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Sometimes after an update of any of the GD plugins, you will find new words on your website and you cannot find how to translate them when looking in your language files.

This is because when a GD plugin is updated, the language file will have new language strings added.

This article explains how to merge the new language file with your PO and MO files already translated:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/updating-your-language-files/

You can also post your FTP details, but make sure you upload all PO files in the same place as your MO files then.

It is not enough to have the lat and lng of a city, you need the lat and lng of the actual listing or business.
You cannot import without lat and lng, but you can use all zeros, but not recommended.

We suggest you use this tool: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-export/#batch

See also https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-export/#mandatory

Have you added your Google Map key?
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/add-google-api-key/

Hi all, the above info is now added to the documentation:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/linking-to-google-maps-from-a-detail-page/

Please check all your translations first.

For example, I cannot find a translation for Whoop in the child theme folder as explained here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/translating-themes/

That should be at /public_html/wp-content/themes/whoop_child/languages/da_DK.mo

Thanks

All these are across different language files. Some are in the theme files, others in the BuddyPress file, and others in some of the GD addon files.

We cannot check anything from the WP admin area, so if you cannot fix it, we will need your FTP details to do a few checks.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/category/translation/

You’re welcome 🙂

Let’s start with explaining a little bit about some GD features:
1. The same listing cannot be in more than one custom post type [CPT] at the same time.
2. A listing can be within multiple categories of the same CPT.
3. Price packages are set per CPT.
4. Custom fields are added per CPT.
5. Price packages can restrict a listing to a maximum number of categories.
6. Price packages can also prevent a listing being added to particular categories, or the use of some custom fields.

So what does that mean?
7. If there are significant differences between listing types, it might be better to use CPTs.

Let’s apply all this to your question:
8. Categories or sub-categories for lawyers might be quite different; some example categories might be “family law”, “business law”, “vegetable farmer” and “rabbit farmer”.
9. Extra custom fields might be “Vegetables we grow” and “law are specializations”.
10. Now you can organize all that with categories and sub-categories, or with CPTs and categories.
11. But if your listings and price packages will be allowing for very specific content, CPTs will be easier to set up.
12. If your listings will be very generic [only basic info and address and contact details for example] then there might be no need for CPTs.

Franchises are also per CPT level. Franchise pricing is set within a price package, so franchise pricing always follows the pricing of the main listing [but can be a different price per franchise than the main listing].

Hopefully this assists, you can also review https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/places-categories-and-listings/#advantages

Thanks