kairei

Hi Kiran,

Yes, I have done it before, but that was for multi-lingual sites where I already needed WPML installed. This question is a little different because this is not for a multi-lingual site. It will only be in Japanese. The idea of installing 3 extra plugins that I will only use to translate a single CPT slug is not ideal. I thought it was probably the only way but just wanted to confirm…

If it is the only way, I wonder if this is something that could be considered for the future (allowing more than just lowercase letters, underscore, and hyphen in the CPT slug). I imagine all the people with native languages that don’t fit into just “lower case ASCII” would appreciate being able to keep their single-language sites clean (with minimal plugins) and still get to have CPT slugs in their languages.

Is this a technical limitation or is it something worth putting in a feature request for?

Thanks!

Yes, I followed that to the letter and it worked great. But it seems to use the translated URL slug and text everywhere (regardless of the current language).

Will try one more time… Here is the post that went away:

Ok, thanks. So, I think I get the location/listing difference. I assume if I had multiple CPTs they’d all show up on location pages but only one specific CPT will show up on a listing page, “classes” in my case. So, in my case where I only have one CPT and don’t use “Places” or “Events” it seems duplicative, but really they are two separate things. Right?

I tried adding the widgets, etc. as mentioned above and it seems fine, but it still hasn’t clarified why it took a while after I originally added the location switcher for my /classes/[country]/[region]/[city]/ URLs and breadcrumbs to start working and why they are even related to a location switcher given locations and listings are different… So, I’m just uncomfortable in specifically what needed to happen to make it all work. I’m happy they are working now but scared they may revert back to how it was before since I don’t really understand why they didn’t work and why they do work now.

So, I still have these questions:

1. Is it expected that adding the location switcher would make my CPT’s listing URLs and breadcrumbs start working?

2. Now that they are working, do I need to keep the switcher active on the site for them to keep working?

3. Is there some time delay/caching that makes it take a while for the location switcher to work?

4. Will the city URL for a new city work immediately when a new listing is added live on the site?

5. Is there any GD way to create a list of CPT listing links (e.g. a widget that shows a complete list, for a specific CPT, of all countries, regions, and cities that currently have listings in them in a tree structure). I know we have the locations switcher, but I want this just for my CPT and for the links to go to /classes/ URLs, not /locations/ URLs. E.g.

United States links to /classes/united-states/
California links to /classes/united-states/california/
Los Angeles links to /classes/united-states/california/los-angeles/
Sand Diego -links to /classes/united-states/california/san-diego/
New York links to etc.
New York
Arizona
Tucson
Canada
Alberta
Calgary

Thanks!

And now I’m even more confused… I added [geodir_location_tab_switcher autoredirect=”1″] which I found in your support somewhere. I added it to a text widget in my sidebar. At first it seemed like it wasn’t working but now it does except the URLs have /location/ at the beginning instead of /classes/.

/location/united-states/new-york/new-york/
/location/united-states/new-york/
/location/united-states/
/location/

All these work but I wanted it to be /classes/ instead of /location/ at the beginning so it matches the full listing URL which still starts with /classes/. So, I manually try those /classes/ links again and THEY NOW WORK! And, the breadcrumb is now magically showing all locations (country, region, city) just like I want. That is GREAT. However, the language switcher itself will use /location/ so it isn’t good to have duplicate URLs for each location.

I also tried adding the location switcher to my menu but couldn’t get it to work. Not sure if doing this triggered anything.

So two new questions:

1. Is there some time delay/caching that makes it take a while for the location switcher to work?

2. Can I change the location switcher to use /classes/ links?

Thanks for the quick reply. That was the first thing I checked (see screenshot – I assume the “Add location slug in listing urls” and “Add full location info with country, region and city slug in listing urls” being checked is what you mean). I changed those settings and then changed them back to see if re-saving would help. I also re-saved permalinks from WP settings. I also went back to using just the plain old GeoDirectory Framework to make sure my theme wasn’t messing something up. Any ideas?

Yes, #1 now works on mobile and desktop, thanks!