With Directorist, you can also manage the categories for the listings your users upload on your website.
Creating Categories
At first, you need to create a listing category before assigning a listing to it. You can create a listing category in two ways:
1. From the WP Admin Dashboard → Directory Listings → Add New Listing page while adding a listing as an admin
2. From the Directory Listings → Directory Categories page.
The primary difference between the two methods is that you will be able to add an icon and an image to any listing category in the Directorist Category page(2nd method) while you can not do the same in the Add New Listing page. This is why we recommend creating all listing categories from the Directorist Categories Page.
Go to Directory Listings → Directory Categories page and give a name to your chosen category.
Adding a slug is optional as WordPress will generate this from the name field automatically.
Choose a parent category if you want to organize it by a parent-child hierarchy.
The description field is optional.
From the Category Icon dropdown, select an icon for the category. You can also search for an icon. Directorist uses Font Awesome icons so, you can search a category icon by Font Awesome icon names.
If you wish, you may add an image to the category by clicking the ‘Add Image’ button on that page. The category image will be visible only on the page with the shortcode [directorist_all_categories] and Grid view layout ( you may also display categories in a list layout. Keep reading for more info on this later in the page).
Once you have created the number of categories you wanted, you can assign them to any listing during adding a listing either from the front-end or the backend dashboard.
Last Updated: July 11th, 2021