Laura Mesia

Guust-

Thank you. My browser is allowing to be located to my site. I’ve already allowed location, and it is stored in the advanced content settings in Chrome.

I live closer to San Antonio, but my IP address on my laptop is closer to Austin. I would think the site would load to Austin and the location switcher would display “Austin” and not change location. On my Android phone, I have location set to the highest possible accuracy, using gps, wi-fi and networks, so on my mobile device, it should geolocate me to San Antonio.

Alex helped me with the Multi-location and Advanced Search settings, and yesterday the site was locating as expected, but the search filter was not. He made some changes and now search is working, but the site is locating me back to location/me again.

“Alex gets redirected to Austin, because he is closer to Austin than San Antonio.
You get redirected to the location/me page because you are within the set radius of where there are listings on your site.”

I am much closer to San Antonio than Austin…my phone should take me to San Antonio. My laptop’s IP address is closer to Austin, so it should geolocate me to Austin listings…can you please explain why I am now getting location/me again?

I understand that if I perform a search to a radius, it will show listings from any city in that radius, which is perfect….but on first load, I want it to load to the correct city, so that if the user clicks on the Category menu links, it will load the results for a city and not “All”.

Not for me. I’ve tested it on a desktop and laptop computer, and for me, whether I am in incognito mode or not, I’m getting the location/me.

I just tested in FireFox and IE as well, and I’m getting location/me after it asks to allow location. Do you have any idea why you would get one result and I’m getting something different?

Hi Alex-

Thank you, yes, now it is geolocating me to Austin on my laptop, but if I use the search bar and search for restaurants within a 200 mile radius of me it returns no results. It should show restaurants in Austin and San Antonio. Search will work if I put a city name or zip code, but not if I use the “near me” and miles search option. Does turning off geolocation affect this, and is there a way to either turn off the “near me” option in the search bar, or fix it so that it will return listings based on the users detected location?

Thank you,
Laura

Thank you Alex. That is what it is set to. I’m trying not to pull my hair out…LOL! Okay, I’ve changed to Modern Theme. I have GD Home as my home page in WordPress Read Settings. I have GD Home page set to GD Home page in Permalinks (in GeoDirectory). I have redirect user to closest location set, as you specified above. This is what is happening, even in Incongito mode.

On first load, it asks if I want to be geolocated, I answer yes, asks for allow location, I answer yes.
The page loads, the location switcher does not change, it stays at “Change Location”. The url is not updated to the city. The navigation category link urls do not update. The url it serves me is: letsgocoupons.com/location/me. The same thing that was happening with GeoTravel.

I tested your demo modern theme, and upon geolocation and first page load, it takes me to the city, and the location switcher changes to the city name. The url includes the city name. If I hover over the logo, the city is included in the url. This is not happening with my site.

Can you please help me discover what I need to modify to make it function like your demo? I’m almost ready to completely perform a fresh install, but I don’t want to lose all the work I did to get the listings displaying how I want.

Okay, so I’ve been looking at all the different themes. It seems like the travel theme (design wise) was based on the modern theme. I tested both demo sites and the travel demo site is doing the same thing as my site. I tested the modern theme, and after geolocating, if I click on the logo (to return to the home page) the logo url shows the city and will stay in location when loading back to the home page. This is exactly what I want to acheive. Did you do something different with the link url to the logo to make sure it redirects back to the users last location vs (home page url)?

If you can help me acheive this same functionality with the travel theme that would be great, but if not, I’m going to switch to the Modern theme and if you can let me know if the theme automatically detects user’s last location when clicking on the theme logo, or if there are other settings to acheive this, I would greatly appreciate it. I’d like to know that before I dive in, switch themes and get stuck again.

Thank you so very much!!!

Isn’t that why the browser asks to know location? So that it picks up the actual location vs. the ISP location? Can this be corrected?

Also, if the browser is locating me to Austin, why would the search for restaurants return no results? I increased the search radius to 176 miles, so it should return results from Austin and San Antonio.

Here is the url from the search I did from my regular chrome browser window:

https://www.letsgocoupons.com/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_place&s=Restaurants&snear=Near%3A+Me&sgeo_lat=29.760426700000004&sgeo_lon=-95.3698028

Here is the url from the search I used from incognito mode:

https://www.letsgocoupons.com/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_place&s=Restaurants&snear=Near%3A+User+defined&sgeo_lat=37.09024&sgeo_lon=-95.712891

Both return no results. The first url has settings set to search within a 61 mile radius of me.
In incoginto mode, it only gave me the option for user defined, I was not able to see the option to check “near me” and increase the mile radius. In geodirectory settings it is set to 40 miles. I live within 40 miles and it should have returned results. Also notice that the lat and lon are different. I used the search from the same location. After it geolocated me to “Austin” and I live near San Antonio, I returned to the home page and did a search for “near me”. These are the two different results I got, both with no locations found.