2 issues regarding the email field under custom fields.

1. How can I change the default “Send Inquiry | Send To Friend” anchor text when using the email custom field to either the actual email or some other text like “Email Me”? I’ve tried to enter text into the “default value” field within the custom fields email tab but it doesn’t change anything.
I also want to do the same thing for the website. I would rather have control over the output text here as well.

2. When I click on the “Send Enquiry | Send To Friend” link on the actual listings page it launches the pop up form for the user to send an inquiry but when I click it from from the home page (using the Popular Post View Widget in the Home Content section) it doesn’t do anything and I see the javascript:void(0); at the bottom of the browser where the URL should be.

Thanks for the help guys!!

2) this is an error, there shouldn’t be an option to put those links in the listings page. It is not possible to call those forms from an archive page.

Thanks

Can you expand on 2 for me a little more?

“Their shouldn’t be an option to put “Those Links” in the listings page”…

So should I not try and output the email and website within the Popular Post View widget?

Sorry if I’m misunderstanding…

It’s an oversight on our side and in the next version that option will be removed.

Thanks

So what’s my best option to display a members email in this section if that what’s going to output?…a simple text field? And if so, how might it work in the next version? When is the next version due to come out?

You guys are doing a great job.

Thanks again Paolo!

to be honest with you, if i was one of your website potential advertisers and I noticed you’d put my email adddress available for any spammer to spam it, I would stay away with it.

Email address should always be masked if made available so that can’t be automatically scraped.

In case you want to hurt yourself and show the email address anyway, there is a hook for that and you can also get the email address with a simple function.

Here you can read how the hook is used: https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/adding-a-button-to-listings/#post-35309

This is the code snippet to echo the email address as text:

The snippet to echo the listing email as text is:

echo $post->geodir_email;

let us know how you went.

Thanks

Just gave 5 star rating…

In regards to your last comment. You’re right. I do NOT want member emails available to scrapers but my client wants member emails available. I’d rather not echo the email for the same reasons….I don’t see another option to make it work now…

Do I just need to wait for the next version of GD in order to have a masked link to clients email?

Next minor release (today) will only fix a couple of bugs that were discovered yesterday in 1.4.6

In the next after this we will remove the option to show the email custom field in listings because it only shows the links to the enquiry and send to friend forms, that will never work on an archive page.

However we will not provide an alternative masked link. This is something that it has never been requested here.

For something to be considered, it has to be requested there and become popular through users votes.

Thanks

I don’t think that’s the right answer as the option is here and an oversight by your team. I think you should offer a viable solution since someone is trying to use the option you have available. I’m sure it;s not a difficult fix…

Anyway, even if I add it to the feature request area based on what you’re saying I don’t see a solution happening before I have to release this project to my client so…

I don’t really know what to say.

Thanks for the help and honesty.