General

Overview

Find these under Locations → Settings, in General. They set what locations are called, whether each location has its own page, whether locations show up in search and the blog, which details a location page shows, and what search engines are told your locations are.

These settings used to be under Appearance → Customize → Dirigible Locations. They moved with the same values, so there's nothing to set again, and old links to the Customizer open the new page.

If you've renamed locations, the menu shows your Menu Name instead of Locations.

Settings

Names

• Singular Name / Plural Name: rename "Location" and "Locations" to "Store," "Office," or whatever fits
• Menu Name: the label of the Locations menu in the admin

Location pages

• Disable Single Pages: no page for each location, and no Region or Type pages. Listing, map and search blocks still list locations. The settings below it hide while it's on.
• Slug: the part of each location page's address after your domain (default locations, as in /locations/main-street/). Location pages move to the new address when you save.
• Exclude From Search: leave locations out of your site's search results
• Show in Blog: mix location pages into your blog listing and search results

On each location page

• Default Template: how location pages are laid out (Default, Details Right, Map Banner, Photo Banner, Centered, Split Map, Contact Bar or Photo Card), picked from drawings of each. Locations left on Site Default use it; a location can pick its own template instead.
• Show Social, Show Phone, Show Website, Show Email, Show Address: default on
• Show Types / Show Regions: the location's Types or Regions, as links
• Show Events: upcoming and past events at the location, under its details (needs Dirigible Events)

Search engines

• These Locations Are: what search engines are told each location is, in the structured data on its page. Visitors see no difference.

  • Places (the default): venues, spots and areas, like a park, a gallery or a campus building. Each location is a place to go, not a business. Leave this on unless your locations are businesses.
  • Our Business's Locations: your own stores, offices or branches. Each location is a branch of your business. The location at your site's address (from Footer & Contact, or SEO → Structured Data when it's set there), or your only location, isn't listed twice: its page points to your business itself, with your opening hours from Dirigible Hours. Other locations are listed as branches, of the same kind of business you picked in SEO → Structured Data (a Shop or Store, a Hotel, …). Locations don't have their own opening hours.
  • Other Businesses: dealers, stockists, members or other businesses you list. Each location is a business of its own, not part of yours.

  A location with no street address or city stays a place whichever you pick, since search engines need an address for a business.

The Show switches apply to every template that shows a location's details. A location set to Freeform or Freeform with Map shows only what you put on it.

The Preview box under the settings shows a sample location page in the Default Template with your choices, and updates as you change them. Nothing is saved until you select Save Settings.

Tips

• Locations that are your own branches? Set These Locations Are to Our Business's Locations, and fill in your business's address in Footer & Contact so the right location is matched to it.
• Disable Single Pages suits a locator-only site where nobody needs a page per location.