Discussion & Concepts "Think Tank" on Events & Business listings

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    Steve
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    I almost wish I was back in college for this idea and would be willing to sit for hours, pay and keep a video of some “brainstorming” examples of how the Business Listings and Events tie together. Concepts for certain listings. I can only “imagine” what the designers envision as the develop the plugins. What I have also noted, in a positive fashion is.. that sometime the “talk” get shadowed by the “Technical” talk. If only we could “shadow” the technical side and talk about the creative side indepth… that would be great.

    Ok. back to reality. Is there a place in the documentation that show how the two tie together? For example I am working on listing for Bands. The Event side would be say ” Theater,Shows & Music Um..ok. Events for bands would be? What? Marching Bands, Concerts, Rock?

    When we create the listings, there are question regarding business listing, recurring events and others that I do not quite understand the connection on in order to fully appreciate, at this time, the creative side of the development.

    Kind regards,

    #50059

    Guust
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    Take one GD, a few GD addons, a dose of creativity, and shake, then stir. Let brew for a while. Creativity to be supplied by you 🙂

    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/events-addon-widgets/

    Events like concerts are usually some place. That place might already be in the system. A concert might be hard without a band, that would be called karaoke, but that is for some other time.

    So one would have maybe CPTs called “Where” with categories like concert halls, opera theatre and pubs; the psysical locations.

    You would have another CPT called “Performers” with categories like bands, ensembles, tenors and falsettos.
    And then you have an Events CPT, with categories like classical, rock, pop etc.

    A conert hall owner could add an event, and linked it to their concert hall, there will be a link on both the event and the concert hall listing to each other.
    If the event is for a performance every night in February, then you would only have to enter the event once and tell the system it is recurring every night until 28 February. That is re-curring.
    A band could also add events of where they play, but would not be able to link to the concert hall, because that is not their listing (but I think they can ask the admin to link it – but trying to stay creative, not technical 🙂 )

    Now as a visitor I can drill down to all events at the concert hall, all events by a band, or all events next week.

    Let the creativity power be with you !

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    Steve
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    #50361

    Guust
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    Normally any user can add a Place, so whether they are the owners of the concert hall or not, does not matter.
    No idea about ESS (looks like a long winded process) but you can use the GD social importer to import listings and events from FaceBook or Yelp: https://wpgeodirectory.com/addons/social-importer/

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