{"id":2388,"date":"2026-10-20T08:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/edit-add-listing-form-and-title\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:41:00","slug":"edit-add-listing-form-and-title","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-tos\/edit-add-listing-form-and-title\/","title":{"rendered":"How to edit the Add Listing form and the “Add Place” title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Add Listing page shows the [gd_add_listing]<\/code> shortcode. The fields in the form come from your post type’s custom fields, and the “Add Place” heading comes from a GeoDirectory setting, so you change both in the admin and not on the page itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change, reorder or add form fields<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Go to Places > Settings > Custom Fields. If you have more than one post type, use the Settings menu of the one you want to change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Drag fields up or down to change their order in the form.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Open a field to change its label (frontend title), its description and whether it is required.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Add new fields from the list of field types, then save.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Fields set as admin only are not shown in the frontend form. There is a step by step guide in How to add a custom field to a custom post type<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Change the “Add Place” title<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Go to GeoDirectory > Settings > General > Titles & Meta.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Find the Add listing page section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Change Add Title. The default is Add %%pt_single%%<\/code>, and %%pt_single%%<\/code> is replaced with the singular name of the post type, which is where “Add Place” comes from. Edit Title is the heading shown when a user edits a listing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Save the settings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      If you want “Place” to read differently everywhere, change the post type’s Name and Singular name at Places > Settings > General instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Add text or change the look<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      The Add Listing page is a normal WordPress page, so you can add text, images or other blocks above or below the GD > Add Listing block. To restyle the form, see How to alter the add listing form with CSS<\/a>. To give each post type its own add listing page, see Create an “Add Listing” page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The Add Listing page shows the [gd_add_listing] shortcode. The fields in the form come from your post type’s custom fields, and the “Add Place” heading comes from a GeoDirectory setting, so you change both in the admin and not on the page itself. Change, reorder or add form fields Fields set as admin only are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[211,432],"class_list":["post-2388","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-tips-tricks-more","gd_placecategory-how-tos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2388\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}