foodtrucks2u

My website developer put in the coding for the featured listings to show up first in the directory.

I’m afraid this function does not change the search results to show Featured listings first. i’ve implemented this code and tested the term “chip on a stick”. The last result is a featured listing. Didn’t make any difference to my searches with or without the code being added.

This function needs to work on my website as it is part of the membership benefits. Please let me know how to make this work urgently.

Danielle

Hello

This is the search result: https://www.foodtrucks2u.com.au/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_place&s=chip+on+a+stick&snear=&sgeo_lat=&sgeo_lon=

My website developer has said that he thinks geodirectory uses the Title before content as the more relevant factor. Ice Creamery on wheels just has the word “on” in the title, whereas “Spring Potato Twisters” don’t have any of the words in the title, but the entire phrase in the content. Is this correct?

My website developer also tried searching for “chip stick” on the home page. The “Spring Potato Twisters” does not show up for this search results even though it has those words in the description, so it appears the search function does not take into account the description of the listing.

https://www.foodtrucks2u.com.au/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_place&s=Chip+Stick&sgd_placecategory%5B%5D=&snear=&sgeo_lat=&sgeo_lon=

It doesn’t look like its possible to make the featured results in the search show first. My website developer tried your suggestion ” by adding the widget GD Popular Post View with the listings restricted to ‘featured’.”. The result showed all featured food trucks, it does not show only those related to the current search term. I can’t see a way to filter it so that it only shows featured listing related to the current search term.

I also did a search “Chips on a Stick” Category “Fast Food” in Sydney. Here is the result showing that the featured food truck comes last. https://www.foodtrucks2u.com.au/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_place&s=chips+on+a+stick&sgd_placecategory%5B%5D=17&snear=Sydney&sgeo_lat=-33.8548157&sgeo_lon=151.2164539

My website developer has just added a category selector to the search function. It does help return more relevant results as it takes into account the category.

Can you have a dropdown for the location.

Looking forward to your response.

Danielle

Hi Alex,
yep, read that, but don’t want to use formidable forms and understand how the cc emails work, which does not solve the question at all. I actually spent quite a bit of time researching this before reaching out to who I would consider the best people to at least point me in the right direction (ie the developers), even a slight hint at which section of the template to modify would help better than an answer that has been pointed to many times.

Not meaning to be rude, but expected a little more help. Guess i’ll have to figure out myself.

Cheers.