Business Finder theme is an absolutely unique theme inspired by our very successful Directory Theme we released few months ago. Business Finder theme is fully compatible with Directory theme, you can switch between themes without loosing your data 
There are many things added on top of the Directory theme functionality making Business Finder theme even better. Theme includes Easy Admin that simplify item administration. Users won’t get lost in Wordpress backend any more 
You’re able to easily set up an online directory portal listing categorized items of any type – companies, shops, websites and so on. Theme has built in spaces for advertising, you can easily include your google adsense or any other ads. Theme also includes custom built search and filter of all items you add in into online directory.
Theme supports WPML Translation Plugin which allows you to create a website in any language.
NEW features included in this theme:
- Easy Login via menu button
- Ability to change map color
- Top rated items section
- Newest items section
- Special offers
- Reviews section
- Social icons on item detail page
- Gallery on item detail page: check it here
Absolutely unique features you won’t find on any theme here:
- Easy Admin – beautiful frontend-like access to listing registration and administration without distractions
- Claiming a listing
- Geolocate support
- Frontend registration for guests
- Guests can administer their own listings
- Paypal payments integration
- Paypal recurring payments support
- Interactive Ajax Search
- Ability to get pointer on the map from address
- Administrator can define packages and set the price
- Advertising spaces
- Custom built Rating system
- Contact form on listing detail page
- Listing by location or category
- Featured items
- Listing sorting
You’re able to set up 5 different headers per any page:
- Google map
- Google map street view
- Revolution slider
- Static image
- No image
Theme uses wide impressive multi-layer slider that can be used on any page. Theme has adaptive design, easy to use on desktop, tablets and mobile phones. Powerful and Easy to use admin allows you to set up slider, background, logo, reorder sections, choose from unlimited colors, different portfolio layouts, custom post types, custom widgets and tons of shortcodes. Theme is also SEO optimized and translation ready. It includes everything you need to build a corporate/business portal that will sell.
Google Maps API limits
There is no issue using Google Maps on directory sites unless number of map loads is not higher than 25000 a day. If number of calls to Google is higher, you need to purchase Google maps for Business license. Please check the following url for more details.
You might also like our successful Directory theme:
CSV to Wordpress bulk import plugin available for Business Finder theme:
CSV to WordPress Import plugin is a very useful tool for anybody who wants to bulk import data from CSV file to Business Finder Wordpress Theme. Plugin works on all recent AIT Wordpress Themes starting from Creator theme upwards. Plugin is not included in the package, it needs to be purchased separately.
Wordpress to CSV export plugin:
WordPress to CSV Export plugin can be used to export data from Business Finder Wordpress Theme to CSV file. Plugin works on all recent AIT Wordpress Themes starting from Creator theme upwards. Plugin is not included in the package, it needs to be purchased separately.
Directory & Business Finder Extension Plugin
Directory & Business Finder Extension Plugin extends functionality of our directory wordpress themes. Plugin is not included in the package, it needs to be purchased separately. Plugin features:
- Show Directory Items in sidebar via Widget
- Show Directory Items in content via Shortcode
- Beautiful gallery for Directory Theme Item page
- Manage gallery images number per Directory Account
- Create and manage Item Custom Fields per Directory Account
- WPML Compatible
- Online and Offline Documentation
- Free support via support forum
- Free plugin updates
Get Directions Plugin
Get Directions Plugin extends functionality of our directory wordpress themes. Plugin is not included in the package, it needs to be purchased separately. Plugin features:
- Extends theme with get directions functionality
- Fully customizable map (colors, variations,…)
- Shortcode to plan route from A to B
- Shows items from any category on your route
- Shows map with route and also with directions list below Google Map
- WPML Compatible
- Online and Offline Documentation
- Free support via support forum
- Free plugin updates
Google Maps and Category Icon sets custom built for Business Finder
115 unique custom built business Google Maps pins and Category Icons in 12 or 15 different colors. 1380 or 1725 PNG icons in total ready to be uploaded to your Business Finder website. Icons are specially designed for our Directory and Business Finder WordPress Themes look and feel. You can however use it on any website. These icon sets are not included in the package, they need to be purchased separately.
Unlimited color settings for almost everything using our easy to use admin panel. Ability to upload your own logo, backgrounds, icons and other images. Everything is styled – tables, headers, paragraphs, images, lists, etc. You won’t need to do it yourself.
Revolution Slider features tons of unique transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your own effects. 16 Customizable transitions, Drag & Drop admin, it comes included in the theme. Feel free to read more about Slider Revolution on the following url.
Easy and user friendly admin panel allows you to do a lot of customizations without knowing any HTML or CSS. Colors, images, widgets, sliders, portfolios, galleries,… almost everything can be customized and configured via admin panel. Final website is in your hands.
Many many ready to use shortcodes for professional looking pages in no time. Shortcodes generator can be launched directly from WYSIWYG editor.
Multilingual support – Theme supports WPML plugin, you can translate your website to any language. PO files are included in the zip file. You can get the WPML plugin from the following url.
Full package – Demo XML content, PSD files and online documentation. Everything is as part of the package. Admin branding section allows you to upload your own logo, colors & texts into wordpress admin. Individual admin options can be turned off using config.php file including AIT Dashboard which makes the admin White Labeled.
Theme comes also with customer support and after purchase service. We’ll do our best to answer all of your questions in a professional manner. Purchase this theme with confidence knowing that we’ll always be here to answer all of your questions. Template & MVC framework will be under continuous development. Purchase the theme and get all updates for free.
Other features worth to mention:
- You can easily Backup all your data and admin settings
- Many portfolio layouts that can be used on any page.
- Widgets ready sidebar & footer
- Image & Template caching for better performance
- Google Analytics & Google Maps integration
- Custom CSS field for your own styles
- Documentation and recent updates accessible directly from our wordpress admin panel
- Theme is built on our robust MVC framework that means that HTML design is completely separated from other PHP. Making updates cannot be easier.
Versions:
- v2.17: 21st of November 2014
- Fix: Grid Gallery shortcode – images are properly loaded on multisite WP installation
- Fix: Grid Gallery shortcode – fixed some JS issues
- Fix: Portfolio Item metabox – fixed section titles and showing/hidding of sections via radio buttons
- Fix: Language Shortcode button – do not load it if WPML plugin is not active
- Fix: Shortcode Modal Window CSS
- Fix: Some PHP notices and warnings
- Fix: Items Categories – when category icon is not uploaded via Media Library but is inserted as external URL
to the icon field, so just show this icon as it is without resizing on frontend
(Advice: It is not so good idea to add icons directly from external sources, upload them to Media Library instead)
- v2.16: 11th of November 2014
- Fix: Responsivnes easy-admin
- v2.15: 7th of November 2014
- Fix: Responsivnes advertisement box
- v2.14: 23rd of October 2014
- NEW: Google maps language change feature
- v2.13: 22nd of October 2014
- Fixed: same item icons on category page
- Fixed: geolocation issues
- v2.12: 16th of October 2014
- WPML 3.1.7.2 compatibility fix (empty search in another language)
- Portfolio gallery wpml fix
- v2.11: 14th of October 2014
- Item infobox fix
- Compatibility with directions plugin
- Contact owner capability fix
- v2.10: 7th of October 2014
- v2.9: 25th of September 2014
- Fixed Content Background Color – color picker
- v2.8: 23rd of September 2014
- Fixed media select on Add New Category/Location screen
- v2.7: 8th of September 2014
- Updated prepacked Revolution Slider to v4.6.0
- v2.6: 15th of August 2014
- Select media form updated
- Easy admin fixes
- Admin branding fix
- Sorting by rating fix
- Video shortcode fix
- Other small fixes
- v2.5: 1st of August 2014
- Many geolocation & search fixes
- Other small fixes
- v2.4: 29th of July 2014
- Fix: Breaking long url and email address in the item page
- v2.3: 22nd of July 2014
- v2.2: 22nd of July 2014
- FIX: Gallery carousel arrows fix
- v2.1: 15th of July 2014
- v2.0: 11th of July 2014
- Directory & Business Finder Extension Plugin Support
- v1.33: 8th of July 2014
- v1.32: 5th of July 2014
- WPML search fixes
- WPML support for translating date and time
- WPML other fixes
- v1.31: 27th of June 2014
- Updated POT file with new text strings for translation
- Paypal single payments fix
- v1.30: 26th of June 2014
- Header Background Color color setting fixed
- Deleted not used Top Header Section Background Color
- v1.29: 13th of June 2014
- v1.28: 25th of April 2014
- Fixed not displaying shortcodes due to accidental use of php short tag
- v1.27: 24th of April 2014
- Fixed AIT shortcodes buttons not displaying in editor in Wordpress 3.9+
- v1.26: 11th of April 2014
- Hidden items on the map fix
- v1.25: 8th of April 2014
- v1.24: 5th of April 2014
- NEW: Ability to hide items from map and show them only in content
- NEW: Ability to enable / disable cluster
- NEW: Auto corrections of items with the same positions
- v1.23: 27th of March 2014
- Fixed contact owner/claim form reload on navigation key press
- v1.22: 13th of March 2014
- Google maps fixes
- Lightbox fixes
- Share buttons fix
- Translation fix
- Other fixes
- v1.21: 28th of January 2014
- Adaptive dropdown menu CSS fix
- Adaptive [directory_register] shortcode
- v1.20: 10th of January 2014
- Woocommerce page layout fix
- Adaptive menu button fix for iOS
- other small CSS fixes
- v1.19: 4th of December 2013
- Fixed iPad adaptive problem
- v1.18: 26th of November 2013
- v1.17: 6th of November 2013
- Adaptive fix – Contact owner in iPhone
- v1.16: 4th of November 2013
- v1.15: 30th of October 2013
- fixed items pagination for search results and categories/locations pages
- fixed items pagination in easy admin
- fixed wordpress search results
- small backend fixes
- v1.14: 21st of October 2013
- Popup fix in Adaptive version
- v1.13: 16th of October 2013
- breadcrumbs in item detail fixed
- POT file update
- removed sidebar from empty string search
- fixed grid view of search
- v1.12: 10th of October 2013
- v1.11: 7th of October 2013
- No results page fixed
- Register / login widget fixed
- v1.10: 3rd of October 2013
- IE9 placeholders fixed
- Links fixed
- Disabled rating state fixed
- Google map in item detail fixed
- Other small fixes and improvements
- v1.9: 26th of September 2013
- Fixed adaptive breakpoint to match higher resolution tablets
- Claim listing fix
- v1.8: 18th of September 2013
- NEW: Paypal recurring payments support
- NEW: Many admin improvements (ratings, users)
- NEW: Shortcodes is-user, is-guest
- NEW: Claim listing admin emails
- Easy admin fixes
- Rating fixes
- v1.7: 11th of September 2013
- NEW: Claim listing feature
- Fixed modal windows (lightbox)
- Small CSS fixes
- v1.6: 6th of September 2013
- NEW: Added single item Gallery to users capabilities
- Search fix
- v1.5: 5th of September 2013
- NEW: Hierarchical search dropdowns
- Item author fix
- Homepage content fix
- v1.4: 3rd of September 2013
- v1.3: 28th of August 2013
- v1.2: 28th of August 2013
- NEW: Gallery in item detail
- NEW: Account administration buttons added to login/register widget
- Adaptive CSS fixes
- Default content XML updated
- v1.1: 27th of August 2013
- Adaptive CSS update
- PO file updated
- Default content XML updated
- v1.0:
White, grey, black, light blue, dark blue, light green, purple, gold and yellow. Hotel & hospitality, restaurant, real estate, marketing company, blog, cms, portfolio website, software & computer sales, information technology, travel & tourism, solicitors, car business, music industry, food & drinks, human resources and personal relations organizations, school, university and college websites, science, magazine & community websites, blog.
Note: Images used on our demo sites are proprietary images and are not included in the theme package.
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