GT (GeoTheme) to GD Conversion

I set up a clone site yesterday and went through the tutorial. Here are the issues I have so far:

1) Events and Places that were in menus are no longer valid. They show up in red as invalid. I can see the events and places are listed in the right categories. Do we have to recreate all our menus?
2) Places and Events are no longer connected (ie, an event at a museum). The place doesn’t show the upcoming events and the event doesn’t show the place as the venue
3) Recurring Events – Custom recursion lists only the first date in the sidebar (some of which are already passed). No other dates are showing. Simple start and end dates seem to work, but systematic or custom recusion made it through the conversion
4) How/where does one log in or submit an event place? Nothing happens when I click on Upgrade Listing or My favorites or anything else (I am on a staging server) but I need to know the hard link to the login screen anyway
5) Are there custom php templates for the starter directory? Or is every single page/post/event/place, both detail and listing on single.php? Where is the coding for the Share/AddThis functionality?
6) The top search bar has disappeared: http://wpgeo.directory/starter/ (popular categories and search underneath). I’ve hardly made any changes at all to the theme except through the customizer, megamenu and played with a few widgets. Haven’t touched the theme out of admin. What widget or option would have made the search function disappear?
7) Is there documentation on the widgets? With screenshots of the different widget areas?
8) How do we keep the permalinks identical to our GT set up? I don’t want to change all my URLs so locations are added to the slugs?

So these are the issues I noticed right away…haven’t dug any deeper yet.

Thanks,

Thanks for researching. Obviously part of the conversion tool would have to include event dates and place/event connections.

#7) I still don’t understand where the Share/FB/Tweet buttons on the right here:
http://wpgeo.directory/starter/events/united-states/new-york/new-york/events/festival-concert-and-fireworks/?gde=2016-01-09

The first two right column widgets. They seem to be in the template rather than in widgets?

Thanks. Please keep in mind that for those of us with active sites, this conversion is days of work. Each time we start over there is process of cloning the current site (because new listings submitted, posts published/updated, etc), adding the plugins and themes, customizing the widgets, permalinks, etc. Child theme CSS is really the only thing that can moved via FTP.

So ideally, keeping the dev time as short as possible (maintaining old and new sites simultaneously) is important. Thanks.

How do we recreate the Blog page (not on the homepage, it’s a separate page). There are no posts on my dev blog page after the conversion. Thanks.

1) Where is the page to submit events? I only see an option to add a listing (place)
2) How do we set the blog template (in GT there is a page template for blog). It is not the home page but I need a blog page
3) Adding on the GT to GD conversion – try to include Category Top Descriptions (the less manual work in converting, obviously, the better).
4) How do we get Sidebars on pages/posts? They are all full width.
4) How do we get Breadcrumbs on pages/posts?

Thanks

What’s the ETA on an updated conversion tool?

Hello? Conversion tool ETA? Answers to pending questions?

https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/gt-geotheme-to-gd-conversion/#post-185693
https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/newspaper-6-theme-compatibility-settings/#post-185058