Roo Link Directory is a full-featured, compact and quick to set up business link directory plugin for WordPress which allows users to add their sites or businesses to your directory based on multiple criteria. A powerful review system complements the directory.
Demo site is available here: http://roo.ie/business-directory/
Contribute, ask, give feedback or report bugs only on the official Roo Link Directory forums! Also, use the Reply button when replying on a comment here, on Code Canyon.
Features
- HTML5 compliant
- Fast and performant
- Displays Google PageRank for all sites in the directory
- Displays link details, such as description, address, Google Maps
- Allows administrator/user notification for submitted links
- Allows unlimited categories and subcategories
- Seamless integration with WordPress styles, comments and plugins filters and actions
- Tracks pageviews
What’s new in version 4.1
- Added placeholder compatibility for IE7, IE8 and IE9
- Removed SQL-intensive query from Roo framework
- Added pending links count bubble
- Added multiple category selection (hold CTRL to select multiple items)
- Added featured links (use a flavour for this)
- Fixed bug with switching off address field
- Fixed a conflict with Gravity Forms
- Added ordering by name for categories
- Added possibility of changing slugs (for SEO purposes)
- Updated Russian translation (thanks Nisadoji)
- Fixed the submission alert bug
- Removed the autocomplete feature for country selector (bad idea)
- Added URL address and name to notification email
- Added a better country selector
- Added a text link inside Roo link editing panel for quick visit
- Added two more translated strings
- Fixed IDs of submission form
- Fixed rating system appearing inside posts, too
- Fixed deprecated query argument
- Fixed a missing closing tag
- Moved all CSS styles in one styesheet
- Rearranged some code
- Removed the entire SEO/SERP section due to CURL errors and performance degradation
- Complete rewrite of the plugin, using custom post types and taxonomies
- Added multiple categories
- Added tags (in form of “flavours”)
- Added SEO options
- Added better ratings
- Added WordPress-based comments (use Akismet and other filters on links comments)
- Added separate fields for city/county and country
- Added dedicated, WordPress-based search form
- Added compatibility with vote5 plugin
- Removed extra/custom database tables
- Removed unused fields and options
- Added option to enable/disable star rating
- Added link title to comments page (instead of ID)
- Added better Google PageRank calculation
- Added Alexa Rank and Alexa backlinks
- Fixed option for duplicate link check (only for subdomains or subfolders)
- Fixed description size for non-numeric sizes
- Fixed the ampersand (&) issue with multipage categories
- Added more tags to description field
- Added summary page enhancements
- Tiny HTML5 additions, such as tags, attributes and source validation


