Two more templates, three new blocks
The two templates listed as "coming soon" in the last update are both live. There are also three new blocks you can drop onto any site, and a run of smaller improvements to cards, layout and navigation.
Local businesses
For places with an address: shops, trades, restaurants, salons, garages.
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Two ways in. Your homepage offers Browse by location above Browse by category, so visitors can start from their part of town or from what they're actually after. Every listing's address matches the area it's filed under.
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Cards show the rating, the area and the price bracket at a glance.
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One question shapes the whole template. With a map, your homepage opens on a searchable map of every listing and each listing page gets its own. Without one, the directory is browsed by category and searched from a list, and needs no setup at all. A map needs two Google API keys, which we only ask for if you say yes.
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Reviews are switched on and pre-populated, so ratings and averages work from day one.
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A blog with three sample articles, since local directories live on organic search.
Members
For a membership organisation publishing who belongs to it: an association, trade body, network or institute.
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It knows whether your members are people or organisations. A directory of freelancers needs an hourly rate; a directory of universities needs student numbers. We read which from your description and build the fields to match, right down to the sample photos, which are headshots for people and logo tiles for organisations.
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Joining is set up for you. Submitting a listing is applying for membership here, so submissions are switched on, the form is relabelled throughout, and the button appears in your header, on your homepage and on every member's page. Applications are reviewed before anything is published.
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The pages a membership body actually needs: a member benefits page arguing the case, an insights section in the shape of a blog with three worked articles, and an about page, alongside the usual privacy and terms.
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A homepage that leads with the membership. How many members you have, the searchable roll, then your specialisms, with the invitation to join closing the page rather than opening it.
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Profile cards for each member, with their photo, headline, specialisms and the figures that matter for your field.
Three new blocks
Available on any directory's homepage or custom pages, not just the new templates.
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CTA hero. One prominent button, pointing at a link, your contact form or your submission form, over a stacked row of your listings' photos and a live count of them. An optional row of logos sits beneath, scrolling gently when there are more than fit. Good anywhere the homepage's job is to get one thing clicked.
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Bento grid. Two feature panels across the top, then one, two or three beneath, depending on how many you add. Each takes a label, a title, some text and an image. The layout follows the panel count, so there's nothing to configure.
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Testimonials. A quote boxed out on its own, with the person's photo, name and role, and their company logo above it. Add more than one and it rotates through them with dots underneath. Clicking a dot stops it moving so you can read at your own pace.
Listing cards
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Location can be a stat. Profile cards can show where a listing is as one of their stats, printing just the town rather than the full address.
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Number fields carry their units. Give a number field a prefix or suffix, like "$", "%" or "yrs", and it shows wherever the value does: cards, tables and filters. New directories get sensible ones suggested for you, in the currency of the place you're covering.
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Captions that read with the number. A stat's caption now completes the value rather than repeating it, so "$65" is captioned "per hour" rather than "Hourly rate".
Layout and navigation
These aren't template-only. They apply to directories you've already built.
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Everything reads properly on a phone. Long breadcrumb trails collapse to a tappable "…" instead of wrapping onto three lines, meta rows stack into one column, and detail tables put each value on the line below its label.
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Footer menus no longer wrap. Past three links, the rest fold into a "More" menu. Your buttons stay where they are.
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Headings can close the gap below them. Set a heading's spacing to "tight" where it introduces the block underneath and it stays with it, however much room you've set between blocks generally.
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A "website" button for action panels, linking straight to the listing's own site. Previously an action panel could dial a phone field or open a map, but couldn't reach the listing's own link without a separate block beneath it.
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Callout blocks have been restyled.
Fixes
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Saving card settings could drop your location stat. Location wasn't offered in the stat dropdown, so saving the page silently cleared it. It's now in the list and stays put.
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Phone numbers turning up as a headline stat. A phone number could be picked as one of a card's two figures, which is long and redundant beside the call button sitting next to it. Cards now choose a genuine figure instead.
Still nothing locked in
A template sets your starting arrangement, not a fixed design. Every field, block, page and setting a template creates can be changed, moved or deleted afterwards, same as anything you'd build by hand.
