How to Make Street Address Optional

They can insert the ciy name twice. In address and city field if they don’t want to disclose their full address. But that filed can’t be made optional.

Thx

I am facing the same problem with home-based services not wanting their location to show on map.
I suppose I could specify a transparent png as an invisible map anchor, but that would require a separate CPT or category for such businesses (not a big deal really).

It would be nice however if there could be a way to control the map tab based visibility on custom post type basis (I believe the map tab can only be shown/hidden globally via GD/Design/Detail). A map tab doesn’t make sense for home-based services that don’t want to show their location (there are A LOT of these businesses).

Hi,

simply input only the city name in the address field.

It will work.

Thanks

On second thoughts, this is actually a major usability issue for us. My target market are generally not tech savvy and we have to keep things as simple as possible. Workarounds like this will confuse them.

Our ideal situation for yoga teachers is like the teacher sign up on this site:
http://www.yogatrail.com/listing/add

And, on the teacher profile, it will only show the country, state and city:
http://www.yogatrail.com/teacher/anton-brandt-875699

So, if this is not going to be possible within a few weeks, we’re going to have to find another plugin to implement our teacher directory.

That said, we do appreciate that the plugin is called GEO-Directory – i.e. it focuses on locations.

If you know any other plugins that might be more suitable for our purposes, please let us know.

Best regards,
Dylan Robertson

@paolo

That sounds great and it would be fantastic if you can integrate such measures into the plugin.

I imagine that the three customers posting in this thread are not the only ones who would like this level of flexibility. However, we respectfully recognize that you guys have a lot on your plate.

In the Feature Requests section, there is a request for “Non-location based Listings (Like websites).” Whilst their requirement is a bit different, perhaps we can merge it with ours so that you can hit two birds with one stone? Or should we regard this as a separate feature?

We were going to add it as a new/separate request, but couldn’t find how:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/how-to-add-request/

Please kindly advise.

Best regards,
Dylan Robertson

@guust
Thank you very much for your kind and rapid response. Really appreciate the amazing value your team brings for such a low price.

What you showed looks ideal. However, it would be great if this could be built into the Geodirectory plugin as selectable options in the admin UI.

We are thinking that we would make two separate directory pages:

1. For location-based listings such as yoga studios. This would work as usual.

2. For yoga teacher listings that can be filtered by country, state and city.

For #2, is there a way to turn off maps completely? Yoga teachers will not want a map pinpoint because it is their home address. Also, we don’t want to confuse site visitors into thinking they can visit the teacher’s home.

Teachers just want to be listed under their Country, State (and sometimes, city). And, we want the site visitors to be able to search for a yoga teacher in their area by filtering listings by country, state and city.

How would you suggest we implement #2 above?

Best regards,
Dylan Robertson

@guust

Ok, thank you very much for clarifying.

Since custom coding by us will void the support and possibly interfere with future plugin updates, it seems like we’ll probably decide to use Geodirectory for location-based listings such as studios and find another plugin for yoga teachers.

But, I am not a technical person, so please advise if I am misunderstanding.

Best regards,
Dylan Robertson