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  • December 11, 2019 at 6:38 pm #521038

    riobravomedia
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    I am trying to add some local businesses via manual input and they are service based businesses and do not have a street address. But the street address is Required. How can I change this. When I am looking at the Custom Field settings under the address field I see this text “Address fields are required” but I do NOT see a check box to click or unclick to make it NOT Required.

    December 12, 2019 at 5:45 am #521085

    Alex Rollin
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    It is not possible to change that. You can add another CPT for listings with no address, and then disable ‘physical location’ for the CPT in the CPT general settings.

    December 12, 2019 at 9:55 am #521106

    riobravomedia
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    Alex,

    very interesting that you can’t do this in GD. In my other themes I was able to just use the City and State if I had a listing with no address.

    It doesn’t make sense to create a second CPT for say Restaurants or Businesses with NO address.

    What makes sense is if we can set the street address to NOT be required. Just my thoughts on this….would be nice to have a more user-friendly solution. I am sure that I am NOT the only one with this issue as I have seen this come up in other Directory themes many times.

    December 12, 2019 at 10:20 am #521115

    Alex Rollin
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    There are several ‘bulk’ activities having to do with the address and location. Adding exceptions would make those operations brittle.

    December 12, 2019 at 10:24 am #521118

    riobravomedia
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    Even Google gives us the ability to use a service area for a GMB where the address is NOT displayed…… just saying.

    December 12, 2019 at 10:27 am #521120

    Alex Rollin
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    You can certainly hide the address from the frontend, that can be done, but the fields must be filled.

    We do plan on adding a service area feature in the future.

    WP is not Google, btw.

    December 12, 2019 at 10:30 am #521121

    riobravomedia
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    WP is not Google… very funny Alex. No kidding. Just saying if they can do it I am sure you can.

    December 12, 2019 at 11:17 am #521129

    Alex Rollin
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    Noted, suggestion noted.

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