CPT (Help!)

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  • #409422

    Aadhil
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    Hi guys,

    My questions below relate to CPTs. I have raised this before, but I am not entirely happy with the outcome, so I am reaching out to you in the hope that I can find a good solution.

    I love the idea about the CPT as it gives so much freedom in how I can set up the categories and CPT specific filters, reviews etc.. The only problem is that you cannot then allow users to search across all or multiple CPS. I appreciate that this is how GD is designed so I was given a workaround to this, and the solution was to create different price packages and restrict which categories those price plans are assigned to.

    To be honest, I find his a really convoluted method and doesn’t necessarily solve my problem. One main issue is that having to create multiple price packages is not user friendly, and it doesn’t look good on the listing page when there are so many packages available. I would like to work with a maximum of three price packages (Free, one for featured listing and the other for some other suitable method to monetise my directory)
    Yes this suits the example you have given here (https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/creating-different-event-types/) but try creating a yelp like site with various categories, and filters and you will see this doesn’t quite work.
    So my question that I have are: (unless I am missing something above)

    1. is it possible to customise the code to be able to search across multiple CPT’s? i.e. are there any restrictions imposed due to the design of Geodirectory that would prevent this kind of change being implemented?

    2. If the above is possible, how would you rate the complexity of achieving such a change and are there any risks to consider when attempting this?

    Regards,
    Aadhil

    #409498

    Alex Rollin
    Moderator
    Post count: 27815

    Hello!

    1# You can certainly create new code, and with new code, almost anything is possible! GeoDirectory was designed to use a separate DB table for each CPT, and these tables are not ‘joined’. To do so would be cumbersome, complex, and the resulting search would be slow and computationally intensive.

    2# Very high complexity. So high, in fact, that many of our members run multiple niche sites rather than attempting to manage this level of complexity with business rules.

    #409516

    Aadhil
    Expired Member
    Post count: 4

    Hi Alex,

    Thanks for your feedback. I was expecting this answer, but thought I’d raise this anyway. I appreciate your idea about niche sites, and I have seen this idea put forward on a number of other threads, but this is not what I need.

    Do you have any suggestions you can provide to help me achieve my objective (which is to be able to set filters by category). How complex would it be to customise the categories so that I am able to add specific filters to each category?

    Sorry, I am not sure whether you work for GD, so may not be relevant to you. GD is marketed as a Yelp Clone (in fact that it is better than Yelp) so I was expecting it to work that way. But it looks like if I want to go ahead, I have to set up my directory around GD and not the other way around..

    Any suggestions welcome!

    Regards,
    Aadhil

    #409530

    Alex Rollin
    Moderator
    Post count: 27815

    Hello!

    Can you give an example of what it is you are trying to do?

    Here is what someone else was working on: https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/conditinal-custom-fields-in-search/#post-406282

    Are you interested in hiring GD Experts to customize GD to meet your case?

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