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Business Directory Plugin

MARKETING
Velocity5.0

WordPress plugin for building searchable business directories and paid listing sites.

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Business Directory Plugin maintains a steady bug-fix cadence with no new directional moves.

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◆Current state
Business Directory Plugin is in maintenance mode across its recent releases. The v6.4.x series has been fixing edge cases — WPML translation issues, Stripe event handling, checkout/multiselect bugs — with one substantive ZIP search improvement in the companion Zip Search add-on. The v6.4.27 release focused on WordPress.org listing assets and documentation clarity, signaling the team is attending to marketing presentation rather than shipping new capability.
◆Where it's heading
The plugin appears stable and mature. Without a visible roadmap or directional signals in the releases, the trajectory is continued compatibility maintenance for WordPress core updates and add-on stability. The Zip Search fixes (sorting by distance, coordinate caching) suggest some investment in the search experience, but these are correctness fixes rather than expansions.
◆Prediction
The next likely move is continued PHP compatibility work as WordPress raises its minimum requirements and the plugin addresses deprecation notices that accumulate with PHP 8.x upgrades.

◆Recent moves

  1. 3d ago

    Business Directory Plugin v6.4.27

    v6.4.27 updates the plugin's WordPress.org listing assets and clarifies documentation. No user-facing functionality changes.

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  2. 18d ago

    Zip Search v5.4.3

    Zip Search v5.4.3 fixes distance-based sorting for radius searches, corrects coordinate caching for the radius lookup, and handles listings without ZIP fields consistently. These are correctness fixes for core search functionality that would have produced wrong or misleading results.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Business Directory Plugin v6.4.26

    v6.4.26 addresses checkbox/multiselect search matching, admin field visibility for non-admin submissions, and ZIP Code display — bug fixes across the listing submission and search flows.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Business Directory Plugin v6.4.25

    v6.4.25 fixes sticky listing sort behavior, WPML translation field values, and legacy template block metadata — compatibility maintenance for multilingual and plan-sorted directory setups.

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  5. 3mo ago

    Business Directory Plugin v6.4.24

    v6.4.24 fixes admin form reorder actions, theme update downloads, and a crash when editing a nonexistent listing. Pure bug fixes.

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  6. 4mo ago

    Business Directory Plugin v6.4.23

    v6.4.23 clears PHP deprecation notices, fixes Stripe event handling, and addresses admin listing renewal and CSV import bugs. Compatibility and correctness maintenance.

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