User’s Manual Version 2.0.0

Listdom

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 Introduction 5

1.1 Introduction of Listdom 6

2.0 Installation 7 2.1 how to install plugin 8 2.2 How to Active Plugin 8 2.3 How to Auto Update Plugin 9 2.4 How to Update Plugin Manually 10

3.0 Setting Up Listing 11 3.1 Add Listing 12 3.2 Location 13 3.3 Price Options 14 3.4 Work Hours 15 3.5 Contact Details 16 3.6 Remark 17 3.7 Display Options 18 3.8 Gallery 19 3.9 Embed 20

4.0 Setup Listings Features 21 4.1 Categories 22 4.2 Locations 23 4.3 Tags 25 4.4 Features 26 4.5 Labels 27 4.6 Attributes 29

5.0 Settings 32 5.1 Settings Overview 33 5.2 General 33

5.2.1 General 34 5.2.2 Map Module 34 5.2.3 Shape Display Options 34 5.2.4 Display Options 35 5.2.5 Google recaptcha 36 5.2.6 Fontawesome Status 37

5.3 Archive Pages 37

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5.4 Slugs 38 5.5 Social Networks 39 5.6 Custom Styles 40 5.7 Details Page 41 5.8 Restful API 42

6.0 Shortcodes 42 6.1 Make Advanced Shortcodes 43 6.2 Half Map / Half View 46 6.3 Single Map 47 6.4 List View 47 6.5 Grid View 47 6.6 List + Grid View 48 6.7 Table View 48 6.8 Masonry View 48 6.9 Carousel 49 6.10 Slider 49 6.11 Cover View 49

7.0 Independent Shortcodes 50 7.1 Listdom Simple Map 51 7.2 Listdom Category 51 7.3 Listdom Label 52 7.4 Listdom Location 53 7.5 Listdom Terms 54

8.0 Widgets 56 8.1 Listdom All Listings 57 8.2 Listdom Cloud 58 8.3 Listdom Shortcode 59 8.4 Listdom Terms 60 8.5 Search Widget 61

9.0 Setting Up Search Form 63 9.1 Make Advanced Search Forms 64 9.2 Form Options 65 9.3 Field Options 67 9.4 Use Shortcode 67 9.5 Search Widget 68

10.0 Setting Up Dashboard 70 10.1 Create Dashboard Page 71

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10.2 Create Menu to Add Listing 72 10.3 Setup Frontend Login 73 10.4 Dashboard Settings 74

11.0 Setup Listdom Features 76 11.1 Notifications 77 11.2 Import/Export 78

12.0 Addons 80 12.1 Advanced Map 81 12.2 CSV Importer 83 12.3 Favorite Addon 84 12.4 Android/IOS App Addon 85 12.5 Rank Addon 86 12.6 Claim Addon 87 12.7 Top Up Addon 89 12.8 PMS Addon(Paid Member Subscriptions) 90 12.9 Labelize Addon 91 12.10 Subscriptions Addon 92

12.10.1 Configurations 93 12.10.2 Packages 94 12.10.3 Subscriptions 95

12.11 Reviews Addon 96 12.12 Team Addon 99 12.13 Booking Addon 100 12.14 Multiple Categories 102 12.15 Advanced Icon Addon 103 12.16 Visibility Addon 103 12.17 KML Addon 104 12.18 Auction Addon 105 12.19 ACF Addon 106 12.20 BuddyPress Addon 107 12.21 Stats Addon 108 12.22 Franchise Addon 109 12.23 Compare Addon 110 12.24 APS Addon 111

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1.0 Introduction

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1.1 Introduction of Listdom The Listdom is the most advanced Wordpress plugin in the category of listing and directory. This plugin focused to provide all features that you need in the highest possible simplicity, also You can see its power with a simple comparison with available plugins in the market. the comparison result will be unbelievable, it has everything that others has and you will see so many features that you cannot find anywhere.

● Cover all features that a high scale listing and directory project need with a great root map for future developments.

● All features that you need to support wide range of industries in one package. ● Following the best practices in all concepts including coding, user experiences,

optimization, customizability, and … ● Offer wonderfully predefined patterns that they are available in your business as you

have this plugin. ● Define category fields as you wish and works according to your business. ● Supporting different payment gateways and amazing structure to add new ones

dedicated for clients. ● Advanced filtering system that is available in the frontend side and it gives amazing

flexibility to end-users. ● Google map integrated ● Compatible with wide range of other third party plugins and templates

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2.0 Installation

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2.1 how to install plugin Listdom has two different versions, You can download Listdom Lite from WordPress plugins repository and buy Listdom Pro from our shop. In order to download Listdom Pro, after your payment has been completed you can download from Downloads menu if your account. Now the final step is activating Listdom Pro with a license key to take new updates which we release regularly. Please take your license from the License menu on our website. When the download process has been finished it's time to extract the zip file that you have downloaded. After this process you will see listdom-pro.zip and it is the time that you upload plugin and there are two ways to do this: Upload via FTP:

● Unzip “Listdom.zip” file that you’ve downloaded. ● Upload plugin folder into “/wp-content / plugins/” in ● For activating the plugin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and activate the installed

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WordPress upload:

● Navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins ● Click Add New button and then hit Upload Plugin ● Click on Choose File and find “Listdom.zip” file on your computer and click on Install

Now button ● The plugin will be uploaded and installed ● For activating the plugin, go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and activate the installed

plugin

2.2 How to Active Plugin When you install the Listdom, the next step is activation of this plugin. To activate the plugin head over to Activation menu of Listdom in the backend.

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Now enter your Purchase Code and click on active button. To see the “Purchase Code”, go to “Lisence Keys” menu of you account on our website and in the item row click on “view” to see the license key.

2.3 How to Auto Update Plugin If you did not updated the Listdom yet head over to Appearance > Install Plugins and install then active that. At this time you need to have your license key which is available on “Lisence Keys” menu of you account on our website and in the item row click on “view” to see the license key. Then copy the license key and paste that to the plugin dashboard

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Finally refresh the page to verify the purchase code from Totalery server. After the mentioned steps has been finished you can head over to WordPress Admin Dashboard > Updates and if you have any update it is possible to update the plugin by one click. Please note: sometimes it happen which you do not see update notifications, in these cases please click on “Check Again” button for checking again from the Listdom server.

Now bulk or check one item(Listdom) and click the “Update Plugins” button.

2.4 How to Update Plugin Manually In this section we are going to explain the update plugin manually, you can download the latest version of the Listdom plugin from your Totalery account. Then you need to connect to the server through FTP and upload the zip file on wp-content/plugins, finally you should extract the archived file to the same location and replace the plugin files with previous version.

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3.0 Setting Up Listing

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3.1 Add Listing Now, It’s time to create a listing. In fact adding a listing is so simple and you can head over to Listings menu and after that “Add Listing”.

As you see there are so many parts in this menu which we will investigate those one by one. The first section is “Listing Title” and “Listing Description” which we have for all posts in WordPress. When you want to add new listing you see so many fields and sections in the add listing process which we will explain them here shortly. however , you can find more information about each part in the next sections:

● Location(in map): you can define location of each listing. ● Price Options: Define price for each listing in different currencies. ● Work Hours: Specify the working time period and off days for your listings. ● Contact Details: This information will should to visitors to contact the listing contact point. ● Attributes: Each listing belong to a category and each category has some attributes

which allow you to enter data for that listing. For example discount number. ● Categories: it is possible for you to define category for your listing. For example this

listing is in Hotels category. ● Locations(in checkbox): it is possible that you define some predefined locations and set

that this listing is available in this locations. For example, different cities of your country or different regions.

● Tags: this feature which use by all posts in WordPress is useful for categorise listings with their tags for example 24/7 tag which uses for listing that are available during the 7 days 24 hours.

● Features: listing need have features tag to specify which abilisite they prepare for their clients. For example free wifi.

● Labels: labels is an additional feature which is visible for visitors and you can have their attention for the listing that have special labels. For example, Recommended! Label.

● Remark: listing owners can show a message to their readers with this field.

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● Display Options: admin and listing owner(if admin allow) can define the style which this listing show or they can mention which sections should/should not show in the listing detail page.

● Image Gallery: In this section you can add multiple images and those will show as gallery in the listing detail page.

● Embed: In this section you can add multiple Embed Codes and in the listing detail those data will show.

3.2 Location

Listing Address: enter address in that will be convert to latitude and longitude Map Center Latitude: Listing’s latitude which calculate automatically when address or marker location change. Also it is possible to enter directly. Map Center Longitude: Listing’s longitude which calculate automatically when address or marker location change. Also it is possible to enter directly. Marker / Shape: this is map mode, it is possible to define a region for a listing instead of pin. Front-end view - Marker:

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Front-end view - Shape:

3.3 Price Options

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Currency: select the currency which listing’s price is according to that. For example USD. Price: amount that this listing has, for example $250. Price(Max): if the listing prices are in range, you can enter the maximum price here. Price Description: this is an additional description that shows with price for example “per night”. Price Class: You can define a price class for your listing and it will show on some skins. For example grid view “Style 3”. Front-end view:

3.4 Work Hours

In this section you can see 7 rows for each day. The input text that provided for you is for entering time period that the listing working. For example 9 AM to 9 PM. On the other hand, it is possible to make a day off. It means that the listing does not work on that day. Front-end view:

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3.5 Contact Details

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Email: this email will show in the listing page and visitors can use that to contact the listing owner. Phone: this phone number shows in the listing page and visitors can use that to contact the listing owner. Website: Show link of listing in the details page and some listings skins. Listing Link: this field is usable for the listings that are linked to another page in the World Wide Web. For example a hotel that wants to link to the main website. Front-end view:

3.6 Remark

Owner Message: If you fill this field your message will be shown in the listing detail page.

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3.7 Display Options

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Style: there are 2 different styles which you can select for each listing. Also there are another setting which you can define for all listings. Element: In this section you can define which elements should show in the listing detail. Front-end view:

● Style 1 demo ● Style 2 demo

3.8 Gallery

Add Images: As soon as you click on this button you can add images to listing from WordPress media structure. Remove All Images: In this section you can remove all available images for current listing. Image Drag Icon: you can change the order of images they will show according to order that you define in the frontend. Image Delete Icon: If you feel one image is not good and you want to remove and add new simply click on “Image Delete Icon” which is available in the bottom of image and delete that specific image. Front-end view:

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● Style 1 demo ● Style 2 demo

3.9 Embed

Add: When you click on “Add” button it will add new form which you can add data of your embed video.

Remove All Embed Codes: with this button you can remove all embed codes that already added Title: This title will show above the video in the frontend view Code: You can put your embed code here and it will show in the frontend Front-end view for embed feature in listing details:

● Style 1 demo ● Style 2 demo

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4.0 Setup Listings Features

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4.1 Categories Categories is useful to grouping listings. Grouping the listings will help your readers to find the listing that they want. For example all restaurant which listed in your website. Another usage of category for listing is related to their general definition for example with category they can now the listing is advertisement.

Name: name of category, for example “Beauty Salon”. Slug: this field automatically fill according to category name and it will be use for accessing the listings of category. Also it is possible that you change the slug manually as you wish. Description: this field is for explanations of the categories. Please pay attention that your theme should have the ability to show this description if it does not support this text does not show. Icon: this icon will be show with category name. For example this icon will show will show in map as marker of the listings that are in this category. Color: it is markers color, it is useful to define dedicated color for each category marker and it helps your readers to have better experience. Image: this image will show with category in archive pages. Schema Type: in this field you can define “Schema Item Type” according to https://schema.org/ and this “Schema Item Type” will be used for listings of this category. Add listing view:

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4.2 Locations Location section of Listdom is useful for categories the listings according to different regions. For example you can define Florida location and during the add listing process assign listing to that location. When users visit the location archive page see the listings related to that.

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Name: name of location, for example Florida. Slug: this field automatically fill according to location name and it will be use for accessing the listings of location. Also it is possible that you change the slug manually as you wish. Parent Category: with this field you can create hierarchy of location to categories listing better. For example county, state, city and … Description: this field is for explanations of the locations. Please pay attention that your theme should have the ability to show this description if it does not support this text does not show. Image: this image will show with location in archive pages. Add listing view:

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4.3 Tags Tags are as same as listing’s keywords which you are creating. Tags are usually short phrases that define your listing shortly. Also it is possible to assign several tags for a listing, for example 724 or discount tag which apply for listings whenever listing has discount and always available. On the other hand tags increase your page chance to be visible in results of search engines.

Name: name of tag, for example 247. Slug: this field automatically fill according to tag name and it will be use for accessing the listings of tag. Also it is possible that you change the slug manually as you wish. Description: this field is for explanations of the tags. Please pay attention that your theme should have the ability to show this description if it does not support this text does not show. Add listing view:

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4.4 Features Features has same functionality as tags with different usage, with this tool you can specify which features your listing already has. For example WiFi or parking. Each feature can have an icon to make its view better.

Name: name of feature, for example Parking. Slug: this field automatically fill according to feature name and it will be use for accessing the listings of features. Also it is possible that you change the slug manually as you wish. Description: this field is for explanations of the feature. Please pay attention that your theme should have the ability to show this description if it does not support this text does not show. Icon: this icon will show next to the feature anywhere which that show. For example parking icon will show with the parking text. Add listing view:

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4.5 Labels Labels work as badges in the Listdom, for example a listing which has VIP or Hot Offer badges. Each label has a color and text with shows that label in the listings. Generally these labels attract more attentions of visitors to the listings that they have those.

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Name: name of label, for example Exclusive. Slug: this field automatically fill according to label name and it will be use for accessing the listings of labels. Also it is possible that you change the slug manually as you wish. Description: this field is for explanations of the label. Please pay attention that your theme should have the ability to show this description if it does not support this text does not show. Color: label name will show with this color. Add listing view:

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4.6 Attributes This feature play a critical role is the Listdom, you can add new fields for all categories or special categories and those fields will show in listings details that assigned to the related categories. For example for companies that are listing in your platform you want to have number of employees, in this case you can add this field in the companies category and whenever you want to add new listings in this category you will see this fields in the add listing page. And in the front-end when someone see that listing see the mentioned field as well.

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Name: this is name or title of attribute that show in the front-end to end-users and back-end to admin users. Field Type: this field specify the type of this attribute, for example text, number, email, URL, drop-down and separator Each field type show special field in the add listing page. Related categories: each attribute can assign to all categories, a group of categories or one category. With this way each category can have dedicated fields. Index: this field specify the order of attributes. This is a float number and the higher numbers will show at the bottom of list. Icon: this icon will show next to the attribute anywhere which that show. Required: set this field is mandatory or optional. Add listing view:

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5.0 Settings

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5.1 Settings Overview The Listdom has so many options to create a powerful listing and directory website. Now we are going to introduce different part of settings menu briefly.

Settings menu of Listdom divided to 6 different sections and each section will use to configure one part of system.

1. General: configurations related to map module, main and second color, main font, and Google recaptcha. See more

2. Archive pages: configurations related to different archive pages templates. Here you can define show structure of each archive page. See more

3. Slugs: this menu is useful to change URL prefix of each entity that you have in the Listdom. For example listing detail, location archive and …

4. Social networks: here you can configure which social networks should be available in Listdom views.

5. Custom Styles: you can add your custom css here. 6. Details Pages: it is possible to change the way that listing details page show here.

5.2 General Configuration related to colors that plugin use in front-end and back-end sides, maps configurations, font, and google recaptcha.

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5.2.1 General Default Currency: Set default currency that you want to be activated in the front-end add listing. No Listing Message: It will show instead of search results when nothing is found. You can insert HTML and shortcodes. Currency Position: You can set the currency position that you want. No Listing Message: This message will show instead of listing when there is not any result.

5.2.2 Map Module Default Map Provider: The ListDOM supports 2 different maps. Google map which is not free and Leaflet map which support free and paid maps with together. Google Maps API key: if you want to show google map in different views of the Listdom you should take the API key from google and put it here. If you do not have this and enable the google map views it does not work. Mapbox Access Token: if you want to use tile’s of Mapbox with Leaflet map enter the your access token here otherwise plugin automatically use OpenStreetMap tiles which is free by default. Default zoom level: this setting will use in add/edit listing page and specify the map zoom level. Default Latitude: this field specify the default latitude which map should show in add/edit listing page. Default Longitude: this field specify the default longitude which map should show in add/edit listing page.

5.2.3 Shape Display Options During the add/edit listing prices you can draw a shape for listing to show an area, these items referring to configurations of that page.

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Fill Color: color which the map shape will be filled with that. Fill Opacity: specify the map shape opacity. Border Color: each map shape has a border which you can define color for what here. Border Opacity: define opacity for map shape border. Border Weight: this configuration width of shape border and the value is in pixel.

5.2.4 Display Options As you know each theme has its own color, we considered this section to make the Listdom compatible with your theme. Main Color: there are 2 options to set main color that you want to use in the Listdom. First one is using predefined color and next one is select the color by color picker which already provided for you. Secondary Color: there are 2 options to set secondary color that you want to use in the Listdom. First one is using predefined color and next one is select the color by color picker which already provided for you. Font: if you do not like default font that Listdom use it is possible to select a font here.

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5.2.5 Google recaptcha This feature is useful to prevent spammers actions to Listdom forms. Status: disable or enable this feature. Site key: take this value from google recaptcha and enter here. Secret key: take this value from google recaptcha and enter here.

Note: We are using Google recaptcha version 2.

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5.2.6 Fontawesome Status If you have another plugin that load “Font Awesome” or your theme load this package, you can disable it from Listdom.

5.3 Archive Pages Archive pages are so important for search engines like google they crawl the listings by archive pages. In this page you can set the structure which you want the archive pages to show.

At this time following Options are available for each archive page:

1. Slider - Style 1

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2. Slider - Style 2 3. Slider - Style 3 4. Slider - Style 4 5. Carousel - Style 1 6. Carousel - Style 2 7. Carousel - Style 3 8. Carousel - Style 4 9. Masonry - Style 2 - Locations 10. Masonry - Style 1- Categories 11. Table View - Style 2 12. Table View - Style 1 13. Half Map - Style 1 - Map Right 14. Half Map - Style 1 - Map Left 15. Grid View - Style 1 - Map First 16. List + Grid - Style 1 - No Map 17. List + Grid - Style 1 - Listing First 18. List + Grid View - Style 1 - Map First 19. Grid View - Style 1 - Listing First 20. List View - Style 1 - Listing First 21. List View - Style 1 - Map First 22. Single Map

At this time you can define theme for following archive pages:

1. Location 2. Category 3. Tag 4. Feature 5. Label

5.4 Slugs Slugs play an important role in the Listdom, this is URL prefix which you can define for different sections.

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At this time following slugs are available in the system:

1. Listings: this slug define prefix for listing detail page. 2. Location: prefix address for locations. 3. Category: prefix address for categories. 4. Tag: prefix address for tags. 5. Feature: prefix address for features. 6. Label: prefix address for labels.

5.5 Social Networks It is possible that you disable or enable social networks for following entities. Profile: when you enable a social network for profile pages, and if user already entered that social network in his/her profile. The Listdom shows icon of social networks in the listing detail page and visitors can see and click that. Archive Page: if you enable social networks for this category we will show the social share icons for these pages and the readers can share the page in their social network.

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Detail Pages: if you enable social networks for details page we will show the social share icons for these pages and the readers can share the page in their social network.

At this time we support following social networks:

● Facebook ● Pinterest ● Twitter ● Linkedin

5.6 Custom Styles Sometimes you need to add some custom css to change the way that the Listdom showing data without touching the server side files. Here you can add your styles and they will be add in the Listdom views as well.

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5.7 Details Page You can change the way that listing details page looks here. You can change the style that shows, select template file from the active theme files and enable/disable the elements that shows in this page.

Style: at this time we have 2 different styles to change the looks of listing details page. Theme Layout: this configuration enables you to select a template from your active theme. If you are not sure about this leave it as default. Comments: you can disable or enable adding comment to listings here.

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Elements: this section is the wonderful part in settings, you can disable/enable the elements that showing in the listing details page. Also if you click each element you will be able to set the title should show or not. Display Options Per Listing: In Listdom each listing can have different styles, with this configuration you can define that owners can change or cannot.

5.8 Restful API If you want to work with Restful API of Listdom you need to go to API tab of Listdom -> Settings. Then you can copy “API Tokens”. Also this “API Tokens” is necessary for Android/IOS apps.

6.0 Shortcodes

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6.1 Make Advanced Shortcodes When you add different listings it’s time to create different shortcodes to show what you have to readers and visitors. The Listdom support so many different skins and styles to show and create different views.

To add new shortcode head over to Listdom -> Shortcodes and click on “Add Shortcode”. This is a short overview of adding new shortcodes, we will investigate this each part in next sections in detail. Shortcode: here you see a shortcode that you can paste any page which you want and it will show the result there.

Search: In this area you can select the search form that you want to show with this shortcode. First of all select the search form in “Search Form” dropdown. Then select the position of search from in the “Search Position” field.

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Default Sort: each shortcode shows listings, so you can define the sort structure which you want. For example, showing the newest first.

Map Controls: in the shortcodes which you available map you can confit the map here, for example location of different elements on map and map type.

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Display Options: in this part you can specify how your shortcode should look like. For example setting grid view, list view, map view, mixed of those, how many listing to show and ….

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Listing Link: Set you can link the listing details to listing details or not. Also you can set to open listing details in the new page. Display Image: Disable/Enable showing image in list views.

Filter options: in this section you can define some filters for your shortcode for example show the listings which are in “super market” category or the listing which are in Florida.

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6.2 Half Map / Half View When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “Half Map / Half Views” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 - Right Map ● Style 2 - Right Map ● Style 1 - Left Map ● Style 2 - Left Map

6.3 Single Map When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “Single Map” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Default ● Apple Maps Esque ● Blue Essence ● Blue Water ● CDO ● Facebook ● Intown Map ● Light Dream ● Midnight

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● Pale Down ● Shades of Grey ● Subtle Grayscale ● Ultra Light

6.4 List View When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “List View” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 - Listing First ● Style 2 - Listing First ● Style 1 - Map First ● Style 2 - Map First

6.5 Grid View When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “Grid View” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 – Listing First ● Style 1 – Map First ● Style 2 – Listing First ● Style 2 – Map First ● 2 Columns ● 3 Columns ● 4 Columns

6.6 List + Grid View When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “List + Grid View” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 ● Style 1 – Listing First ● Style 1 – Map First ● Style 2 ● Style 2 – Listing First ● Style 2 – Map First ● 2 Columns ● 3 Columns ● 4 Columns

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6.7 Table View When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “Table View” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 ● Style 2

6.8 Masonry View When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “Masonry View” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 – Categories ● Style 1 – Locations ● Style 1 – Features ● Style 1 – Labels ● Style 2 – Categories ● Style 2 – Locations ● Style 2 – Features ● Style 2 – Labels ● 2 Columns ● 3 Columns ● 4 Columns

6.9 Carousel When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “Carousel” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 ● Style 2 ● Style 3 ● Style 4 ● 1 Columns ● 2 Columns ● 3 Columns ● 4 Columns

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6.10 Slider When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “Slider” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 ● Style 2 ● Style 3 ● Style 4

6.11 Cover View When you are adding shortcodes to show the listings in the front-end one of the available skins is “Cover View” skin which we already provided following demos for this skin:

● Style 1 ● Style 2 ● Style 3

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7.0 Independent Shortcodes

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7.1 Listdom Simple Map This shortcode shows a map with a marker anywhere which you want. This shortcode is fully independent and standalone from the Listdom views. We supporting Google map and LeafletJS which is free. You can add this shortcode with following structure:

Frontend view:

7.2 Listdom Category This shortcode shows Listdom categories which you entered anywhere that you want. This shortcode is fully independent and standalone from the Listdom views. You can add this shortcode with following structure:

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7.3 Listdom Label This shortcode shows Listdom labels which you entered anywhere that you want. This shortcode is fully independent and standalone from the Listdom views. You can add this shortcode with following structure:

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7.4 Listdom Location This shortcode shows Listdom location which you entered anywhere that you want. This shortcode is fully independent and standalone from the Listdom views. You can add this shortcode with following structure:

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7.5 Listdom Terms This shortcode shows Listdom terms, tags and another taxonomy types which you entered anywhere that you want. This shortcode is fully independent and standalone from the Listdom views.

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You can add this shortcode with following structure:

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8.0 Widgets

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8.1 Listdom All Listings This widget show the listings as you wish in a map view. You have following options when adding this widget to sidebar: Style: you can select which map style you want to show the data. We have demo for all styles in the simple map view section. Clustering: you can disable or enable map clustering feature in the frontend view. Limit: specify number of listings which you wish to show.

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8.2 Listdom Cloud With the help of this widget you can show the list of Listdom taxonomies in any sidebar that you want. You have following options when adding this widget to sidebar: Taxonomy: select which taxonomy’s data you want to show. At this time we have tags, categories, locations, features and labels. Display Count: with this option you can enable showing count of listing which each category or tag has. Hide Empty: disable or enable showing categories which do not have any listing from frontend. Sort By: specify the default ordering field to sort the data which showing. Limit: set limitation for taxonomies which you want to show, for example 24 taxonomies.

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8.3 Listdom Shortcode As you know you can define shortcodes with different filters, options, skins, styles and so many other options in the Listdom. With this widget you can show that shortcodes in the sidebars as well as page content which explained in another sections. Title: the widget title Shortcode: the Shortcode which you wish this widget show.

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8.4 Listdom Terms This widget is useful to show the tags, categories, locations, features or labels that you entered in the sidebars. There are some options which we are going to explain there: Taxonomy: in this field you can select which taxonomy type you want to show. At this time the available options are tags, categories, locations, features and labels. Display as Dropdown: if you set yes instead of showing categories as list visitors see a dropdown input. Display Count: if you set yes you will see the listing count of each category next to the name. Hierarchical: show the categories in the hierarchy structure(parent and child) which you entered.

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8.5 Search Widget When you setup or create a search form in the search builder menu there are two ways to show that search form in the frontend. You can use search widget to show the search form or use shortcode. In this article we are going to explain to you how to show search form with search widget.

To begin with, please find “(Listdom) Search” in your widgets list and add this widget to your sidebar.

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Then select the search form which you created in the search builder for “Search Form” field.

Finally the search form will show in the sidebar. To see a live demo please click here.

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9.0 Setting Up Search Form

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9.1 Make Advanced Search Forms Now it’s time to create search form and use those in the front end, Listdom provide you search builder and it allows you to create search forms as your business need.

To add new search form head over to Listdom -> “Search Builder” and Click on “Add Search”. In this article we will overview available options and we will explain each option completely in another parts. Add Row: With this option you can create a row, drag and drop fields to each row. More Options: When you click on this option, the rows which are after option will be shown as more option in the frontend.

Available Fields: you can see list of fields here and drag and drop those to rows

Search Button: Each row has this configuration and it allows you to enable search button in the row that you want to show search button.

Form: in this section you can define which page and shortcode should show the listing result. Also in this section you can define how this search form should show the search form(for example sidebar view).

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Shortcode: Finally you will have a shortcode that you can use that anywhere that you want.

9.2 Form Options Form Options allow you to define the style of search form in frontend. Also you can define which page and which search shortcode should show the result.

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Style: We have 3 styles that you can use. Default, shows the form in the multi column base for each row. Sidebar, shows each field on one row. Float, this is useful to show search form in the float structure. Result Page: Which page do you want to redirect after user click on the search button and show the search result. Target Shortcode: As Listdom support multi shortcode in one page it is necessary to define which shortcode should show the result based on the search parameters. Display Criteria: If you enable this option, after visitors search they will see their selected options as text as well.

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9.3 Field Options When you add a field in the search form it is possible to show that field in different structures. For example you can select that categories should show as drop-down or checkbox.

Each type in Method field shows the field in search from differently. As the names are clear when you select checkboxes it is showing checkbox for the selected field in the frontend of search form. Check our frontend demos form search forms here.

9.4 Use Shortcode When you setup or create a search form in the search builder menu there are two ways to show that search form in the frontend. You can use search widget to show the search form or use shortcode. In this article we are going to explain to you how to use shortcode. After creating the search form in the search builder, you can see Shortcode box in the add/edit form of search builder as below:

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Then you can copy the shortcode text and paste anywhere in the text that you want to show that.

You can see the result of search form in our demos.

9.5 Search Widget When you setup or create a search form in the search builder menu there are two ways to show that search form in the frontend. You can use search widget to show the search form or use shortcode. In this article we are going to explain to you how to show search form with search widget.

To begin with, please find “(Listdom) Search” in your widgets list and add this widget to your sidebar.

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Then select the search form which you created in the search builder for “Search Form” field.

Finally the search form will show in the sidebar. To see a live demo please click here.

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10.0 Setting Up Dashboard

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10.1 Create Dashboard Page You need to create a page for Listdom frontend dashboard, and use the following shortcode.

Now when you go to this page and login you can see your listings and you can add new listings as well.

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If you want to show Logout button in your dashboard, add a link with https://YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-login.php?action=logout URL in your dashboard page to have something like this:

10.2 Create Menu to Add Listing If you want to have a direct menu or link to the frontend add listing page, First of all go to the dashboard page that you created and click on “Add Listing” link in the left menu.

Then you need to copy the page URL:

Finally you can head over to “Appearance” -> “Menus” and use “Custom Link” with the link that you have to create a menu to add listing page directly.

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10.3 Setup Frontend Login At this time we are using a third-party plugin for our frontend login and in this manual we are explaining how to configure that. First of all, download this plugin, install and activate that in your local.

Then create a page with following shortcode:

At the end, head over to Wordpress backend -> “Frontend Dashboard”

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Finally you can use frontend login and register instead of Wordpress login page.

10.4 Dashboard Settings There are some configurations regarding front-end dashboard and add listing. To configure those head over to the Settings menu in Listdom. Then please go to the “Frontend Submission” section to see the configurations. Page: in this field you can select the page that you already used for the frontend dashboard. Locations: In this field you can define the way that locations field should show in the frontend add listing form. At this time Checkbox and DropDown options are available. Features: In this field you can define the way that features field should show in the frontend add listing form. At this time Checkbox and DropDown options are available. Gallery Method: This option allows you to use WordPress media uploader or simple file uploader in front-end add listing. Guest: If you enable this field guest users can add listings. In the following fields you can disable and enable elements or options in the add listing form(both frontend and backend sectors).

● Address / Map ● Price Options ● Work Hours ● Contact Details ● Remark ● Gallery ● Attributes ● Locations

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● Tags ● Features ● Labels ● Featured Image

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11.0 Setup Listdom Features

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11.1 Notifications In this feature you can configure the email notifications that Listdom is sending. For example you can create a notification and send emails when new listing added to your website. There are different hooks in the system that each hook call when something happens in the system. Hooks: these options are events that are happening in the Listdom and you can create email notification for each one.

Placeholders: Each notification has some data which you can include in your email as well, for example the name of the person which send contact request in the contact Owner.

Recipients: Each email notification has an “Original Recipient” and you can disable and enable that. On the other hand you can add CC and BCC to the the email notifications as well.

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Finally we have short description about all sections whenever you are adding new notification and there we explained everything.

11.2 Import/Export In this section you can export your current Listdom Data as a JSON file and import that in another website that has Listdom. We have two sections in this feature which you can export data with “Export Listings” and import data with “Import Listings”.

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12.1 Advanced Map As soon as you download and install this addon(it is a plugin) it will have two effects in your listdom. In Settings: it will enable “Addons” tab in Listdom -> Settings menu menu. Then you can see “Advanced Map Addon” section in this page. You can select the marker type that you want.

Google Direction: Another feature that this addon gives to you is the “Google Direction” feature, as soon as you enable this feature your users can see the direction of their location to the listing . Also with this feature your users can select their current location automatically.

Marker Type Shortcode: this plugin will show new options in the shortcode and you can select marker type per shortcode.

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Infowindow Style: this plugin will show new options in the shortcode and you can select Infowindow style per shortcode.

External Direction Link: this plugin will show new options in the shortcode and you can enable external directions per shortcode.

Auto GPS Shortcode: If you enable this feature in the shortcode, browsers ask for visitors' location and will show listings around them.

Restrict Bounds: If you want to restrict the map bounds to a certain boundary you can insert your desired boundary here.

Google Map Styles: In this section you can upload your Google Map Styles and use in different sections.

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12.2 CSV Importer As soon as you download and install this addon(it is a plugin) it will add new CSV tab in “Import / Export” and in this section you can add listings from your CSV file to Listdom. Export: In this section you can export all listing that you have as a CSV file.

Import: In this section you can select your csv file then you map fields of your CSV file with your Listdom fields and do import process. Also It is possible to save the mapping and use that in the future.

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12.3 Favorite Addon When you download and install “Favorite Addon” new section will add to Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

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Status: You can disable or enable status field Access: With this feature you can say Guest users can add a listing as favorite or just logged in users should have this ability Shortcode: There are two shortcodes, [listdom-favorites-count] with this shortcode you can show number of favorites that current user has. [listdom-favorites id="SHORTCODE_ID"] which show list of favorites, this shortcode has id parameter which you can define in which style this page should show favorite listings. Also you can see demo of this addon here.

12.4 Android/IOS App Addon If you want to have Android/IOS App you need to install this addon and after installation “Mobile Application Addon” will add to Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings.

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First of all, you need to define “Global Search Form”, when you select a search form from here that search will use in your IOS/Android apps. Secondly, you can define search form for each category and when you define this when a user select that category in your Android/IOS apps it will show instead of “Global Search Form”.

12.5 Rank Addon When you download and install “Rank Addon '' a new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon. First of all, you can define how much having “Featured Image” and “Gallery Image” will have a positive score for listings.

After that you can set Rank value for each Category, Label, Feature and tag. For example you set 100 Rank for a category when a listing adds to that category it will take that rank. So the listings that have more Rank will show higher than other listings.

Note: please use ranks more than 1000. Also if you have Review Addon a new section will appear in this page that allows you to define rank for each review category like this.

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Another effect that Rank Addon has is showing the Default Sort option in front end that order based on listing ranks.

12.6 Claim Addon When you download and install “Claim Addon” new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon. With this addon you can give the ability to your users to claim a listing that currently exist in your website and they will request and pay(if you enable) to claim the listing.

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Show "Verified" Label: If you enable this feature, after your confirmation for claims verified tag will be in the listing details page. Comment: It will show in claim form as a helper message. HTML and shortcodes are allowed. File: with enabling this field users can send file in the claim form. File Max Size: Maximum file size in kilobytes. For example 1024KB means 1MB and 20480KB means 20MB. Allowed File Extensions: this is a comma separated field and you can enter the file extensions that your users can upload file for you. For example pdf,docx,txt. Required: with this field you can specify upload file field is mandatory or not. Agreement Checkbox: If you enable this agreement checkbox will show in the claim form and users should agree conditions to submit form. Text: agreement text that will show to users. In order to use Claim addon WooCommerce should be enabled and you should have an active product for claim. WooCommerce Product: Select the product that your users should pay in claim form. Auto Order Complete: If you enable this field users claim will automatically confirm after payment. Payment Time: In this field you can define when users should pay for their claim. It already has 2 options, during the application or after admin confirms.

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Another effect of this addon in the backend is adding Claims menu to Listdom menu.

When you enter this menu you can see all claim requests, confirm those, see status and …

This addon will show an icon for each listing and it will give the ability to your users to claim a listing.

12.7 Top Up Addon When you download and install “Top Up Addon” new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

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In order to have top up functionality you need to install and activate WooCommerce plugin. There are some settings which we will explain them one by one. Top Up New Listings: if you disable this new listings do not show on top but if you enable when new listing comes it will show on top automatically. WooCommerce Product: you can define a product in WooCommerce and your users pay for that product to make top up. Auto Order Complete: If you enable this, after checkout of client for top up the order automatically complete in WooCommerce order. When you enable this addon it will show an icon in dashboard and your users can click on that and after that checkout for top up their listings.

12.8 PMS Addon(Paid Member Subscriptions) When you download and install “PMS Addon” new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

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If you are using Paid Member Subscriptions plugin this addon will give you ability to limit Listdom categories for different membership levels. For example you can say that listings which belong to the bank category should be visible for specific membership levels.

12.9 Labelize Addon When you download and install “Labelize Addon” new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings menus and you can configure this addon.

With “Auto Order Complete” you can define that the order automatically should complete or not. After installation of this addon new section will add to labels section which you can select a WooCommerce product for each label and after that they users pay the amount of that product.

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Finally your users and you will see something like this when want to add listing in frontend for labels section:

12.10 Subscriptions Addon When you download and install “Subscriptions Addon '' it will have 3 effect on your Listdom installation:

1. New section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings menus and you can configure this addon.

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2. Packages menu will add to Listdom menu, you can define your packages and see list of current packages as well.

3. Subscriptions menu will add to Listdom menu, you can define your subscriptions and see list of current subscriptions as well.

12.10.1 Configurations

Default Subscription: If you select a package as default it will assign automatically to new users that register. If you have some users currently you can go to the Listdom menu and then Subscription menu and add that subscriptions for users manually. Auto Order Complete: With this option you can define that the order automatically should complete or not.

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12.10.2 Packages

Title: Package title Description: Package description WooCommerce Product: Select the WooCommerce product that you want users to pay for. Listing Limit: Number of Listings that users can submit with this package. Subscription Duration: Number of days that subscription and listings will be active. One Time Purchase: If you enable this users can buy the package just one time. Listing Auto Confirm: If you enable this option listing will automatically confirm after adding. Listing Auto Label: Select the labels that you want to assign to listings of this package automatically. Available Categories: Select the categories users of this package can add listings.

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Recurring Payment Support: Subscriptions addon already integrated with “WooCommerce Subscriptions” and “YITH WooCommerce Subscription” and these WooCommerce related plugins give you ability of recurring payments. When you want to have a package that has recurring payment, the type of the WooCommerce product that links to the listdom package should be subscriptions. Also we have 2 more notifications for this type. First one is Hold notification, when a listing is going to be Hold this notification is sent to the user. Also the second one is Renew notification which when automatic renew happens this notification is sending.

12.10.3 Subscriptions

Title: title of subscription order. WooCommerce Order: It is a link that you can click and see order details of subscriptions. Subscriber: Which user ordered the subscription. Package: The package that this subscription belongs to.

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Subscription Time: Date and time that subscription has been ordered. Expiry Time: Date and time that subscription will finish and listings will be inactive. Status: Show subscription status. Listings: Listings that were added for this package.

12.11 Reviews Addon When you download and install “Reviews Addon” new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

Contributions Type: set you want to have Listdom reviews and WordPress comments with together or only Listdom reviews. Rating Method: there is an option you can enable “Overall Rating field” to take from users or you can select “Average of Rating Fields” and the system will calculate the overall rating.

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Minimum Word Count: minimum word count of review description. Maximum Word Count: maximum word count of review description. Who can submit reviews?: you can specify which user types can submit reviews. Who can see reviews?: you can specify which user types can see listing reviews. Delete Permission: allow users to delete their own reviews. Automatically Approve Reviews: enable this option and reviews will automatically approve and show immediately after users submit. Feedback Module: enabling this option gives users to like or dislike each other reviews. Count of loaded reviews: count of reviews that you want to show in listings. Order By: how reviews should order in the listing details page. Image Module: By enabling the image module, your website users can upload optional images for their review. When you enable this addon a form will show in the listing and according to configuration that you already defined they can add their reviews.

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12.12 Team Addon When you download and install “Team Addon” new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

Contact Notifications: Team members will css in the contact notification of listing. When you enable this add-on “Listing Team” section will show in the listing details page and add/edit listing.

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12.13 Booking Addon When you download and install “Booking Addon '' a new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

Guest Booking: with this feature you can enable/disable booking for guest users. Payment: with this option you can enable payment for users over the bookings. On the other hand, you can add booking details for each listing in the edit listings.

Bookables Type: You can set which type of bookable does this listing have, it is daily booking, event, or a room/property.

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Currency: currency that you want to show in backend Checkin: Checking time for listing. Checkout: Checkout time for listing. Bookables: In this section you can add items that this listing can book.Each listing can have 1 or multiple items to book. When you add this configuration you will see the following form in the listing details page.

Also the owner of the listing will see requests in the frontend dashboard.

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12.14 Multiple Categories When you download and install “Multiple Categories Addon '' a new section will be added to the add listing form and you can assign multiple categories to each listing.

These categories will be used on search form result and also if you enable “Display Multiple Categories” in the addons settings it will show in listing details.

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12.15 Advanced Icon Addon When you download and install “Advanced Icon Addon '' a new field will be added to the Listdom categories, features, and attributes and you can upload custom icon files for different entities.

12.16 Visibility Addon When you download and install “Visibility Addon '' a new field will be added to the add listing form and admin can set when this listing should be removed from frontend.

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12.17 KML Addon When you download and install “KML Addon '' a new menu will be added to the Listdom in the WordPress backend and you can add your KML and GPX file there.

When add your KML and GPX files there you can use those in different shortcodes:

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And final result will show like this in he front-end:

12.18 Auction Addon When you download and install “Auction Addon '' a new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

Guest Offer: If you enable this guest users can add their offer. Offer Comment: If you enable this it will allow users to add comments with their offers.

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Sort Offers By: default sort option for showing offers in listing details page. At this time amount and date are available.

When you configure the addon you can see the following section in the listing details page:

Also Listing owner and admin can accept one of the offers in the edit listing page:

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When the admin or listing owner accepts one of the offers the auction will close automatically and form will not show.

12.19 ACF Addon When you download and install “ACF Addon '' you can create fields with Advanced Custom Fields for Listdom Listings. When you create a Field Group in this plugin you just need to select these fields are related to Listdom Listings:

Then a new section will add to add/edit listing in front-end and backend forms like:

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And when you enter the data it will show in front-end of listing like this:

12.20 BuddyPress Addon When you download and install “Auction Addon '' a new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

Profile Menu: If you enable this, It adds a listings menu in the user profile to display the user's listings. Shortcode: you can define the style that listing should show on listings of BuddyPress profile with your predefineed shortcodes. Private Contact Message: If you enable this, the listing owner will get messages of contact form on their BuddyPress profile. Activities: if you enable any activity when users do that it will show on their profile as well.

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12.21 Stats Addon When you download and install “Stats Addon '' a new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can ensure that this addon is installed successfully.

This addon adds a new element for the Listing details page and it shows stats related to listing.

As you see you can hide/show the stats that you want to show or not. Finally the result will show like this in the front-end:

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12.22 Franchise Addon When you download and install “Franchise Addon '' a new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can ensure that this addon is installed successfully.

This addon will add a “Listing Parent” field to add/edit form and you can set parent for the listing that you want.

Then the parent and child listings will show in the related listings.

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12.23 Compare Addon When you download and install “Compare Addon '' a new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can configure this addon.

The first step is creating a page and “[listdom-compare]'' short-code to tha. Then you need to select that page in the “Compare Page” field. After that you can set which default fields should be in the compare table.

Also you can set up which custom field should be in the compare table.

Another feature that Compare Addon provides is the “(Listdom) Compare Button” fetuare which shows a button to link to the compare page that you have already created.

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12.24 APS Addon When you download and install “APS Addon '' a new section will be added to the Addons tab of Listdom -> Settings and you can ensure that this addon is installed successfully.

With this addon if you assign text search field in search form it will act as full-text search on listing categories, locations, features, labels, tags, title, and description.

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