{"id":2687,"date":"2026-10-20T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/let-a-user-manage-a-listing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:40:41","slug":"let-a-user-manage-a-listing","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-tos\/let-a-user-manage-a-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"How to let a user edit and manage a listing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In GeoDirectory, each listing has one owner. The owner and site administrators can edit the listing from the frontend, and nobody else can. You do not need a special user role for this: create the user, then make them the owner of the listing. One account can own as many listings as you like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Create the user at Users > Add New, or ask them to register on your site.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Go to Places > All Places (or your other post type) and edit the listing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. In the Place Owner box, search for the user and select them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Click Update.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Repeat this for each listing. To give one person all of them, select the same user every time. How to Change the Owner of a Listing?<\/a> has screenshots of the owner box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    When the owner is logged in and views their listing, the GD > Author Actions<\/a> block on the details page shows an Edit link. It opens the listing in the frontend add listing form, so owners do not need access to wp-admin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ownership only covers listings. Ordinary WordPress pages, such as a page that shows a list of all your listings, can still only be edited by users with the right WordPress role. How can my users edit or delete their listings?<\/a> explains the frontend side in more detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In GeoDirectory, each listing has one owner. The owner and site administrators can edit the listing from the frontend, and nobody else can. You do not need a special user role for this: create the user, then make them the owner of the listing. One account can own as many listings as you like. Repeat […]<\/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-2687","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\/2687","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=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2687\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}