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  • #377406

    Scott Harris
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    We are using categories to group places by US counties, since GD doesn’t have a way to set up counties in the location hierarchy.

    GD allows us to add country > region (us state) > city, but not country > state > county > city. To get around that limitation, we are using categories for counties which in this site are wine regions in California.

    Using categories in this way is resulting in some weird linking in the details page. For instance, if you go to this detail page:
    http://www.winetasting.com/winery/california/woodside/chaine-dor-vineyards/
    you’ll see that the winery is added to category South Bay Wineries. When you click on that link in the sidebar under “wine regions” you are taken to a page that filters by city and category: http://www.winetasting.com/winery/california/woodside/bay-area-urban-wineries/south-bay-wineries/

    Is it possible to change the behavior of the category link so that instead of linking to the existing hierarchy that includes the city, the link instead goes to the category main page such as: http://www.winetasting.com/winery/california/south-bay-wineries/

    We think that the existing link wont make sense to users who are expecting to link to the category and not the city within the category.

    #377449

    Paolo
    Site Admin
    Post count: 31206

    Hi,

    TBH I don’t think that’s possible, but I asked to Stiofan to let us know in case he knows of a workaround.

    Thanks

    #377498

    Scott Harris
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    Post count: 74

    Thanks for checking with Stiofan. If it’s not possible to change the category link destination, can we at least disable the link in the detail sidebar and just show the category name(s)?

    #377533

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    Anything is possible with the right code 🙂
    If you were to remove the filters is would link to the man cat page like /winery/south-bay-wineries/

    To get to the region and cat you would need custom code, (which is customisation)

    Do you just want the cat to show the direct link just in the details page?

    Stiofan

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