How To Use GeoCraft WordPress Theme To Create Business Directory Website

By Deep Wadhwa Our Bestseller: WordPress Themes

In my previous article on GeoCraft WordPress theme, I have explained about the following topics:

How to install GeoCraft? How to configure the theme? How to add listings from front end and back end? How to create pages? How to add widgets?

If you don’t know about the terms mentioned above then I would suggest you first to have an idea of the above topics so that you can move further. Just visit the blog post how to use GeoCraft WordPress themeand you will know about the basics usage of the GeoCraft theme.

Now what’s new in this article?

GeoCraft theme has various exciting and useful templates for a Website. A perfect WordPress Theme for Business Directory. Easy to customize and style. Every feature looks perfect. This blog post will explain the complete approach about each template i.e.

Types of Templates in GeoCraft. How to use each template to create Business Directory Website.Types of templates in GeoCraft theme:

There are ten different template available in GeoCraft theme. They are as follows:

Default Template Search Template Blog Template Contact Template Dashboard Template Featured Listing Fullwidth Template Left Sidebar Template Listing Template Submit Listing Template

Default Template
: Initially default template is activated on each page which can be further replaced to any of the available templates.

Search Template
: A search template is used to search the following on the Website:

Listing title Listing description Tags Category in left box and Map addresses in the right box

Blog Template
: A blog template is used to show all the blog posts on the Website.

Contact Template
: A contact template is used to display the contact form on the Website. This template contains all the required fields of information through which anyone can submit the message (like feedback or comment) regarding the Website.

Dashboard Template
: A dashboard template is used to show user’s personal information, comments on their listings and also lead capture form on the front end of the Website.

Featured Listing Template
: A featured listing template is used to show all the premium listing ads on the Website.

Fullwidth Template
: A fullwidth template is a full layout template that means it has no sidebar.

Left Sidebar
: A left sidebar template is used to switch the right sidebar to the left sidebar. If this template is activated, content block will be appearing on the right side.

Listing
: A listing template is used to display all the listings on the Website. This template will display the free listings as well as the premium listings.

Submit Listing
: A submit listing template is used on a Website that allows users to submit their listings. This template includes all the required fields regarding the business listing.

Note
: Search template, Dashboard template and Submit Listing Template are the core templates of the GeoCraft theme. They get activated once the theme is installed on your Website. So you don’t need to create or make any changes to these templates. The rest of the templates can be used as follows.

Let us see how each template can be used in the Website.

Blog Template
: To activate this template, follow the steps given below:

Create a page first. Go to your Dashboard
–> Pages
–> Add New and mention the name of the page.

After creating the page, choose the “Blog Template” from the Pages Attribute option. Now publish the page. All the blog posts will be shown (under the same page) on the Website.

Remember
- Once this template is activated it will start displaying all the posts on the Website. If further the posts will be created they will be displayed automatically on the blog page.

Contact Template
: To activate this template, follow the steps given below:

Create a page first. Go to your Dashboard
–> Pages
–> Add New and mention the name of the page.

After creating the page, choose the “Contact Template” from the Pages Attribute option. Now publish the page. A contact from will be shown on the Website with all the required information fields that will allow the visitors to share their opinions and comments regarding the Website.

Featured Listing Template
: To activate this template, follow the steps given below:

Create a page first. Go to your Dashboard
–> Pages
–> Add New and mention the name of the page.

After creating the page, choose the “Featured Listing Template” from the Pages Attribute option. Now publish the page. After publishing the page, all the premium listings will be appeared under this template (under the page created on the Website).

Fullwidth Template
: To activate this template, follow the steps given below:

Create a page first. Go to your Dashboard
–> Pages
–> Add New and mention the name of the page.

Write the content for the page which you want to show on the Website. After this, choose the “Fullwidth Template” from the Pages Attribute option. Now publish the page. After publishing the page, only the content will be appearing on the Website. No sidebars will be displayed on the page.

Left Sidebar
: To activate this template, follow the steps given below:

Create a page first. Go to your Dashboard
–> Pages
–> Add New and mention the name of the page.

Write the content for the page which you want to show on the Website. After this, choose the “Left Sidebar Template” from the Pages Attribute option. Now publish the page. After publishing the page, the content will be appearing on the right side and the sidebar will be appearing on the left side.

Listing
: To activate this template, follow the steps given below:

Create a page first. Go to your Dashboard
–> Pages
–> Add New and mention the name of the page.

After this, choose the “Listing Template” from the Pages Attribute option. Now publish the page. After publishing the page all free and premium listings will be displayed on the Website.

Hope this article will provide you a complete description about the template in GeoCraft theme. This is absolutely an easiest WordPress business directory theme. You will love to use it once you start working on the theme. The WordPress theme is absolutely customizeable.

If you have more things to customize keep sharing your comments and feedback below.

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