Advice on how to structure the GeoDirectory

If I understand you correctly, you will use GD for one country only. To do this:
1. Set a default location anywhere in the country
2. Set the MultiLocation settings to “enable default country”, and set multi-region and multi-city
3. Regions and cities will automatically be added as you start adding listings or events

For the menu (which sounds like a really big menu) you might want to look for a sitemap plugin maybe, or use the normal WordPress menu.
GD has some widgets you can use that will link to your categories etc, and you can add all custom post types to your main menu etc, but GD does not come with something like you describe.

Let us know if there is anything else we can help with.

Please have a look at http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/sitemap/
I realise it is a work in progress, but the main things that should help you are:
http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/basic-installation/
http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/layout/
http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/places-categories-and-listings/

1. If you step through http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/basic-installation/ you will have the structure set up correctly to start adding categories and listings.
If you do not want to install the dummy data, this is the process to get your site started once you finished the installation.

A. Add the Location Manager (MultiLocations) addon
http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/installing-addons/

B. If you want to rename Places, install Custom Post Types add-on, and go to
GD > Custom Post Types > Edit the Places CTP

C. Create at least one category:
WP admin > Places > Places Categories

D. Now you can create a listing:
WP admin > Places > Add New

2. There is no need to to anything else than I first noted:

1. Set a default location anywhere in the country
2. Set the MultiLocation settings to “enable default country”, and set multi-region and multi-city
3. Regions and cities will automatically be added as you start adding listings or events

So all you have to do is to create a default location, there is no need to do anything else before listings can be added to any other city in your chosen country

3. Look at this article:
http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/places-categories-and-listings/
Listings will automatically be added to the chosen category and city.
If you have a default location set up and at least one category, adding a test listing will give you a good idea.
You can always try to add a listing here to see how it works in a standard installation: http://wpgeo.directory/add-listing/

Hi and welcome.

1 Cities and Regions will be added dynamically by users, while adding listings for regions and cities that are not yet in your database.

2 you can chose to that manually, but that will reslult in a lot pages without results.

3 Events is just another Custom Post Type (with different fields). There are no differences between Places and Events setup.

4 Go to GeoDirectory >> Place settings for example and create any type of custom fields. In each custom field settings, you can enable them as extra filters in advance search. Once enabled it will appear in GeoDirectory >> Places settings >> Advance search tab and it can be activated and used in search.

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thx

Can you please tell us which cities you cannot add?
You can add a URL of your site in a private message, if you like, that makes things easier.
And your WP admin details as well, that way we can check your settings if we have to.

Hi,

google maps API dont work properly on localhosts sometimes.

I’d suggest to install in a live server so we can also help you better.

Yes users can add new locations that are not in your database, by simply adding a new listing for the location they want to create.

Let us know,

Hi,

we don’t collect Members Geographical information, so I wouldn’t really know who’s arabic, whose not and who may have already transalted in Arabic both the core and the addons.

I would try posting here wit5h a topic titled : Arabic Translation? To see if anyone answer or if you can create a workgroup to split the translation between members and cut time and effort…

At the moment there is only one po file for both front and back end. I will ask to the developers to look into splitting po/mo file for front and back end, but I can’t promise when this will be done.

Thanks