What’s new?

Added a dedicated display for the 100 Leads metric on the dashboard, making lead progress and targets more visible to users.

Why it matters

This provides users with immediate visibility into lead generation goals and performance, helping them track progress without navigating to other sections of the platform.

Details

✔️ Added 100 Leads metric to the dashboard

✔️ Increased visibility of lead generation progress

✔️ Improved access to key business performance information

Impact

🟢 Improvement**

What’s new?

Removed breadcrumb navigation from Events, Jobs, and News sections displayed on the homepage.

Why it matters

This creates a cleaner and less cluttered homepage experience, allowing users to focus on content while maintaining consistent presentation across homepage modules.

Details

✔️ Removed breadcrumbs from Events section on the homepage

✔️ Removed breadcrumbs from Jobs section on the homepage

✔️ Removed breadcrumbs from News section on the homepage

✔️ Simplified homepage content layout and navigation elements

Impact

🟢 Improvement

What’s new?

Added a Website field to the Add New Business form, allowing users to include a business website when creating a new business.

Why it matters

This makes business profiles more complete from the start and provides quick access to official business websites for users and visitors.

Details

✔️ Added Website field to the Add New Business form

✔️ Enabled saving business website URLs during business creation

✔️ Improved completeness of business profile information

Impact

🟢 Improvement

What’s new?

Updated the Event page title heading from H1 to H3 to align with the heading structure used across other content pages.

Why it matters

This ensures a more consistent layout and heading hierarchy across the platform, matching the presentation of News, Blogs, and other content pages.

Details

✔️ Changed Event page title from H1 to H3

✔️ Aligned heading structure with other content modules

✔️ Improved consistency across frontend pages

Impact

🔴 Bug Fix

What’s new?

Removed manual “Update” buttons from image upload sections across the platform, including Businesses > Edit and other image management areas.

Why it matters

Image uploads now feel faster and more intuitive, reducing unnecessary clicks and creating a smoother editing experience for users.

Details

✔️ Removed manual update buttons for image uploads

✔️ Improved automatic image handling workflow

✔️ Simplified editing experience across business management sections

✔️ Reduced friction during content updates

Impact

🔵 Improvement

What’s new?

Resolved an issue where location pins were not appearing correctly on the Homepage Hero Map for certain regions, including Europe.

Why it matters

Business locations are now displayed consistently across all supported regions, improving map accuracy and helping users discover listings more effectively.

Details

✔️ Fixed missing location pins on Homepage Hero Map

✔️ Resolved regional rendering issues affecting European locations

✔️ Improved map marker visibility and consistency across all regions

✔️ Enhanced overall map reliability and user experience

Impact

🔴 Bug Fix

What’s new?

Improved the XML sitemap system with better structure, metadata, and image support to enhance search engine indexing and SEO performance.

Why it matters

Search engines can now crawl and understand directory content more efficiently, improving visibility for listings, blogs, events, and other indexed pages.

Details

✔️ Added <lastmod> support to sitemap entries

✔️ Introduced sitemap index structure via /sitemap.xml

✔️ Added dedicated sitemap files for:

/sitemap-listings.xml

/sitemap-tags.xml

/sitemap-blog.xml

/sitemap-events.xml

✔️ Improved sitemap priority handling for different page types

✔️ Added support for listing images in sitemap entries using <image:image> tags

✔️ Enhanced SEO optimization and crawl organization

Impact

🔵 Improvement

What’s new?

Resolved an issue where the frontend did not always respect the display order configured in the backend.

Why it matters

Content now appears in the exact order admins set, ensuring better control over how Blogs and News are presented to visitors.

Details

✔️ Applied backend display order to individual Blogs pages

✔️ Applied backend display order to individual News pages

✔️ Applied backend display order to the Blogs section at the bottom of the homepage

✔️ Improved consistency between admin settings and frontend display

Impact

🔴 Bug Fix

What’s new?

Added a built-in cookie consent banner option for directories that need to request user permission before using cookies, analytics, or tracking tools.

Why it matters

Directory owners can now better support cookie consent requirements for UK and European visitors without relying on custom code that may break during page navigation or refresh.

Details

✔️ Added Enable Cookie Consent Banner toggle in settings/branding

✔️ Added clean banner displayed at the bottom of directory pages

✔️ Added configurable banner text

✔️ Added configurable Privacy Policy link

✔️ Added customizable “Accept Cookies” button text

✔️ Added localStorage support so the banner does not reappear after consent

✔️ Added basic color customization to match directory branding

Impact

🟢 New Feature

What’s new?

Resolved an issue where placeholder images were not displaying correctly on the new Consumer "Manage Listing" page.

Why it matters

The page now appears complete and visually consistent, even when no images are uploaded, improving overall user experience.

Details

✔️ Fixed missing/broken placeholder images

✔️ Ensured proper fallback when no images are available

✔️ Improved visual consistency on Manage Listing page

Impact

🔴 Bug Fix