What's new

Meet the New AI-Powered Setup Assistant

Launching a new directory is now faster and easier. The new Setup Assistant guides first-time Site Manager users through every essential step, from defining the site’s identity and target market to choosing its visual style and reviewing the final setup with AI.

Based on the information provided, the assistant can automatically:

• Configure modules and categories

• Apply colors, fonts, and other design settings

• Create pricing plans and custom pages

• Generate sample listings, events, articles, classifieds, and blog posts

• Build custom listing templates and configure their fields

• Populate sample listings with custom field values

• Assign locations to generated content

• Save selected Unsplash images directly to the site

The result is a more complete, personalized website that is ready to explore, customize, and launch.

A Fresh New Look for the Default Theme

The default theme has been redesigned to deliver a cleaner, more modern, and more consistent experience across the entire website.

The update includes:

• A refreshed visual system with new design tokens

• Inter typography for improved readability

• Redesigned cards, headers, footers, newsletters, and sidebars

• A restructured default homepage

• A compact header that remains accessible while scrolling

• New Tabler Icons across the frontend

Together, these improvements give new websites a polished and professional foundation from day one.

New and Redesigned Page Editor Widgets

Create richer and more engaging pages with new widgets, updated layouts, and additional customization options.

Search Box Type 2

Highlight selected listing categories directly below the search box as popular search suggestions. Categories can be selected in Page Editor using a convenient multi-select field.

The widget also includes editable eyebrow text and subtitle fields.

Browse by Location Type 2

Help visitors discover more destinations with the new “Explore more places” experience.

The widget supports:

• Grouped or flat location displays

• A city selection modal when using grouped locations

Testimonial

The redesigned Testimonial widget introduces a more editorial and professional presentation, including:

• Editable eyebrow, title, and subtitle

• Modern testimonial cards

• Decorative quotation marks

• Carousel navigation and item counter when three or more testimonials are available

More Editable Section Headers

Eyebrow and subtitle fields are now available in additional widgets, giving site owners greater control over page hierarchy, messaging, and visual consistency.

Supported widgets include:

• Section Header

• Card widgets

• Browse by Category variations

• Browse by Location

• Events Calendar

• Upcoming Events

• Newsletter

• Download Our Apps

Call to Action

Call to Action widgets now support configurable background colors, making them easier to match with the site’s branding and page design.

More Flexible Listing and Event Cards

Site owners can now choose what information appears on listing and event cards.

Available options include:

• Summary

• Location

• Summary and location

Locations display the two deepest enabled location levels. Event cards can also show the venue and locality in a clear, compact format.

More Customization for the Classic Search Box

The classic Search Box now includes editable eyebrow text, with “Explore” provided as the default value.

Cloudflare Turnstile Support

Cloudflare Turnstile is now available as an additional CAPTCHA provider alongside Gregwar and Google reCAPTCHA v2.

Site Manager also includes provider-specific guidance to make configuration easier.

Powerful New Account Management Tools

Finding and managing accounts in Site Manager is now faster with expanded search, filtering, and sorting options.

Advanced Search

Search accounts by:

• Email

• Name

• Company

• Phone number

• Email verification status

• Stripe ID

• Last login date

New Filters

Filter accounts by:

• Verified or unverified email

• Newsletter subscription

• Active profile

• Listing traffic notifications

New Sorting Options

Sort accounts by:

• Last updated

• Username

• Creation date

• Last login

The account list now also displays each user’s last login date.

Improved Category Management

Site Manager now offers more powerful tools for finding and organizing categories.

Categories can be searched by:

• Title

• Status

• Featured status

• Image or icon availability

• SEO completeness

• Usage

• Import source or batch

New sorting options include:

• Alphabetical order

• Creation date

• Featured categories first

• Enabled categories first

• Disabled categories first

What's changed

1. Deal cards now use “Expires” instead of “Until” and feature improved styling for original prices.

2. “Sign in” and “List with us” labels now use consistent capitalization and positioning in the header.

3. Upcoming Events now uses a native carousel with redesigned cards and navigation controls placed in the section header.

4. The header’s “More” menu now activates earlier to prevent navigation items from becoming crowded.

5. When no logo has been uploaded, the site name is displayed as a fallback.

6. Import error handling and translations have been improved.

Minor fixes

1. Corrected listing detail tabs that could disappear when widgets contained content.

2. Improved template-specific field links, template cloning, and fallback behavior when level rows are unavailable.

3. Fixed Mailchimp subscriptions submitted through the frontend popup.

4. Fixed event calendar highlighting on iOS when navigating to later months.

5. Prevented Site Manager JavaScript errors caused by special characters in user names.

6. Restored the Change Assigned Subscription modal.

7. Restored missing event venue information on search results pages.

8. Fixed deal end date data that could break deal details in the mobile app.

9. Corrected tax percentage calculations in auxiliary subscription amount methods.

10. Corrected N/A counts and location_2 filters in Site Manager’s geography tools.

11. Fixed incorrect cropping of blog cover images.

12. Corrected the alignment of the Campaign Monitor password field.

13. Prevented hero slider minimum height styles from affecting unrelated areas.

14. Resolved an SQL error in the listing form when there's no gallery associated with the listing.

15. Prevented Deals and Classifieds widgets from appearing when no content is available.

16. Added the missing Turkish JavaScript language file.