http://www.themeadery.net/commercial-meaderies/

I really do not want to show popular categories. Instead, when a user comes to that page – they see a directory of top level categories only:

United States
United Kingdom
etc…

When they click on United States, then they see a listing of States in the the United States.

When they click on the State – they see the listings located in that State.

As it is right now, I find trying to locate a listing in a particular area – confusing and not intuitive.

Also – no matter what I do – I cannot get listings to show up Alphabetized. I do not want new listings to show at the top. I want all listings to be alphabetized…

that is because you aren’t using the plugin as designed.

Categories should only be used to identify listing sub-type (example for Custom Post Type Restaurant, Categories could be: American, Italian, Mexican, Pizzeria, Chinese etc… ) not locations.

For locations you should use the location switcher.

To sort alphabetically you have to go in Place settings and activate the AZ sort and make it default.

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What is “location switcher”?

Both can be seen here: http://wpgeo.directory/ in the main menu where it says Change Location (2nd from the right).

That’s the default option and it’s added directly via GD >> Multilocation to the menu you selected in GD >> Design >> Navigation as the menu to be used by GD for it’s elements.

There are also 2 Shortcodes:

1) [gd_location_tab_switcher]

this is like the location switcher usually added to the menu.

2) [gd_location_switcher]

this is best used on a page or a wide content area, this shows searchable lists of locations.

You can see it here http://wpgeo.directory/all-locations/

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In your second to last response, you mentioned that I wasn’t using the plugin as designed.

How should I be using it?

I basically want three tiers of categories

1. Organizations / Commercial Meaderies

2. Countries

3. Counties/States

I want users to be able to drill down to find the business listing their looking for.

For example, I want them to be able to select in this order:

1. Commercial Meaderies

2. United States

3. Michigan

….and see all of the Commercial Meaderies in the state of Michigan, United States.

In GeoDirectory categories and locations are 2 separate things.

Categories are used to categorize the listings

Example: Commercial Meaderies

Locations are used to define the Geographical location :

Example: United States or Michigan or Detroit.

Whenever you add a listing, you are already adding an address, country, region and city (Location).

Example: in http://wpgeo.directory/ you can see the location switcher in the menu. It is the 1st from the right in the main menu and says Change Location. There you can click on the region tab for example and select Illinois : http://wpgeo.directory/directory/united-states/illinois/

If you than click on category Landmark you see all listing that belong to category Landmark in region Illinois. http://wpgeo.directory/attractions/united-states/illinois/landmark/

I hope this is clearer.

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Corvette Clubs
Corvette Organizations
Corvette Registries

All listings are now assigned to the Corvette Club category with the exception of two listings assigned to Organizations.

The location search tabs are not working properly. They change the map, but do not list any listings below:

http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/location/united-states-1/arkansas-2/

you need to add widgets to GD Home content section widget area to show something below the map.

The location pages are basically GeoTargeted home pages: http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/layout/

If you want to see the paginated list for 1 category in that location the link would be:

http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/corvette-club-directory/united-states-1/arkansas-2/corvette-clubs-2/

See the difference is mainly here /location/ that changes to /corvette-club-directory/ and adds the category name at the end?

To access that link you should just add the popular category widget somewhere or the popular post view widgets as explained above.

You are always using the Home page in the listings page. You should change to the listings map to have consistency between the map and the list below.

Let us know if you need more assistance. If you feel like sharing your wp admin credentials in a private reply, I can help you adding few example widgets to get you started.

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I want to see only main categories and no sub-categories.

Many thanks for your time and kind support on that matter.

Bet,
Rossy

the popular category widget doesn’t allow to filter category/subcategory.

At the moment there is no way to do that, other than customizing that widget or creating an static html list in a text widget, copying the popular category widget html.

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