Startup Idea! With Product List WordPress Plugin

If you are thinking of establishing a startup in the area of product list with a WordPress plugin you are in the right location. In this article, we are going to explain how you can set up your online business with Listdom which is the best product list WordPress plugin.

What are WordPress and Listdom?

WordPress is the best CMS in order to create websites. This great CMS provides you too many great features and simply you can set up your website. WordPress natively does not have any feature to set up a product list website and Listdom as the best WordPress plugin for the product list area gives your the ability to use it to set up a product list.

Listdom Lite: Free with brilliant features

Listdom Lite is a free product list WordPress plugin which allows you to set up a fully functional product list website freely. In this section we will explain how to categorize options, add product (listings), settings, front-end listview short-codes, and create search forms.

First of all we will talk about Categorize options that are available in the Litings menu in WordPress back-end. Here you will see categories, locations, features, tags, and labels that are the entities for categorize listings. For example Software is a great example for Categories.

After that head over to Add Listing in the same menu and then start adding listings by specifying product’s title, description, price, contact information, wording hours, Map Location, address and categorize options.

Then it’s time to show added listings on the front-end, in order to do this go to Shortcodes menu in Listdom menu of WordPress back-end and add new shortcode. You can select more than 90 different styles and skins here to show the product items to your users. As soon as you add a shortcode you can put in a page and that’s it.

The next item which is so important in the area of product list websites is search forms. Listdom allows you to create search forms dynamically and according to your business. Please click on the Search Builder menu of the same menu as the previous step and create the search forms. As soon as you create a search form you can put it in a page and the search form will show as simple as a normal shortcode.

The final menu that we will explain is the Settings menu in the Listdom menu. This section allows you to set settings of Google Map API, listing details page, archive pages, general settings, slugs, and…

Listdom Pro: Modern and Professional WordPress Plugin

Listdom Pro is a paid product list WordPress plugin which adds so many professional features to Listdom Lite which in this section we are going to explain some of them such as front-end dashboard, Attributes (custom fields), OpenStreetMap, Embed codes.

First of all please create a normal WordPage to use it for Listdom front-end add and manage listings and then add Listdom Dashboard shortcode on it. Then test the page and see Add Listing, Manage Listings, and Logout menus in the dashboard.

After that, go to the WordPress backend and then select Attributes sub-menu in Listings menu. Here you can add custom fields that show as additional fields in add/edit listings forms. For example, Support is a great example for custom fields for product categories.

Then we will talk about OpenStreetMap and its usage. If you do not want to use Google Map as it needs API keys and after a while it changes to paid service, OpenStreetMap will be so valuable for you. As soon as you install Listdom Pro, LeafletJS will add map providers and you can select it to use OpenStreetMap.

Finally we will explain about Embed codes, if you want to add some YouTube videos to the product items or listings this feature of Listdom Pro provides it for you. This version of Listdom will provide so many other professional features which you can see a full list on the official Listdom website.

Listdom Add-ons make your product listing unique

Listdom already has more than 20 great add-ons which help your online business be unique. For example, Listdom Android/IOS mobile apps give you the ability to be on user’s phone. Also you can import so many products at the same time with Listdom CSV Importer Addon and be on the market with more data.

They are so many other add-ons which you can find the full list on Listdom Add-ons page.

Conclusion

Listdom Lite, Listdom Pro, and Listdom add-ons have been developed to give you the ability to create product list websites on WordPress. You can start with Listdom Lite which is a free product list WordPress plugin and step by step grow your online business and make it a successful startup in the market.