lisec73

Ok, thanks.
I’m a bit afraid to mess things up now, so…
I sort of have two home pages now: a wp page set in the wp readings settings and the Location page set in the permalinks.

This means, if the visitor elects to be geolocated, they go to the Location page; if the visitor does not elect to be geolocated, they get to the wp homepage. If they then decide to search or look at the map, I have set the Location page in the main navigation under ‘Map Search’ and they can go there to elect location switcher/near me button/find near me (last going to search results page).

This is how it seems to work anyway.

Will I not get in trouble for having the two home page settings (readings/permalinks) to different pages??

When a visitor elects to be geolocated on first landing on the page, they get located on the google map but the widgets does not set to the location until they use near me/location switcher. I understand why now but to a visitor it seems like a double up, like setting location twice. If I turn the redirection to off or to redirect to default location – do I break something else?

Is there an alternative to the GeoLocation JS plugin? I would like to set some widget content by IP.

Cheers,
Lise

Ok, so if I do not use the location switcher, but only search, then the visitor will not get widgets showing same location as were they search for listings?

If I search schools in Brisbane, I am not then supposed to get up widget results for same location?

I can see that the widget has the location as it tells me that a listing in the widget is e.g 1600km away.

Yes, I have set up geolocation and redirection, which is why I am a bit puzzled, thinking widgets should show the location shared when allowing geolocation OR the place searched for but neither is true. But if only the location switcher orders the widget location, then that explains it.

Thanks, that’s ok. Just making sure I didn’t miss something obvious before looking at other options.
Cheers

Ok, I get what you are saying but I really feel the need to ask some follow up questions.

I get that many directory owners want to manually check claims before approving but I don’t quite get how automatic approval, from a management perspective, will be different when it comes to vetting claims compared to making it easy with one step claiming.

If you are happy to allow automatic claiming and check claims after the fact, why not make the process easier?

I use the re-captcha for registrations – which made that a one step process. I tried to tick to use re-captcha for claiming as well but it didn’t seem to make a difference?

If it has to be a two step, register then claim (with confirmation email) process – is it possible to make sure that the business that clicked “business owner” from their listing and then register then lands back on their listing, maybe with a prompt to click “business owner” again to claim.

This claiming seems to bring the famous ‘artistic temper’ out in the musicians I have dealt with and a first violinist who cannot figure out how to claim his listing is no joke.

Ok, that does help, thanks.

If I pick “email” from bulk-action, will that send the confirmation email out again to everyone??

I have installed recaptcha. How will that work with the social login – or is the recaptcha obsolete when identity is confirmed via their social media account.

Thanks Guust, that worked really well.
Cheers
Lise

Right, it all makes sense now.

Will add an FAQ page that includes info on browser settings. Getting calls going “I got no map” – “Did you accept geolocation?” – “No” – “Aaaah”. Problem solved, cool.

That sneaky Google analytics. I can fix that now.

Thanks so much guys, I’m good to go now.

Cheers,
Lise

Ok, found developer tools – very useful.

The “SSL Insecure Content fixer” plugin has stopped the google stylesheet warnings but the index error is still flagging and I cannot get the Advanced Search to work – can’t geolocate without the page loading repeatedly without ever stopping.

I can see this has prevented people using my site because the maps cannot load unless I turn geolocate off.

Testing the code here https://www.piliapp.com/php-syntax-check/ it tells me there is no error but something stops my Multilocation addon still.

Have been using the code inspector too as explained in the geodirectory documentation. Been good for some things but cannot correct the google stylesheet. Also have not been able to figure out how to remove the shading in the map-name bubble for listings – it is really hard to read the name of the listing.

Appreciate some hints to figure out these last problems. Would like to start promoting my site soon and concentrate on producing content not trying to get the map to work.

Thanks,
Lise