Auto Geolocate for Search Near

Hi Kenny, Guust is right, the near box does not geolocate you at the moment but it will geolocate any location u put in. However i can tell you that this feature is being worked on and is 50% complete so it won’t be too long before it is released.

Thanks,

Stiofan

The GeoDir Share Location plugin indeed locates the visitor, then checks your database to see what location is closest to them, and then serves that page.

For example, if I am in New York, and you only have a listing in Las Vegas and a listing in Los Angeles, then your site will take me the Las Vegas page because that is closest to my location.

HI Kenny, we are in the middle of improving all aspects of the near search, i would hold off a week or so if u can as it sounds like why you want may be included in these improvements.

Stiofan

Kenny, yes, that should be in the GD core plugin.

I think what you are describing is the result of your GD Share Location addon, and that you have chosen not to share your location.
That is nothing to do with the GD search function.

Let us know if I misunderstood, and if you want us to look at your settings, post your admin details in a private message.

You have no location switcher on the apge anywhere which i think is part of the problem.

Stiofan

You can add it to your menu or use a text widget and shortcode.

#1 menu: GD>multilocation>Show location switcher in menu
also GD>design>permalinks>Show geodirectory navigation in selected menu locations

#2 shortcode: put the following in functions.php to allow shortcodes to be parsed in text widgets:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

Then just create a text-widget next to search with the following shortcode:

[geodir_location_tab_switcher autoredirect="1"]

If using the shortcode, you should include it once on every page, maybe at the top of every sidebar.

Stiofan