{"id":2470,"date":"2026-10-20T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/add-listings-from-admin-only\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:56:23","slug":"add-listings-from-admin-only","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-tos\/add-listings-from-admin-only\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add listings only from the admin and turn off frontend submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each GeoDirectory post type has a setting that stops listings of that type being added from the frontend. Turn it on and you can still add and edit every listing in wp-admin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to Places &gt; Settings &gt; General (or the same screen for your other post types).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click Show Advanced.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tick Disable frontend add.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save the changes, and repeat for each post type you want to lock.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After this the add listing form will not load for that post type, for anyone, and the frontend edit form is blocked as well because it uses the same page. Remove any Add Listing links from your menus too, see <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/first-steps\/menu-items\/\">Menu items<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adding listings in wp-admin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to Places &gt; Add New (or the Add New link for your post type). The GeoDirectory fields, including the address and map, custom fields and images, appear on the edit screen. See <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/first-steps\/create-a-listing-backend\/\">Create a listing in the backend<\/a> for a walk through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the GeoDirectory fields are missing on that screen on a multisite network, check that GeoDirectory and its add-ons are activated on each site and not network activated, see <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/installation\/can-i-use-gd-on-wordpress-multisite\/\">Can I use GD on WordPress multisite?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each GeoDirectory post type has a setting that stops listings of that type being added from the frontend. Turn it on and you can still add and edit every listing in wp-admin. After this the add listing form will not load for that post type, for anyone, and the frontend edit form is blocked as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[432,211],"class_list":["post-2470","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-how-tos","gd_placecategory-tips-tricks-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2470","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=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2548,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2470\/revisions\/2548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}