Matthew
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Thanks Alex
Just to clarify, I don’t necessarily want the visitor to be able to choose the criteria by which the categories by which the listings are filtered/ sorted.
I am most concerned about how the listings are returned by default. I need to provide my paying advertisers with greater exposure (they are paying for) though having paid listings featured above free ones etc.
This is how the previous directory software that I used worked out of the box, so I naturally assumed GD would cater for this. It’s also clear that GD is aimed at web developers rather than directory owners / managers. I am really confused by all the options and advice.
I am confused at how the listings are ordered by default (out of the box).
Before migrating to GD I’d presumed that GD would cater for listing sorting options as they are key to being able to charge advertisers for the tiered package pricing. It seems that many things with GD require a good helping of coding and DIY, given its being billed as ‘the most advanced plugin’ out there I am hopeful that these features (also control over the search system) will be built-in in the longer term for the benefit of GD users.
In the short term I would like to customise to allow listings to be ordered by these factors
1) Featured
2) Price
3) Last update date / or ‘claimed’Would you be able to quote for this?
I have tried to follow this but the screen shots and therefore instructions seem to be out of date.
https://wpgeodirectory.com/how-to-sort-listings-by-price/
Please could you help me to fix my site so the category listings can be sorted by price by default?
This reply has been marked as private.Thanks for clarifying. Can we dictate how the scoring works?
Also, I checked with ‘SearchWP’ a 3rd party Search system regarding the issue of plurals. They say “Yes SearchWP as a stemming option which takes care of plurals”
I would prefer not to have to increase annual expenditure on addition software licenses (as as it stands I may struggle to break even this year for this site).
But I am thinking that I may have no choice but to use a 3rd party system such as this, do you think it could be integrated into GD?
This reply has been marked as private.Thanks I have been used to simply checking buttons in admin to control sorting in my previous directory software so this is all taking some learning.
Over the last few days I have improved the revenue being generated from Adsense. This was by increasing the number of adds being displayed to more than I was having to run on PMD, of course their is a trade off with visitor experience.
I think the function of including ads within search results is being looked into, I feel this would really improve the performance of adsense .
This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.I would like to add ‘Taxis’ to this block but I can’t, with the current functionality, without re-organising the cat structure.
This is another reason why I am looking for a tried and tested cat structure to adopt. It will be a big job for me to move all existing listing into a new cat structure.
And I appreciate that category taxonomies are a can of worms so I would prefer not to have to make my own as this will be a big undertaking without having to design the cat structure also.
Hi Alex, thanks for this. Is it possible to dictate how the results are sorted by default?
Yes I take it by using this approach (attached)
This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.Just to expand on this, I would like to enable closed listings to appear in searches, but only when their title is searched for.
