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Is it possible to use 3rd Party Plugins with ListingPro?

To learn more about all the supported and non-supported plugins for ListingProWP GO HERE.

ListingPro was built as an end-to-end solution from scratch so our users don’t have to use third-party plugins for core directory features. So we only support the 3rd party plugins that are mentioned here. But we do support shortcodes, so you can use any plugin that supports shortcodes, as long as you understand that NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE FOR THIRD-PARTY (3rd-party) plugins that are officially not supported. Some plugins may require custom integration.

A lot of the plugins may give you a shortcode, a widget option or even add-ons for WPBakery Page builder (Formerly Visual Composer). In such cases, you’ll be able to use the plugin.

For settings and specific functions to be applied with ListingPro Core which isn’t fully compatible you can request for customization service.

How to enable the Social Login?

ListingPro is integrated with Nextend Social Login, which is a free WordPress plugin. Social login allows visitors and listing owners to login without having to enter username and password.

There are three social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, and Google) that are integrated and ready to use for free in the ListingPro WordPress Directory Theme.

In order to find these settings, simply go to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > and find the respective name Nextend to configure the platforms you want to enable the registration and login.

Follow the step by step instructions on how to configure your Social Media Login APIs:

How to configure Facebook Login Correctly?
How to configure Twitter Login Correctly?
How to configure Google Login Correctly?

Nextend Connect Plugin, you can create an easy and customizable way to interact with your users while signing up an account on your Website.

Each Social Media Application will be divided into 3 different plugins which allow you to insert APIs Keys, Secret Keys and IDs referring to the Social Media defined for users registration.

To find The Next Connect, go to your WordPress Dashboard > Settings and you’ll notice 3 separated sections to configure the Social Login Buttons.

Nextend FB Connect

We’ve seen that some users somehow get lost while setting up the configuration to properly work with Social Media Logins.

So, before we get started, remember that for this step you have to be fully working with SSL. If you haven’t configured it yet, it’s recommended to conclude this step and then follow the steps below.

SSL is an important complement that should be added while setting up your Social Login. It’s recommended because we’re asking permission to get access to user’s credentials to conclude the account sign up. Please, if you have tried to include Social Logins before without SSL, revise your settings and include them where it’s requested

First Let’s start with the Facebook Login

FACEBOOK

To start with, you have to go to the Facebook for Developers page and Log-in with your Facebook Account

Let’s click on the Create App ID

Now on our Dashboard, simply copy the APP ID and APP Secret and paste it into the Nextend Facebook

Now, in the Settings > Basic we have a few more options that could be interesting to include in our APP, in case if you already have your Privacy Policy URL and Terms of Service URL, include them. Also, you can customize your APP and add an Icon and choose the Category.

For now, Let’s only add the Category that best represents our Website

After setting your Category, scroll down the page and click on the + Add Platform

At the + Add Platform choose Website and insert the full URL of your site (including HTTP or HTTPS and insert the / in the final of your URL) Click on Save Changes.

Now, insert the same URL into your APP Domains and Save Changes.

Remember that you can customize your APP with Icon, Terms & Privacy later on

Now, go to your App Review and make it Public. and Save the Changes.

Your APP will now have a green circle on the Dashboard.

Now, one of the most important thing to make your Facebook Login really work in your Signup Homepage, we should go to + Add Product and include the Facebook Login.

After clicking on the Facebook Login, select the Web option.

Check if your Website URL inserted at the beginning is correct, and go to the Settings of your Facebook Login.

Here, we’re going to add the button address to our Signup. Go to your Website’s Homepage, and copy the link address of your Facebook Button. The link should look like this: https://your-website/wp-login.php?loginFacebook=1

Add this link to validate the OAuth redirect URIs. After that, we’re ready to use our Facebook Login.

Our application is all configured and working.

We haven’t covered all of the available settings, in case you want to include Icon, links to your Terms and Privacy, and to get users username, location, birthday, etc, you should go to your App Review, and Start a Submission. More advantaged settings should be accompanied by the Facebook Documentation to understand what others advanced settings are capable of and what it affects in your application.

Nextend Twitter Connect

We’ve seen that some users somehow get lost while setting up the configuration to properly work with Social Media Logins.

First Let’s start with the Twitter Login

Twitter

To start with, you have to go to the Twitter Apps page and Log-in with your Twitter Account

Let’s now create our Twitter App.

We’ll have a few settings to insert our Website details. For the Oauth Callback section, don’t forget to include your Button Address Link. The link should look like this: https://your-website/wp-login.php?loginTwitter=1 and you can find it going to your Website Homepage in the Singup popup. Copy the Link Address of your Button.

After creating your Application name, Description, and added your Website URL and the Callback URL, accept the Developer Agreement, and click on the Button to create your Twitter Application.

We’ll be redirected to our Application Panel, and here let’s click on Keys and Access Tokens

Copy and Paste your Consumer Key and your Consumer Secret into your Nextend Twitter.

Go to your Nextend Twitter Plugin and paste the codes for the Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.

Now, let’s see if our Twitter Login is working as expected. Let’s go to our Website Homepage and try to Signup using our Twitter Button.

Nextend Google Connect

We’ve seen that some users somehow get lost while setting up the configuration to properly work with Social Media Logins.

First Let’s start with the Google Login

GOOGLE

To start with, you have to go to the Google APIs Console page and Log-in with your Google Account

Let’s then create a New Project to configure our Google+ Button. First, Go to your Google APIs Dashboard and Start a Project

Then, Let’s give a name to our project, simply to be easier to identify in case you’ve added more projects to your GoogleAPIs

After having defined your Project name, you’ll be redirected to your new Project Dashboard with some more options… Let’s enable the API and Services right above.

Now, let’s find the Social Login to our Google+ and enable it.

Click on the Enable Button

Now that we have enabled our Google+ API, we’ll have to create the credential to add to our Nextend Google

Set the API as followed below…

Click on the What credentials do I need?

Now, it’s time to define your API name, add your Website URL, and copy the link address of your Google+ Button on your Signup Homepage.

After adding these credentials, simply click to Create your client ID

Add your Product name that will be shown to your users and click on Continue.

You can add more customizations if you want to. In case of doubts always check into the APIs Documentation for more details.

Now, you can copy your Client ID and paste it into your Nextend Google. Click on the Done Button.

You’ll be redirected to your Credential Panel, where you’ll be able to manage more settings in your application.

Find your Client ID and click on its name…

You’ll get a full detail of your application, and here we’ll copy the Client Secret and add it to our Nextend Google

Go back to your Credential Panel and let’s verify our Domain in our application.

Insert the URL of your Website to verify your Domain.

Remember, if you haven’t verified your Domain in your Google Search Console, Click Here and verify your Domain.

After having done this, Let’s back to our Credential Panel and set our API Key.

Copy your API Key and paste it into your Nextend Google, and also, it’s recommended to restrict the key.

Follow the example below to restrict your API Key. After that, you can click on Save Button.

Now, let’s test our Google+ Login in our Website Homepage Signup and see if everything works as expected.

Remember that after creating your API Key and inserting the Restriction, it may take 5 minutes to take effect.

Which are the email shortcode?

This article follows the order from the default email management that you can find by simply going to Theme Options > Email Management

New Registered User

%user_login_register = username of the registered user.

%user_pass_register = the password of the registered user.

%user_email_register = the email address used by the registered user

Submit Listing

%website_name = the name used for your directory.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

Purchase Activated

%website_name = the name used for your directory.

%plan_title = the name of the plan used in the pricing plans.

%plan_price = the price of the plan used in the pricing plan.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

%payment_method = the payment method that the listing was bought.

%invoice_no = the registered number for the invoice.

Review Reply

%review_reply_text = the reply to one of the reviews of a business listing.

Approved Listing

%website_name = the name used for your directory.

%plan_title = the name of the plan used in the pricing plans.

%plan_price = the price of the plan used in the pricing plan.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

%payment_method = the payment method that the listing was bought.

%invoice_no = the registered number for the invoice.

Expired Listing

%website_name = the name used for your directory.

%website_url = the domain URL of your directory.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

Expired Ad Campaign

%website_name = the name used for your directory.

%website_url = the domain URL of your directory.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

Wire Invoice

%website_name = the name used for your directory.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

%invoice_no = the registered number for the invoice.

Claim Listing ( submission )

%website_name = the name used for your directory.

%website_url = the domain URL of your directory.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

Claim Listing ( Approval )

%website_name = the name used for your directory.

%website_url = the domain URL of your directory.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

Campaign Activation ( ADMIN )

%author_name = the name of the business owner registered in your directory.

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

%campaign_packages = the campaign selected for the listing.

Campaign Activation( Author )

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

%campaign_packages = the campaign selected for the listing.

Recurring Payment Reminder Email

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%plan_title = the name of the plan used in the pricing plans.

%plan_price = the price of the plan used in the pricing plan.

%plan_duration = the duration time for the selected plan.

%notifybefore = the notification of the recurring payment reminder in day/days.

Subscription Cancel Email

no shortcode

Lead Form Email Template

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%sender_name = name of the lead who has contacted the listing owner.

%sender_email = name of the lead who has contacted the listing owner.

%sender_phone = the phone number of the lead who has contacted the listing owner.

%sender_message = the message that the lead has sent to the listing owner.

Reviews Email Templates

%listing_title = the business listing title registered in your directory.

%listing_url = the business listing URL registered in your directory.

%reviewtext = the review message sent in the listing page.

%reviewer_email = the user email that has sent the review message in the listing page.

How to edit sidebar for Listings

The previous article about the Blog Sidebar doesn’t differ that much regarding the Sidebar for Listings.

Let’s get into detail by first going to Theme Options > Listing Settings > Listing Detail Page Layout Manager

At this page, you’ll find the Detail Page Sidebar Widgets, for which you can simply reorder up and down where you want the Sidebar Widgets to appear first. Let’s shuffle up right below the Map/Contacts the Sidebar Widgets.

Now, let’s head over to the Appearance > Widgets

As you can see, the same option can be applied for the Default Sidebar, which is the Blog Sidebar section.

The available Widgets will take place within these Sidebars after we select our desired Widget.

You can either choose if you want to include Nearby Listing, Recent Listing, Ads Listing.

For this article, let’s include the Recent Listing as a demonstrative option.

Nearby Listing will only show Listings defined by the Nearby distance, configured at the backend. Ads Listing will only show Listings that were promoted at the Campaign option in the User’s Dashboard (if enabled by Admin at the backend).

Here we defined that our Widget will contain only 2 Listings, but you can include more on your end if you want to.

Let’s check the result by clicking on any available Listing in our Directory and check if the Recent Listing were added as described in this article.

As we can see, the Recent Listing was placed right below the Map/Contacts as we expected.

If you’re using the Ads Campaign to show up the Owners’ Listings, it’s a good option include the Widget for Ads in this section.

Bear in mind that you can shuffle the order of your Widgets at the Layout Manager and increase the number of Listings allowed at the Widgets Settings.

How to contribute translation with a my language for ListingPro?

First, we’d like to immensely thank you for such interest in helping us expand even more our Github translated files.

In order to send us your translated files, it’s important to check if the following requirements were accomplished.

The files were translated into a standard grammar (also without slangs).
The files have been updated to the latest version of ListingPro: (.po & .mo files sync in loco translate and updated)
Have completed at least 85% of the translated files (including both – Theme & Plugin).

How can I proceed and help ListingPro Team?

Download the latest version of ListingPro (You must be a purchased user).
Translate using Loco Translate or Locally (Example using PoEdit).
Send us the translated files for both Theme and Plugins (Include both .po and .mo files).

To send file go to our ThemeForest Profile, and send us an email in the form right below. (Click Here)

What do I get helping you with the translation?

If we get a translation files for any language that meets our expectation and is at least 70% translated and if we decide to post it on our GitHub we will give you up to 75% rebate for your purchase upon providing us proof of purchase and also give you credit by mentioning your name and the URL where you have used the translation. Your site may also be featured on our case studies page.

Installing YOAST Plugin for SEO

YOAST SEO – WIZARD INSTALLATION

Yoast SEO offers an installation wizard that guides you through the main settings to enable it into your WordPress.

After that, you can enable/disable by your preferences which page you want Yoast to index/noindex/nofollow (e.g. about, contact, pricing, etc)

You can customize your Post Types & Taxonomies by going to WordPress Dashboard > SEO > Titles & Metas.

Using our example from the demo content, let’s see how the Yoast SEO will manage our listing title, description, and check if is everything working.

YOAST AUTOMATIC FULFILLMENTS BY DEFAULT

It seems that Yoast has already identified all of our listings automatically.

You can customize and increase the SEO metrics through the Yoast Documentation. As you can see, Yoast has detected all of our Post Types & Taxonomies, including Reviews, Ads, Claims… To learn more about SEO, you can follow Yoast Blog Posts.

Yoast SEO lets you customize your social sharing, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest. This way you can define a better presentation while sharing links through these social media platforms.

ATTENTION

We cannot discuss which method works better for your SEO purpose and why. It’s recommended that you read the Yoast Documentation and identify if such settings are applicable or not for your type of strategy. Also in case of errors, while working with Yoast, you’ll find solutions at this link.

Some users are requesting specific SEO metrics and snippets to be shown on Google Search. Some of these snippets are available in Google Documentation. Depending on which plugin you’re comfortable to edit your SEO, these settings may differ from each other.