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Hey Paolo;

It’s getting more and more frustrating. I’m running the site on a 2 GB Digital Ocean server as you recommended.

The mobile version looked terrible and didn’t pass the google mobility test as the geolocation pop-up on first load prevents the site from loading. So I disabled the whole geo and near me stuff. I also moved the search widget for all pages to the right sidebar as it displays super-wide (requiring left/right scroll) on mobile displays when in the left (home top, home bottom) sections.

Now the site cause more issues. On first load it shows Orlando … but sometimes Great Falls … the location switcher LOOKS ok but does NOT take me to a selected location.

I have 2 people working on the site. One updates listings. One add posts. BOTH report the same issues: after hitting save/update they refresh a post/listing and things are NOT updated.

I have the same plugin update issues again. They show in the left menu on WP but don’t show when going to the update tab.

I had WordFence installed but deactivated it shortly after. It didn’t show as active all morning. Now it does!

I’m testing with USA IP’s and logged out as if I was a regular visitor.

Please check the site! I have no active plugin that might mess with GD (and the cache) apart from GD Booster. I’m wasting tons of hours here trying to get this to work.

Please see “Using GD Tools keeps giving me (see Capture.png)” in the reply 51200 above! I need this addressed, please.

Cheers,

Martin

My everywhere location is the USA with currently 27000 listings (which is causing the huge load/display delay) on the home page.

I therefore use the default location “Los Angeles” which loads/displays within 5-6 seconds (still slow!).

But: Despite being checked (check box), the home page visitor does NOT get the geolocation pop-up. I added the “Near Me” widget button right under the main map to give the user a chance to get shown HIS location map.

To answer your question: If that modification leads to a faster loading & display of the home page, I’m obviously all for it.

You wrote: ” At the moment you can only load the everywhere location and then ask if the user wants to be geolocated”

As “everywhere location” is not the same as “default location” I’d think the whole issue can be solved by:
a) running the home page java script for the “default location” (instead of “Everywhere location”
b) allowing the geolocation (pop-up) function to work with the “default location”

More than a rhetorical question:
Isn’t the whole point of a GEO (!) Directory to make use of GEO location possibilities to increase the user experience?

Therefore:
Doesn’t it make sense to apply the following rule:

1. Whenever geolocation is activated, NO query is run until the visitor agrees to either share his/her location … or cancel – within the pop window – which THEN would load the default location.

I saw the posts about weedmaps.com and similar sites. While you may not be able to set up GD like this right away, the above would be the closest solution to this perfect scenario.

Btw: In Chrome the “Near me” works. In FireFox it doesn’t! Major flaw considering that ~20% use it.

Next issue:

This morning WP informed me about 7 updates for GD.

I tried updating on both ends. In >>> Dashboard >>> Updates it showed all 7 as successfully installed/updated but after logging off and back on … the same 7 showed up with available updates again. (see Capture1.png)

Clicking “update” on the individual ones in >>> Plugins resulted in (see Capture2.png)

Using GD Tools keeps giving me (see Capture.png)

I appreciate your help in solving this and get to function the theme and website properly.