How can we disable the “category selection” step? We have one category.

Hi @sjf

Thanks for your question.

Business Directory Plugin is a custom post type in WordPress, and as such it does require a category for a listing to be posted. For most sites, there is some way to categorize the listings. If you’d like help brainstorming, I’d be happy to do that with you. You can contact me directly or post a response here. If you’d like to contact me directly, you can do so here: https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/contact/

In response to “and as such it does require a category”… as I mentioned before, we do have a single category. We’ve had the plugin for years without requiring the end-user to select a category. Nothing has changed in this regard except the requirements the plugin demands. We would like to bypass the first step because of this fact.

@bobbied – also, this is not resolved, so I’m unsure why it’s marked as resolved.

Hi @sjf

Sorry for any confusion about this. I marked this as resolved because there isn’t a way to skip the category selection step in the current version of Business Directory Plugin.

How did you do this in the past? I tried using CSS to hide the step, but it breaks the rest of the listing submission form in version 5.9.2.

@bobbied – correct, we’ve not been able to update since 5.7.3 without our site breaking. After this version, categories were added. I just personally find it hard to believe that there isn’t a way to skip the category section when we have used this plugin for so many years with the “submit a listing” form being a single step (information and images in the same step, and no category choice required), and it has been working just fine in the past until the submission form was split into 3 parts and category choice was implemented.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by SJF.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by SJF.

@bobbied – for reference… this is our current directory page: https://www.foundationsoft.com/for-cpas/cpa-directory/?wpbdp_view=submit_listing

Thanks for that @sjf Can you tell me how you hacked the plugin to make that happen? It has always been a requirement of the plugin that a category be selected.

Hey @sjf

I took a look at your site with the developer tonight — I appreciate you sending that in. It looks like you are using custom CSS to hide the fee plan and category selection, so that’s why more recent versions of the plugin won’t work.

I have submitted a request to address this issue in a future version of the plugin; namely, when there is only one fee plan and/or category, that first step in the submission process gets combined with the second step.

Thanks for your patience on this as we sorted out the issue. If you can please let me know if this resolves your question, I will close the ticket.

Best,

~Bobbie

Thanks Bobbie. Once this issue is fixed in the plugin, I’ll gladly mark this ticket resolved. I appreciate your help.

Just updated to the latest version in our dev environment and it works as expected. Thanks for your support.

Thanks for letting me know @sjf

Best,

~Bobbie