Live PHPLD Next demos
A growing directory of real PHPLD installs.
These public demos show PHPLD Next running as more than one kind of directory. Each site has its own content model, listing template, custom fields, and visual theme while still remaining upgradeable through the normal PHPLD update process.
Current demo build
PHPLD Next 0.1.20
Four live demos are available now, with room to add more as we build out new directory types, themes, and import examples.
live public demos
rich-text publishing model
translated interface demo
site-specific public designs
Article directory
Business Plexus
A legacy PHPLD Article-style site rebuilt as a modern article archive for business, society, technology, and economics commentary.
Travel resource hub
Fancy Nomads
A visual directory for destinations, remote-work resources, travel planning, money, business, lifestyle, and nomad community links.
Professional reference directory
Doc Talk
A focused health communication directory for patient education, plain-language writing, telehealth, teaching, and research resources.
Language-pack demo
Fluently Speaking
A Thai-language directory for Thai speakers learning English, installed in a subfolder to test translated UI and flexible deployment paths.
What to look for
The demos are meant to show flexibility.
PHPLD Next can still run a classic link directory, but these installs also show article publishing, resource hubs, custom listing types, multilingual directories, and site-specific public templates.
For site owners, the important idea is that the directory can feel custom without turning the installation into a one-off codebase that cannot be upgraded.
Visible in these demos
- Mobile-friendly public layouts
- Custom fields for different content types
- Article bodies, metadata, and category archives
- Direct-to-website listing behavior
- Optional category imagery and visual navigation
- Site-specific themes kept separate from core updates
Business Plexus
Article directory and editorial archive
Business Plexus demonstrates PHPLD as an article directory rather than a business listing or link-out directory. The import preserved long-form article content, dates, categories, authorship, excerpts, and media while improving category organization and public readability.
- Content model
- Business and society articles grouped into editorial categories, including new 2026 update articles with mobile-friendly charts.
- PHPLD setup
- Article-style listing template, rich-text body field, article metadata, category archive behavior, SEO fields, and article-focused structured data.
- Theme work
- A newspaper-inspired custom theme with tighter archive cards, article typography, and a compact topic sidebar.
Fancy Nomads
Travel and digital nomad resource hub
Fancy Nomads shows how PHPLD can become a visually distinct destination directory and resource hub. The site uses curated categories for travel planning, remote work, money, tools, community, and lifestyle resources.
- Content model
- Nomad-oriented categories and resource listings, with room for city guides, travel tools, and practical reference pages.
- PHPLD setup
- Resource listing template, category card imagery, custom directory labels, direct outbound links, and a phrase-card style content experiment.
- Theme work
- A brighter travel-oriented custom theme that separates the demo from the default PHPLD look while keeping upgradeable core behavior.
Doc Talk
Health communication and professional resource directory
Doc Talk demonstrates a calmer professional reference directory: useful for health literacy, plain-language writing, medical communication, patient education, telehealth, teaching, and research collections.
- Content model
- Curated professional resources organized by practical health communication topics rather than broad consumer categories.
- PHPLD setup
- Reference listing template, custom labels, direct resource links, category browsing, and fields suited to source notes or resource type.
- Theme work
- A clean editorial-clinical design with restrained typography, soft panels, and a layout that feels different from the travel and article demos.
Fluently Speaking
Translated interface and subfolder install
Fluently Speaking is useful as a language and deployment demo. It runs in a subfolder and presents a Thai-language public interface for Thai speakers learning English.
- Content model
- Language-learning categories and resources aimed at a specific audience rather than a general English-language directory.
- PHPLD setup
- Thai language pack, subfolder routing, translated public labels, and directory behavior that works outside the domain root.
- Theme work
- A language-learning presentation that keeps the familiar PHPLD structure while proving the script can support localized demos.
Admin access
Admin demos are private for now.
The admin side includes category management, listing review, custom fields, media, settings, users, link checks, updates, and support tools. Public admin logins are not open yet, but screenshots and guided walkthroughs can be added as the release gets closer.
