The "Directory / Pages Plugin" forms the functionality backbone of many of our Clients' SocialEngine powered websites. We're glad to see the various ideas for which this plugin is being used. We have released some great enhancements in this plugin which will be very useful for your websites:

1) Integration with "Advanced Events Plugin": If you have the robust "Advanced Events Plugin", then you can have events for Directory Items / Pages of your website without needing the "Directory / Pages - Events Extension". After enabling this integration, Page Admins will be able to create events for their Directory Items / Pages.
If you have the "Directory / Pages - Events Extension", then you can import with a single-click all Page Events into "Advanced Events Plugin", thus getting more feature-rich and attractive events for your website’s Directory Items / Pages.

2) Many new Widgetized pages: Many pages of this plugin have been made widgetized. You can now configure the layouts and widgets for these content pages from the Layout Editor as per your requirements: Create New Page, Edit Page, My Pages, Pages I Admin, Pages I Liked, Pages I've Joined.

3) Many new Global Settings:

• ~ Hide Left / Right Column on Page Profile: If you have "Advertisements / Community Ads Plugin" installed, then this setting allows you to choose whether you want the left / right column on Page Profile to be hidden when users click on Page’s Content tabs, to display Community Ads.
• ~ Enable Sliding Effect for opening Tabs on Page Profiles.
• ~ Show Tabs on Page Profile that have no content and where user is not permitted to create content of that type in the Page.
• ~ Displaying Pages in widgets and "Browse Pages" based on Privacy: Only those Pages which are available to users based on privacy will be shown in widgets and "Browse Pages" if this setting is chosen as "No". Else, all Pages will appear and users will see a "permission denied" message when they go to view such Pages.
• ~ Publishing Posts on Pages to Facebook: Site Admin can choose where the updates posted on Pages and selected for Facebook sharing will be published on Facebook: User's Facebook Timeline, OR Facebook Page linked with that Page, OR both. If Site Admin chooses both, then user will have the option to choose which one of the two to publish on, while posting. (requires latest version of "Advanced Activity Feeds / Wall Plugin")
• ~ Alert site moderators by email on new Page creation: Site Admin can choose email addresses which will receive automatic notification emails upon creation of new Pages. Enables easy monitoring and approval of new Pages on site.

4) Random, un-sequential display of Pages in Featured Pages Slideshow.

5) Displaying "Approximate distance in miles" in search results for Pages within a certain distance from a location.

6) Displaying selected Page Profile Fields on "Browse Pages" and in Search Results: For all custom Page Profile fields, site admin can enable / disable this.

7) Improvements and bug fixes in the Page Layout customization feature for Page Admins.

8) Performance Improvements and other Optimizations: We have done code optimizations for speed improvement of this plugin:

• ~ Database Table Indexing: Improves speed of data retrieval operations on the database tables.
• ~ AJAX based loading of widgets: We have given a new setting in the widgets of this plugin using which you can choose for these widgets to be loaded via AJAX.
• ~ Caching implemented in the Category Widgets to speed up their loading.

9) Directory / Pages - Photo Albums Extension: A new setting: "Show / Hide Default Albums" allows site admin to choose whether default, auto-created albums of Pages and their various extensions (like 'Overview Photos', 'Note Photos', 'Discussion Photos', etc) should be shown on the site at various places.

10) Directory / Pages - Multiple Listings and Products Showcase Extension:

• ~ This useful extension now enables Page Admins to add / link / associate related Stores (from "Stores / Marketplace - Ecommerce Plugin") to their Directory Items / Pages. Such stores will be displayed on Page profiles.
• ~ "Apply Directory Item / Page View Privacy" setting allows site admin to choose if a Directory Item / Page's view privacy should be applied on its associated Listings.

11) Directory / Pages - Form Extension:

• ~ Default Form Questions: Site Admin can now create default form questions that will appear in the Forms of all Pages.
• ~ New "Allow Adding Custom Fields / Questions" setting: In some cases Site Admin might want fields of Forms of all Pages to be same, and would not want to allow Page Admins to add their own fields / questions for their Page Forms. This setting allows this.
• ~ New "Allow Editing Form Tab's Name" setting: This enables Site Admin to allow Page owners to edit the name of their Page's Form tab from the "Apps" section of their Page Dashboard. Page Admins can have names of their Form like, Contact, Enquiry, Booking etc.

12) Directory / Pages - Page Members Extension:

• ~ Page admins and Page members can now get email notifications and notification updates for various actions on their Pages like: new members, new followers, new posts, etc. Page admins and Page members will be able to manage these notifications from Notification Settings tab available in their Page Profile Options Menu.
• ~ Page admins and Page members can now choose multiple Membership Roles in the Pages that they are member of, while becoming member of a Page.

Note: To get these enhancements on your website, please upgrade this plugin on your site to its latest version available in your SocialEngineAddOns Client Area.

Clients who have subscribed to our "Basic" or "Plus" subscription plans can send us a request for upgrading this plugin on their website by creating a new Support Ticket from their SocialEngineAddOns Client Area. If you have not yet subscribed to any of our plans, then you can do so from here to avail the numerous benefits that come with them.