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AJAX<\/strong>
Technically: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML<\/em>, in reality, this is usually referring to a task that runs in the background of a webpage without having to refresh the whole page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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CPT<\/strong>
Custom Post Type<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Custom field<\/strong>
GeoDirectory custom fields allow extra information to be added to your listings, such as business opening hours, entry fees, phone, website link etc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Element<\/strong>
All GD widgets are also available as shortcodes or Gutenberg blocks<\/a>. How you add a GD element will depend whether you add them to a page, or sidebar etc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Extension<\/strong>
Extra plugin that gives your GeoDirectory website advanced capabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Frontend<\/strong>
The public part of your website, where users can add their listings and visitors can browse the site<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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GD<\/strong>
GeoDirectory<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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GeoDirectory Core<\/strong>
This refers to the main GeoDirectory plugin available from WordPress.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Listing<\/strong>
Entry in your database for a business or event etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Location<\/strong>
Refers to cities (towns or villages etc), regions (states or provinces etc) and countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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OSM<\/strong>
Open Street Maps. This is the name of a map provider.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[796,797,798,799,800],"article\/categories":[439,211],"class_list":["post-939","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-getting-started","gd_place_tags-glossary","gd_place_tags-definitions","gd_place_tags-definition","gd_place_tags-terms","gd_placecategory-glossary","gd_placecategory-tips-tricks-more"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}