Conflict issue with WPMU directory

Also just noticed that when clicking on the dummy listings, I get a 404 error. Is this related at all?

Thanks so much for any help 🙂

Hi Stiofan

Thanks for your reply.

Problem is I need the general dog products and services directory to be completely separate to the dog friendly accommodation directory, that isn’t possible with WPMU and I’m guessing it’s not with Geodirectory either is it?

Thanks

Sally

I don’t know John, that would be something new for me, but I’d be willing to give it a go if I could separate everything properly. I too find WPMU infuriatingly unusable and the support so slow I spent 6 months trying to get one directory working properly. It still isn’t! Do you know where I can work out how to do this with the custom post types?

Hi Paolo

Thanks for the explanation.

My main issue is the conflict at the moment – because the existing wpmu directory at http://www.thehouseofdog.co.uk/dog-services/ which is for products/services other than the holiday accommodation one i’m trying to build now is the only way I have of getting any income from the site (it’s set up to receive payments). I need this to be able to receive payments for me to ever be able to afford to buy the geodirectories addon to get that one accepting payments.

Is there a way with geodirectories to stop people from adding their own listings, and I instead create a form to collect their details, invoice them and charge them independently, then add their listings myself, as a temporary measure? Perhaps this is a way I could get everything on geodirectories for the time being? Then once I have a few people pay I can buy the addon to get it all automated?

Thanks

Sally

Sorry, it’s me, yet again!

I changed the /location page to /dogfriendly, and also the setting in location url prefix to dogfriendly, and we now have listings working! No 404 error! Hurray!

Still have the issue that the add listing link on geodir takes me to the add listing on wpmu dir page, so I could do with removing that option for now. Hopefully once wpmu is gone eventually this issue will disappear?

So, if anyone could just give me a little advice on what can be done about stopping people from adding listings, and me do them manually myself, that would be great at this point. I think if I can set this up so I can just invoice them for now, we’ll be good to go!

(I’ll need to somehow make sure enquiries go to the person who paid for the listing, rather than me too, if that would be possible?)

Thanks for your help!

Sally

Ah thank you Stiofan! Found it! Would just like to say, the support here is SO much better than WPMU!

I will definitly look into that 4 month package as soon as finances allow!

I’m now trying to work out some other things which I’m struggling with, like the map only letting me choose the default location for new listings, and the general layout of the /dogfriendly page, but is there some documentation somewhere I can refer to to help me to work it out, rather than hassling you guys constantly? 🙂

If I do have a question I just can’t work out, like the ones above, is it best to start a new thread for each issue, or continue on this one?

Apologies for my newness to geodirectory, and probably daft questions, but so far I’m loving the plugin. Just hope I can get it set up! 🙂

Oh no… If I need multilocations right now I’m stuck again 🙁

Is there a way to turn off the map/location feature for now and have users select from a drop down list the location they want?

I can wait for the custom post type add on by just listing the holiday accommodation section for now (I think?) I’ve set up categories with types of holiday accommodation. Eventually when I can afford the add on, I will get everything from the wpmu directory transferred over to this one in its own ‘post type’ (I think, am I working this out right?)

So just to clarify, does the custom post type mean I will be able to pin point a specific section of the directory by its url and link to it to show just that part? My problem with wpmu (amongst many!) is that I can’t separate the holiday accommodation section from the home made dog biscuits, collars, leads etc! Take a look at http://www.thehouseofdog.co.uk/dog-services/ and you’ll see my drop down menu is a huge jumbled mess. Click on any of the categories, and the drop down menu disappears. It’s not easy to navigate. The thing my holiday cottage owning visitors have mostly complained about when I’ve asked them why they wouldn’t pay for a listing is because there is not one clear specific section which just displays holiday accommodation. But I notice with geodirectory, when I visit http://www.thehouseofdog.co.uk/places/ it just displays everything in that section, with the search bar. Will the search bar just focus on that section too once within that page? If not, can I force it too just when on that page?

I too found wpmu plugins overly complicated and the support just pretty pathetic really, to say you’d paid for it, I get a faster response from the wordpress forums! To top it all off, absolutely every plugin I used had ridiculous limitations which required ‘custom coding’ for the things I wanted them to do.. which conveniently they had a panel of people ready to charge for! If I knew how to code, I would have built my own plugin >:( Even now, I am waiting for help from a guy with what should be a pretty basic part of the directory plugin to work, and my latest email back to him was 2 weeks ago with no response still. Never again! How I wish I’d spent that cash on geodirectory instead grrr. Hindsight is a wonderful thing 🙁

Anyway, I’m keeping my fingers and toes crossed I can do something temporarily about the locations part? Pretty please say yes? lol 😀