Template & Plugin help for Business Directory…

Hi,

Sounds like a job for custom post types, which allows you to create a custom post entry template. That way you can present users with a structured form that only contains the fields relevant to a business directory (like address, contact info, hours of operation, etc).

Check out Custom Post Type UI:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/

This will give you a very easy interface for generating the code you need. It creates both custom post types and custom taxonomies (that work like tags/categories).

Or you can do so directly by consulting the Codex entries at:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy

There are some good resources listed on that page, a Google-ing will also yield some very good tutorials.

-Erin