Eric Wyatt
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Ok, so the main focus is categories, which is what I was thinking. Could tags be used for a secondary differentiator? For example, the directory I am working on is for a rule community comprising of 6 towns. Each town is at a minimum three miles apart. Could I use a tag for each town such as “Smith Town”, “Johns Town”, “Marys Town” and so forth. And then use those tags as filters in searches or listings etc?
Ok, I understand what custom post types are. However, I don’t believe you are following what I was asking originally. When I installed GeoDirectory It created the Places custom post type. With this “CPT” creation, it also created “Place Tags” and “Place Categories” which, when I go to populate a CSV file for mass uploading are fields that need populated. What is the difference between “Post Categories” and “Post Tags”?
I have gone through the documentation and even done searches on “Tags vs Categories” and even just “Place Tags” with NO results the only thing that comes up is Place Categories.
Are Place Tags just a by-product of WordPress creating a Custom Post Type or is it something I need to use as the CSV template leads me to believe? If I do need to use it how does GEO Directory utilize it and what is it best used for?
Further, consider this “step” in the page you linked to, Alex:
5. If one CPT “Restaurants” has a category “general”, then a second CPT “Hotels” with a category “general” will automatically be assigned a slug pf “general-1” because all slugs must be unique all throughout the site.
This implies that CPTs are different than categories, which muddies the water. Just in this one, single “step” it is assumed that I will know (1) what a CPT is, (2) what a category is, and (3) what a slug is. Yet NOWHERE that I can find do you explain what any of these things are and, more importantly, how they relate to each other (and how tags play into the mix).
If I cannot get my head around the pieces conceptually, it is impossible for me to us GD efficiently or effectively. I’m looking for that conceptual framework that seems to be missing.
That helps a bit, Alex. It still doesn’t answer what categories (what you refer to as “CPTs”) are actually for. For instance, can they be used only for “places,” as indicated in the link you provided? Or can they be used to categorize in other ways (such as restaurant, pharmacy, truck driving, etc.)?
Or is that what tags are for? You never addressed that, and it is the biggest conceptual hurdle for me — what are each (categories and tags) used for, and how do they relate to each other?
