Business Genre Dropdown

Firts, I couldn’t keep the word ‘genre’. Had to change it, used (Category) instead….

Secondly, there is not a ‘BLANK’ or — Select a Category — position for the dropdown. The first title is the first category in your list. If a user does not see the category which describes their business and does not select any of those listed the first in the list will be displayed as their category.

I worked around this by creating a new category and namining it “————“. Then I add a ‘desrciption’ to the dropdown which states, “(Required, Please use the box below if you do not see your (category) listed in the drop-down.)”

Now, if a user doesn’t see their category they can enter it into the new form field “Name Your Category”. I keep this field turned off to being displayed. I have also added this ‘description’ “(Use this box ONLY if you did not see your (Category) in the drop-down above.)”

Then when I edit the pending listing I can create the new category.

So far so good… However, now the problem is that the new “——-” category does also show up on the Category listing page with a post count of (0).

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