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Business Directory Plugin

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Velocity2.5

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 ships small v6.4.x releases roughly monthly. v6.4.28 fixed subscription handling for held listings, renewals that wrongly completed after rejected payments and pagination on child pages; v6.4.29 added display tweaks such as a featured-image badge. The Zip Search add-on's radius-sorting fix is the most substantive change in the window.
◆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. 25d ago

    Business Directory Plugin 6.4.29: display tweaks and fixes

    Small display enhancements (featured image badge, full-width categories in Astra grids, a Go back link) and a few fixes. Routine plugin maintenance.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Business Directory Plugin v6.4.28

    v6.4.28 fixes subscription handling for held listings, stops rejected renewal payments from completing listings and repairs pagination in shortcode displays. Billing-edge maintenance.

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  3. 2mo 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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  4. 2mo 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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  5. 3mo 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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  6. 4mo 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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