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December 13, 2014 at 8:55 pm #24266

nippi9@yahoo.com
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See here

1. Totally breaks home page.
2. Removes home page title, replaces it with first blog post title.

Help?

Can provide login details if required.

December 13, 2014 at 9:09 pm #24267

nippi9@yahoo.com
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Actually solved that problem…. but its still broken on all pages where geodirectory is supposed to be.

December 13, 2014 at 11:24 pm #24276

Guust
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Did you have a look at this:
http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/how-to-build-your-own-theme-compatibility-plugin/

URLs and admin details would be easier than videos to find the problem.

December 14, 2014 at 8:19 am #24290

nippi9@yahoo.com
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December 14, 2014 at 8:32 am #24291

nippi9@yahoo.com
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OK, I see, its a theme compatability issues… seems to be an issue with lots of themes?

I am curious about that. I use literally hundreds of plugins, and this is the first time I’ve ever had a problem with a plugin not coming with general theme compatibility, especially with so many modern themes.

I am not trying to be a dick here. I am madly migrating sites to your plugin from two other Word-press directory plugins so honestly I am a fan… but the lack of out of the box compatibility with major themes says to me perhaps the structure of some of the plugin impacting on the way themes work is an oversight?

Many people would plug your directory plugin in and then go “Oh, its broken” and leave it at that.

December 14, 2014 at 4:03 pm #24303

nippi9@yahoo.com
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And I tried this

Did you have a look at this:

http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/how-to-build-your-own-theme-compatibility-plugin/

Just followed the basics. At least now I can see the listings, but design is still in the main, largely broken.

December 14, 2014 at 8:56 pm #24317

Guust
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Can you post a URL and WP admin details, so we can have a look. We cannot really comment without knowing what we are talking about 🙂

December 15, 2014 at 7:05 am #24336

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December 15, 2014 at 7:06 am #24337

nippi9@yahoo.com
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I provided these details a couple of days ago in a private reply? Not working?

Let me know if they came through this time

December 15, 2014 at 10:48 am #24351

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December 15, 2014 at 1:18 pm #24365

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December 15, 2014 at 4:27 pm #24386
Paolo
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Hi Nipp9,

most complex plugins are not compatible with most themes out of the box.

Woocommerce, buddypress, bbpress will be compatible only with themes using a default html5 structure, which is.
```
<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<html>

<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
	<title>Your Website</title>
</head>

<body>

	<header>
		<nav>
			<ul>
				<li>Your menu</li>
			</ul>
		</nav>
	</header>
	
	<section>
	
		<article>
			<header>
				<h2>Article title</h2>
				<p>Posted on <time datetime="2009-09-04T16:31:24+02:00">September 4th 2009</time> by <a href="#">Writer</a> - <a href="#comments">6 comments</a></p>
			</header>
			<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</p>
		</article>
		
		<article>
			<header>
				<h2>Article title</h2>
				<p>Posted on <time datetime="2009-09-04T16:31:24+02:00">September 4th 2009</time> by <a href="#">Writer</a> - <a href="#comments">6 comments</a></p>
			</header>
			<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas.</p>
		</article>
		
	</section>

	<aside>
		<h2>About section</h2>
		<p>Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend leo.</p>
	</aside>

	<footer>
		<p>Copyright 2009 Your name</p>
	</footer>

</body>

</html>
```
As soon as you go out of that html structure (and most themes do), the plugin output will look misplaced.

In fact, for these plugins, themes author must add the plugin templates inside their themes and adapt them to make their them work with each plugin.

The same goes with GeoDirectory, it was built so that it can work with all themes, but not all themes will be able to display its output out of the box.

The biggest difference between GD and the above plugin is that being GD so new, not that many themes have been made 100% compatible yet.

Jupiter theme is one of them and will need you (or it’s author or anyone you assign the task to) to tweak it to work with GD in case you wish to use it.

Otherwise it would be a good idea to chose a theme that has been already made compatible, or GDF that was built especially to work with GD.

Thanks
December 16, 2014 at 11:55 am #24468

nippi9@yahoo.com
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Hmm. Where to start with this?

a. Woocommerce, buddypress and bbpress work perfectly well with Jupiter out of the box. Yes they come bundled with Jupiter, but you can(as I do) opt to delete them from the theme and use the plugin files directly and everything works just fine.

So does every single other WordPress directory plugin.

It’s just Geodirectory, that doesn’t work with it.

b. If your plugin doesn’t work with most modern themes and I must use a GD directory theme or otherwise book in custom programming for the themes I am using…. that’s no good for me. Its more like I bought a directory theme not a plugin and that’s totally not what I wanted.

Why not? Directory themes are always missing all the bells and whistles of modern themes. Fancy posts(video/slider etc) and page layouts, multiple design options, multiple blog layout options(eg newspaper, single column multi column) 100% integration with w3tc caching including minify bla bla. In short if I use any of your off the shelf themes – sure the directory will work but the site layout itself will be limited and boring as your themes are minimal feature wise.

Let me re-iterate.

7 years working with WordPress.
Over 150 sites built.
5 other directory plugins used.

Yours is the first plugin ever, let alone directory plugin, that out of the box doesn’t work with the themes I am using.

Not sure where to from here but I suspect back to the Sabai directory. Its not as good as yours… but it just works with all themes whilst yours doesn’t and I don’t have the time or budget to start rebuilding themes to make them compatible with a plugin.

December 16, 2014 at 6:19 pm #24544

Paolo
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Hi,

I’m sorry but while Sabai (and other directory plugin) gives you a shortcode that you can place in any page content, we create teamplates with extra widget areas that can be totally customized (like woocommerce, buddypress and so on). If the theme template and the plugin template are too dissimilar in stucture it will not work well.

GDF isn’t the only option though. There are other themes which were made compatible that are currently offering as much as Jupiter (if not more), like Enfold, Genesis, Avada, Divi, X Theme.

Plus I’ve seen it used without the need of a compatibility plugin with udesign, sahifa and many many other multipurpouse themes sold on Theme Forest.

If using Jupiter theme for you today is a must, I’m afraid there isn’t much we can do. If many other would have asked for Jupiter integration, like they did for the above mentioned themes, we would be glad to invest the time to make a compatibility plugin, but nobody else requested it yet…

Thanks

December 18, 2014 at 8:18 pm #24916

nippi9@yahoo.com
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OK, so I am looking to change themes, but the most important thing about Jupiter is its got the ability to lay out pages and posts visual composer.

Are there any other themes that utilise visual composer that work with your plugin?

Visual composer is awesome and to lose the ability to use it would be not fun.
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