{"id":2920,"date":"2026-10-20T08:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/listing-default-image-not-showing-2\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:39:20","slug":"listing-default-image-not-showing-2","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/core-features\/listing-default-image-not-showing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the listing default image is not showing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a listing has no images, GeoDirectory shows a fallback image. It checks several places in a fixed order and uses the first one it finds, so the listing default image only appears when nothing earlier in the order is set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The fallback order<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a listing with no uploaded images, the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/core-widgets\/gd-post-images\/\">GD &gt; Post Images<\/a> block checks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The listing&#8217;s logo, if one was uploaded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The default image of the category. On a category page this is the image of the category being viewed. Everywhere else it is the image of the listing&#8217;s default category.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The default image of the post type.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The listing default image.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means a category default image wins over the listing default image. If a category has one, every listing in it without its own images shows the category image, and that is the most common reason the listing default image seems to be ignored. A logo wins over all of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where each image is set<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Category default image: Places &gt; Categories, edit the category, Default Listing Image.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Post type default image: Places &gt; Settings &gt; General, Default image (one of the advanced settings).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Listing default image: GeoDirectory &gt; Settings &gt; Design &gt; Archives, Listing default image.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change the order for one block<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Fallback types setting of GD &gt; Post Images decides which fallbacks the block uses and in what order. It takes a comma separated list made from <code>logo<\/code>, <code>cat_default<\/code>, <code>cpt_default<\/code> and <code>listing_default<\/code>. Leave out the ones you do not want. This example, for an archive item template, skips the logo and the category images:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-markup\">&#091;gd_post_images type=&#039;image&#039; link_to=&#039;post&#039; types=&#039;post_images&#039; fallback_types=&#039;cpt_default,listing_default&#039;&#093;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your archive item template uses GD &gt; Post Images with <code>logo<\/code> in Image types, as the shortcode version of the default template does, listings with a logo show it in the listings view. Remove <code>logo<\/code> from Image types and Fallback types if you only want listing photos there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a listing has no images, GeoDirectory shows a fallback image. It checks several places in a fixed order and uses the first one it finds, so the listing default image only appears when nothing earlier in the order is set. The fallback order For a listing with no uploaded images, the GD &gt; Post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[421,213],"class_list":["post-2920","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-core-features","gd_placecategory-extensions-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2920","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=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}