Reducing shortcode

Try these CSS solutions:

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/common-styling-examples/#search

If those don’t get you there, please share a link to the page and we will take a look if it can be done with CSS.

Yes, please share the page URL.

Do you mean by ‘distance arrow’ that you want to hide the compass icon?

Do you mean by ‘field for advanced search’ that you want to hide the grey button?

It looks like the page is protected.

Please send over whatever we need to be able to view the page.

How about:

button.showFilters {
    display: none !important;
}
span.near-compass.gd-search-near-input {
    display: none !important;
}