This requires adding some CSS:

.geodir_category_list_view li .geodir-post-img .geodir_thumbnail {
background-position: 50% 50%;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: contain;
position: absolute;
}

Previously background-size was set to “cover” which tells it to cover the entire image area.

Contain, on the other hand, tells it to make sure the entire image fits within the image area.

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1. When activating the Pricing Manager addon, don’t forget to review the settings of the default package.
   Installation of the GD core plugin creates a default listing type that allows users to add all fields, unlimited categories and images etc.
2. Importing listings: Set up your price packages and custom fields before creating your CSV file.

Introduction

1. You can use the Pricing Manager to create different packages, for example Featured listings, listings with or without certain custom fields etc

Installation

1. You can install the Pricing Manager first, and then WP Invoicing if you want to take payments.
2. You can install and activate them in any order.
3. Follow the installation instructions here.

Configuration

1. After plugin activation, you will be redirected to the Prices and Payments configuration page:
2. Start with configuring the General settings (see below),
3. then set up your payment gateways in the Payment tab (see below),
4. and then you can create your different price packages (see below).

General Tab

Enable expiry process?

1. If you disable this option, none of the listings will expire in future.
2. Select the listing status after the listing expires. The following options are available:
   1. Draft – After expiration listing will be converted to draft.
   2. Publish – After expiration listing will still be displayed.
   3. Trash – After expiration listing will be moved to trash.

Paid Listing Status

1. If you are taking payments for your listings, select here what should happen when a listing is submitted and payment has been made:
   1. Publish – The listing will be live on your website immediately, this is the default setting.
   2. Pending Review
   3. Draft

Enable pre expiry notification to author?

1. Select this if you do not want to send expiry notices to your users.

Display expiry date to author in dashboard listings?

1. This will display the end date of the listing for the user only:

1. Display expire date to author in listing detail sidebar?
   1. Display expire date to author in listing detail sidebar? If you tick the option, listing expire date will be displayed to listing author in listing detail sidebar.

GeoDirectory Manage Currency

1. Default Currency (Ex.: USD)
   1. Enter a valid ISO 4217 currency code.
   2. Payments will be charged in this currency.
2. Default Currency Symbol (Ex.: $)
   1. The currency symbol of your 3 letter currency code.

Prices Tab

Add Price

1. Price title
   1. This will be your package title.
2. Post type
   1. The post type of this package.
3. Post fields
   1. Select the post fields available for this package.
   2. For example, if you select only time field for this package, then it looks like this.
4. Price amount ( $ )
   1. Package price
5. Recurring payment?
   1. Is this a recurring package? (Note: Only supported by PayPal)
6. Number of Days
   1. Subscription validity in days. (set to 0 to never expire)
7. Status
   1. Is this package active or inactive?
8. Is featured
   1. Is this a featured package?
9. Is default
   1. Is this the default package?
   2. Default package will be automatically selected, when you load add listing page.
10. Display Order
    1. Display sort order on front end package listing
    2. In the following screenshot
       1. Premium Plus – Display order set to 1
       2. Premium – Display order set to 2
11. Exclude categories
    1. Select multiple categories to exclude by holding down “Ctrl” key.
    2. If removing a parent category, you should remove its child categories.
    3. It is not recommended to exclude categories from live packages as users will not be able to remove that category from the frontend.
    4. Excluded categories will be removed from add listing form category dropdown.
12. Expire, Downgrade to
    1. When a listing get expired, do you want to let it expire? OR downgrade package?. If downgrade which package? Note: You need to have more than 1 packages if you are planning to use downgrade option.
13. Title to be display while add listing
    1. Example: Premium: 30 days  (5.00 USD)
    2. Keep blank to use default. Default text looks like this ( Premium : number of publish days are 0 (5.00 USD) )
    3. In add listing page, it would look like this with default text.
    4. With custom text, it would look like this
14. Image limit
    1. The maximum number of images a user can upload to the listing.
    2. For example: If you set the value to 5, in add listing page it would look like this.
15. Category limit
    1. The maximum number of categories, a user can select to a listing.
    2. For example, If you set it to 3, The category dropdown will not be available after selecting 3 categories.
16. Apply description limit?
    1. Select Yes if you would like to apply description limit.
       1. Description limit
          1. Characters limit for listing description
          2. Ex: If you enter 140, then user cannot enter more than 140 characters.
17. Apply tags limit?
    1. If set to NO the default character limit of 40 will be used.
    2. Select Yes if you would like to apply tags limit.
       1. Tags limit
          1. Characters limit for listing tags
          2. Ex: If you enter 50, then user cannot enter more than 50 characters for tags.
18. Google analytics
    1. Select Yes if you would like to enable Google Analytics for this package?
    2. If set to Yes
       1. Make sure you configured Geodirectory > General > Google Analytics section correctly. Refer this page if you need help.
       2. Make sure Geodirectory > Design > Detail > Disable Google Analytics section not checked.
       3. Google Analytics will be visible in detail page sidebar.
19. Send To Friend
    1. Select Yes if you would like to enable Send To Friend option for this package?
    2. Send To Friend will be visible in Listing Information if set to Yes
20. Hide related listing tab
    1. Select Yes if you would like to hide related listing tab for this package?

Payments Tab

Paypal Settings  

1. Payment Method
   1. The title of the Payment Method.
   2. This title will be displayed to users.
2. Is Active
   1. Is this payment method Active?
3. Display Order
   1. Display order for frontend display.
   2. For example when set to 1 this will be displayed first.
   3. Note: Don’t use the same display order for all Payment Methods.
4. Mode
   1. Live – All transactions will be real money transactions.
   2. Test mode (Sandbox) – All transactions will be dummy transactions.
5. Merchant Id
   1. This will be your PayPal Email address.
   2. Make sure, you are entering your email address correctly.
6. Cancel Url
   1. This is the url which will be used to redirect the user, if the user cancels the transaction.
   2. Leave it to default, unless you know what you are doing.
7. Return Url
   1. This is the url which will be used to redirect the user, after successful transaction.
   2. Leave it to default, unless you know what you are doing.
8. Notify Url
   1. This is the url, where you would like PayPal to use to notify the transaction status.
   2. Leave it to default, unless you know what you are doing.

Google Wallet Settings

1. Payment Method
   1. The title of the Payment Method.
   2. This title will be displayed to users.
2. Is Active
   1. Is this payment method Active?
3. Display Order
   1. Display order for frontend display.
   2. For example when set to 1 this will be displayed first.
   3. Note: Don’t use the same display order for all Payment Methods.
4. Mode
   1. Live – All transactions will be real money transactions.
   2. Test mode (Sandbox) – All transactions will be dummy transactions.
5. Merchant Id
   1. Your Google Payments Merchant ID is a unique, numeric code assigned to your business by Google.
   2. Sign in to the Google Payments Merchant Center.
   3. Click on Settings on the left then click Public Profile.
   4. Your Google Payments Merchant ID will be listed at the top of the page.
6. Merchant Secret
   1. Sign in to the Google Payments Merchant Center.
   2. Click on Settings on the left then click Public Profile.
   3. Your Google Payments Merchant Secret will be listed at the top of the page.
7. Notify URL
   1. This is the url, where you would like Google to use to notify the transaction status.
   2. Leave it to default, unless you know what you are doing.

Authorize.Net Settings

1. Payment Method
   1. The title of the Payment Method.
   2. This title will be displayed to users.
2. Is Active
   1. Is this payment method Active?
3. Display Order
   1. Display order for frontend display.
   2. For example when set to 1 this will be displayed first.
   3. Note: Don’t use the same display order for all Payment Methods.
4. Mode
   1. Live – All transactions will be real money transactions.
   2. Test mode (Sandbox) – All transactions will be dummy transactions.
5. Login ID
   1. To get Login ID
      1. Visit Authorize.Net
      2. Navigate to Home > Account > Settings > Security Settings > General Settings > API Login ID and Transaction Key
      3. To create an API Login ID or Transaction Key for the first time
         1. Type in your Secret Answer. You should have configured a Secret Question and Secret Answer during account activation.
         2. Click Submit to continue or click Cancel to cancel the action. The API Login ID and Transaction Key generated for your payment gateway account appear.
6. Transaction Key
   1. To get Transaction Key
      1. Visit Authorize.Net
      2. Navigate to Home > Account > Settings > Security Settings > General Settings > API Login ID and Transaction Key
      3. To create an API Login ID or Transaction Key for the first time
         1. Type in your Secret Answer. You should have configured a Secret Question and Secret Answer during account activation.
         2. Click Submit to continue or click Cancel to cancel the action. The API Login ID and Transaction Key generated for your payment gateway account appear.

WorldPay Settings

1. Payment Method
   1. The title of the Payment Method.
   2. This title will be displayed to users.
2. Is Active
   1. Is this payment method Active?
3. Display Order
   1. Display order for frontend display.
   2. For example when set to 1 this will be displayed first.
   3. Note: Don’t use the same display order for all Payment Methods.
4. Mode
   1. Live – All transactions will be real money transactions.
   2. Test mode (Sandbox) – All transactions will be dummy transactions.
5. Instant Id
   1. The unique reference number assigned by the WorldPay payment service to a single merchant installation for a Business Gateway merchant. Merchants can have one or more installation IDs which can be used in live mode or in test mode. Also known as instID or Instant ID.
   2. Where can I find it?
      1. Log in to the Merchant Administration Interface using your username and password by visiting this link:
      2. https://secure.worldpay.com/sso/public/auth/login.html?serviceIdentifier=merchantadmin
      3. Click Installations on the left hand menu and you will see your Installation ID number (6-digit numbers)
6. Account Id
   1. To find your WorldPay Merchant Code, log into your WorldPay account with the username and password given to you by WorldPay.
   2. Click the Payments link in the left hand menu.
   3. Your Merchant Code will be displayed.

2CO ( 2Checkout ) Settings

1. Payment Method
   1. The title of the Payment Method.
   2. This title will be displayed to users.
2. Is Active
   1. Is this payment method Active?
3. Display Order
   1. Display order for frontend display.
   2. For example when set to 1 this will be displayed first.
   3. Note: Don’t use the same display order for all Payment Methods.
4. Mode
   1. Live – All transactions will be real money transactions.
   2. Test mode (Sandbox) – All transactions will be dummy transactions.
5. Vendor ID
   1. The 2Checkout seller ID number (also known as the SID, the vendor ID, or the Account number) can be found within your vendor area, there is an image in the upper right hand corner that contains it.
6. Notify Url
   1. This is the url, where you would like 2CO to use to notify the transaction status.
   2. Leave it to default, unless you know what you are doing.

Pre Bank Transfer Settings

The users will have to manually transfer the amount in the account ID you have mentioned here

1. Payment Method
   1. The title of the Payment Method.
   2. This title will be displayed to users.
2. Is Active
   1. Is this payment method Active?
3. Display Order
   1. Display order for frontend display.
   2. For example when set to 1 this will be displayed first.
   3. Note: Don’t use the same display order for all Payment Methods.
4. Mode
   1. Live – All transactions will be real money transactions.
   2. Test mode (Sandbox) – All transactions will be dummy transactions.
5. Account Name
   1. Enter the bank name to which you want to transfer payment
   2. Example: ICICI Bank
6. Account SC
   1. Enter your bank Account Sort Code
   2. Example: 11-22-33
7. Account No
   1. Enter your bank Account Number
   2. Example: AB1234567890

Invoices Tab

GeoDirectory Manage Invoice

1. Listing
   1. Listing name appears in this column
   2. front – The front end listing detail page link
   3. back – The back end edit listing link.
2. Type
   1. Free – Free Listing since the package doesn’t require any payment.
   2. Paid – Paid Listing since the package require payment.
3. Package Information
   1. Date – The subscription start date. This will be generated at the time of payment.
   2. ID – The Package ID
   3. Amount – The Package Price.
   4. Alive Days – The Package Validity.
4. Coupon
   1. Applied Coupon code
   2. Na – When no coupon applied.
5. Payment Information
   1. Discount – The discount amount
   2. Payable Amount – The amount payable after discount.
   3. Payment Method – Name of the payment method used for this payment.
6. Status
   1. Paid – Payment Successful
   2. Unpaid – Payment not Successful.

Coupons Tab

GeoDirectory Manage Coupons

1. Allow coupon option on submit Add Listing page
   1. When set to Yes coupon field will be displayed after package selection field.

Add Coupon

1. Coupon Code
   1. This is the code that can be used by user to get discount.
   2. Example: If you are planning to give 10% discount then you can enter like 10OFF
2. Post type
   1. Select the list of post type(s), this coupon can be applied.
3. Discount Type
   1. Percentage(%) – Discount Amount will be treated as Percentage.
      1. Example: 10 will be treated as 10%.
   2. Amount – Discount Amount will be treated as Amount.
      1. Example: 10 will be treated as $10.
4. Discount Amount ($)
   1. The discount amount value.
   2. Enter only numbers.
   3. Example: 10
5. Recurring
   1. If applied to a recurring price package, how should it apply.
      1. All Payments – Coupon will be automatically applied for all payments.
      2. First Payment Only  – Coupon will be applied only for the first payment.
6. Status
   1. Active – The coupon is active and can be used.
   2. Inactive – The coupon cannot be used

Notifications Tab

List of usable shortcodes

You can use these in the email templates to personalize your emails. The same fields are used in the notifications of the core plugin.

1. [#client_name#] The name your user entered on registration
2. [#listing_link#] Link to the user’s listing
3. [#posted_date#] Date the listing was submitted
4. [#number_of_days#] In case you use the Prices and Payments Addon, this is the amount of days the listing was originally paid for.
5. [#number_of_grace_days#] In case you use the Prices and Payments Addon, this is the amount of days set at GD > Prices and Payments > General tab > Enable pre expiry notice days, and is the number of days before the listing will expire or be downgraded.
6. [#login_url#] Your site’s login URL.
7. [#username#] Your user’s unique username.
8. [#user_email#] Your user’s email address.
9. [#site_name_url#] The URL of your websit
10. [#transaction_details#] will be automatically replaced with the payment transaction information.
11. [#renew_link#] In case you use the Prices and Payments Addon, this is where your users can go to renew their listing.
12. [#post_id#] will be automatically replaced with the listing ID.
13. [#site_name#] The name of your site.
14. [#from_email#] In most cases this will be your admin email, except for the Send to Friend  and the Email enquiry popup forms.  These forms will use automatically the email entered into the form by your site’s visitor.
15. [#comments] These are the comments entered by your site’s visitor. Only relevant for the Send to Friend  and the Email enquiry popup forms.

Client Emails

Payment success to client email

1. This email will be sent to the Client.
2. This email will be triggered, after successful payment.
3. Default subject is: Acknowledgment for your Payment

Post renew success to client email

1. This email will be sent to the Client.
2. This email will be triggered, after successful listing renewal.
3. Default subject is: Renewal of listing ID:#[#post_id#]

Listing expiration email

1. This email will be sent to the Client.
2. This email will be triggered, X days before the listing expiration date. Where X is the number of days you set in GeoDirectory -> Prices and Payments -> Enable pre expiry notice days
3. Default subject is: Place listing expiration Notification

Post Upgrade Success to Client Email

1. This email will be sent to the Client.
2. This email will be triggered, after successful listing upgrade.
3. Default subject is: Upgrade of listing ID:#[#post_id#]

Admin Emails

Payment success to admin email

1. This email will be sent to the Admin.
2. This email will be triggered, after successful payment.
3. Default subject is: Payment received successful

Post renewal success to admin email

1. This email will be sent to the Admin.
2. This email will be triggered, after successful listing renewal.
3. Default subject is: Renewal of listing ID:#[#post_id#]

Post upgrade success to admin email

1. This email will be sent to the Admin.
2. This email will be triggered, after successful listing upgrade
3. Default subject is: Upgrade of listing ID:#[#post_id#]

Payment fail to admin email

1. This email will be sent to the Admin.
2. This email will be triggered, when a payment get failed.
3. Default subject is: IPN INVALID – Place Listing Submitted

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The events calendar runs off the same system as the business directory and pickup locations directory, so it should look familiar if you use either of those systems. Adding an event has a few additional, event-related options to enter when creating a new event.

Select “Add New” from the backend dashboard menu, under “Events”.

Enter your event title & description.

Under “Event Schedule”, fill in the timing of your event.

A “recurring” event will continue to occur on the calendar as many times as you set it to. If you select “yes”, you’ll fill in additional information, such as the 1st occurrence of your event. Under “repeats” select at what interval this event repeats. When it does, you’ll have additional boxes to fill in, based on when your event occurs and how often, as well as the event time.

For non-recurring events, simply fill in the start and end date, select “All Day” if you don’t have an exact time or the event runs all day, or add your start and end times.

In the event information box, select the category or categories of your event, enter a location and then hit the “set address on map” button to place your map pin in the accurate location. This will automatically fill in the latitude & longitude of your location.

If you don’t have any additional information to fill in, you can hit the “publish” button on the right side of the page.

If you have additional information or images, you have the option to add these as well.  If you are not done working on your event, you can save your progress by hitting the “save draft” button on the right.

If you’d like to fill in any contact information for the event, you can fill in the phone number, email website or social media links.

If you have related images for the event, you can upload them in the “Event Attachments” box.  The 1st image in this box will be the image shown as the featured image for your event. If you upload more than one picture, a slider will be created at the top of your event listing.

Adding Featured Events

If you offer “Featured Events” as a benefit to customers who wish to pay to display their event more prominently, you can mark the event as “Featured” in the top right corner of the “Edit Event” page, under Event Package Settings.

Once marked as a Featured Event, you can set up an Event Widget anywhere on your website and filter it to display only events that are featured. You can also update any existing list of events and update the settings to display Featured Events first, before free events.

Note: Keep in mind that payment for these events would be collected via the Event Submission form or outside of the system entirely. The Package Settings box may indicate that the event package is “Free”, but that just means that no payment is collected through GeoDirectory itself — because it has already been collected on the event submission form. You can effectively ignore this.

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From here, you can enter the name of your new category, scroll down and set a category icon (required) and then click the “Add New Category” button at the bottom.

If you would like some icons to use for categories, please contact ops@our-hometown.com and we’ll email you a free icon pack.

Optional:

“Default listing image” is a default image for that particular category that you can set.

To make a sub-category, simple select a “parent category” in the parent category drop-down from categories you have already created.

To edit categories, hover over the category name with your mouse, and then hit the “edit” button.  You can change your icon or default listing image on the edit screen.

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Widget name	Can be used on these pages:
	Home	Listings	Search	Detail	Author	Non-GD pages
GD Core widgets
GD > Advertise
GD > Best of widget
GD > CPT Categories
GD > CPT Listings
GD > Features
GD > Flickr Photos
GD > GMap Home page
GD > GMap Listing page
GD > Listing Slider
GD > Loginbox
GD > Popular Post Category
GD > Popular Post View
GD > Recent Reviews
GD > Related Listing
GD > Search
GD > Social Like
GD > Twitter
Events-only widgets
GD > Related Events Listing

GD > Advertise widget

1. This widget can be added to any section of a GD page or a non-GD page.
2. You could use this widget for example to add your AdSense code to the pages and sections of your choice.
3. You can also use this widget for any other text or code you’d like to add to your pages.

GD > Best of widget

1. This widget can be added to a certain section of a GD page or a non-GD page.
2. This widget will create tabs that display a certain amount of listings, according to the categories.
3. Choose the number posts and categories to display.
4. Limit your excerpt character count.
5. Choose tab layout type.
6. Choose excerpt type.
7. Enable location filter.

Note : Listings would be sorted by ratings and if there are no ratings on the listings, it would be sorted randomly.

GD > CPT Categories widget

1. This widget will add a list of categories to your pages:

GD > CPT Listing widget

1. This widget will list the CPT images with links.
2. Navigate to GD > Custom Post Types > Edit(CPT) > Post Type > Upload Default Image

GD > Features

1. This widget can be added to any section of a GD page or a non-GD page.
2. This widget will allow you to create blocks that displays an icon, title and description.

GD >  Flickr Photos widget

1. Designed to be used in a sidebar of any of your pages, but can also be used anywhere else on your site.
2. You will need the Flickr ID number for the Flickr user or group whose images you want to use: just follow the link in the widget and follow the instructions there.
3. Choose the number of images you want to display.

GD > GMap – Home Page

This will show you google map V3 for Home page with category checkbox selection.

GD > GMap Listing page

This widget can be added to any section of a GD page except the GD Home template.

A map will be added where you added the widget, and will automatically be populated by relevant listings:

Settings

GD > Listing Slider

This widget will add a slider of selected listings to any of your GD pages, and can also be used on any non-GD page.
 You can only use one Listing Slider per page!
 This widget is designed to be used in content sections or full-width sections, it does not work well in sidebars or columns with limited width.
 Only listings with images will be shown.

GD > Login Box

This widget will add a login box to any of your GD pages, and can also be used on any non-GD page.

GD > Popular Post Category widget

GD > Popular Post View widget

This widget can be used in Content and Sidebar sections, as well as non-GD pages.

 You can also add this widget using a shortcode.

Settings

Most of the settings are straight forward, but note the following:

This widget is automatically added to your GD Search page and the GD Listings pages.

GD > Recent Reviews

This widget will add a Recent Review section to any of your GD pages, and can also be used on any non-GD page.
You can limit the number of reviews to display by inserting a value inside the widget options

GD > Related Listing

GD > Social Like

1. This widget has no settings and can be added to any page of your website.
2. It will allow your visitors to share the page on their Twitter, Facebook or Google+ pages.

GD > Search

1. This widget can be added to any page of your website.
2.  You can also add this widget using a shortcode.
3. There are no settings unless you have the Advanced Search addon activated. The following options can then be selected:
   1. Default: Custom search options will become available when your visitors click on the Customize Search button
   2. Open when searched: This setting will show the custom search open when your visitors access your GD Search page, but not on other pages
   3. Always open: the advanced search options will be available without your visitors having to click on the Customize Search button

GD > Twitter

1. With this widget you can embed a variety of Twitter feeds or widgets on your website.
2. In your Twitter account, go to Settings > Widgets and create a widget or copy one of the codes.
3. Paste the code in the GD > Twitter widget.

GD > Related Events Listing

Settings

This Events widget is specifically for the detail pages of your listings, and will show the events that have been submitted for a particular place.

The widget will only work on the default custom post type Places; it will not show on any other custom post type detail pages.

Most of the settings are self-explaining, and are the same as some of the settings of the Popular Post View widget, with one main difference:

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Custom Fields

1. When you go to GD > Place Settings, you will see a tab with Custom Fields.
2. You will see a number of default custom fields already, like Category, Address, Website etc.
3. You can add also your own fields, by choosing from the list of available types on the left hand side.

Common settings for Custom Fields

Fieldset

1. A fieldset helps you to group your custom fields.
2. It is very much like a heading or a divider.
3. A fieldset is only used to display on your pages, users cannot add data to it.
4. If you select Details page own tab at the Show in what locations? selections, then a new tab will be created for the custom fields ordered under this fieldset, and which also have Details page own tab selected.

Text Custom Field

1. Character type:
   1. Choose this type of field and your users will be able to enter any combination of letter, numbers, symbols etc.
2. Number type:
   1. This type will return any number as a whole number only.
   2. For example if you enter 55.65, the field will display 55.
3. Decimal type:
   1. This type will return any number with your choice of numbers behind the decimal point.
   2. For example if you have selected the decimal point as 3, and you enter 49.2, the field will display 49.200.

Multi Select Custom Field

1. The Multi Select field allows your users to select a number of entries from a list you create.
2. You have the choice of three display types: Select, Checkbox and Radio.
3. Both Select and Checkbox allow your users to choose more than one item from your list.
4. The Radio display type is used if your users should be restricted to one selection only.
5.  You cannot use the following characters as part of your options: forward slash / or a comma ,
   (these characters are reserved for separating options and code).
6.  Do not leave spaces between values when separated with commas.

Select Custom Field

1. The Select Custom Field allows your users to select one option only from a list.
2.  Select Custom Fields can also be added to the GD Search Bar.
3.  You cannot use the following characters as part of your options: forward slash / or a comma ,
   (these characters are reserved for separating options and code).
4. Example 1:
   1. Frontend Title: Serving
   2. You can allow a number of possible choices
   3. Option values: Coffee,Tea,Coffee and Tea
5. Example 2:
   1. Frontend Title: Service offered
   2. You can enter the possible choices as options, and add more detailed text to be printed on the detail page
   3. Option values: Dog walking/We will walk your dog,Dog washing/Dogs shampooed and blowdried

Textarea Custom Field

1. A textarea field allows for free-flowing text.

Checkbox Custom Field

1. This allows a user to simply check a box, and then it will add the custom field title and the word Yes to the listing.

Radio Custom Field

1. Similar to the Select Custom Field, but only requires a radio button to be selected.
2.  Do not leave spaces between values when separated with commas.
3. Example:
   1. Frontend Title: Available
   2. You can allow a number of possible choices, but the user can only select one of them
   3. Option values: Beer,Wine,Beer and Wine

URL Custom Field

1. Allows your users to add additional links to their listing.
2. Example 1:
   1. Frontend Title: Click here to visit our forum
   2. If they then enter their URL, it  will be linked
3. Example 2:
   1. Frontend Title: Click here
   2. Your users can create links in this format: URL|anchor text
   3. For example when entering https://docs.wpgeodirectory.com|GeoDirectory documentation, it will add a link

File Upload Custom Field

1. Allow your users to upload most types of file.
2. You can select the type of file that can be uploaded: Image, video, audio files and document types

Date Custom Field

1. This will add a date picker to the Add Listing form.
2. You can choose how the date will be displayed by adjusting the date format field:
   1. dd/mm/y = 02/10/15
   2. mm-dd-yy = 10-02-2015
   3. dd-M-yy = 02-Oct-2015

Time Custom Field

1. Similar to the date field, the Time custom field will allow your users to select a time of day.

Phone Custom Field

1. This field will make any phone number entered clickable and will connect with the relevant application on the device where the visitor is browsing your website.
2. For example, this allows you to add extra phone fields for cell phones or office phone etc, in addition to the default phone field.

Email Custom Field

1. This field will just print an email address as part of the listing.
2. This is not the same as the default custom field for each listing, which will accept an email and create an online contact popup with a hidden email address.

HTML Custom Field

1. This will add a textarea complete with a visual and text rich text editor, just like your post or page editor in your WordPresss admin area.

Sorting Options

In your Place Settings (or the settings of any other Custom Post Type) you have a tab called Sorting Options.

1. The Sorting Options control how listings are ordered on your Listings (category) pages and in your search results.
    On the Search pages, only the default sort order will be used, and only if no keywords were used in the search.
2. On the left hand side of the settings page, you will find a number of sorting options ready for you.
3. You can add more options by going to your Custom Fields, and ticking the Include this field in sort option checkbox for the custom field you want to add to the sorting options.
4. Click on any of the available sorting options on the left to make them available for sorting on your listings pages. Only the default option will be used in your search results.
5. That will move the sorting options to the right hand side of the options page, and now you can edit the settings for the sorting options you have chosen.
6. Edit the settings by clicking the sorting option, and then save.
   You can drag and drop the different field types to change the order in the sorting drop down on your pages.
   Setting one of the options as default, will automatically sort by that option.

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List of usable shortcodes: You can use these in the email templates to personalize your emails. The same fields are used in the notifications of the Prices and Payments feature,

1. [#client_name#] The name your user entered on registration
2. [#listing_link#] Link to the user’s listing
3. [#posted_date#] Date the listing was submitted
4. [#number_of_days#] In case you use the Prices and Payments feature, this is the amount of days the listing was originally paid for.
5. [#number_of_grace_days#] In case you use the Prices and Payments feature, this is the amount of days set at GD > Prices and Payments > General tab > Enable pre expiry notice days, and is the number of days before the listing will expire or be downgraded.
6. [#login_url#] Your site’s login URL.
7. [#username#] Your user’s unique username.
8. [#user_email#] Your user’s email address.
9. [#site_name_url#] The URL of your website.
10. [#renew_link#] In case you use the Prices and Payments feature, this is where your users can go to renew their listing.
11. [#post_id#]
12. [#site_name#] The name of your site.
13. [#from_email#] In most cases this will be your admin email, except for the Send to Friend  and the Email enquiry popup forms.  These forms will use automatically the email entered into the form by your site’s visitor.
14. [#comments] These are the comments entered by your site’s visitor. Only relevant for the Send to Friend  and the Email enquiry popup forms.

Site BCC Options tab

Here you can choose if you want to be notified of new registrations, Send to Friend, Email enquiry or new listings,

Admin Emails tab

Edit the email sent to admin if you have chosen to receive notification of new listings.

Client Emails tab

Here you can edit the emails sent to your users when:

1. they post a new listing
2. they ask for a reset of their password (lost password)
3. they register
4. their listing gets published

Other Emails tab

Here you can edit the emails sent by the Send to Friend  and the Email enquiry popup forms.

Messages tab

Here you can edit the message that will be shown on your website after a user has submitted their listing.

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Auto-submit the form on select a Search option: If this option is selected, the search form will automatically load the detail page of the listing selected.

Min chars needed to trigger autocomplete: Enter a number of characters here before the auto-completer search is triggered.

Max Results to be returned by autocomplete: Enter a number here to limit the number of listings presented by the auto-completer.

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When you click on Field: Search by Distance, you’ll see the following options:

Options

Maximum Search Range

Enter the maximum radius of the search zone you want to create, for example if you want your visitors to search any listing within 50 miles or kilometers from the current location, then you would enter 50.

You have to set your choice of miles or kilometers at
WP admin > GeoDirectory > General > Search > Show search distances in miles or km

Difference in Search Range

Here you decide how many different search radii you make available to your visitors.

If you enter a fifth of the Maximum Search Range, there will be 5 options; if you enter half of the Maximum Search Range, then there will be 2 options.

Expand Search Range

If you leave this blank, then all options as per Difference in Search Range will be shown.

Entering a  number lower than the number of options as per Difference in Search Range will only show that lower number of options, and will add a More link to expand the options so all will be shown.

Show distance sorting:

Tick this if you want your visitors to be able to sort the search results in order of distance, either ascending or descending.

You will also need to provide text for the ascending or descending options.

Frontend title

This will be shown as the heading of the Search By Distance filter.

Frontend description

Optional description shown below to give your visitors tips about how to use the filter.

Examples

Example 1: all options

The following example illustrates all the options:

1. The search will search all relevant listings within a maximum 100 km radius (Maximum Search Range = 100)
2. Visitors will be able to choose a smaller radius than 100km, in 20 km increments (Difference in Search Range = 20)
3. Visitors will initially have 4 options to choose from (Expand Search Range = 4)
4. Visitors will be able to order the search results by closest or furthest away (Show distance sorting = checked)
5. The first image is how the search will initially show: Our heading and 4 options
6. The second image shows what happens if the visitor clicked on More; all the options would be revealed
7. The third image shows how the visitor can choose to order by closest or furthest away

Example 2: minimal options

1. Visitors will only have two options because the Difference in Search Range is half of the maximum radius
2. No other options will be available to the visitor

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To change this radius, go to GD > Advanced Search > GEOLOCATION SETTINGS section > Default Near Me miles limit (1-200) and change the setting there.

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