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This topic contains 15 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by  nycinsider 7 years, 11 months ago.

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  • May 20, 2016 at 7:48 pm #195330

    nycinsider
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    I have gone through every navigation setting to get the Add Place/Event info right on my menu (it’s a secondary menu – not the primary). But i am still really confused about Login.

    I added Login as a page on the menu. But whether you are logged in or not, it still says Login. My Theme (newspaper) has an option to add Login to the menu.

    If I choose the Theme login – then the pop up window goes to their login screen (for WP, not GD), which is not the GD login. However, once you are logged in, it shows the user’s name and associated photo (if they used social media) and I REALLY like the friendliness of that. It was more like GT which had Welcome, Username.

    If I choose the GD login – it always just says Login. And if you are logged in and click Login, it takes you to the home page. You can still add and event or place from the menu, but the login just doesn’t work.

    Is there any way to get the best of both worlds here? Use GD’s login capabilities, with a recognition of the user once they are logged in?

    BTW – successfully converted GT to GD. So far so good – other than the dozen questions I have

    May 20, 2016 at 8:15 pm #195349

    nycinsider
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    Adding on:
    When I am logged in, and click Upgrade Listing, nothing happens. It just refreshes the screen and stays on the same page. And for now, I do have that dashboard widget on the page.

    May 21, 2016 at 2:30 am #195544

    Guust
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    GD uses the GD login (dashboard) widget to provide links to login or logout.
    Depending on the theme you use and other plugins you might have that might be changed.
    We will need your URL and WP admin details in a private reply to investigate any further.

    May 21, 2016 at 3:14 pm #195724

    nycinsider
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    May 21, 2016 at 11:45 pm #195862

    Guust
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    Have a look at your /location/ page. You have the login widget there.
    I would remove the link to /gd-login/ in the menu and add the GD Login widget on the same spot on every page.

    Using the GD Login widget everything works fine, but when trying to login from /gd-login/ does not work. There seems to be a conflict maybe with the social login plugin or the redirect plugin. I’ll escalate for you.

    May 22, 2016 at 2:44 pm #196054

    nycinsider
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    What is the /location/ page???

    GD is a plug in – and needs to start acting like it. No other plugin says you need a 3 inch widget on every page to make it work. Or tries to style it’s content (like circle bullets that fall off the page?). Let the plug in be a plug in and keep the theme aspect separate – telling me to put a huge widget on every page of my site is telling me how to design my site.

    There is no option where I am going to put a widget on every page on my site (and I don’t even know how it will work on my non GD pages). It needs to be a link on a top menu or header. And I have very specific directions for submissions – in GT I was able to send everyone to my instructions page and from THERE was a link to log in to submit events. You HAD to read my instructions to submit anything.

    That’s how GT had it. And it also had a nice way of welcoming people with their username. Why make this huge widget if it doesn’t even do that?

    May 22, 2016 at 3:04 pm #196086

    nycinsider
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    Did you change my Permalink settings?????? Please don’t do things to my site without my permission.

    May 22, 2016 at 9:53 pm #196254

    Guust
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    To find your /location page, just enter the URL of your site in front or /location, eg http://mysite.com/location

    If you want a login in your header, then you can use the GDF theme or maybe some other theme. GD is a plugin, not a theme, so it has no control over what happens in your header, that is up to the theme.

    You do not need a 3 inch widget on every page to make it work. It will work by adding that just to one page. But since you wanted to add a login to every page, I suggested to add the login widget to every page.

    If you can tell us where circle bullets fall off the page we can provide some CSS if you cannot fix it yourself, sometimes the theme styling takes over the GD styling: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/customizing-your-style/

    You can create a page to put your instructions and then link to the submission pages.

    I changed your permalinks trying to find your error, they were set incorrectly: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/basic-installation/#postnames

    May 22, 2016 at 10:11 pm #196269

    nycinsider
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    GD is supposed to be a plugin – but you make it act like a theme. That’s the problem. Do you have any idea of how insane you sound to someone who already has a website?

    1) If you want a login in your menu or header (the way it was on GT) – be prepared to give up style, formatting, breadcrumbs, sidebars, widgets and every other useful functionality for your 1000+ posts and pages that are NOT based on your plugin

    2) Permalinks – in order to work with GD, you must change the links on EVERY PAGE of your whole site, be willing to accept 1500+ Google Webmaster Tool Errors (which you did when you changed them) and lose ALL of your link juice, social media, etc you’ve built up over the last XX years.

    3) The formatting problems are NOT with the theme. My posts/pages look great. It’s the GD formatting that makes them look terrible. It is overriding the theme at every level – Headers, fonts, bullets, etc.

    The plugin should act like a plugin. Not try to be a theme or override a perfectly good one.

    May 22, 2016 at 10:18 pm #196270

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    May 22, 2016 at 10:31 pm #196273

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    May 22, 2016 at 10:41 pm #196276

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    May 22, 2016 at 10:49 pm #196280

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    It seems like you don’t consider that you are using a theme that we didn’t make 100% compatible nor did its author.

    You can’t pretend that 2 products that were not meant to be 100% integrated, worked like if they were 100% integrated.

    If you want perfect integration, be prepared to do some customizations.

    GD permalinks are better than GT permalinks. 301 redirects are the solution webmasters used forever when changing platform.

    Formatting problems are again due to the fact that theme doesn’t provide style for the plugin elements. When missing, you are expected to add them. We can’t add styling for every theme out there nor we can make templates that will adapt to any theme.

    The plugin isn’t trying to do the theme, we are adding our own templates and that is to only way to have custom sidebars for a plugin. Just like woocommerce, Buddypress and countless other plugins do.

    Thanks

    May 22, 2016 at 11:04 pm #196285

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    May 22, 2016 at 11:51 pm #196289

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