{"id":942,"date":"2025-03-24T14:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/guide-to-moderating-listings\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:24:26","slug":"guide-to-moderating-listings","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/how-tos\/guide-to-moderating-listings\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Moderating Listings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tAt GeoDirectory, we are constantly checking for newer and better ways to offer you granular control over your site. That said, we have strived to provide seamless integration with WordPress, and all listing moderation options currently are based on the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<section class=\"alert alert-info\">\n\tIf you are not accepting or allowing user-submitted listings on your site, you do not need to worry about listing moderation.&nbsp;<\/section>\n<h2>How Can I Moderate Listings?<\/h2>\n<p>\n\tThere are several ways in which you can control which listings get published and which ones are rejected:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Use ReCaptcha<\/h3>\n<div>\n\tWe have ReCaptcha plugin extension to help prevent fake users, or fake submissions.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\tFor additional details, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/downloads\/gd-recaptcha\/\">ReCaptcha extension page<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n<h3>Set New Listings to Pending Review Status<\/h3>\n<div>\n\tYou can set the new listings submitted by users to Pending Review. In this case, all of them will need to be checked by you before publishing.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/explore-settings\/settings-overview-for-general-general\/\">Find detailed steps for doing the same here<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n<h3>Set New Paid Listings to Pending Review Status<\/h3>\n<div>\n\tWhen working with Pricing Manager extension, each Price package has an option to set new listing status. You can use that to reserve your admin rights to review new listings.\n<\/div>\n<h3>&#8220;Report This Listing&#8221; Feature<\/h3>\n<div>\n\tYou can add a new contact form using Ninja Forms with a hidden field to capture the listing URL. Label it <strong>&#8220;Report This Listing&#8221; <\/strong>so that your&nbsp;users can report issues with listings to you.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div> <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/integrations\/ninja-forms\/\">Read our guide to Ninja Forms<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n<h3>Request Changes<\/h3>\n<div>\n\tIf you are facing too many spam submissions, you can try to slow the rate of listing submission. In other words, you can force users to submit a form with their change request. Thereafter, you can approve the said changes to listings, or reject them.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\tYou can accomplish this using the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/core-widgets\/gd-author-actions\/\">GD &gt; Author Actions<\/a> widget. Note that for larger sites, this process is not recommended.&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At GeoDirectory, we are constantly checking for newer and better ways to offer you granular control over your site. That said, we have strived to provide seamless integration with WordPress, and all listing moderation options currently are based on the same.&nbsp; If you are not accepting or allowing user-submitted listings on your site, you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[801,802],"article\/categories":[211,432],"class_list":["post-942","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-moderate-listings","gd_place_tags-pending-review","gd_placecategory-tips-tricks-more","gd_placecategory-how-tos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/942","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}