Built by people who
ran Directory sites.
AddiPress Pro wasn't designed in a boardroom. It was born from years of frustration, 3am debugging sessions, and the stubborn belief that running a directory portal shouldn't require an army of developers.
From a painful workaround to an AI operating system
It started with a single directory site — a local business listings portal that kept breaking every time a new WordPress update landed. We were patching ClassiPress with custom code, wrestling with oferty GeoDirectory quirks, and manually building search filters that should have existed out of the box.
After the third complete rebuild in two years, we stopped patching and started building. We asked: what if the intelligence that manages a directory — the configurations, the field mappings, the ad logic, the SEO rules — lived in one coherent system?
Five years of internal development, two complete rewrites, and 40+ production-ready modules later — AddiPress Pro is that system. Built to work from day one, whether you're running a single-person classifieds site or a multi-regional directory network.
I used to spend a week configuring a new directory theme. With AddiPress Pro, I had a production-ready portal in 47 minutes. That first time, I literally laughed out loud at my screen.
The road from side project
to production system
Six principles we refuse
to compromise on
Depth over breadth
Every module we ship is tested on real directory setups, not demo sites. We'd rather have 40 excellent modules than 200 half-finished ones.
Speed as a feature
Setup time matters. Every new feature is benchmarked against how much faster it makes a real workflow. If it doesn't save real time, it doesn't ship.
No lock-in, ever
Your data, your portal, your WordPress install. AddiPress Pro adds a control layer — it doesn't replace or lock away your underlying content.
Radical transparency
Public changelog, honest roadmap, real support response times. We tell you what's broken before you find it, and we tell you when a fix will ship.
Customer-shaped roadmap
Every module on the roadmap was shaped by feedback from beta testers and directory operators. We have a public voting board — your input drives what ships next, starting from day one.
Backward compatibility
Backward compatibility is a core principle. Every release ships with a tested migration path and rollback documentation. Upgrade on your schedule, not ours — and we support the last two major versions at all times.
Small team, deep expertise
We're four people who've collectively built and operated more directory sites than we care to count. No investors, no growth hacks — just focused product work.
Built his first directory site in 2015. Has been deep in ClassiPress internals longer than he'd like to admit. Writes most of the core PHP.
Former agency designer who switched to product. Owns every pixel of the admin interface and the public-facing themes system.
Handles all third-party integrations and the Smart Parametrizer logic. Built the Industry Configurator from scratch in 2023.
Handles every support ticket personally. Wrote the entire knowledge base. Average first-reply time: under 4 hours on business days.
How we actually build this
Bi-weekly release cadence
We ship a new release every 2–3 weeks without exception. Hotfixes go out within 24 hours of a confirmed bug. Every release is tested on 6 live WordPress environments before it goes public.
Real humans, real responses
No bots, no canned replies. Every support ticket is read and answered by a team member who actually understands the codebase. We don't outsource support and we never will.
Public voting, real execution
Our feature roadmap is publicly visible and shaped by community votes. Every quarter we review the board and publicly commit to the top-voted items. Transparent delivery — no vague roadmap promises.
AI that writes in your language.
Not translated — native.
Three weeks after launch we shipped the feature international buyers had been asking for since beta: the Multilingual AI Engine. AI content generation now runs natively in the target language — not machine-translated after the fact, but written from the first word in German, French, Dutch, Spanish, or any of 49 supported languages.
Every country market gets its own persona profile: tone of voice, address formats, cultural references, even the right emoji frequency. A German B2B welding portal sounds nothing like a Spanish beauty directory — and now AddiPress Pro knows the difference automatically.
49 AI language hooks, 24 country-aware presets, and zero manual translation work required. International operators have been waiting years for a directory tool that doesn't treat "multilingual" as an afterthought.
hooks built-in
with local personas
all multilingual
tasks required
Native AI content generation
The AI writes listings, descriptions, meta tags, and FAQ entries directly in the target language. Not post-translation — native. Tested across German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, and 44 additional languages.
Country-aware personas
Each of the 24 country presets ships with a calibrated AI persona: formality level, addressing style, B2B vs. B2C tone, local currency, regional SEO patterns. A German portal gets Dr./Herr; a French portal gets vous.
Localized SEO rules
Schema.org output, hreflang tags, local business markup, and meta descriptions all adapt to the country preset. Search engines in each target market see properly localized structured data — not boilerplate English with a translated title.
No vendor lock-in. Your portal, your rules.
AddiPress Pro runs entirely on your WordPress install. We don't host your data, we don't control your portal, and we don't hold your content hostage to a subscription. Cancel anytime — your site keeps working exactly as you left it.
Ready to build your
directory portal?
Be among the first directory operators to run a fully autonomous, multilingual AI portal system — 13 industry presets, 24 country markets, 49 AI language hooks. One-time payment. Lifetime updates.