Guust

Ah Brian, my comment was just my lame attempt at humour, having a wordplay of what JFK said (or whoever it was), trying to say that it sometimes pays to think outside the box. That is why I added the roll-eyes after it.
I never saw your post as an attack on GD, so far I have not seen anything else than constructive comments from you.
And like you, I am not a PHP coder or programmer. I know my way around a website and WordPress and GD, but leave the real clever things to the real stars here.
And that is probably why often I try to suggest things that are based on trying to get around the limitations of some software, rather than trying to change the software (because I would not know where to start).
At least here you get the chance to add to the direction and development of the GD software; try that at Microsoft or Apple (mmmm, maybe my bad sense of humour again …)

http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/places-categories-and-listings/#ctp

One way to solve what you describe above is this way:

Assume one CTP only.
Categories are Lodging and Automotive
Custom fields are Pool and Tires
Set up a price package called “Submit Lodging” and exclude Tires from the fields available and exclude the Automotive category
Set up another price package called “Submit Automotive” and exclude Pool from the fields available and exclude the Lodging category
Problem solved.

As I understand it, CTPs are separated that way to speed up things …
And regarding “cobbled together” (nice turn of phrase by the way), do you know of any directory does not use top categories? If you drill down, well, you drill down … the only way to solve that is a one page website 🙂

Don’t ask what GD can do for you, but what you can do with GD [Guust] 🙄

Hi Cathy
You have uninstalled the GD core plugin and you have 2 MultiLocations plugin. That’s why you can’t find your Auto Updates section.

We will need FTP access to fix things, so if you could send us your FTP details, we can fix it for you.

Hi Reena
I just had a look at a few things and struggle with a few things on your site, so I’ll leave the fixing to Stiofan.

1. The location switcher only shows a few suburbs, but Hamilton North should come up when you type it. Once it comes up, you have to select it and the page will refresh to Hamilton North.
That function is being reviewed for the moment, since it is not user-friendly as it is now.
https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/location-switcher-dropdown-not-intuitive/

2. You had unticked “Show the top section of home page” in GD > Design > Home.
The GD Home template is used for all location pages, including the main starting page for your GD directory, in your case http://themummyproject.com/location/
This should answer your other question “will users have to select diffferent categories to see all the different CPTs”.

Have you selected what to add to that widget?
GD > design > navigation > User Dashboard Post Type Navigation Settings

A URL could be handy to see your problem.

Add it in the GD Home Top section.
Although it is named GD Home, it really is the same virtual page that is used for all location pages. So that will filter the categories based on the location you browse to.

Also add it to GD Listing Top Section.
This is the page that is used for all category pages and CTP pages (filtered by location or not).

I don’t think that is actually possible, I might ask Stiofan about that.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/appending-a-1-to-state-in-url/

GD > permalinks > choose yourvtype of URL on the top of that page. That should fix your URL and breadcrumbs, and the city only option will only work if you restrict GD to the default country in multi location settings.