Listings
Ad fields and categories, the ad page, how ads look in results, prices, SEO and bulk import.
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Fields and categories
- Custom fields overview and adding a new field on single / inventory page Custom fields are how a Listivo listing stores everything beyond its title and description. This guide walks through all ten field types, th...
- How to add new field on single / inventory page? Creating a custom field does not put it on your pages. This article shows how to place an existing field on the search results template and...
- Types of custom fields Listivo ships ten types of custom field, each suited to a different kind of information. This overview shows what every type is for and how...
- Common settings for custom fields Background on the settings every Listivo custom field shares, before you pick a field type: making a field required, its slug, multilevel, t...
- Parent Field – how to build relation Make > Model e.g. BMW > M4 Linking two taxonomy fields as parent and child means picking a make leaves only that make's models in the next dropdown — both on the submi...
- Multilevel custom field A multilevel taxonomy field lets a listing sit under a category and one of its subcategories — Electronics, then Computers. This guide switc...
- The field dependency on the custom field Field dependency ties your other custom fields to the terms of one taxonomy, so a car listing can ask for mileage and a VIN while a trailer...
- Custom fields - allow multiple values Let one listing hold several values in the same field — a car with five features ticked at once — and see why a field such as Car Make is be...
- Category order and taxonomy terms order Categories and taxonomy terms come out in whatever order WordPress picks. With the free Custom Taxonomy Order plugin you can drag them into...
- How to Auto-Generate Ad Titles Have Listivo build every ad title from fields you pick — Make, Model, Year and so on — so listings and their URLs follow one consistent stru...
The ad page
- Editing single listing page Open one of Listivo's single listing templates in the Elementor editor, and pick which listing the editor shows while you work on it.
- Editing single ad templates using Elementor Page Builder Reshape the single ad page in Elementor: restyle a widget, move or delete elements, add custom fields, and preview the template against a re...
- Enable Reviews on Your Single Ad Page with Listivo 2.3.39 Switch on the Listivo reviews module, decide who may review and how reviews are moderated, and place the Ad Reviews widget on your single ad...
- Chat via WhatsApp Let buyers message a seller straight from a listing. This covers the WhatsApp setting in the Listivo Panel, the checkbox each user ticks for...
- Chat via Viber Control whether Listivo offers Viber chat, let your users mark their number as a Viber one, and place the Chat via Viber widget so that it a...
- Compare Feature Overview and How to Customize the Compare Page Learn how Listivo's Compare module lets visitors line up two or more ads side by side, where to switch it on, and how to edit the Compare pa...
- Loan Calculator on the single listing page Add the Loan Calculator widget to a Listivo single listing page, rename or translate its field labels, control the currency sign it shows, s...
- How to remove "Buy Now Pay Later" Take the "Buy Now Pay Later" loan calculator off your listing pages by deleting its widget from the single ad template in Elementor — and pu...
- Enable "Share on Facebook" button Turn on the "Share on Facebook" button by creating a free Facebook app and copying its App ID into your WordPress admin.
- Not supported: Facebook auto-post Our themes do not work with plugins that post your listings to Facebook automatically. Here is why, and what we suggest doing instead.
Ads in search results
- How to customize Ad Card and Featured Ad Card Ad cards are styled globally in Listivo, not on each listing. This article shows where the Ad Card and Featured Ad Card settings live in Ele...
- Description on a card Add the listing description to Listivo's ad cards with a small template override in your child theme, and clamp it to a few lines with CSS.
- Quick View Switch Quick View on so every ad card carries an eye icon that opens a popup preview of the ad, and decide which fields, colors and fonts th...
- PHP Customization: Display All Price Fields on the ad cards Show two or more price fields on a Listivo ad card - for example a sale price and a monthly rent - by overriding the card templates in your...
- Add phone number on listing card (PHP + CSS customization) Put the seller's phone number straight onto the listing card by adding a short PHP snippet to a child-theme copy of listing_card.php — eithe...
Prices and sold ads
- How to change currency and price format? Set which currency your listings are priced in and how the number itself looks — name, sign, sign position and format — from the Listivo Pan...
- How to add text after / before price e.g. /month Show a suffix or prefix next to your prices — /month, per day, "from" — by editing the Price custom field, and add extra price fields for re...
- How to set the multi-currency Run more than one currency on the same site by adding each extra currency, with its own sign, sign position and number format, in the Listiv...
- Marking Ads as Sold via Custom Field 'Offer Type' Build an "Offer Type" custom field so a listing can be switched between Active and Sold, show the Sold label on the ad card, and keep sold a...
Import, export and bulk edits
- Bulk add terms (Makes, Models, Cities etc) Add long lists of taxonomy terms to Listivo in one paste instead of creating them one by one — and build Make > Model style parent-child pai...
- Associate existing child record to existing parent record – Connect Terms (Parent/Child) Attach existing child terms to their parents in one click with Listivo's Connect Terms tool — the quickest fix after importing a database of...
- Listivo Panel Advanced Tools Learn what each button under Listivo Panel > Advanced > Tools does, so you can fix expired ads, missing term relations, leftover files, brok...
- WP All Export Install the free WP All Export plugin and export your Listivo listings to an XML or CSV file, choosing exactly which fields end up in it.
SEO and page addresses
- Comprehensive SEO Guide A map of every SEO lever the Listivo theme gives you — the built-in SEO tab, Yoast, friendly URLs, search-page meta, auto-generated ad title...
- How to Optimize Search Results Page for SEO: H1 Tags, Descriptions, and Meta Details Replace the generic heading on your Listivo search page with your own H1 and description, let category terms override it, and set the SEO ti...
- How to Use Breadcrumbs and How Canonical URLs Work How Listivo turns the fields you pick into breadcrumb trails and pretty URLs, which hierarchies it can follow and which it cannot, and how t...
- How to Customize URL Slugs for Search Results and Single Ad Pages Rename the /ad/ and /ads/ segments of your Listivo URLs from the Translate/Rename screen, and find out which parts of a search or single ad...
- Changing Theme URLs (Slugs) The URL parts that Listivo generates itself — listing, listings, pagination, the sorting options — are all editable in one place. This artic...
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