Ultimate Classified Listings – Classifieds, Directory & Marketplace

Yes. Everything described on this page — maps, AJAX search, frontend submission, custom fields, favorites, comparison, SEO schema, social sharing and related listings — is in the free core. There is no paywall on the core workflow.

Yes. As of 2.2 each listing automatically outputs schema.org Product , Offer and BreadcrumbList structured data (JSON-LD) plus Open Graph and Twitter Card meta tags. That makes listings eligible for Google rich results (price, image, breadcrumbs) and gives them a rich preview when shared on social media. If you run a dedicated SEO plugin (Yoast, Rank Math, SEOPress, All in One SEO), the social meta is skipped automatically to avoid duplicates, while the classified-specific Product schema is still added. You can turn any of it off under Settings → SEO & Sharing .

Yes. The plugin is shortcode-based, so its listing, search, categories and dashboard blocks drop into Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi or any other builder. Every template can also be overridden from your theme.

No. Maps and “near me” radius search run on OpenStreetMap (Leaflet) with no key required. If you prefer Google Maps, add your API key in Settings and switch.

Yes — that’s a core design goal. There’s no page-builder dependency and assets load only on pages that actually render a listing, search or dashboard, so the rest of your site stays untouched.

Yes. As of 2.3 you can mark any listing as featured — from the Promotion box on its edit screen, or with the one-click star toggle in the Listings admin table. Featured listings get a badge on their card and detail page and, by default, float to the top of listing and search results (the visitor’s chosen sort still applies within each group). You can build a dedicated featured section anywhere with [uclwp_listings featured="only"] , and turn any of this off under Settings → Featured Listings.

Yes, as of 2.5. Enable Settings → Reviews & Ratings and each listing page gets a star-rating summary, a list of reviews and a review form. Reviews are stored as WordPress comments, so you moderate them from the normal Comments screen (and Akismet works on them). New reviews are held for moderation by default; you can allow guests or require login. Best of all, the aggregate rating is added to each listing’s Product structured data (AggregateRating), so listings with reviews become eligible to show star ratings in Google search results .

Yes, as of 2.4. Turn on Settings → Listing Expiry and choose how many days a listing stays live after it’s published. When a listing expires it’s moved to Draft (or Trash) so it disappears from all public views. You can email the seller when it expires and a few days before, and — if you allow it — sellers renew expired listings with one click from their dashboard. This is off by default , and turning it on only affects listings published from that point on; your existing listings are never changed.

Built-in payment gateways and listing packages are on the roadmap. Today you can require admin approval before listings go live via Settings → Submission Mode .

Passwords are never stored in plain text. Sellers awaiting manual approval have only a salted hash stored; legacy entries from very old versions are routed through the standard WordPress password-reset flow on approval.

Every AJAX endpoint verifies a nonce via check_ajax_referer() (separate public and admin nonces), every action runs a capability check, and login, registration and contact-seller endpoints are rate-limited.

Yes. The setup wizard offers a one-click “Load sample listings” option that seeds realistic listings — with categories, prices and map locations — tailored to the site type you pick. Remove them all again in one click from the wizard’s final screen whenever you’re ready.

Add the [uclwp_search_map] shortcode to any page (the auto-created Search page includes it), or enable it inline with [uclwp_search_results map="enable"] . The map plots every matching listing that has coordinates, clusters nearby pins, and offers a “Near me” button plus a radius selector.