |
| Saved searches with daily email digest of new matches | Pro only | |
| Per-listing analytics: views + click tracking (phone, website, email, directions) | Pro only | |
| Verification badges (vet listings, badge on cards + detail) | Pro only | |
| Moderator role (scoped to approval, reviews, claims) with audit log | Pro only | |
| White-label admin: hide every Listora reference under your brand | Pro only | |
| Coming Soon mode + Private mode (members-only directory) | Pro only | |
| Needs Marketplace: visitors post needs, businesses respond | Pro only | |
| Compare listings side-by-side (2 to 4) | Pro only | |
| SEO landing pages auto-generated per type-in-location | Pro only |
Free is a complete directory plugin. Many sites run it indefinitely. Move to Pro when you start charging for listings or capturing leads
Coming from another directory plugin?
Listora ships built-in migrators for Business Directory Plugin, Directorist, GeoDirectory, and ListingPro. The migrator reads the source plugin database tables and post data directly, transfers listings + categories + custom fields + images, and preserves URLs so Google rankings survive. Settings to Import/Export to Migrate has one-click importers for each. Sites with under a thousand listings take minutes; larger sites run through Action Scheduler in the background.
Reads BDP custom database tables and form-fields table. Transfers listings, categories, tags, custom field values, images. URLs preserved so Google rankings survive.
Directorist sells 10+ paid extensions to match what Listora ships free. Migrator reads Directorist post types and meta, maps to Listora listing types, preserves images.
GeoDirectory pricing is per-CPT add-on plus per-feature add-on. Listora migrator maps GeoDirectory CPTs to Listora listing types and brings over locations + custom fields.
ListingPro is theme-locked (its features only run inside the ListingPro theme). Migrator decouples your directory from the theme so you can move to any theme.
On the fence about Pro?
Pro is the business-model layer: credit-based listing plans, contact-owner lead forms, Google Maps with autocomplete, saved-search alerts, photo reviews, per-listing analytics, verification badges, moderator team, white-label, and the Needs Marketplace. Lockstep updates with free Listora.
Free, Personal, Agency
Free is the complete directory plugin for any public site. Pro adds the business-model layer (credits, leads, Google Maps, saved searches, analytics, verification, white-label). The EarlyBird coupon takes 30% off every Pro tier and is auto-applied on the buy buttons below. Annual or lifetime, three site-count tiers.
Free forever
Free
Use on as many sites as you want
Personal
$69 $48.3 /year
or lifetime $199 $139.3 once
One site
Agency
$199 $139.3 /year
or lifetime $499 $349.3 once
Unlimited sites annual · 3 sites lifetime
Need 5 sites and not 1 or unlimited? Listora Pro Developer: $99 $69.3/year with EarlyBird, Up to 5 sites.
Before you install
A free WordPress directory plugin. Build a business directory, restaurant directory, real estate listings site, niche job board, event directory, or classifieds marketplace. Free ships 10 listing types, 11 Gutenberg blocks, reviews, claims, frontend submission, full search, OpenStreetMap, schema markup, 39 REST endpoints, and one-click migration from Business Directory Plugin, Directorist, GeoDirectory, and ListingPro.
Yes. Free covers a public, searchable, member-submitted directory: 10 listing types, reviews and ratings, business claims, frontend submission, search with category and location filters, OpenStreetMap, schema markup, 39 REST endpoints, four competitor migrators. Many directories run on free indefinitely. Pro is for directories that monetise listings, capture leads, or run as a team.
Free Listora covers business directories on par with the paid tiers of Business Directory Plugin Pro, Directorist Pro, and GeoDirectory. Free alternatives like Connections Business Directory cover fewer features (single listing type, no claims, no reviews, no frontend submission). The bigger paid plugins gate features behind per-feature add-ons; Listora ships them in free.
Yes. Free ships OpenStreetMap with category-coloured pins, cluster markers, hover preview cards, click-to-zoom. No API key, no per-view charges. Pro adds Google Maps with Places autocomplete in the submission form.
Yes, in free. Multi-step submission with photo upload, location picker, opening hours, categories, custom fields per listing type. Duplicate-check warns before submit. Draft reminder email if abandoned. Manual review queue, optional auto-publish, plan-based paid submission in Pro.
Yes. Settings to Import/Export to Migrate has one-click importers for all four. The migrator reads source plugin tables and post data directly, transfers listings + categories + tags + custom fields + images. URLs preserved so Google rankings survive. Sites under 1,000 listings take minutes; larger sites run through Action Scheduler in the background.
Pro adds Pricing Plans (Free / Featured / Premium / Sponsored tiers priced in credits). Buyers purchase credit packs via your payment gateway (Stripe, PayPal, Paddle, or custom). The Pro webhook receiver verifies payment and tops up balance. Buyers spend credits to activate plans at submission. Coupons reduce credit cost. Audit log on every transaction.
Built on Gutenberg blocks and the Interactivity API rather than shortcodes and jQuery. Free Listora ships 10 listing types where GeoDirectory and Directorist gate listing-type packs behind paid add-ons. Listora Pro covers credits and plans, lead forms, analytics, Google Maps, photo reviews, verification, and white-label in one Pro package. Migrate-in-one-click from any of them ships in free.
Upgrade when your directory needs to charge for listings, capture leads on every listing, or run as a team with moderators and audit log. Many directories run on free indefinitely. Pro pays for itself when you start charging for placements or when lead capture is the revenue model.
Yes. Pro has a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. Free Listora is free forever. Pro requires the free Listora plugin installed; updates ship in lockstep version numbers. Lifetime tiers stay cheaper than two years of the annual subscription.
Free Listora is the complete directory plugin. Install, pick a listing type, import the demo, replace demo entries with real listings. Under an hour to launch.
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Free forever · Use on as many sites as you want · Open source on GitHub
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