I managed to find by searching through the core plugin for days (lol) where to replace the category list in main section with category icons as seen below

Where do I find the code that builds the category list in the detail side bar?

I would prefer to JUST show the categories in the sidebar and not on the main section?

I had to edit line 620 onwards in geodirectory_template_actions.php as per code below which is not the way to do it, how can i add this rather in my functions.php?

									$links[] = "<a href='".esc_attr( get_term_link($term,$post_taxonomy) ) . "'>$term->name";
									
									// **************************************greg************************************** //
									
									$linky[] = '<a href='.esc_attr( get_term_link($term,$post_taxonomy) ) . '><img src="http://mysocial.buzz/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/catx_'.$term->name.'.png" alt="'.$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='';}

						// **************************************greg************************************** //

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

function wpb_adding_scripts() {
	wp_register_script('place_tag_fix', '/wp-content/themes/buzzbook/js/place_tag_fix.js','','1.1', true);
	wp_enqueue_script('place_tag_fix');
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpb_adding_scripts' );

place_tag_fix.js

window.onload = function() {
  changeText();
};

function changeText(){
	var tags = document.getElementById('geodirtags').innerHTML;
	var res = tags.replace("and", ""); 
	document.getElementById('geodirtags').innerHTML = res;
}

Thx

as I’m sure you know, we don’t exactly remeber where every line of code is in the plugin especially because there is more that one developer working on it.

Searching as you noted at the beginning of the thread can take a lot of time, reason why this shouldn’t be expected as part of support.

I’ve quickly looked and I think it might be in custom_fields_functions.php around line 2451. But I haven’t tested anything myself, so I can’t be 100% sure.

Let us know how you went.

Thx