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Would like to have as much of the GD settings integrated directly into the default WP areas as possible.
A specific example, but there may be more:
Navigation is setup under Geodirectory > Design > Navigation
rather than (or in combination with) the regular WP Appearance > MenusI could be mistaken, but I also think when I turned on the GDF theme, it became even more confusing with separate sections for Geodirectory, GDF, the regular WP menus, and in some cases there may be multiple configuration settings that may either override one another or at the very least, seem like they could/should all reside under menu area.
Not sure if this is related, but under the MultiLocations > Add/Edit locations, there are two text field entries, one for “City Meta” and one for “City Description,” however, I’m not sure where this information shows up as I added some dummy text and upon looking at /location/some-city/ I don’t see any text on the page or in the meta description section.
What John is talking about would be beneficial for both humans and bots, though hopefully also a programmatic pattern that could be tailored and editable.
As for the URLs, there is a happy middle ground, but I would agree for the most part with Paolo here (likewise, I’ve done agency and in-house SEO now for a decade for some of the biggest global brands around). While “overly too long” URLs aren’t desirable, for the information structure for these kinds of sites, this hierarchical URL protocol is desirable, again for both humans and bots. This is a top down, broad to focused structure, so the ordering makes sense, even though it is written “backwards” compared to regular address structure.
e.g. either
/hotels/united-states/illinois/chicago/
or
/united-states/illinois/chicago/hotels/
would be preferred and the ability to drop non-critical levels, such as the country if all locations are limited within country is ideal.Also, if your site is on a ccTLD (country level, e.g., somesite.fr, mysite.de, etc.co.uk) from a search engine point of view, you will be sending a strong geolocational signal just based on your domain, though also a bit more challenging if you are on a .com or other top level domain, especially if your hosting is also out of country. However, in the case of the ccTLD, note that if your site is targeting outside your country, this geo-signaling may also be a bit more challenging to overcome.
Cheers
This suggestion/request really is a mix between 1) shortcodes and plugin universality and 2) ability to work with other plugins and themes.
I haven’t really used it much, but the ability to work with a plugin like SiteOrigin’s Page Builder (I’m sure there are other plugins like this as well; and similar I think to the Dynamik Website Builder reference).
Ultimately I think what it comes down to and what would make GeoDirectory the most powerful tool of its kind will come down to separation of function from design…the ability to “compose” my own unique page layouts based on whatever theme I want to use and call up the GD functionality within that.
The hope would be that I don’t have to specify using the GD homepage or not, or is the theme I’m using “approved/compatible.” I’m sure the team recognizes this and is already working to get to that point or as close to that as possible.
Cheers
Excellent. This makes it much stronger for SEO and users (readability).
Cheers
Vikas,
Thanks, tried that many times, but still didn’t work. I ended up just removing and reinstalling.
I’ve looked more closely at the widgets to see which are placed where in case I change themes again. Not certain, but I think the widgets were getting changed with the theme change. If that is the case, it would be ideal if there was a second option to not only “Set geodirectory” as homepage, but also “Set and restore to default,” but not sure how difficult or whether that is possible.
Cheers,
Brian
