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I have the code snippets plugin on another site, and it is my understanding that it adds code to the functions.php file? Google fonts, I believe from reading their info, needs to add code to the header.php file. I do know of a plugin that allows me to add to the header…but again, I am trying to avoid having to use ANOTHER plugin. I already have too many and am trying to figure out how to get rid of some.
Well now here’s an interesting idea….grandchild themes? I had not ever heard of these!
https://www.wp-code.com/wordpress-snippets/wordpress-grandchildren-themes/
The concept does seem kinda messy though…seems like it would be easier to go with what I talked about above…putting the code into the parent file and keeping an eye on if an update overwrites it and just putting it back in…what do you think? I don’t even know if I am understanding all this properly. I really don’t want anything that would slow down my site.
I’m trying to avoid adding MORE plugins to my site.
So basically you’re saying that there isn’t a way to do this? That the Google fonts code WILL be overwritten whenever an update to the Header.php file happens? I suppose I can work with that if it means that I have to keep an eye on the site each time I get an update from the theme and make sure to watch for the fonts changing…and then add the code back. I suppose that’s not a huge deal since I’ll be the one updating things. Just an extra step, but if I know to watch for it, and I know what to do, I can do that. I can’t imagine they’d be changing that file that often anyway.
And then what about my other question…would I be putting the code in the header.php file in Directory Starter, since it’s not showing in the editor for Supreme? I assume that’s because Supreme didn’t make any changes to the header?
Hmmm, you’ve given me a lot to investigate and think about, thanks! I’ll see if I can make this work.
Going to have to read up on all this first… I never even looked at the Franchise plugin since I never thought I’d need it so no idea how that works yet…
Lots to explore now, thanks a bunch! I’m sure I’ll be back with more questions once I get a chance to learn more about all this.
As always, you guys rock!
Ohmygosh THANK YOU!! The one thing that did not even occur to me! I was going nuts over here! I KNEW it had to be something super simple like that!! YOU ROCK!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! You just made my day! So nice to finally have something go right the first time, LOL!! Let’s hope things keep going in this direction…I may actually be ready to relaunch soon! 🙂
Ok, but doesn’t that do the same color for every category? I have each category set to a different color. Is there a way to specify a different color for different categories? I did this for the background color…I just need to know how to do this for that stripe.
I have this issue too. All my listings are in just one area, so I have no need for all these subcategories. I only need a city. Period. The state is assumed since I don’t cover other states. I did turn off all the other subcategories though.
I mainly want everything categorized by the topic. So, for me as a family resource site, my topics are like kids sports, kids classes, birthday parties, etc. The cities are not as important as the topics because our cities aren’t that far apart and parents will usually have no problem traveling to get to many things.
Having more flexibility to customize how the categories work would be lovely. It sounds like it would work for the OP as well…to be able to choose multiple cities. I also have virtual businesses that work in multiple cities. The franchise option for these businesses don’t really work because they are not actually franchises. They are businesses that travel. (For example, a princess parties biz.) So I don’t need a separate listing for each city that they travel to. That would be nuts for some of these businesses that have a long list of local cities that they operate out of! Sounds similar to the OP where they have businesses that operate out of multiple locations as well.
This reply has been marked as private.Oh this really is a huge bummer. I am really disappointed. 🙁
When I said swapping I meant that I removed a field and replaced it with a different one. For example, I noticed later that there were social media fields that had the appropriate icons, so I removed the ones that I had created that didn’t…and that made the info that I had entered into those fields (hundreds of them) disappear. That’s what I am realizing now. For some reason, it didn’t occur to me at the time. It makes sense now. I didn’t think of the fields in the same way as posts/pages. But yes, it makes sense now, thank you. I’m sorting through this now and I think it shouldn’t be too hard to fix since I do have the backup. (I’m kind of obsessive about backups, thankfully.)
Ok, I was just thinking that maybe the info might have been saved in the database like how the info for a plugin is saved and even though you delete a plugin you can reinstall and reactivate and it often will still remember the info and settings you entered from the previous time it was set up. No such luck, I guess. Oh well, like I said, I seem to have found a solution that doesn’t appear to be THAT big of a hassle actually. Assuming it works.
Lesson learned. I AM going to make sure I finish fiddling with these fields before I do this restore of info though. Don’t need to lose any more info, just in case I decide to change anything else that would lose info… 🙂
THANK YOU!! You’ve been very patient and helpful!
Here’s why making virtual businesses a separate CPT doesn’t work for me…see attached image.
For my front page, when I set up the blocks to show a category. It only allows me to choose ONE CPT and ONE category. If it allowed me to choose multiple CPTS and then one category, that would work fine…but I don’t see any way to choose multiple CPTS. The dropdown only lets me pick one. Currently that means I can only pick a place or an event. If I made the virtual businesses a new CPT, then it would mean that I could pick either a virtual place, a physical place or an event to show in a block. Then choose the category.
But that’s not what I want. I don’t want the virtual and physical businesses segragated.
I want ALL businesses, virtual AND physical all showing in these blocks by CATEGORY. Does this make sense? I hope I’m explaining it well.
The simple solution here would be to enable us to choose multiple CPTS to display in a block. But I have no idea if that’s even feasible.
I have this same issue…but if you make them as a new CPT, won’t I be unable to have them show in groups with the physical listings? I don’t want my virtual and physical businesses segregated…I want them to still be sorted together by actual topic category…will it still be able to do that?
P.S. I am using V2
Ok, I think I’ve figured out how to fix this…assuming you don’t come back to me with an easier solution…
I figured out that I have a listing export backup from before I started fiddling with things, so I have a spreadsheet with all the missing info. I’ve exported the current listings backup to confirm that indeed all those fields that I messed with are now blank, and in the other backup they are not. So I’m just going to copy/paste the info into the current backup and re-import into the directory, telling it to overwrite the listings that already exist. So theoretically that should fix it.
Just to be safe so that this doesn’t happen again, though, I am going to make sure I’m done editing those fields! Is this a side effect that you warn people of anywhere? Because if it’s not, it should be! Losing all that info could be seriously devastating! That’s a LOT of emails and social media and web urls that I now have to go back and copy/paste back in…thank heavens I have an export backup! Totally my own fault, but maybe there should be a warning somewhere (if there isn’t already…I may totally have just missed it) to be careful NOT to swap out fields that have existing info in your listings!! (like I did that by swapping out different email fields, website fields and social media fields…) Or maybe there’s a way to avoid this from happening?
In case you are unsure what editing of fields I mean, I am talking about in the GeoDir settings unders Places>settings then under the “Custom Fields” tab. I am moving around all the fields and playing with things to customize the way I want things to look and had no idea it would then wipe out info. It makes sense NOW, in retrospect…but didn’t occur to me at the time. A big warning could help others not make the same mistake, if you haven’t already made one…just a thought. I am definitely learning from my mistakes!!
Argh, I think I have an idea what might have happened…I’ve been playing around with the custom fields…moving things around, removing fields, swapping things out…trying to figure out how things work. Replacing some fields with others. Would that have wiped out info that was already in fields if I swapped them out for other fields? If so…is there a way to get all that info back? Is it still saved in the database?
I know that I swapped out the fields for email, website and social medias…and those appear to be the ones that are all missing their info.
I suppose if worse comes to worst I could maybe restore an old backup to a new tester site and export all the listing info and then import into this one? I can export/import listing with csv files, can’t I?
Ok, it works, thank you! But that’s just made me see another problem…something has happened and erased a bunch of my info that I had filled in. Because I DID have emails in these listings…and not only that but I am now seeing that social media info as also been wiped out…what the heck would do that? I KNOW I had filled in all these listings more than this!
I will go over the listings in the morning, but I’m worried now that all the hours and hours of work that I did to manually input all this info has been erased! So far every listing that I’ve looked at has info missing! I’m hoping it’s just a limited thing, but it’s not looking good. I’ll check it over more thoroughly in the morning…but if you have any idea what would delete a bunch of info like that, I’d love some insight.
I do have plenty of backups but I’m afraid if I restore a backup it is going to set me back a ton because I’ve been working on this a lot every day.
