charlievaughan

I’ve tracked down what is causing the problem by uninstalling all the non GeoDirectory plugins at a blog and network level.

I’m using a multisite install (version 4.3.1–en_GB).

It looks like the plugin WordPress MU Domain Mapping (version 0.5.5.1) that I use to map my domains to individual blogs is conflicting with GeoDirectory. When I turn this off on a network level after clicking on a link to the add listing page (when not logged in) I get redirected to the login / register forms correctly.

This is a problem. I might have to find an alternative plugin to map my domains.

I think my solution to add descriptions to tag pages looks like it will work.

Here’s a plugin that looks like it will allow be to content manage the descritpions: Rich Text Tags plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/rich-text-tags/

And here’s a tutorial that explains what I intend to do in greater detail:

HOW TO: Hack Tag Descriptions into WordPress Themes and Boost Your SEO: http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/tutorials/wp-tagdescriptions/

Thanks for your help.

Ok I’ve been playing with this for a while.

So it looks like what I would like to do is show a block of copy when people search for listings near a location or tags that are locations.

So I went to GeoDirectory > Multilocations > Location Settings > Wish to enable neighbourhoods? > checked to enable Neighbourhood options.

So now when I go to GeoDirectory > Multilocations > Manage Location, there are 33 City Neighbourhood(s) in my database. I can edit these neighbourhoods individually and fill the ‘City Meta’ and ‘City Description’ fields.

I can see how these options might be able to store the copy I need for SEO, assuming the description field allows for unlimited characters. But I’ll need to figure out what the variable is that inserts this field into the PHP templates so I can reuse the value for visible body copy.

Although I think ideally I’d prefer to have something more granular and set copy based on location and custom post type eg “Hotels in Camden” and “Pubs in Islington”.

Firstly when I save a new meta and description value on this form, my changes aren’t being saved and have reverted to the values for the default location eg: “london meta”, “london description”. So I’m not able to set these individually.

Secondly I can’t see where these two fields are being used in my site. The only description meta in the source is blank when I search for listings in a location:

<meta property="og:description" content="">

If I search for listings in ‘Camden’ or ‘London’ I’m assuming the SEO settings for Meta and Description would be used for the HTML keyword and description meta data? But when I do this, I can’t see the meta and description I saved for the default location or the neighbourhood.

I’m using the latest version of Geodirectory v1.4.2. I think I found the code you were referring to between lines 1773 to 1786:

$my_post['post_title'] = $post_title;
$my_post['post_content'] = $post_desc;
$my_post['post_type'] = addslashes($buffer[5]);
$my_post['post_author'] = $current_post_author;
$my_post['post_status'] = 'draft';
$my_post['post_category'] = $catids_arr;
$my_post['post_tags'] = $tag_arr;

$gd_post_info['post_tags'] = $tag_arr;
$gd_post_info['post_title'] = $post_title;
$gd_post_info['post_status'] = 'draft';
$gd_post_info['submit_time'] = time();
$gd_post_info['submit_ip'] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

As you can see above I changed ‘publish’ to ‘draft’. This didn’t work even after reinstalling all my Geodirectory plugins.

I then did a search of the plugin codebase and found the same block of code in admin_hooks_actions.php lines 1486 to 1498.

After also changing both of those references to ‘draft’ this has worked, with the uploaded listings being marked as ‘draft’ and without me having to reinstall anything!

By the way, the reason I want to do this is so I can schedule my listings to go live over an extended period of time using Drafts Scheduler plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/drafts-scheduler/). This is so Google hopefully judges my site as being regularly updated for improved SEO.

This didn’t work for me, it went straight to published. Also I was previously using a column called “post_status” for one of my own custom fields (now changed).

Is there any documentation for all of the columns Geodirectory may potentially be looking for (other than the ones in the dummy CSV file), just in case I might be using clashing column names for something else?

Also is it advised to follow the column order in the dummy CSV exactly, or does it not matter?

Should my own custom columns all go at the end?