A small bug found and struggeling with adding content

In short I have been trying to figure out why the listings do not save – all detail entered into the screen (admin side) is lost, even though a success message is displayed.

The website I am building have a number of members. As part of the member’s advantages, they may post their companies in the directory (which is only shown to members). The website is currently no yet live, so they can’t add their own listings yet (I have a file with all of the current member’s details, but this is not complete – some miss street addresses etc).

GD is the 3rd directory plugin I am using (first one introduced mayor bugs on the website [where some unrelated functions does not work if the user is a member – it works for non-members and administrators]; the second one is not user friendly for the search). Between the first and second plugins, I was able to modify the post_type and taxonomies to the new one, and it worked (for the custom fields, like addresses and contact details, I easily just updated it). However I did the same when I moved to GD, and these posts can’t be updated.

I did try delete a listing and using the Add New recreated it, and it worked as expected, however I don’t want to delete all, just to recreate all of them again.

I also noticed that due to incomplete addresses, I can’t add some listings. How can I make the addresses be not-required, so that I can add all of them, and when the website is live, I can hand them over to the owners who can set their correct addresses.

While trying to fix the above, by looking through the error logs, I noticed that the GD plugin is generating a bunch of errors “_gd_logged_out_post_author cookie cannot be set – headers already sent by on line ” – looking through the notice right with it, “Undefined variable: line in plugins/geodirectory/includes/helper-functions.php on line 1763” and the corresponding code, I see that $file and $line is undefined, since they were not sent to headers_sent() on line 1759.

Also in the logs, I get various “Trying to get property ‘ID’ of non-object”. These happen on line 1885 of geodirectory/includes/custom-fields/input-functions.php; line 172, 174 and 222 of geodirectory/includes/custom-fields/functions.php. I believe this is due to not having the database entry in the GD _detail table.

How can I fix this, As I am not looking forward to re-inserting all listings manually (and converting my spreadsheet to an importable one is an even bigger hassle).