Vantage-Premium WordPress Theme

 Vantage Overview

This is it! The much talked about and highly-anticipated business directory theme for WordPress, Vantage. It’s powerful, robust, and easy to use — it’s our best theme yet.
Quit messing around with other directory themes that only cause headaches and hours of troubleshooting and maintenance. Vantage is simple and pain-free. Within minutes of downloading Vantage, you can create the killer directory site you always dreamed of.
Don’t wait any longer. This is the business directory theme that you’ve been searching for.

Feature Highlights

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  It’s Simple, Anyone Can Do It!

  You don’t need to be a computer expert or internet whiz to have a great looking business directory. With WordPress and Vantage, it’s easy. Just download Vantage and activate in WordPress with a simple button click and you’re ready. It couldn’t be easier
  
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  Monetize Your Site

  Directory sites are well known in the online marketing community as a stable and reliable source of income. With Vantage, you can charge for single listings and charge premium for featured listings. You can also generate traffic with free listings and take advantage of one of the many advertising widgets.
  
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  Single Listing Details Page

  Every detail a business could want all on one page. Location, contact info, web and social links, pictures, tags and more. Our powerful form builder lets you add even more info with custom fields. Overview tab allows business owners to tell the story of their enterprise with text and HTML.
  
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  User Generated Ratings and Reviews

  Give people a reason to come back to your site again and again and again with user reviews. Businesses are rated on a five-star rating system. Reviews can be moderated, so you have complete control. Coming in Vantage 1.1…business owners will be able to respond to reviews!
  
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  Create a Community with Social Features

  Social integration is a must and Vantage let’s you stir up a frenzied buzz. Both businesses and users can list Facebook and Twitter accounts and we made sure that Vantage works with important social plugins like ShareThis and Social Connect.
  
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  Advanced Search

  The most advanced & customizable WordPress search around gets even better in Vantage. Our refine search module includes helpful sorting features, a radius (by city or zip code) slider for pinpoint accuracy (due to geo-coding each ad using the Google Maps API) and category-specific filtering.
  
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  Sky’s the Limit with Custom Forms

  Vantage is the first directory theme that is flexible enough to fit your specific needs. Need to collect data that is unique to your directory’s niche? Use our custom form builder to add the custom fields you need with text, radio buttons, checkboxes and select menus.
  
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  Complete Control with WordPress Admin

  The famous admin features that make WordPress the choice of tens of millions of bloggers is harnessed to give you complete control over everything in Vantage. We include tons of options for everything from the smallest detail to the biggest features. With Vantage, you’re in charge!
  
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  Google Maps Integration

  Some directories need maps, some don’t. Vantage let’s you decide. There’s map widget for listing pages that shows the precise location of the business. We also put a location finder map on the create a listing form so business owners know they are choosing the exact location when creating a listing.
  
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  User Dashboard

  Everyone gets a dashboard with Vantage, not just business owners. The dashboard is the nerve center for your site’s users – a single page where they have access to all their reviews, contact info, site stats and business listings. Each listing is clearly marked with current status: pending, active or expired.
  
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  Not Just a Directory, a Complete Website

  Sometimes you need more than just a directory site. Vantage keeps the blog and CMS features that make WordPress so powerful and popular. Use the blog to promote your directory or create a content-rich portal for a real world community (cities, counties, etc) and an online ones.
  
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  SEO Friendly

  Our founder is a battle tested SEO/SEM expert. We understand how important it is for your business. Our themes are built to instantly take advantage of the SEO muscle that makes WordPress the most search engine friendly CMS around. All you need to worry about is running your business.
  
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  Custom Widgets Galore!

  Vantage works with all the native WordPress widgets plus custom widgets including: popular categories, related categories, recent listings, recent reviews, single listing map widget, social links, and multiple ad widgets for different locations in the theme.
  
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  AppThemes API

  Our API enables developers to customize functionality without having to modify the theme code. Our API uses hooks that work the same exact way native WordPress core hooks do which makes it a breeze to work with our themes. We even include a Google Checkout plugin (free) and a plugin template