Using WordPress as a business directory

CoachGuiden.seI use hosted WordPress for my blogs and also as a CMS for my coaching business at Key Coaching. When using WordPress as a CMS (content management system) the emphasis is on using pages, not blog posts.

Since I find WordPress easy to work with and also tweak themes myself I wanted to use Wordpress for my new project, creating a coach directory. My problem was how to “tag” the coaches as life coach, career coach etc and make that work for visitors searching for a coach. Then I came across a plugin, Page Category Plus (Update: The plugin is no longer available at YellowFish).

Page Category Plus allows you to assign categories to WordPress ‘Pages’ – which WordPress in it’s natural state does not do. It uses the same categories you use for ‘Posts’ and, in effect, treats Pages as if they were Posts.

My new project, CoachGuiden.se, is in Swedish only but even those who do not understand the language can see how I use page categories. Under Kategorier (categories) in the first side menu are one category for the blog and then one for each type of coach. This means that if you are looking for a life coach (livscoach) you just click that category and get a list of all coaches within that category. The right hand side menu is for the blog only.

Please note that CoachGuiden.se is still a work in progress which is why it is rather empty in there.

This entry was written by Bengt, posted on June 30, 2008 at 12:03 am, filed under Note and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

11 Comments

  1. Lee
    Posted July 23, 2009 at 6:57 am | Permalink

    Hi Bengt.

    I have desperately been looking for the WP plugin Page Category Plus. Yellowfish took it off their site.

    I would be more than delighted if you could mail it to me.

    Hoping,
    Lee

  2. Bengt
    Posted July 23, 2009 at 1:01 pm | Permalink

    The Page Category Plus plugin that I have is in you mail.

  3. Junnjun013
    Posted August 29, 2009 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

    Hi can you email it to me also??
    I’ll wait for it…Thanks

  4. Bengt
    Posted August 30, 2009 at 8:30 am | Permalink

    A mail with the Page Category Plus plugin attached is heading your way.

  5. Alejandro Amo
    Posted September 19, 2009 at 9:06 am | Permalink

    Bengt,

    I sooooo worry about annoying you again, but I would like to get this plugin.

    The other option is the “Category Page” (w/o the plus) plugin, but its behaving extremely weirdly:

    after making connections with categories and pages that should act as some kind of “header” for the category, WP shows the pages content BUT without any listing of the post in the linked category.

    PS: I love coaching! It saved my life, really. I’m studying Business and Life Coaching with Esteban Pinotti and I’m completely amazed.

    Combine marketing and coaching and you’ll get a valuable and powerful service to provide to the community of entrepreneurs :D

  6. Bengt
    Posted September 20, 2009 at 6:53 am | Permalink

    I will email you the Page Category Plugin.

    Coaching is great for achieving goals and making lasting changes.

  7. Alejandro Amo
    Posted September 20, 2009 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

    Bengt,
    I have received the plugin in my email
    Thak you very much!

    You provide us a lot of service, and I think is fair to mention this in the comments of your blog :D

    thank you very much again ;)

    Alex

  8. MAtt Giles
    Posted October 26, 2009 at 9:08 am | Permalink

    Hi,

    Just read the info above and think that the Page Category Plus plugin is exactly what i need for a site im developing.

    Can you let me know where i can download it from please or, if you still have it, could you email me a version please??

    Thanks

  9. Daven
    Posted October 27, 2009 at 10:41 am | Permalink

    Well, I’m in the same boat. I need the plugin also. Can’t find it anywhere, not torrents, not on archive.org nothing.

    Could you please send it to me as well?

  10. Jeri
    Posted November 16, 2009 at 11:25 pm | Permalink

    I also have been looking for the Page Category Plus plugin. Could you please send it to me or tell me where it can be found?

    Thanks so much.

  11. Bengt
    Posted November 18, 2009 at 7:23 am | Permalink

    The plugin has been emailed to those asking for it.