Text area on Landing Page and reuse of same image?

How can I get a text area in the header area of the landing page, is there a widget for this?

WordPress has a widget for text.

Also when I add a listing and upload an image (logo), is there any way of using the same logo for multiple listings (chains) otherwise I will be filling up space in the gallery with the same image. It seems each image can only be linked to one listing?

this is possible for the default image for all listings of a type (in Place Settings, for example), or to set default image for a Category (Category Default Image).

I don’t want a default image to be used for images under place or category, just a proportion of listings that come under place but covering numerous catagories. Does that make sense? I’ve tried looping back to grab an image from Gallery, but I can only seem to grab images off my computer that then stores then individually per listing under Gallery?

There are only options for all images, or for a group of listings when they are grouped as a category or a CPT. Images are not stored in the media library, so 3rd party plugins or code that manipulates the featured image will not work with GD listings.

Can you say specifically what the listings have in common? Is it a custom field, or some other value that they share to identify which ones would get the image? If you have code that you are working on you can paste it here with

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Is there a widget I can use to give an overview of recent blogs on the GD Landing Page?

Wordpress has a “recent posts” widget for blog entries that can be added to one of the GD Home widget areas.