Alex Rollin

You can adjust the GD Categories element to show only parent categories (plus many more options).

To do that you need to personalize the shortcode or widget or block that you are using:

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/geodirectory/personalize/

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Ah, I see, but, this is the GeoDirectory support forum.
You should contact the plugin author about that.

You will also need to translate your theme:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/translating-themes/

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About random sort, please see this thread for more information:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/random-display-of-listings/#post-467205

For a short term fix, please do the following:

To recreate the search page, add a new page, then add the default content in a classic editor block

GD – Settings – General – Pages – Search – View default content

Then set the page as the search page.

To work with shortcodes directly, you can install the classic editor plugin and use that in backend edits, then copy paste the codes into your builder editor area.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/integrations/gutenberg/#classic

Otherwise you can edit the page with blocks, or, it seems you can add a widget area, and use GD widgets in that widget area.

We have created a task to continue to work on the Avia builder performance. The editor has quite a bit of active javascript, so, making the shortcode builder work is a challenge. We will post an update about work on this when available.