Greg Barr

Hmm. I’m seeing both forms now on my phone. Hopefully/surely when I get back to PC it’ll be all good. Musta been some cache-shizzle tying things up. Ill be back if its still problematic. Thanks for the help.

Yes to the WP anyone-can-reg setting,
and no on UsersWP or BuddyPress.
Will share deets in private.

Thanks. I found what seems like the appropriate instructions, and get the general idea.

 = 'CATEGORY ICON URL';
         $terms_icons['946'] = 'http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/my-other-icon.png';
    }
    return $terms_icons;
}
add_filter( 'geodir_get_term_icons', '_gd_custom_detail_page_category_icon', 10, 2 );

But I’m hoping you can help a teensy bit more.
Here is the CSS that currently defines that icon.

It’s not clear to me where the two things overlap, i.e. which elements of the current CSS are elements I need to set in that suggested code. Like where in the code am I indicating that I want this other image to replace the icon for website, instead of for Facebook. Does that make sense?

Seems like maybe it’s the “946” up front, but I dont see any 3-digit codes in the CSS/HTML for that icon. Or, more accurately, I see way to MANY 3-digit numbers. Could also be the “10,2” at the end, but again, I don’t see any obviously apparent equivalents.

Thanks guys. Alex yo said two things that spoke to me:
“You could also start out with one post type and use categories to differentiate them. I recommend that folks new to managing sites keep it simple.” and “It helps us if you have a specific question or concern. My concern is usually complexity, but, what is yours?”

Bingo — unnecessary complexity is my growing concern. I’d like end users to be able to search for everything in a given city. And for me to be able to provide that search result as a dynamically generated “page” of my site.

I am afraid that by breaking everything via Custom Post Types, instead of by Category, I won’t be able to let them do that.

I think you’ve provided the right path. I kinda see “vendors” as a different animal from the other stuff. Venues, clubs and events are all “places and times to play” and I don’t anticipate charging for those. Vendors I see an opportunity to make money via premium/sponsored listings, affiliate program sales, etc. So maybe I should have one CPT for vendors and one CPT for everything else, then within the everything else CPT I could have categories for venues, clubs, leagues and tournaments.

I reckon I’ll read the stuff Guust provided to see if that is the right approach, and see if I can figure out how to most easily change things up here, while I’m live but not yet aggressively right.

You are an excellent guesser, Guust!!! Thanks for your help!

I hadn’t even created a category, let alone assigned one. Did that and it worked.

But since then I added the Event Manager Addon, and I’m running into the same problem with my first event. This time setting up a category, and assigning the event to that category, and making sure I’d published the vent in the backend…none of that helped.

I’ll provide admin deets as private reply.