Adding Places

Places are the individual locations you recommend to your guests -- a favorite restaurant, a hidden beach, the nearest supermarket, or a must-visit attraction. Each place includes a name, description, photos, map pin, contact details, and tags so guests can find it easily and know what to expect.

How to add a place

1. Go to the Local Guide section in the sidebar.
2. Click "Add" (or open a category first, then click "Add" within it).
3. Fill in the place details (described in full below).
4. Click Save.

Place fields

Title

The name of the place (e.g., "Trattoria da Mario", "Playa de las Canteras", "Lidl Supermarket"). Keep it clear and recognizable -- this is the headline guests see when browsing. A URL-friendly slug is generated automatically from the title.

Category

Select which category this place belongs to (e.g., Restaurants, Beaches, Shopping). A place can also be left uncategorized, but assigning a category is recommended for better guest browsing.

Short description

A brief summary of 500 characters or fewer. This text appears in list views and category browsing, so make it count. Focus on what makes the place worth visiting:

• What type of food or cuisine (for restaurants)
• What makes it special or different
• Best time to visit
• Price range, if relevant

Body content (rich text)

A longer, detailed write-up using the rich text editor. Use this for in-depth descriptions, practical tips, directions, opening hours, or anything else guests should know. The rich text editor supports headings, bold, italic, lists, links, and images within the body.

Icon

Each place has a FontAwesome icon that appears on the map and in list views. The default is fa-solid fa-location-dot (a standard map pin). You can change this to better represent the place -- for example, fa-solid fa-utensils for a restaurant or fa-solid fa-umbrella-beach for a beach.

Featured image

Upload a photo to represent the place. This image appears in the place listing and the detail view.

Image uploads in the Local Guide are optimized into one of three types depending on where they are used:

• Featured -- The place photo (resized to fit large, full-width contexts)
• Icon -- Square icon-sized images (256x256)
• Category -- Category cover images

Images are compressed automatically to keep page load times fast. When a place is deleted, its images are cleaned up automatically.

TIP

Use a horizontal (landscape) photo for the best results. The featured image is displayed as a card, so vertical photos may be cropped awkwardly.

Location and map

Address and city

Enter the street address and city. These are shown to guests in the place detail view.

Latitude and longitude

To place a map pin, enter the latitude and longitude of the place in decimal format (e.g., 28.1235 for latitude, -15.4363 for longitude). These coordinates are what plot the pin on the guest-facing map.

To find coordinates, open Google Maps, right-click the spot (or long-press on mobile), and copy the latitude/longitude that appears, then paste each value into the matching field.

Google Maps URL

You can also save a Google Maps link for the place. This is stored as-is and shown to guests as a clickable "Open in Google Maps" link in the place detail view. It is a convenience link only -- it does not set or change the latitude/longitude, which you enter manually.

WARNING

Double-check your map pins after adding them. Incorrect latitude/longitude values place the pin in the wrong location, sending guests to the wrong place.

Contact details

Phone

A phone number for the place. Guests can tap this to call directly from the guidebook on mobile devices.

Website

A URL to the place's website or social media page. Shown as a clickable link in the guest view.

Status and visibility

Published / Draft

Toggle whether the place is visible to guests. A place set to draft is only visible in the admin view and will not appear in any guidebook, regardless of linking. This lets you prepare content in advance and publish when ready.

Host Tip

Mark a place as your personal top recommendation. Host Tip places:

• Display a special Host Tip badge in the guest view, signaling your personal endorsement
• Are sorted to the top of results, appearing before other places in the same category
• Help guests quickly identify your very best recommendations

Use this sparingly -- if every place is a Host Tip, the distinction loses its value. Reserve it for the 2-3 places per category that you would recommend to a friend.

Highlight

Flag a place as a highlight to mark it as one of your standout picks. Highlight is a place-level flag you can also filter on in the admin list (see "Filtering and searching" below), making it easy to keep track of your best recommendations across categories.

TIP

Host Tip and Highlight serve different purposes. Host Tip affects how places are sorted in the guest view -- Host Tip places are always shown first within their category. Highlight is a flag for your own organisation and admin filtering. A place can be both a Host Tip and a Highlight.

Tags

Tags let you add a second layer of filtering beyond categories. Select one or more tags for each place to help guests narrow down results.

Creating tags

There are no preset tags -- you create tags as you need them. While editing a place, add a new tag on the fly (e.g., "Family Friendly", "Budget", "Hidden Gem", "Walking Distance") and it becomes available to reuse on other places. Build up a tag vocabulary that fits your area and the way your guests browse.

Global vs. guidebook-specific tags

• Global tags are available across all your guidebooks. If you tag a restaurant as "Family Friendly", that tag appears in every guidebook where the restaurant is linked.
• Guidebook-specific tags are only available within a single guidebook. This is useful when a tag only makes sense in a specific context (e.g., "Near the Beach House" would not be relevant in a city apartment guidebook).

Tags also have a color (hex code) and support translations in all 24 languages, so they display correctly for international guests.

How guests use tags

In the guest view, tags appear as filter buttons. Guests can select one or more tags to narrow the list of places. For example, selecting "Family Friendly" and "Walking Distance" shows only places that have both tags.

Translations

Every text field on a place supports translation into 24 languages:

English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, and Ukrainian.

The translatable fields are:

• Title -- The place name in the target language
• Short description -- The 500-character summary
• Body content -- The full rich-text description

To add translations:

1. Open the place for editing.
2. Find the Translations section.
3. Select a language and enter the translated title, short description, and/or body.
4. Repeat for each language you want to support.
5. Save the place.

The guest's browser language is detected automatically. If a translation exists for their language, it is used; otherwise, the default content is shown.

Filtering and searching in the admin view

The admin list view provides several tools to manage large numbers of places:

• Search -- Find places by title or city using the search bar.
• Filter by category -- Show only places in a specific category, or filter for uncategorized items.
• Filter by status -- Show all places, only published, or only drafts.
• Filter by tag -- Show only places with a specific tag.
• Filter by highlight -- Show only highlighted places (or only non-highlighted).
• Filter by Host Tip -- Show only Host Tip places (or only non-tips).
• Sort -- Order results by title, category, city, published status, highlight, Host Tip, or creation date, in ascending or descending order.

Reordering places

Places within a category are displayed in the order you set. To change the order:

1. Open the category containing the places.
2. Drag and drop places to rearrange them.
3. The new order is saved automatically.

Put your top recommendations at the top of the list so guests see the best options first. Note that Host Tip places are always shown first regardless of manual sort order.

Editing and deleting places

• To edit a place, click on it to open the detail view. Update any field and click Save.
• To delete a place, open it and use the delete option. The place and its images are removed immediately.

Related

• Local Guide Overview
• Setting Up Categories
• Linking to a Guidebook
• Guidebooks -- Display your local recommendations within a guidebook