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Review: WordPress Business Directory ★ ★ ★

June 15, 2014

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★ ★ ★

Features V1.8

Premium Membership (Paypal)
Location Based Search
Internationalization
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3 Stars out of 5

This is a wordpress plugin
We took off one point for poor style and another for some poor code.
First, we understand that it’s ultimately up to the user to style their site but this system should come with corresponding elements and it’s own styling user interface.
As far as the code we had to do quite a bit of editing to get things to work just right. Syntax errors and errors in the admin area set us back quite a bit.

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