Converting html site to geodirectory

Hello,

All of our menus are free flowing and I will be setting up fields that will appear as tabs for dinner menu, catering etc for each. I am currently using geodirectory for urbanbarguide.com and notice that searches only bring results for text in the primary profile field. It does not search the other fields. For example a search for “Junmai” should bring “Tapas and Wine Bar C” in LA. In the conversion for my menu site, I am going to want user to be able to search for a menu item and have a result for restaurants that carry that item. Is there something I can do to work around this ?

GeoDirectory “Search for” field searches in Title/Description/Category/Tags.
Advanced search options can be used to bring custom fields into the search bar.

As far as the conversion, is it best to set up a development site as a sub domain ?

A subdomain is good, and covering the site up and keeping it out of google until you are sure about the url structure is a good idea.

Once site is finished and made live will permalinks take care of themselves ?

You can review the configuration options here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-permalinks/#url – once a configuration is chosen, it is best to leave the settings alone.

I will be doing over 6,000 redirects. Is there a good plugin for this ? I will have the redirects in an excell file to import.

For redirects it is possible to put them directly into the .htaccess file.

Hi Ron,

My Initial thoughts (without knowing your site) would be to just have a file upload PDF for the menus and then maybe just let the users select tags or similar to show what they provide, but maybe this is simplifying it too much?

Searching long text fields is much slower for a SQL query which is why we don’t let textareas e searched in advanced search.

Maybe if you explain more or link to the site i can better advise.

Thanks,

Stiofan

It can be done the problem is that it is much slower to query the database for technical reasons (SQL limitations not GD or WP). it would put more strain on the server and would not scale well but ultimately it depends on the amount of listings and how powerful your server is, but IMO its a bad idea for large sites. Tags with your examples might be a better idea.

Stiofan