Add Listings page

For all who may want to change the Add Listing page:

INTO PARAGRAPH TO ADD-LISTING PAGE
You can copy the add-listing.php into the Child Theme and make changes to the file if you want to add an intro/welcome/instruction paragraph by following these steps:
1. Create a new folder in the Child Theme and name it geodirectory
2. Copy the add-listing.php file to that folder
3. Add your html just above the “do_action(‘geodir_add_listing_page_mandatory’);”

CHANGE THE ADD LISTING FORM
You can change the label names of the form fields (that aren’t governed by the wp-admin GeoDirectory > Place Settings) by removing the function that creates the form.

Here’s how to REMOVE the function:

Add this code to your child theme functions.php file:

add_action(‘init’ , ‘remove_functions’ , 15 );
function remove_functions() {
remove_action(‘geodir_add_listing_form’, ‘geodir_action_add_listing_form’);
}

1. Then copy the geodir_action_add_listing_form function (find it in the geodirectory_template_actions.php on line 2098).

2. Paste the code into your child theme functions.php and change the name to something unique like “change_geodir_action_add_listing_form” as in the example below:

add_action(‘geodir_add_listing_form’, ‘change_geodir_action_add_listing_form’, 20);

function change_geodir_action_add_listing_form() {
//function contents//
}

3.Change the function contents to your customization

CHANGE THE LABELS
Note: Look in the language.php file to find the defined values for the form labels. For instance: To change the label that reads “Listing Title” to something that says “Business Name”,
1. look at the language.php file and you’ll see that it is defined as ‘PLACE_TITLE_TEXT’.
2. find PLACE_TITLE_TEXT in the function (the one you’re customizing in the child theme) and it will look like this: <label><?php echo PLACE_TITLE_TEXT;?><span>*</span> </label>
3. REMOVE “<?php echo PLACE_TITLE_TEXT;?> ” and replace it with “Business Name”.

The code will now look like this: <label>Business Name<span>*</span> </label>

Thank you for your reply. I could not find instructions to edit the add-listing.php and when I wrote to you, your reply was to simply change the text using the .po and .mo files. So, that didn’t really help with the html. That’s why I put the instructions.

As for the last bit, I’ve never used a theme that required so much effort to change some field label names. Still, this is a great theme and I appreciate your help.

Is there a reason that I can’t do it the way I have done it?