Alex Rollin

Hello!

1. The new site is not using Supreme, and that is a feature of the Supreme theme. You could add a text widget to the GD Home page

2. Those are widets and can be removed at WP Appearance > Widgets

3. There are no listings on the original site home page. You can add a widget like GD Popular Posts and set it to show a cross section of the listings you want. You might consider adding multiple GD Popular posts widgets, one for each of the five categories.

4. You can remove almost any element of the GD features with CSS. Review the customizing your style link below to create custom CSS that you can add to GD > Design > Scripts > CSS.

5. You can create a private reply with your site login URL and WP Admin credentials and we can take a look at the settings one by one.

Related Links
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/layout/#directory
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/widgets/
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/customizing-your-style/

Hello!

Street Address is always required for adding a listing, but you don’t have to display it.

Once you have some sample listings up, you can take a look at hiding the street portion with CSS or removing it from he front end display completely:

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/changing-the-layout-of-addresses/

Hello!

Yes, to use Stripe you will need

Pricing Manager Addon for GD: https://wpgeodirectory.com/downloads/pricing-manager/
Invoicing Plugin: https://wpinvoicing.com/
Stripe Gateway: https://wpinvoicing.com/downloads/category/gateways/

Hello!

You can take this as an example https://wpgeodirectory.com/how-to-sort-listings-by-price/

Hello!

Could you please check permissions on wp-content/uploads/cache/

Make sure it is set to allow write there.

I cannot find any issue with your settings. Check those settings and let us know

Hello!

1. If you want to have integrated billing with Paypal and GD using the Pricing Manager Addon, then you need the Invoicing plugin.
2. Settings are inside the Invoicing addon
3. Invoicing is integrated with Pricing Manager packages.

Hello!

I think that you are wanting to always have every search submitted to ‘everywhere’ as opposed to just ‘Devon UK’. When users search devon, they are seeing results for Devon USA (where there are no listings). GD was designed for a wide range of uses, but, if you don’t have a directory that is intensely filled with local listings in a single area, then some of the features may seem to be working against you. In the following response I will detail a recipe so that any search that is submitted is always searching ‘everywhere’.

The feature of GD that is creating the confusion is that anytime a visitor goes/switches to a ‘location’ (like Devon) (just by visiting a page like mysite.com/plaes/uk/devon), then the visitor’s ‘location’ is now set (in a session variable) to be ‘devon’. If they make another search before returning to the main location page (‘mysite.com/location’) then they are ‘only’ searching within ‘devon’.

So, if you want to make it more likely that your visitors are always searching ‘everywhere’, there are a couple things you can do.

You can hide the Near search field that comes packaged with the Location Manager. That is the field on the right with the compass button. There is no way to remove this without customization, but you can hide it with CSS. Add the following to GD > Design > CSS

.gd-search-input-wrapper.gd-search-field-near {
    display: none;
}

Now that the field is hidden, users will simply submit their search to ‘everywhere’ and find the listings returned by search, regardless of the location.

Make sure to turn off geolocation and redirection. If geolocation is on, then thevisitor immediately gets their ‘location’ set, and their search will be submitted only to ‘devon’, if that is the closest city to their location.

Next, become familiar with mysite.com/location
When a visitor goes to this page, their location is reset to ‘everywhere’. If a user accidentally gets to a page like mysite.com/places/uk/devon, we know there next search on the home page will only search Devon … unless they go to the location page (mysite.com/location) and search there.

The location page (/location) is a listing page, using the listing template, so, make sure you have the widgets there that you need to show your wide variety of listings. You can use the GD Popular Posts or GD Listings widget, moving them into the Listing page.

Next, you can help steer visitors away from the location pages like mysite.com/places/uk/devon by removing links to those pages, and specifically not using the location switcher. If they never get geolocated, and never land on a location page like ‘devon’ then their searches will always submit to ‘everywhere’ and the expected results will be returned.

To get ‘aggressive’ with this strategy you can also remove the links from the breadcrumbs so the visitor can’t click on the country/region/city with this CSS:

.post-type-archive-gd_place .geodir-breadcrumb ul li {
    pointer-events: none;
}

Let us know how it goes

Related Links
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/search-filters-overview/
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/multilocations/

Hello!

There is no option available to customize order of categories in advance search bar. But you can still customize the order of categories by using hook.

See this thread: https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/advanced-search-category-sort/#post-219026

For more about how to use term arguments see https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_terms/#parameters