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Business Directory Plugin

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Velocity5.0

WordPress plugin for building searchable business directories and paid listing sites.

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Ten months of nothing but fixes, and the only movement now comes from an add-on rather than the plugin itself.

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◆Current state
Business Directory Plugin remains in sustain mode. The core plugin has been quiet since late July, and the newest release in the window belongs to Zip Search, a location add-on, which corrects radius-search sorting, drops two unused country ZIP databases, and clears PHP deprecations. Every release visible here is repair or compatibility work; none adds a capability.
◆Where it's heading
The maintenance load is spreading outward from the core plugin to the module ecosystem around it — Zip Search and Migrator both surface in this window with the same profile of production bugs and PHP-version cleanup. The core fixes continue to cluster where live directories actually fail: search matching across checkbox and multiselect fields, WPML translation fallback, payment state after a failed transaction, admin-only fields blocking submissions. Several releases cite security patches or PHP compatibility, the signature of keeping an aging codebase running rather than extending it.
◆Prediction
The cadence points at more of the same — modules getting the PHP-deprecation and caching pass the core received, at roughly one release every few weeks. Nothing in these entries indicates a feature line resuming.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Radius search sorts by distance; unused ZIP databases removed

    The Zip Search add-on gets a fix pass: radius results sort by actual distance, cached coordinates are used and listings without them fall to the end, cache rebuilds no longer stall on ZIP-less listings, and unused Ireland and Finland databases are removed. Routine repair, notable mainly because it is a module rather than the core plugin moving.

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  2. 21d ago

    Search matching and admin-field submission fixes

    The most consequential core release in the window: checkbox and multiselect searches stopped matching partial option names, and admin-only fields no longer blocked submissions from ordinary users. Both were failures that silently broke a live directory rather than cosmetic bugs.

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  3. 1mo ago

    WPML translation fallback and sticky-listing sort fixes

    Translated listings showing empty fields instead of falling back to the original, plus WPML translation jobs dropping custom field values. Multilingual directories are a recurring source of the backlog this plugin works through.

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  4. 3mo ago

    Admin reorder and theme update install fixes

    Admin form field and fee reorder actions, theme update installation, and an error editing a nonexistent listing. Small administrative repairs with no user-facing change.

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  5. 3mo ago

    Stripe event handling and PHP deprecation fixes

    PHP deprecation notices, Stripe event handling, admin renewals and double HTML encoding in CSV category import. The compatibility-and-payments pairing that recurs through this plugin's release history.

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  6. 6mo ago

    Payment recovery and listing URL fixes

    A directory that failed to recognize a successful payment after an earlier failed one, plus URL and email template corrections. Payment state recovery is the failure mode this codebase returns to most often.

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