Jeff Adams

I was hoping I could just install the plugins and use them. Over the years I’ve used a lot of different plugins and never had to do such a thing.

Since this was a test site for V2 I’m thinking about starting over with a clean install on a different domain name. I’m really on the fence about it though because I’m not sure if GD is best for a City Directory or State Directory. I know it could be used as a global directory, like Country/Region/City. I’m just not sure about it’s potential for a State/County/City versus just City.

From experience it seems GD’s search features have been pretty awkward in the past. So, I’m hoping to discern soon if V2 is better in it’s search functionality and then I’ll be better able to decide on doing a state directory or city directory. I’m assuming doing a state directory and just focus on one city at a time would be best. I’m a content developer so this could be fun and promising.

So, having said all that, I’ll do a clean install for a state directory. If that works good and it doesn’t have this issue and all the search functionality works intuitively then I’ll just ditch this issue and this issue will be a mute point.

I know I’m being a bit verbose here. I’m just hoping someone will share what they think may be best in respect to my current disposition. It’s so hard to keep waiting to build on on the new version. In the end I hope I don’t have to deal work arounds and fixing things like this and ongoing issues. Ideally it’ll just work and work with leading themes…

Hello Alex,

The code I pasted above is the standard Amazon code. This is nice because it allows the user to put in code from Amazon and display the image to the product and even text with the image. This makes for a nice way to promote a product and amazon is huge. Ideally we would be able to utilize amazon in some way. I suppose this could turn into a feature update because most of their images seem to be the same size for the most part. So, it could be cool to have a tab for amazon products. But, event the “HTML” field doesn’t allow for the HTML. If you look at the original post it has a nice image that is linked to the product using HTML and it’s an affiliate link so if someone purchases that I make a little. It displays perfectly here but it doesn’t work on the site when I paste it into the description, at least from the front end. I don’t recall exactly how I made that one listing work, it was a while back. And, I may have done that from the backend somehow or something. But, ideally it would be easy, copy and paste, and wahlah it works.

If it’s a security vulnerability then isn’t it one here as well, yet it works here. And, the couldn’t the video field be exploited?

Using a link field could work I suppose, but it would be hard to make it really work. Because it would just be an amazon link, it wouldn’t be titled or clear as to what the link is to and this would have to be explained somewhere away from the link, so that doesn’t really work. Amazon does offer a simple link option, which is what I’m using for the one listing, but that’s just not very ideal. However, it’s probably fine enough to just suggest listers add a link in their description and not use the html…

Thanks for all the clarification! I’ll have to remember this bit about changing owners of listings when publishing a draft of previously paid listing and deleting pending invoices…

If I recall correctly there was something about claimed listings that was hard to control. Like a listing can’t be unclaimed after it’s been claimed, is that correct? If so, then I’m going to have to wrap my brain around all this when I have less going on in my brain… lol

Is there a way to change someone? For example, if I realize it isn’t a good idea to have everyone renew every three months, is there a way to force the change on everyone or at least manually on each listing?