Editing the GD Homepage
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December 16, 2015 at 5:42 pm #64081
Okay, Thanks Guust, so there is no way to change this problem i’m having (see attached screenshot). As you can see the ‘change location’ element has been cut off and the rest of the options cannot be seen in the window. Obviously this is no good…
Thanks,
December 17, 2015 at 10:31 am #64194I added some CSS to your child theme style.css towards the bottom.
December 27, 2015 at 2:43 pm #65442Hi Guust,
One of users has just tried to add a listing to our website on http://www.garagehound.me . He’s using Internet explorer and has said that the formatting of the page is off and looks very poor. Is there an issue with internet explorer compatibility or is it our website?
Also, our blog page has completely lost all its formatting and structure, any help on this?
Many Thanks,
CraigDecember 27, 2015 at 11:49 pm #65464It looks wrong everywhere. Somehow you have #geodir-wrapper-content {width: 10%;} on the page. Changing that to 63% should fix it, but you normally do not have to use that at all. You are using the Best Of” widget in the sidebar. That widget is not meant for sidebars, it might be pushing things over.
You can have a look for yourself at http://www.garagehound.me/add-listing/?listing_type=gd_place
December 29, 2015 at 9:54 am #65650Hi Guust,
As always, Thanks for your help, I was experimenting with layouts and forgot to change it back!
Craig
December 29, 2015 at 1:07 pm #65662Hi Guust,
I hope you are well and have had a nice Christmas.
Just to ask if you also had the chance to look at the blog page? For some reason whenever I try to adjust or change the layout it shifts back to its current format.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Best regards,
HarryDecember 29, 2015 at 1:17 pm #65664That would be a question for your theme developer. The blog page is part of your theme.
January 3, 2016 at 7:26 pm #66411Thanks Guust,
We will contact our theme developer in that case.
We have now launched and have users giving us feedback on the website, a couple of early problems are as follows and we would greatly appreciate your help to solve them;
1) One of our users was searching for an auto shop in an area of Dubai popularly called ‘Karama’ and it returned no results. However, a search for “Al Karama” its official name, but rarely called that returned results within 6 or 7 kms. The query is whether there is a way to add some flexibility into the search function to increase the likely hood of users finding auto shops in their area? Is there a way around this problem?
2) When people were searching for ‘Volkswagen’ in our search bar the search didn’t return any results, but when they used the advanced search and selected ‘Volkswagen’ in our ‘car manufacturer’ tab, results were returned – Why is this, and can this be changed so if someone types, for example; ‘Volkswagen’ into the search bar the results are also returned.
3) Is their a way that a user can filter or view the search results by different variables? ‘Best rated’ or ‘Price low to high’ for example. An auto shop on our website has recently been reviewed by a number of people as a 5 star garage, but gets lost in the search results page amongst a huge amount of garages with similar specialities but no ratings.
I hope you can help on these issues.
Many Thanks in advance,
Craig
January 4, 2016 at 12:30 am #664301. When I searched for karawa, the “Al Kawaran” listing was straight there up the top. See image.
2. I guess Volkswagen is not used in the listing, but only a custom field. That is why you need to use the customized search like you do.
If Volkswagen would be in the listing title, description or taxonomies (tags and categories), then it would be returned in the search.
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-design/#how3. No, that is not possible. Listings will always be sorted by the relevancy of the search results.
January 4, 2016 at 8:13 am #66473Guust,
1) You have misunderstood my point – “Al Karama” (not “Al Kawaran Garage”), is an area of Dubai, not a garage. However when a user types in “Karama” to the location search bar, nothing is returned. See attached screenshots for comparison
2) Okay, I will look at the taxonomies and encourage listing owners to type in a description for the Listing.
3) Is there any way that this will be possible during the next update – its a business listings, ratings and review plugin but users cant compare outlets? Surely that is counter-intuitive no? Users should be able to search for a term in our case “Dent repair” or in another case “pizza” and be able to view the relevant outlets which deal with these search terms. Once the search returns results, users should be able to sort by ‘highest rated’ or ‘most reviewed’ etc. That is one of the main functions of building a website off of a yelp template.
Many Thanks Craig
January 4, 2016 at 8:14 am #66475attached is the second screen shot for search “karama”
January 4, 2016 at 8:26 am #664801. Sorry about that. I don’t really have any solutions for that. Maybe Paolo does.
3. You can do that all on the category pages, but once people search, the search results are ordered by relevancy. For example you can do it here: http://www.garagehound.me/places/garages/
If visitors want to compare, they should navigate to the category instead of searching?
You can make the categories more prominent by adding Popular Categories or CPT Categories widgets.January 4, 2016 at 6:14 pm #66536Hi,
if you check the URL for the 2 search, you should notice 2 different lat and long coordinates.
Karama: sgeo_lat=-2.4309106&sgeo_lon=29.606447900000035
Al karama : sgeo_lat=25.2489204&sgeo_lon=55.30605509999998For the search karama, Google Maps api returns 1st a city in Rwanda.
Only if you search Karama Dubai, or Karama UAE, it will return the right coordinates.
If your directory is only limited to the UAE you could add UAE in GeoDirectory >> General >> Search >> Add location specific text to (Near) search for Google.
Otherwise there is really nothing we can do.
Thanks
January 10, 2016 at 12:43 pm #67702Hi Guys –
I have a couple of questions here and then I will post a job in the job forum for you to as we require some customisation.
1) Can the ‘send enquiry’ button on the details page be hidden from some listings and shown on others.
2) Is there a way to change the size of the photos for the search/categories page and featured, so they fit in the window? If this is a css issue I should be able to figure it out.
3) Can we change the “near button” to 15km – rather have it set at default of 4km.
4) Is it possible to customise the search functions to drop downs – rather than text inputs. (through customization?). And is it possible to filter the search results (through customization)
5) In your last reply you said our users couldn’t filter the search results by price/location/rating etc. only the categories. However, we would need alot of categories -for starters we would need categories and sub categories- an example is a category for the type of listing it is (Garage, tyre shop, dealership) then a sub category for what they specialise in. For example; we would need a category for every car manufacturer we have on the platform 50+ and then we would need a category for every service offered another 30-40+, that is just for garages. We then need different categories for tyre brands that the different tyre shop supply etc. Is there a simpler way of doing this instead of creating over 100+ categories.
6) We are having a problem with our search function. When our users search ‘Volkswagen’ in ‘dubai’ for example – the listings which include Volkswagen in their custom post field, do not show up. We have had to put for example; “Volkswagen” in to the place tags for them to begin to show up. – What is the point in having the custom post fields if they don’t show up in search results and the user has to go an manually use the advanced search and search different categories?.
The easiest thing would be for us to skype and we can take you through the issues whilst you use the website to see what we are talking about. –
Many Thanks,
CraigJanuary 10, 2016 at 1:31 pm #677061. The Send Enquiry form is only available if the user has added an email address as part of the listing.
2. Not sure I understand correctly, but you can remove the padding and the border from the images with CSS.
3. You can set the default to 4 at GD > Advanced search > Default Near Me miles limit (1-200)
4. A text search cannot be changed to a drop down, it would need to include all words in titles and descriptions and tags and categories.
You can enable GD > Advanced Search > Enable Search autocompleter > that will show listing titles as the visitor types a query.
Similar for the Near search, you can enable GD > Advanced Search > Enable Near autocompleter: Enable Near autocompleter:Sorting of the search results might be possible with customization, but is outside support.
5. You can filter the search results by any custom field, location, categories and CPT. That is the advanced search. What you cannot do is to SORT the results, they are shown according to relevance of the search query entered into the advanced search.
You cannot sort the search results by categories either.6. The custom fields will be searched if the visitor chooses to search them.
For customizations, please post in the jobs section or submit a feature request.
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