Displayed Business Categories

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  • October 16, 2018 at 8:22 pm #449954

    Jordan Wiberg
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    As I’m adding more listings in more cities, I’ve realized I haven’t quite nailed down the whole ‘Only show the business categories that are actually represented in each city’, and not ALL of the represented categories on the entirety of the site.

    For example, when I search for a city that has no listings, no business categories are listed. Which is great. But when I search for a town that has ONE listing, ALL of the business categories that have listings in them from every city on the site show up. Which is a problem. It makes it look like there are a bunch of listed businesses in the city that are in actually in entirely different cities.

    Help????

    October 16, 2018 at 10:32 pm #449986

    Alex Rollin
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    In the Widget options you can enable “Filter by location”.

    Try that and let us now how it goes.

    October 16, 2018 at 11:11 pm #450003

    Jordan Wiberg
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    Is that option somewhere in the attached screenshot? Not sure where to find it.

    October 16, 2018 at 11:28 pm #450008

    Alex Rollin
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    Please share your site details and we will check your widget settings.

    The widget in your screenshot is a good one for Listing pages. Are you using it there?

    Can you share a URL that shows the issue?

    October 16, 2018 at 11:32 pm #450009

    Jordan Wiberg
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    October 17, 2018 at 10:05 am #450048

    Alex Rollin
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    Hello,

    the link you sent is for a search page, and on that page (search) the CPT categories widget will show All the categories if the category filters are not selected in the widget options. The filters available for that widget are for categories, to guide visitors to other listings that are relevant by category, as opposed to location.

    It is a little uncommon to use that widget on a search page, but still possible. You can see it is not used on our demo on the search page:

    https://wpgeo.directory/supreme-directory/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_place&s=+&snear=san+francisco&sgeo_lat=37.7749295&sgeo_lon=-122.41941550000001

    October 17, 2018 at 3:36 pm #450101

    Jordan Wiberg
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    October 17, 2018 at 4:30 pm #450127

    Alex Rollin
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    There are several different page types.

    For example: https://smalltownbiz.ca/businesses/canada/alberta/airdrie/

    This is a “Listing page”. You can try adding additional widgets to the Listing page widget areas to show categories there.

    Then there is the Location page : https://smalltownbiz.ca/location/canada/alberta/airdrie/

    Add widget to the GD Home widget areas to populate that page.

    There are several documents available, this is a good one to start with : https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-design/

    Both of those page types will filter for location, but the search page does not.

    October 17, 2018 at 5:06 pm #450145

    Alex Rollin
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    October 17, 2018 at 6:20 pm #450165

    Jordan Wiberg
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    October 17, 2018 at 6:56 pm #450173

    Alex Rollin
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    Local and Category + Location pages are created automatically base don the listings.

    If a listing is added to city W, then there will be a new page location/country/region/W

    Widgets added to the GD Home widget areas will automatically appear on those pages.

    Those Location pages are really special because they can display different post types, and really are the automatic “City Guide” type of page you are looking to create (and, they are automatic!).

    So, there isn’t a way to create one of those pages, that is all done automatically by GD. However, right now there aren’t any widgets assigned, so, add some widgets there and perhaps provide your visitors with direct links to those location pages so they can browse all the listings in the city.

    October 17, 2018 at 7:18 pm #450177

    Jordan Wiberg
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    October 17, 2018 at 7:30 pm #450181

    Alex Rollin
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    You could try out the Popular Locations widget to provide links to location pages.

    October 17, 2018 at 9:04 pm #450196

    Jordan Wiberg
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    October 17, 2018 at 10:27 pm #450204

    Guust
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    I added the Location Switcher in your menu, so you can just select the city you want.
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/multilocations/#main

    I simplified your settings at GD > Multilocations to only have locations in all of Canada.

    I setup your search as explained here:
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/gd-search/#near
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/search-filters-overview/#near
    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/searching-and-browsing/

    The default GD search is not an IN search, but a search NEAR THE CENTER OF.
    For example, assuming your search area is set to 40 square miles:
    If you enter World Trade Center, you will get listings around that building.
    If you enter United States, you will get listings somewhere around Buffalo in Kansas, because that is where Google situates the center of the United States.
    If you enter California, you will get listings somewhere in the Sierra National Forest.

    Thanks

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