Jeff Adams
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Great, the contact form is working now. I guess when I was watching the video I didn’t see that and overlooked it in the widget settings.
What about the post claim not working? What is wrong with it? What do you mean that I’m using “the default post claim”?
In case this helps, I may have set things up backwards. Here’s how I did this:
first I added a viva tequis listing
then i setup the claim listing custom field and package
then I added a gd claim listing ninja form.
then i added a gd contact form
then i added a custom field for email
then i added an email address to the viva tequis listingCould this order of doing things have tripped up the system? lol maybe I should have added the custom field first, then setup the ninja form, then added a listing with an email address?
This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.When I’m beta testing V2 and reporting back my observations, is it a requirement to ask a question? Or could simply showing you the issue be enough? In the meantime, how can the forgotten password link be made to go to a GD or UWP page/form and not the WP page/form? This didn’t happen in previous version from what I recall. Or am I missing something?
I never said anyone was adding cities without locations. I never said that.
The location widget acquires dead links, meaning they render no results, when one of two things happens, and the longer you have a directory the more frequently these things happen:
one: after a listing has been added when that listing expires or has been deleted and there are no other listings or events in that city
two: after an event has been added when that event expires or has been deleted and there are no other listings or events in that city
Like you said, most people don’t add cities without listing, because that would not make sense and confuse the front end user. But, that isn’t how dead listings are occurring. Sure, that could be a third way but then that would be a user causing it and not the widget.
The two reasons I’m delineating are the fault of the widget not being updated when there are no other listings. I understand what I’m expecting isn’t at all easy or practical to resolve. I’m just sharing that this is definitely going to degrade the front end experience. My site VeganLinked.com started having this problem a lot because there was a lot of events expiring and no other listings or events in those cities. And it also happened when a lot of listings expired which happened because I need them expire if they are not renewed.
A smaller directory may be able to get so populated that this is significantly less likely to happen.
Maybe one way to resolve it is to have the widget county how many listings and events are in that city. It doesn’t have to show this but it could be a cool option to show. Then there can be an if then statement or something, “if zero don’t show city” or “if zero remove city” or something?
The only other way to potentially use this would be a sort of workaround may be a notification that said “Sorry, there’s no listings or events in this city at this time. But you can always make this city happening by adding a listing or event” and then below that show the closest related listings… This way it could possibly be enticing and useful!
Again, I’m just sharing what seems to be something that is very likely be a problem. Dead pages equal bounces, bounces are bad. They may also cause indexing/ranking issues with the search engines.
I was only sharing with you what seems to be a problem with the location widget. It really makes no sense to show a city that has no content. Because it’s not showing all the locations it appears to be showing the city for a reason. So then a user clicks on the city and ends up on an empty page. This is a good reason to bounce away from the site and that’s the last thing I want happening. So I’m not going to use the location widget. I’m not trying to show events I’m just explaining another reason why the location widget is likely to have bad links because events create links to cities as well and events are transient. So when the location widget does not update to only show links to locations that actually have content (places or events) then they are pretty much bad links. I’m just sharing that this was a problem for me using the widget in version one and apparently it’s still the same. No biggie though because it’s not a significant thing. it’s not like I need this widget. Although I think it might be nice if it only had links to cities that actually have content… aside of that though everything is really nice so far!!! I can’t wait to test it all some more 🙂
awesome, everything is working great now! 🙂
Here’s my question:
Lol, this appeared to be the problem with a lot of things, thanks so much for catching that. Like I was saying in another post, I must have accidentally clicked v1 instead of v2. the links are so close together in the download section that after clicking so many plugins to download I must have made a mistake with the theme. Thanks again!
Yes, thanks so much!
Awesome, thanks so much. i thought I downloaded the V2 directory starter. I must have inadvertently clicked the v1 link instead of the v2 link, the V1 and V2 in downloads are so close together I guess that’s an easy mistake to make… I’m not sure if there’s anything you guys can or want to do to prevent that or decrease the likelihood of it happening to others…
So, all in all thus far everything is working really great now.
The only thing, and this may not really be a problem to be concerned about, but just like in version 1 the location widget shows cities even if there is not listings in those cities.
This could be frustrating for users so I wont use the location widget. Esp. when there’s events causing this to happen. There could be events creating city locations to populate the widget but those events are likely to be transient rendering the city to be empty unless other events or listings happen to be there. Again, no biggy, just something i noticed and causing me to not want to use that widget.
Hey, nevermind, the location widget and the switcher are working. The widget was just not showing new cities because it was only doing 5 at a time by default. My bad! 😉
The location switcher appears to be working as well. I just added several more listings. I guess it just stops displaying at 10 and it’s in alphabetical order.
These two things appear funky still:
Clicking on location/category link goes to GD Archive
Forgotten Password goes to WP page. I have UWP installed though.
I just noticed the location widget was set at 5. I removed the number to show all and all are showing. I still don’t know why the location switcher didn’t population correctly. Maybe it’s fine too…
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