I deactivated all the plugins. except geodirectory and location manager. It seemed to fix the search button/feature on the home page. So i now know it is one of the plugins which is causing the problems. Thank you!
I still have the issue of “It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?”
Im assuming its either because some places were not placed in categories (I recently uploaded a huge database of 5,000+ places.) I could also think because of the database transfer.
The database which i copied most of the information had a latitude centroid and a latitude poly. Since the .csv file only had long and lat. I only used the centroid lat. Could that be also affecting it?
Once again thank you for your time and for solving most of my sites issues. Really appreciate it.