Breadcumbed Links - can they default to NEAR not IN

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October 21, 2019 at 5:42 pm #514131

adriangraham
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Hi guys,

Day one of GD2 upgrade, massive improvement. Thanks. One thing, the breadcrumbs that are effectively pages for a location – can I easily make them default to “near” and not “in”. Let me briefly explain.

See attached for a google search result for “creches in Dublin 5″… Dublin 5 being a district of Dublin, Ireland.

The resulting page:
https://www.childcarefinder.ie/childcare/ireland/dublin/dublin-5/

show 3 listings – for 3 creches that are marked as being IN dublin 5.

However within my website if I search for creches in Dublin 5 I get this link:

https://www.childcarefinder.ie/search/?geodir_search=1&county=Dublin&snear_town=McAuley+Park%2C+Dublin+5%2C+Dublin&s=+&stype=gd_place&snear=McAuley+Park%2C+Dublin+5%2C+Dublin&spost_category%5B%5D=&sgeo_lat=53.3827893&sgeo_lon=-6.1912874

All of which are in Dublin 5 – but might not have “Dublin 5” as the exact city/area.

Can the breadcrumbed pages default to NEAR so it would show all listings actually in/around the selected area?

Thanks a million

Adrian

October 21, 2019 at 7:58 pm #514155

Alex Rollin
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Unfortunately this setting is not currently available.

I have taken this up as a suggestion and will share it with our development team to see whether we can work on this in the near future.

October 21, 2019 at 8:23 pm #514163

adriangraham
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October 21, 2019 at 8:26 pm #514165
Alex Rollin
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You can turn off the link behavior on the breadcrumbs with CSS
Something like:
```
.link a {
    pointer-events: none!important;
}
```
There isn’t a workaround at this time.
October 21, 2019 at 8:31 pm #514167

adriangraham
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Thanks Alex,

I implemented that CSS – but I can still see the breadcrumbs on the site. Is it the breadcrumbs on listing pages that you meant to hide?

Thanks

Adrian

October 21, 2019 at 8:32 pm #514168

adriangraham
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October 21, 2019 at 8:34 pm #514169

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October 21, 2019 at 9:36 pm #514191

Alex Rollin
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pointer-events: none!important; is an example for turning off ‘clicking’ for a link.

GD doesn’t include breadcrumbs in core. Instead we have an integration with Yoast. Yours are probably coming from your theme, they are usually a theme function.

October 22, 2019 at 9:48 am #514257

adriangraham
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October 22, 2019 at 11:01 pm #514351

Alex Rollin
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October 28, 2019 at 10:50 am #515127

Stiofan O’Connor
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We don’t actually create the breadcrumbs, these are 3rd party, usually they would be controlled by what is in the url which you can adjust under the permalinks settings.

If you mean things like category links please look at the setting GD > Locations > (Advanced) Archive urls on details page.

Thanks,

Stiofan

October 28, 2019 at 5:03 pm #515167

adriangraham
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Hi Stiofan,

The onscreen breadcrumbs are not the issue… they just “bring you” to the the issue. The issue is detailed in the 1st post above. Do you need more info from me to explain? If so let me know and I will try to flesh out the example… but basically – GeoDirectory in “CPT -> category” pages only shows very limited results…. instead of a wider search for results in that area. Lots of cities will suffer the same issue… where gd_place listings only get a chance to be listed/linked in ONE area in the CPT generated area URLs like:

https://www.childcarefinder.ie/childcare/ireland/dublin/portmarnock/

These are links which google seems to very much favor for listing.

Disappointed that a serious issue I raised a week ago has been clouded by me mentioned breadcrumbs… my fault probably….but breadcrumbs only highlight the issue.

Hoping you can have a think for possible alternatives for me

Thanks a mil

Adrian

October 28, 2019 at 5:05 pm #515168

adriangraham
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The option you mention:

“Add current url location to the archive page urls” in GD > Locations > (Advanced)

If I disable that…what will that do exactly for my example? COuld be the answer – but I am not sure

Thanks as always

Adrian

October 28, 2019 at 7:06 pm #515178

Alex Rollin
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Try it out, if you like. It is also non-destructive.

The main benefit would be sending to the main category/the-category page, instead of one targeted to a specific location.
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