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September 15, 2014 at 4:46 am #15385

zauberer
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Hi,

I want to build a directory of arts. I want people to search for:
Where ? (city) What ? (which kind of art) and for which festive occasion (wedding, birthday, aniversary,…)

What’s the best structure for building this directory ?
I thought of using CPT for every kind of art (darwing, oil painting, sculpturing) but how should I create the festive occasions ? Because they appear in every CPT.
Example:
City: Stuttgart
Art: oil painting
occasion: wedding
But the same appears for
City: Stuttgart
Art: sculpturing
occasion: wedding

Should I use categories for the occasions ? How did you guys solve this ?
Any advice would be great – thanks for your help.

September 15, 2014 at 11:59 am #15401

Guust
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Either CTP with categories, or categories with subcategories.
Either way, you will either have two categories or two subcategories named the same. That is not a problem, but it will mean you will have two categories listed in a popular category widget with the same name.

http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/places-categories-and-listings/

September 15, 2014 at 12:57 pm #15419

zauberer
Free User

Post count: 39

Thanks for your reply. Is it possible to solve this with another solution ?

September 15, 2014 at 4:55 pm #15460

zauberer
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I want to give my users the ability to filter for these things:
Where ? (city) What ? (which kind of art) and which ? (occasion)

Does the advanced filter allow me to do this ? If so: what can I filter ? only CPTs or CPTs and categories ? Or does it allow me to have 3 dropdown menues to filter for:
[CPT] [Category] [SubCategory]

September 15, 2014 at 7:02 pm #15475

Paolo
Site Admin

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Hi,

you can do that by using only 1 CPT and category and subcategory instead of using multiple CPT. Than you can create custom fields for “occasions” that is enabled for all categories.

Let us know if this could be ideal.

Thx

September 15, 2014 at 7:23 pm #15478

zauberer
Free User

Post count: 39

How can this be done ? What is the only CPT I need ? Sorry but I’m confused. What can I do with the custom filed ? Is it searchable ?
Can you please give me an example ? That would be great – thanks.

September 15, 2014 at 7:28 pm #15480

Paolo
Site Admin

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Use only the default CPT Places.

All your art should be categories: oil painting, sculpturing and so on.

Go to Places settings and create the custom field for occasions.

It could be a select, with all your occasions as options. Make it available for all categories and at the end you will see a checkbox to enable it as advance filter. Tick that and save, than go to Advance Search Tab and add your new filter to the right box to enable it.

This will appear in the search box when clicking on customize my search.

I hope it is clearer now.

September 15, 2014 at 7:48 pm #15482

zauberer
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Great! Many thanks for this explanation. I didn’t think it is so easy with geodirectory…
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