{"id":5034,"date":"2017-07-25T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostileblog.com\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2020-05-30T21:33:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T01:33:14","slug":"best-wordpress-directory-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carnaghan.com\/best-wordpress-directory-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Best WordPress directory theme (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A directory site has a massive listing of businesses. If a site is successful, it will have a listing of 1000+ business. A small site may have fewer listings.<\/p>\n

SEO plays a key role in deciding the fate of a directory site. A well-optimized website will rank high in search engines. A good example of this is Yelp, a large restaurant directory site that ranks at number 1 position in Google SERPs for several 1000 keywords. We must not forget that Yelp has 100s of employees working 24 x 7.<\/p>\n

Creating an SEO friendly directory site from scratch isn’t an easy task. You must have strong knowledge of web scripting languages, CSS, HTML, database and website design. If you’re searching for an easy way to launch directory website, use WordPress.<\/p>\n

WordPress provides powerful page caching and SEO plugins<\/a>. Hence, it is a great platform for launching a fast SEO optimized directory site. There are plenty of free directory themes but none of them are complete. If you want to be a successful directory website owner, you must download and configure of the following premium themes.<\/p>\n

Best directory themes for WordPress<\/h2>\n

Directory+<\/h3>\n

\"Directory+\"<\/p>\n

Directory Plus is the best selling WP directory listing theme. It has 13000+ users and a good rating of 4 on the ThemeForest marketplace.<\/p>\n

The theme offers 7 header styles and has the option to embed one of the following elements in the header:<\/p>\n