The answer is ‘No’.

Business Directory for WordPress can be used for any yellow-pages style directory. Here are a few examples and suggestions. If you are a web developer, these might help you make suggestions for your clients. If you know of someone who fits one of these categories, please tell them about our plugin. If you have a suggestion, add it to the comments.

Business Directory: Of course this can be used as a directory of business that belong to a region, or a vertical market. For instance, Utah Valley Business Blog uses the plugin to invite Utah Valley businesses to participate in their listing. You could easily use this plugin to build a directory of ‘Florida Companies’ or ‘Fence Companies’ or ‘Great places to find arts and crafts’, depending on your blog subject.

Membership: You might use this plugin to create an online list of your group membership. For instance ‘all the companies that belong to the Save The Belltower organization’, or for a local Chamber of Commerce.

Groups: This plugin makes a great way to enable the members of your group to pitch their business or affiliation. For instance a local Kiwanis group or a local BNI group. Groups can also be temporary such as ‘participating groups’ for a local event or sponsorship.

Church Groups: We have actually heard from some church groups using the Business Directory for WordPress plugin to enable their local church membership to post their businesses. This is a great way to support your local economy and help promote the members of your local church.

Sponsorships: This is also a great way to gain and post sponsorships. As you approach companies for a sponsorship, you can add them to the directory.

Clubs: A presence in the ‘club’ business directory can be presented as a major perk for participation. For example, everyone in our cycling club gets to post their business in our club business directory.

Affiliations: The listings don’t always have to be business oriented; you could, for example, list affiliate clubs, organizations or businesses. If you happen to be a Bike Shop, you could easily list all the local affiliate bike clubs.

MLMs: We have seen a few Multi-level Marketing organizations use the plugin to list all the members of a ‘downline’. This effectively increases search engine optimization and helps raise the attention given to the members of a specific group.

Any other ideas? Let us know in the comments! And please pass the word along to anyone you can think of who might be interested in using our plugin. Thanks!