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eDirectory 13.3: now integrated with Chat GPT for Artificial Intelligence

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eDirectory 13.3_ now integrated with Chat GPT for Artificial Intelligence

The new eDirectory 13.3 powered with artificial intelligence is now available. This new version brings the integration with Chat GPT, the most known artificial intelligence platform so you and your advertisers can create and optimize descriptions, keywords, and even write articles from scratch.

See all the new features and improvements of the new eDirectory 13.3!

Chat GPT – create and optimize content

The ChatGPT integration with eDirectory websites is a game-changer in the digital world. It streamlines operations, reduces costs, enhances user experience, and bolsters the SEO performance of your listings, events, blog posts, articles, and more.

While ChatGPT can generate initial descriptions, it’s important to note that you have full control. You can customize and edit the content to align with specific business requirements or unique selling points.

For Listings, Events, Classifieds, and Deals, this integration allows you and your advertisers to create/optimize long and short descriptions, keywords for the search, and SEO elements.

For Blog Posts and Articles, the integration is even more complete, providing an Assistant that helps you to determine the content you want to create. If you are experienced, you can type your own prompt so Chat GPT can deliver a tailored piece of content.

To enable this integration simply go to Open AI website – the creators of Chat GPT – sign up for an account and get your API key. Paste this key inside your eDirectory’s admin dashboard and you’re done.

Then you must configure if all levels of Listings and other modules will have access to this feature. Tip: if you enable this feature only for premium packages, it may help you boost sales and package upgrades.

Scheduling blog posts and articles

Now you and your advertisers can write and schedule when the piece will be published. Scheduling is a valuable tool for improving your content strategy, enhancing the reader experience, and increasing the efficiency of your content marketing efforts.

Timezone for Events and Listings

As many of our customers run national and even international online directories, they publish content for different time zones. This new release adds the ability for advertisers to select the timezone for their Events and Listings.

Now the end user will have more precise information about businesses opening hours and event times.

New widgets for the Page Editor

Adding more versatility to the general page’s content you can now add Client Testimonials and Photo Galleries, this one available on grid and carousel modes.

Updates on the Marketplace Widget

With this exclusive feature, listing publishers can create their catalog of products and /or services. This new release changes the pricing field to be optional and even accepts text in it, such as “Special Pricing”.

The Real Estate Plugin

Our most recent innovation has now revamped layout, and better labels, and is ready for the eDirectory mobile apps. It also brings two exclusive search widgets.

More improvements

The default location data import has been completely restructured, allowing site owners to import locations even when the site already contains content.

The display of logo images on the listing detail page has been updated to support larger logos in the new eDirectory 13.3.

Read the full list of enhancements of eDirectory v13.3 here.

Upgrade to the latest version of eDirectory today!

For active clients looking to take advantage of the latest and greatest eDirectory.com offers, fill out the Upgrade Request form or contact your account manager.

For new clients looking to launch their online Enterprise with the most complete directory software, please request a demo here, call us directly at +1-800-630-4694, or send an email to sales@eDirectory.com.

New Release: eDirectory v11.5

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eDirectory v11.5, released in early November 2018, is our most recent platform upgrade, filled with great new features and some performance improvements.

 

What’s new on eDirectory v11.5?

This release brings 15 new front-end and back-end items as it follows:

1. New fully customizable Cards widgets available for all themes.

  • Previous widgets such as “Featured listings”, “Popular events”, among others, were replaced by cards widgets.
  • Each widget can be fully customized, including:
    • Ability to change the widget title and the label of the “view more” link;
    • Ability to select the module that will be displayed on the widget;
    • Show items from a specific level, categories or location;
    • Ability to choose the order criteria;
    • Ability to pick items individually.
  • Layout for the widget “5 featured listings” updated and available for all modules.
recent deals widget

Define the content and display rules for your new widget…

… or handpick the items you want to be featured in your new widget!

2. New widget “Video Gallery” available for all themes.

3. Two new lead generation forms widgets available for all themes.

  • a. Lead form with static background image
  • b. Lead form with background slider

4. New layout for the article detail widget, including the ability to upload the author image and description available for all themes. See an example here.

5. New layout for the blog detail widget available for all themes.

6. New widget “Recent Articles in two columns” for the Article home page.

7. New widget “2 columns recent posts” for the Blog home page.

8. Added ability for the site manager change the labels of each location level.

location labels

9. New interface to manage the navigation menus and links for slides, including easier flow to link menus to custom pages, internal or external URLs.

10. Added new field to include a summary description for videos on the listings, events and classifieds form.

11. The layout of the Default theme rehashed to standardize spacings, margins and navigation structure, including the responsive version.

12. Added ability for the site manager to change the placeholders of the search box widgets.

13. Support to PHP 7.1.

14. New Gulp file to manage, compile and minimize less/sass files on development mode.

15. New layout for the “site unavailable” screen.

Other changes on eDirectory v11.5

  • Structured markup data on articles and blog detail pages updated to include the tags author and publisher
  • Facebook moderation tool updated to allow the site manager to moderate Facebook comments directly from the directory
  • Form to submit new reviews simplified when the user is already logged in
  • PHPMailer fully replaced by SwiftMailer

Read the full list of 100+ enhancements of eDirectory v11.5 here.

Upgrade to the latest version of eDirectory today!

For active clients looking to take advantage of the latest and greatest eDirectory.com has to offer, simply fill out the Upgrade request form found here or contact your account executive.

For new clients looking to launch their online Enterprise with all you see here and much more, please request a demo here, or call us directly at +1-800-630-4694, or send an email to sales@eDirectory.com.

eDirectory 7.0.15 now Live

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The latest version of the leading online directory software solution is now live.  From improved site manager features to expanded social bookmarking settings, eDirectory’s latest version reflects feedback from our clients over the last several months.  Here is a list of the more notable changes:
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  • New Social Bookmarking – LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
  • New Browse by Location layout: clean and organized.
  • Advanced Search box can be closed
  • The user can choose to show or hide the map on the results pages.
  • The site manager can enable/disable the google maps feature.
  • A color selector was added in the listing templates section, so now the site manager can choose the colors easily.
  • The site manager can choose the listing levels that will have promotions.
  • The site manager can refresh the Statistic Reports at any time.
  • eDirectory now works with Amazon Simple Pay payment gateway. This new gateway works with Amazon Simple Pay Standard and Amazon Simple Pay Subscriptions (the recurring can be monthly or yearly).
  • The charset was changed from ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8.

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PS.: If you’re a current client and have some suggestions on features we should include in our next release, I’d love to hear from you.  Please email me at  jared . elder @ edirectory . com