Forbid URLs in listing description

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  • May 13, 2016 at 1:34 am #189730

    oldmankit
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    Is there a way to validate the information someone submits as part of their listing?

    I would like businesses to enter their URL in the web address field only. If they try to put a URL into the listing description, I would like it to show a notification that this is not allowed. (Similar to the warning they get if they didn’t complete a mandatory field.)

    May 13, 2016 at 9:55 am #189804

    wasanajones
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    following

    May 13, 2016 at 3:45 pm #190086

    Paolo
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    That would be feasible with jQuery. An exmaple: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16598720/prevent-links-in-html-form-fields

    You can also add your custom error message again with jquery where we normal add our mandatory field error message.

    This would be considered a customization though.

    Thanks

    May 14, 2016 at 1:34 am #190582

    oldmankit
    Buyer
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    Thanks very much for pointing me in the right direction, Paolo.

    May 14, 2016 at 4:23 am #190617

    oldmankit
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    At the moment I can’t even find a way to ask business owners not to put a URL in the description box. This particular field doesn’t appear to have a ‘description/instructions’ field which I can translate and customise : (

    If that’s not clear, the way I customsed the following text “Tags are short keywords, with no space within.(eg: tag1, tag2, tag3) Up to 40 characters only.” was to translate it. But I can’t see a field to work with for the business description box.

    May 14, 2016 at 11:16 am #190796

    Guust
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    Because the title and description are default WP parts, there is indeed no description for them.
    You can add some text to the title maybe using translation? Like 

    Listing Description <br/><span class="small">Do not use URLs.</span>
    May 16, 2016 at 4:17 am #191907

    oldmankit
    Buyer
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    Ah, OK. Thank you for the workaround : )

    May 16, 2016 at 7:45 am #191969

    Guust
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    You’re welcome 🙂

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