This update is packed with powerful new features and improvements designed to give you more control, streamline your workflow, and boost your website’s SEO.

Headlining this release is our AI-powered image and gallery management system, which will transform the way you handle images. We’ve also introduced enhanced customization tools for the page editor and listing templates, giving you even more flexibility to create a unique and engaging user experience.

Let’s dive in and explore what’s new in eDirectory v13.9.

Smarter Image & Gallery Management with AI

Images are a crucial component of any successful online directory, and now, managing them is easier and more effective than ever. With our new AI-powered features, you can optimize your images for search engines with just a few clicks:

• AI-Powered Alt & Title Tags: Instantly generate SEO-friendly alt and title tags for your images with a single click. Our AI will analyze the image and suggest relevant and descriptive text, saving you time and improving your website’s accessibility and search engine ranking.

• AI Suggestions on Upload: Get automatic alt and title tag suggestions as soon as you upload a new image. This streamlined process ensures that all your images are optimized from the moment they are added to your site.
• Drag & Drop Reordering: Organize your galleries in seconds with our new intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

• Flexible Cropping: We’ve made our cropping tool more flexible, allowing you to update image details like alt and title tags directly within the cropping modal.

Enhanced Customization Tools

We’ve listened to your feedback and have introduced new tools to make customizing your eDirectory site even more intuitive:

• Widget Search in Page Editor: Quickly find the widget you need with our new search functionality in the page editor. Simply type in a keyword to locate the widget you’re looking for, saving you time and effort when building and editing pages.

• Checklist & More Details Widgets: You now have more control over the order of options in the Checklist and More Details widgets. This allows you to highlight the most important information and create a more user-friendly experience for your visitors.

Additional Improvements in v13.9

In addition to these major new features, we’ve also included a number of other improvements and bug fixes to enhance the stability and performance of your eDirectory site:

• Expanded Favicon Support: You can now upload PNG favicons to your website.
• Animated Badges: Bring your badges to life with support for animated GIFs.
• Simplified Account Setup: We’ve made the admin account creation process safer and more streamlined.
• Improved SEO Power: We’ve made several under-the-hood improvements to further enhance the SEO capabilities of your directory.
• Category Bulk Creator: “Featured” is now selected by default for quicker setup.
• Extra Safeguard: A confirmation step was added to the “Reset to Default” button in the CSS Editor.
• Faster Sample Pages: Listings sample pages now use local images (no more
  dependency on third-party services).
• Onboarding Tooltip: Added guidance on the progress bar to make onboarding even clearer.

Other Minor fixes in this release

1. Mobile App home screen configuration shows product types correctly.
2. The clone button is now visible even with a single template.
3. Fixed expired listings showing as “Active” in the admin panel.
4. Sponsor’s preview icon now works in the add listing flow.
5. Default widget titles now translate correctly.
6. Account activation links now work even if users are already logged in.
7. Slider widget displays properly with multiple widgets on the same page.
8. Mail list export shows the correct lead type.
9. Sponsors can reply to leads without issues.
10. Review avatars are now aligned correctly.
11. Results page errors resolved.
12. Span tags now close correctly on sample pages.
13. Newsletter integration no longer causes signup errors.
14. Page scrolling is fixed when navigating tabs in the admin area.

screenshots of the new version

More in-depth content about this new version

• eDirectory v13.9 – Release Overview
• How to Manage Images & Galleries with AI in eDirectory v13.9
• How to Use the New Page Editor and Listing Template Tools in eDirectory v13.9

Ready to Upgrade?

This new eDirectory version represents a significant step forward in membership directory management. The combination of AI-powered features and stability improvements makes this update essential for competitive directory operations.