Connect two types of CPT together

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June 25, 2018 at 3:51 pm #436108

Dawn
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Hi,

Is it possible to connect two types of CPT together? e.g. company / supplier and jobs completed?

e.g. tiler and tiling jobs completed? And it is also possible to connect these both to a geographical location?

I saw the linking thing with CPT but wasn’t sure that was what it referred to.

June 25, 2018 at 4:24 pm #436111

Alex Rollin
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It is possible to link one CPT to another CPT, yes.

Here’s a doc about it: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/linking-custom-post-types/

June 25, 2018 at 4:29 pm #436112

Dawn
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Thanks Alex.

And can they be linked to a geographical location?

June 25, 2018 at 4:29 pm #436113

Dawn
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Also can they both link to a category?

June 25, 2018 at 4:35 pm #436116

Alex Rollin
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GeoDirectory automatically collects listings together based on the address.

If your site uses the locaiton in the URL then there will be location pages for every country/region/city.

Category s a required field for every listing, so, all listings are also collected together, too.

These types of pages are called “Listing” pages and you can add widgets to the the GD Listing or GD Home page widget areas to show Location Description, Category Description, and of course listing widgets like GD Popular Post View.

June 25, 2018 at 4:41 pm #436117

Dawn
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June 25, 2018 at 4:44 pm #436119

Dawn
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Is this because I have not added something I wonder?

June 25, 2018 at 4:48 pm #436123

Paolo
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The map is not loading at all for me, so there must be an error somewhere.

Please provide admin credentials.

Let us know,

Thanks

June 25, 2018 at 4:51 pm #436127

Dawn
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June 25, 2018 at 8:01 pm #436144

Dawn
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Hi,

Should I be able to see a listing in a town with all the companies in that town?

I’m concerned something is wrong.

June 25, 2018 at 8:03 pm #436145

Alex Rollin
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Hello,

some of your GD plugins are not yet up to date.

Please install WP Easy Updates to update your addons.

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/installing-addons/#updates

Currently you are not using the location in the URL. Visit the settings at GD permalinks to set the full location in the URL or at least the region and city if the directory is focused on only the UK (one country).

We recommend that you set the full location in the URL and add the category, too.

Once plugins are updated we can take another look.

June 25, 2018 at 8:15 pm #436154

Dawn
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Hi,

I want to not have the location in the service name though as these are profile pages and don’t need the location (or shouldn’t need the location). none of the sites in this niche use the location in the URLs of their members e.g.

What happens if the member moves to another location? It’s really not good if the listings solely rely on the user location because then it’s actually not a proper profile page at all.

Is this the case?

June 25, 2018 at 8:29 pm #436162

Dawn
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Hi Alex,

It works on this site:

https://www.toptradespeople.co.uk/i/location/essex-1/

The locations are there and so are the services in the locations.

Is it possible to get something like https://www.toptradespeople.co.uk/i/services/plumbers/essex which then outputs a list of the plumbers in Essex

The profile pages would be like the ones listed in the page:

https://www.toptradespeople.co.uk/i/location/essex-1/

June 25, 2018 at 11:19 pm #436169

Guust
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You can just un-tick
GD > Permalinks > Add location slug in listing urls

That will remove the location for detail pages.

June 26, 2018 at 8:04 am #436196

Dawn
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