Location Question

Change Category and Tag links to remove the Location Filter

Links for Categories and Tags on the Detail page will include the location of the listing. For example, the “Restaurant” Category at the top of the page will have a link that includes the location of the listing: https://Mysite.com/places/united-kingdom/northern-ireland/newcastle/restaurants/
Use the following snippet to make the link for Categories and Tags point to the base page like: https://Mysite.com/places/restaurants/
The following Snippet will remove the filter that adds the location slugs to the URL on any page including Listing pages.

remove_filter('term_link', 'geodir_get_term_link', 10);

Add snippets with the code snippets plugin , https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/useful-plugins/#snippets

Front end only should be enough.

This functionality is part of how the plugin works, to have the breadcrumbs and category links filtered for location, but it isn’t always the most desirable solution for a small and/or hyper-local directories.

For larger directories it is extremely important, and a big part of the SEO strategy. Putting this customization into effect doesn’t delete any pages, but it does make the links to the location specific category pages harder to find and so there is less of a chance of backlinks

If doing it now will help your users, great! It won’t ding your SEO because it doesn’t effect a yoast sitemap at all. You should use Yoast if you dont already.