John Overend

Thanks Alex. The categories seem to be working fine now, and on the home page clicking the categories does now show the whole category, not an arbitrary location.

I’m guessing there was a conflict with the Redirection plugin?

There are still a couple of issues:

We had set it all up just for the UK, and UK was not showing in the urls, but it is still now showing US as an option in the ‘near’ box and the place urls have UK in them. It also seems, if you select what you’re looking for first it goes off to a full list before you can enter a geographic location (home page http://www.carsuk.net/motoring-directory).

We need to add a set of quick links to the home page for ‘Popular’ locations, but if we do that now it would go to /united-kingdom/location, which will all break if it can be put back to how it was.

Edit: I note you actually turned WP Rocket off. We have cleared the cache after every change made, but would you recommend leaving it off whilst we’re working on it?

Thanks.

John

Thanks Kor. It would be appreciated.

John

I have fixed the ‘Philadelphia only’ problem by re-doing the settings which look to have gone wrong after we activated the redirection plugin to start sorting that out. I seem to remember this affected settings when we were playing before we started adding information. Perhaps it’s a conflict?

But, and I assume it was the same cause, we can still not add new categories. Help would be appreciated.

Thanks Alex. It looks like we’ve fixed the category stuff heading to the main pages rather than a specific location.

The meta stuff was really related to how the listings are displayed (for example under featured listings).

We have modified the amount by limiting it to 100px, but that looks a bit poor, and what we’d really like to do is use the excerpt which would make the information consistent on every listing. The note about meta description related to the fact that GD seems to be using the entire content of the listings as the meta description.

We tried, but if we stick the whole dive we use on the home page for the directory in place of the shortcode for search at the bottom of the template it tries to render it in the middle of the page.

We’re also finding that all category links, whether on the listings pages or in the featured categories on the home page, seem to default to ‘Oxfordshire’rather than the national listing categories.

Thanks Kor. That seems to work. Will it still work if we decide to put the same search box with background image we use on the home page (http://www.carsuk.net/motoring-directory/) on the detail pages?

The other queries?

John

The fix also removed the search bar we’d put at the bottom of the listings page so readers have somewhere logical to go when they get to the bottom of the page.