{"id":364269,"date":"2025-09-30T07:24:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=364269"},"modified":"2025-11-26T11:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:27:29","password":"","slug":"setting-up-the-required-pages","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/docs\/setting-up-the-required-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Up the Required Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Upon installation, Directorist will automatically create the required pages. Please navigate to\u00a0<strong>Directorist Listings \u2192 Directory Settings \u2192 Page Setup<\/strong>, and make sure all the pages are assigned properly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-121-1024x418.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-364271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-121-1024x418.png 1024w, https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-121-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-121-768x313.png 768w, https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-121-1536x626.png 1536w, https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-121-2048x835.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can generate all pages required\/recommended by Directorist by clicking on the Upgrade\/Regenerate button shown in the following screenshot.\u00a0Upgrade\/Regenerate button performs two actions.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Regenerate and set unassigned pages.  <br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Replace the assigned page content with default shortcodes. (custom changes will be overwritten)Please\u00a0<strong>note<\/strong>, \u201cUpgrade\/Regenerate\u201d will only set the core Directorist pages.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are using extensions, then you are required to set the pages manually.\u00a0Also remember, if you already have pages created with proper shortcode, then clicking on the Upgrade\/Regenerate button will create duplicate pages. So, it is better to click this button if you have no pages assigned to the settings. Otherwise, creating all pages manually with the given shortcodes would be a wiser option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon installation, Directorist will automatically create the required pages. Please navigate to\u00a0Directorist Listings \u2192 Directory Settings \u2192 Page Setup, and make sure all the pages are assigned properly.\u00a0 If you are using extensions, then you are required to set the pages manually.\u00a0Also remember, if you already have pages created with proper shortcode, then clicking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[701],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-364269","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-getting-started"],"year_month":"2026-03","word_count":150,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"yousuf.sovware","author_nicename":"yousuf-sovware","author_url":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/author\/yousuf-sovware\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Getting Started","term_url":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/docs-category\/getting-started\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/364269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/364269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=364269"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directorist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=364269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}