Categories and Viewing Listing Defaults

1. Hello, the widget shows the categories in order of most “popular”, meaning most listings within the categories. It cannot be changed.

2. GD > desdign > search
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-design/#search

3. Where do you want the custom field to show by default? I guess on the listings, location and search pages?
Tick “show on listing page” in the custom field settings:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-place-settings/#common

I thought you were asking about the order of categories in the popular category widget.

Now that you linked to a listing, I understand your question.
I think for the purpose of ordering them on the detail page, you should be able to change the ID of the categories, I think they are ordered by ID, but it might break your database.
So I’ll ask the others, don’t change anything yet.

This blog post should help you re-order the tabs:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/re-order-tabs-in-a-listing-detail-page/

Hi Christy,

I am not sure how good you are with code so let us know if you need more help but adding this to your theme functions.php should do it (not tested).
Basically we order them A-Z, i have removed that part in this code

Thanks,

Stiofan

remove_action('geodir_details_taxonomies', 'geodir_action_details_taxonomies', 10);
add_action('geodir_details_taxonomies', 'my_geodir_action_details_taxonomies', 10);
/**
 * Output link to the posts categories and tags.
 *
 * @global bool $preview True of on a preview page. False if not.
 * @global object $post The current post object.
 * @since 1.0.0
 * @package GeoDirectory
 */
function my_geodir_action_details_taxonomies()
{
    global $preview, $post;?>
    <p class="geodir_post_taxomomies clearfix">
    <?php
    $taxonomies = array();

    $is_backend_preview = (is_single() && !empty($_REQUEST['post_type']) && !empty($_REQUEST['preview']) && !empty($_REQUEST['p'])) && is_super_admin() ? true : false; // skip if preview from backend

    if ($preview && !$is_backend_preview) {
        $post_type = $post->listing_type;
        $post_taxonomy = $post_type . 'category';
        $post->$post_taxonomy = $post->post_category[$post_taxonomy];
    } else {
        $post_type = $post->post_type;
        $post_taxonomy = $post_type . 'category';
    }
//{	
    $post_type_info = get_post_type_object($post_type);
    $listing_label = $post_type_info->labels->singular_name;

    if (!empty($post->post_tags)) {

        if (taxonomy_exists($post_type . '_tags')):
            $links = array();
            $terms = array();
            // to limit post tags
            $post_tags = trim($post->post_tags, ",");
            $post_id = isset($post->ID) ? $post->ID : '';
            /**
             * Filter the post tags.
             *
             * Allows you to filter the post tags output on the details page of a post.
             *
             * @since 1.0.0
             * @param string $post_tags A comma seperated list of tags.
             * @param int $post_id The current post id.
             */
            $post_tags = apply_filters('geodir_action_details_post_tags', $post_tags, $post_id);

            $post->post_tags = $post_tags;
            $post_tags = explode(",", trim($post->post_tags, ","));

            foreach ($post_tags as $post_term) {

                // fix slug creation order for tags & location
                $post_term = trim($post_term);

                $priority_location = false;
                if ($insert_term = term_exists($post_term, $post_type . '_tags')) {
                    $term = get_term_by('name', $post_term, $post_type . '_tags');
                } else {
                    $post_country = isset($_REQUEST['post_country']) && $_REQUEST['post_country'] != '' ? $_REQUEST['post_country'] : NULL;
                    $post_region = isset($_REQUEST['post_region']) && $_REQUEST['post_region'] != '' ? $_REQUEST['post_region'] : NULL;
                    $post_city = isset($_REQUEST['post_city']) && $_REQUEST['post_city'] != '' ? $_REQUEST['post_city'] : NULL;
                    $match_country = $post_country && sanitize_title($post_term) == sanitize_title($post_country) ? true : false;
                    $match_region = $post_region && sanitize_title($post_term) == sanitize_title($post_region) ? true : false;
                    $match_city = $post_city && sanitize_title($post_term) == sanitize_title($post_city) ? true : false;
                    if ($match_country || $match_region || $match_city) {
                        $priority_location = true;
                        $term = get_term_by('name', $post_term, $post_type . '_tags');
                    } else {
                        $insert_term = wp_insert_term($post_term, $post_type . '_tags');
                        $term = get_term_by('name', $post_term, $post_type . '_tags');
                    }
                }

                if (!is_wp_error($term) && is_object($term)) {

                    // fix tag link on detail page
                    if ($priority_location) {
                        $links[] = "<a href=''>$post_term</a>";
                    } else {
                        $links[] = "<a href='" . esc_attr(get_term_link($term->term_id, $term->taxonomy)) . "'>$term->name</a>";
                    }
                    $terms[] = $term;
                }
                //
            }
            if (!isset($listing_label)) {
                $listing_label = '';
            }
            $taxonomies[$post_type . '_tags'] = wp_sprintf('%s: %l', ucwords($listing_label . ' ' . __('Tags', GEODIRECTORY_TEXTDOMAIN)), $links, (object)$terms);
        endif;

    }

    if (!empty($post->$post_taxonomy)) {
        $links = array();
        $terms = array();
        $termsOrdered = array();
        if (!is_array($post->$post_taxonomy)) {
            $post_term = explode(",", trim($post->$post_taxonomy, ","));
        } else {
            $post_term = $post->$post_taxonomy;
        }

        $post_term = array_unique($post_term);
        if (!empty($post_term)) {
            foreach ($post_term as $post_term) {
                $post_term = trim($post_term);

                if ($post_term != ''):
                    $term = get_term_by('id', $post_term, $post_taxonomy);
                    if (is_object($term)) {
                        $links[] = "<a href='" . esc_attr(get_term_link($term, $post_taxonomy)) . "'>$term->name</a>";
                        $terms[] = $term;
                    }
                endif;
            }
            // order alphabetically
            /*asort($links);
            foreach (array_keys($links) as $key) {
                $termsOrdered[$key] = $terms[$key];
            }
            $terms = $termsOrdered;
*/

        }

        if (!isset($listing_label)) {
            $listing_label = '';
        }
        $taxonomies[$post_taxonomy] = wp_sprintf('%s: %l', ucwords($listing_label . ' ' . __('Category', GEODIRECTORY_TEXTDOMAIN)), $links, (object)$terms);

    }

    if (isset($taxonomies[$post_taxonomy])) {
        echo '<span class="geodir-category">' . $taxonomies[$post_taxonomy] . '</span>';
    }

    if (isset($taxonomies[$post_type . '_tags']))
        echo '<span class="geodir-tags">' . $taxonomies[$post_type . '_tags'] . '</span>';

    ?>
    </p><?php
}

Scott, the code above shows you how to re-arrange the categories.

By default, the categories are listed with the highest number of listings in the category first (that is why it is called popular categories widget).

If there is only one listing in each category, it will list it by order of the ID in the database (or reverse order, not real sure).