Locations

Overview

Each location stores one place (an office, property, parking spot, or service area) with contact details, an optional map, a featured image, and page content you build in the editor.

Real-world example

On Steve Brown — Madison Parking, each location's title is the property name, the excerpt holds pricing and availability, and Regions like Central Campus power the filters.

Editor basics

• Fields: title, page content, featured image, and excerpt
• No archive page: place the Locations block on a page instead
• URL slug: Slug under Locations → Settings (default locations)
• Organizing: Regions and Types, both with parent/child levels

Editing a location

The editor shows the location's page the way visitors see it: the photo, name, short description, social links, contact details, types and regions, and map, laid out as the location's template lays them out, with your page content in its place beside them. Point at a part and select Edit to change it in a pop-up. Your page content edits right there on the page.

The Location panel in the sidebar lists the same parts, one line each, with the same Edit buttons.

A part the page doesn't show is faded, with a note saying why: Show Phone, Show Email and the other On each location page switches under Locations → Settings decide what every location page shows. With the Freeform template, the editor shows only your page content, as the page does.

The parts:

Location Template (Change in the bar at the top of the page, or Template in the sidebar's Location panel) — how the location's page is laid out, picked from drawings of each:

• Site Default: the Default Template under Locations → Settings (Default unless changed). New locations start here, and changing that setting changes every location on Site Default.
• Default: the photo and details in a column beside the map and your content. With no content, a card with the photo, map and details.
• Details Right: Default mirrored, your content first with the details in a column on the right (on phones the details come first, as on Default). With no content, the same card as Default.
• Map Banner: the map across the page, the details in a card over its lower edge, then your content.
• Photo Banner: the photo across the page with the location's name over it, the details beside the map, then your content.
• Centered: the photo, name and details centered, the map below, then your content.
• Split Map: the map down one side at screen height, staying put while the photo, details and your content scroll beside it. Without a map, the photo takes its place.
• Contact Bar: the name and short description, then the details in one bar with a Get Directions button (directions in Google Maps, to the map pin or the address), then your content and the map. On phones the details stack, with Get Directions across the bar.
• Photo Card: the photo across the page, the details in a card over its lower edge, then your content and the map.
• Freeform: only what you build in the page content.
• Freeform with Map: the map, then what you build in the page content.

Map — the location's map pin (when Enable Mapping is on): search an address and select Find, or select Find the address above to use the address under Contact Information, or click the map. Then drag the pin to the exact spot (the entrance, say) and zoom the map to how close it should start. Remove the pin clears it. Without a pin, the panel offers a Map Embed instead: use the embed code from Google Maps (Share → Embed a map), Bing Maps (Share → Embed a map), OpenStreetMap, Mapbox, or a YouTube or Vimeo player. Embed code from any other site isn't saved: saving shows a message asking for a map or video that works. Scripts and other code are removed when you save. Paste the bare <iframe>: links, wrappers and other code around it are left out.

Contact Information — website (with the link's text and whether it opens in a new tab), street address, city, state, zip, phone, email

Photo — the location's featured image

Short Description — the excerpt, shown under the name on the page and in location listings

Types & Regions — the location's Types and Regions

Social Media — Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube: the part of each profile's address after the site's name

Location Settings (in the sidebar, when Enable Mapping is on) — Sticky Location lists the location first in Location Search results. Hide from Location Search leaves it out of Location Search: its list, its "Showing X of Y" count and its results. Its own page and Locations blocks still show it. The sidebar line reads Hidden from Location Search while it's on.

Older locations with an image or description from before the featured image and excerpt move them there when you open them.

Tips

• Use the excerpt for the summary on listing cards, such as pricing or availability.
• Turn on Enable Mapping under Locations → Settings → Maps for interactive Google Maps or OpenStreetMap maps.