A Collection of Tools and Themes that Don’t Work

  • Now that Version 2 has been released together with a ‘lifetime’ subscription, I thought that I’d try the free version before taking the plunge.

    The support forum has disappeared, to be replaced by a ticketing system, but they seem to know what they’re talking about.

    The main problem I found was in the tools and themes available – none of the official Geodirectory themes worked (probably due to their horrible version of bootstrap) and the Legacy version just looked really messy.

    I’ve never had a problem with bootstrap on any other themes, but this version is a whole new ballgame!

    And why choose a different theme if I’m going to use the Geodirectory plugin, that is naturally going to work with ALL Geodirectory themes?

    So my review scores are made up of the following:

    5 stars for support.

    -4 stars for the bootstrapped Geodirectory themes.

    -4 stars for the suggestion to use a non-Geodirectory theme on a website powered by Geodirectory to make it work properly.

    With a final result of -3 stars, it’s a good job that I held back on taking the plunge!

    ** Edit **

    I’ve still got major issues with the GeoDirectory themes, which run on an old version of Bootstrap.

    The alternative is to use a newer version of a Geodirectory theme, which use a newer version of Bootstrap – the problem being with the newer themes is that they use the new WordPress Block Builder, which makes your computer flash wildly and force you to do a hard refresh every five minutes.

    Hardly the ideal scenario for a directory plugin and theme?

    So I bit the bullet and tried running the Geodirectory Plugin on a different theme, which seems to have fixed most issues, except that designing your directory now becomes just as nightmarish unless you use a page-builder.

    Review score amended from 1 star to 3 stars thanks to the owner of Geodirectory putting in lots of input over the past few days, but until they can get their themes right, I’m afraid that I will not be using them.

    • This topic was modified 1 year ago by deeveearr.
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