Jeff Deville
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Thank you, Guust. A few follow ups for your suggestions/thoughts:
1. It sounds like the location switcher is what I want instead of the ‘near’ box. Any way to swap those out, so I can still have an experience similar to what’s on Natural Healthcare? I don’t really know how to achieve the layout I have right now with the location switcher and search together
2. Can we change the location switcher so that it will function exactly like the Near box? Ideally, when you search for something, it would choose the nearest city, and use that.
3. In my case, I have to disagree w/ your ‘football’ comment. The text that’s being put in the description for my doctors, to be honest is not all that distinctive by and large. But I’m using the tags to index their specialties, and they are more likely to be what users search on.
4. I’m using a custom theme, so can’t really speak to the other pages, but I’m trying to use search, rather than a browse interface
5. Is it possible to make the popular post pick up the location from the search that was performed, and just pull featured listings within a certain radius?
6. I suspect this is a problem with my use of a custom theme (Divi), but the location switcher once asked to geolocate me to a location, but it didn’t do it. I figure this is an issue with using a static page for the home page, and wanting the user to be geo located from there. Any solution to this, so that when a user goes to http://www.natural.healthcare.com they’ll be automatically redirected to the nearest location http://www.natural.healthcare.com/arizona/tucson?
7. I get a permission denied when trying to geolocate myself in Chrome. “Permission denied in finding your location”, but I haven’t denied it: Screenshot: http://take.ms/tBuDg This is working in safari.I think the overriding idea here, is that as a user, I don’t care that a place is 1.57 miles away, vs 2.2miles. What I care about is whether it’s a place I can reasonably commute to, which is just a yes/no question. Once that question is answered, I’m going to want to filter the results by other criteria. For the user, that’s going to be specialty/relevance/reviews. For the site owner, that’s going to be Featured Listings.
I think the fastest path forward here is to figure out how to let a user search and have it return locations that are already defined. I’d be ok with replacing the ‘Near’ box with the location switcher for now. Alternatively, the Near search might be configured to find what the user is looking for, and then progressively geo expand that location until it finds one that exists. The problem with this is that I think you only have centroids for locations, rather than bounding boxes. Tough problem.
I don’t suppose you’ve considered moving to ElasticSearch or something? https://www.elastic.co/blog/geo-location-and-search
Thanks guys. I understand this is not an easy problem to solve. Suggestions on how to use clever hacks to leverage the existing capabilities would be great. Perhaps if there’s a few pointers on how to create my own search plugin to interface w/ the rest of the system?
Ahh! Ok, I didn’t realize that the country had to be fully spelled out, and as a result, it was treating the zip codes as countries. I cleaned up the data, and am in business. Thanks Guust!
👍 Thanks. Feel free to close this, then. I’m happy to go over the verbiage if it’d help.
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If I follow your thinking, then yes. Or perhaps 3 widgets. 1 for the facets, 1 to display the places, and 1 to display the blog posts. I was led to believe this is beyond wpgeo’s current capabilities, and was thinking about trying to build it with facetwp, but I’m curious to get your take on things.Input
Yeah, this is the part I’m less sure of how to put together easily. If there’s a way to do this with the CPT plugin, I’m all ears. I’m new to wordpress development, so I’m still trying to figure out ‘the wordpress way’ to do things.Thanks Stiofan. I appreciate your insight.
They’re rendering ok for me, but I’ve tried again here:
http://take.ms/W0f30Unfortunately, this content isn’t in the geodirclaim-en_US.po file.
2 UI’s:
1. A typical faceted search results ui ala amazon, yelp etc, where the facets would dynamically alter the listings you were shown. However, it would also filter a separate list of articles on the same page (http://take.ms/YTbyg)
2. A page dedicated to a particular condition or therapy that would do basically the same thing, but presented in more of an information first, directory second manner, and without the facets. (http://take.ms/qUpBF)
What do you think? Any suggestions on how to make that happen?
I think we can probably close this topic in favor of this one:
https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/the-add-listings-page-is-really-poor/#post-221197Where I’ve tried to explain the idea a little more completely.
@stiofan Thank you! Never occurred to me to check there. I think the only ‘important’ remaining issue for me has to do with #7, so I’ll try to explain in more detail.
I’m creating a directory of health professionals, and I want to let prospective patients search for doctors based on a condition they’re suffering from, a particular therapy they’re interested in, or patient types (child, woman, etc). The listings will specify these specialties.
However, I also want to use those same facets for blog posts. So if a doctor says they specialize in oncology, I want them to be able to write content and have it tagged with ‘oncology’ so it’s easily found, and helps them establish their credibility. I can do this with http://dev.vitalityinnovations.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=plugin-information&plugin=custom-post-type-ui&TB_iframe=true&width=600&height=550
In the admin interface, these new facets show up automatically on the right side of the screen for both posts and gd_place entries. So far so good. Unfortunately, this isn’t the UI I can give the business owner, because if they have enough permission to use this screen, they also have enough permission to make their listing a premium listing if desired. But they do not show up on the add-listing.php page either.
I (don’t think) I can use the gd_categories for this purpose, because:
a) I’d need to be able to start my faceting process at a particular category, rather than list all of them
b) I can’t tag posts with these categoriesThanks again stiofan! This has already been enormously helpful. Please let me know if you need further detail. I’m happy to show you the site I’m working on and let you poke around if it helps.
