Håvard Rosenlund

Seems to be missing…

This is what I wrote:

Hello Stiofan

I really want GeoDirectorry to work for everything, but there are some things that just makes the other better for my purpose at the moment. I have a website that allows people to add their wildlife sightings in real time. This is what I use the Sabai Directory for.

For them to do this without hassle there are a few requirements. One is to not have the description field required, as that is not that important unless the observer wants to add some interesting info about the sighting. I tried the hiding method with your plugin, but it still leaves a white gap in the form that doesn’t look good. Having tags as a field also is not something I need and would love to remove entirely if possible.

A second edge Sabai has is a “Use current location” option, when adding location/address, so they do not have the hassle of finding their location manually. When adding sighting in real time, that is a requirement.

A third is to make it easy to find the correct species. They are categorized in several subcategories which makes it a hassle to find them if you have to go through one subcategory at the time to get to your species. This isn’t perfect in the Sabai plugin, but a bit easier than in GeoDirectory. The best would be to allow for preselected categories if you press “add sighting” on a given page, but that neither plugin can do. However, the Sabai creator has put it on his to do list for a later update.

Also very important is to allow for address/location in the gd_listing_map shortcode, as I have pages and profiles for countries with lots of info and species lists, as well as a map showing sightings from only that country. I do not see a parameter that allows me to do this in GeoDriectory. Is there? This is possible with the Sabai Directory plugin.

I actually bought the $199 year membership just now hoping it would allow me the tools to tweak GeoDirectory to my needs, but I still can’t do exactly what I wish to do. If I could, I’d stick with GeoDirectory for all purposes. For now I only use it for businesses and travel agencies to add business listings, which GeoDirectory is perfect for, and Sabai not that good. Unless I manage to get things working perfectly I might request a refund, as $199 is a bit much for me at the moment, but worth it if I can make it work.

Hello Stiofan

I really want GeoDirectorry to work for everything, but there are some things that just makes the other better for my purpose at the moment. I have a website that allows people to add their wildlife sightings in real time. This is what I use the Sabai Directory for.

For them to do this without hassle there are a few requirements. One is to not have the description field required, as that is not that important unless the observer wants to add some interesting info about the sighting. I tried the hiding method with your plugin, but it still leaves a white gap in the form that doesn’t look good. Having tags as a field also is not something I need and would love to remove entirely if possible.

A second edge Sabai has is a “Use current location” option, when adding location/address, so they do not have the hassle of finding their location manually. When adding sighting in real time, that is a requirement.

A third is to make it easy to find the correct species. They are categorized in several subcategories which makes it a hassle to find them if you have to go through one subcategory at the time to get to your species. This isn’t perfect in the Sabai plugin, but a bit easier than in GeoDirectory. The best would be to allow for preselected categories if you press “add sighting” on a given page, but that neither plugin can do. However, the Sabai creator has put it on his to do list for a later update.

Also very important is to allow for address/location in the gd_listing_map shortcode, as I have pages and profiles for countries with lots of info and species lists, as well as a map showing sightings from only that country. I do not see a parameter that allows me to do this in GeoDriectory. Is there? This is possible with the Sabai Directory plugin.

I actually bought the $199 year membership just now hoping it would allow me the tools to tweak GeoDirectory to my needs, but I still can’t do exactly what I wish to do. If I could, I’d stick with GeoDirectory for all purposes. For now I only use it for businesses and travel agencies to add business listings, which GeoDirectory is perfect for, and Sabai not that good. Unless I manage to get things working perfectly I might request a refund, as $199 is a bit much for me at the moment, but worth it if I can make it work.

I figured out now why it wouldn’t work. I tried to add it on a normal page, and that doesn’t work it seems after I did a search around here. That, sadly, is a deal breaker to me.. With the way I’ve built my website and how it all ties together, I need to have the maps on normal pages.. As the maps and directory are just a couple of many features that makes a whole.. Seems I need to revert back to another directory plugin to build my site and stick with some of its (a bit less) limiting features. Sometimes I wish one could take all the different directory plugins and mash them together and have one with all features.

Thanks for your help though!

That’s brilliant! Thank you! It will probably work, I’ll let you know!

Another question. I also have pages for countries and national parks, where all sightings from that country or national park will be shown on the map, but no sightings from other countries or parks. Is there a way to have the map show only sightings from one location? On the previous plugin I had to add categories for the countries and parks for this to work, but is it possible to do this without creating categories with GeoDirectory? It would be nice if the user didn’t have to find the location in the category section as well when they’ve already entered the location when adding the marker.