Jeff Adams

Thanks for your help guys.

I’m investing a lot in this site and as a result these plugin and need them to work as intuitively as possible. Otherwise I’m going to be forced to have to start completely over. So your help is EXTREMELY APPRECIATED! I’ve spent thousands on this project in the last month and a half. The search features are very important to me.

The fact that you have to explain this proves the flaw with this design.

Nothing that you explained resolves or justifies the issue that simply searching in a state or city renders no results when there are in fact results and therefore it should render results be.

I’m sure anyone watching this 27 second video would agree that what I’m showing you is a problem:

I have the video unlisted so only we see it.

Thanks for getting back to me. I understand you guys may all have explanations. But none of us can expect the users, the visitors of our sites to come here and try and figure this out. It needs to be intuitive on the front end, not explained through here. I am showing you how it is not intuitive on the front end. I’m not really asking for an explanation on why it’s counter-intuitive. I’m hoping you’ll understand what I’m demonstrating and make it better. This is how what you created is being viewed and used and the result is not good. We were not searching for errors. We were trying to use the search field to search the site and the result was erroneous.

I hope you understand. Thank you for your time. Please let me know if you have a way to make this function better. Ideally “GeoDirectory” would have excellent search functionality for a global directory. I feel that I’m being reduced down to only using the location switcher in the top navigation. I have invested a great deal of time and money both in GD, plugins to support GD, time, and now developing an affiliate plugin for this, plus all the content I’ve been developed for this project. It’s all i have been doing for about two months now. It is disheartening to learn how these search features work in practice/real a world application. I really hope they will be developed better. Thanks again.

And, it works if you just type Charlotte and not use the autofill. The problem with this, that I’m demonstrating in this other post, is that if you search a region (e.g. north carolina) without using autofill that breaks. So, searching “NEAR” Charlotte by searching within Charlotte works but searching NEAR North Carolina by searching within North Carolina will not because you can only search within a city without autofill. Searching within a region without autofill breaks GeoDirectory search functionality which is a serious concern.
https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/searching-for-oklahoma-shows-charlotte-nc/#post-429693

So, disabling autofill to force a visitor to search “within” a location so they may search “near” that location is not option because it forces them into another issue with GD search.

Alex, I tried increasing the near radius and that did not work. Besides, I would prefer the entire state/region be searched not just the city.

If you’re suggesting to disable search because it has this issue and instead use “Popular Location” only I’m afraid that is going to be a problem. Popular Location for a global directory is not practical at all. This is a global directory not just a city directory.

Because the “near” field works with city maybe the developers would render better results if they added one more field, a region/state field. Then this would completely work. The user could simply enter in one field or the other.

In case someone wants to see this issue in action:

Charlotte is a location. Searching NEAR Charlotte does not work.

Jeff Adams

I’ve worked very hard to get to this point where people have been adding events to the site and it’s very worrying when the events do not show for searches. Please help.