Changing GD design

Hello!

You can search by anything including ZIP codes in the location field. If you have a directory for one country only, that should work well. For a worldwide directory, the system might interpret ZIP codes as belonging to more than one country, and will make a choice, which might be now what the visitor had in mind.

Have a look here:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-design/#how
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-general/#search

There are some shortcodes available for the Multilocations plugin that might be worth looking at to create a list of popular locations:

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/location-manager-shortcodes/

For highlighting listings we recommend you use the “Featured” property of the listing package, part of the Payment and Package Manager addon:

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/prices-and-payments-add-on-overview/

Featured can put a custom graphic, and allow you to set your sort to return featured listings first.

“Featured” is available as property for several core shortcodes, too:

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-shortcodes/

Hello!

What you are describing could be caused by a mismatch for import columns.

A couple things to check first:
Have you set your default location and updated all your plugins?
Did you setup your map options?

For your import, did you first add listings, and then perform an export?
With your export, you would then use the same column headings and order for your import.

Let us know how that goes