Reply To: I can't get the category top description to show

even better – to get the shortcodes to work in the normal wordpress category description:

open geodir-listing.php and at about line 50 you will find:

        <div class="term_description"><?php _e( wpautop(wptexturize($current_term->description)), GEODIRECTORY_TEXTDOMAIN ) ; ?></div>

change it to:

   <div class="term_description"><?php _e( wpautop(wptexturize(do_shortcode($current_term->description))), GEODIRECTORY_TEXTDOMAIN ) ; ?></div>

and you should be able to run shortcodes.

Kevin