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July 7, 2014 at 5:02 pm #7697

pstewart19
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Hi there.

I have been reading through the forums here and am looking to clarify. We plan to offer “featured places” as an upsell for an annual fee.

On the homepage (still being developed), we added a section and selected “featured”. There are non featured listings showing up and upon reading I understand that if there are not enough featured listings that than non-featured will be shown.

Our display will show two featured businesses on the homepage but what happens if we have 30 listings that are featured – is it random on how they show up in these two slots? Will non-featured businesses still show up at that point?

Looking for clarification to ensure that by charging an annual fee that my customers are getting value.

Thank you,
Paul

July 7, 2014 at 7:42 pm #7718

Paolo
Site Admin

Post count: 31206

Currently that widget only “sort by” featured, meaning it will show featured 1st and regular listings after.

This means that if you have more than 2 featured per category, you’ll never see regualr listings there.

However it is not possible to sort by featured and randomize too. So the last 2 featured entered will always be displayed

If you use the random sort, it will randomize all listings, featured and not.

Currently there isn’t a widget to show only featured listings and randomize it, but it is in our wishlist but now I can’t anticipate any release date.

Thx

July 7, 2014 at 7:44 pm #7719

pstewart19
Free User

Post count: 8

Thank you . So what is the benefit to a customer of our website having a featured listing then? We can offer them additional images and some other small “upsell” but we assumed featured would work differently.

July 7, 2014 at 7:48 pm #7720

Paolo
Site Admin

Post count: 31206

And they appear on TOP (if you set the sort for it) in CPT pages, categories pages and search pages.

Basically everywhere else…

July 7, 2014 at 7:51 pm #7722

pstewart19
Free User

Post count: 8

Ahh… ok – that’s very good then. thank you for the clarification.

July 16, 2014 at 2:43 am #8580

Caleb Burks
Free User

Post count: 1

Any progress on being able to have a featured widget that also randomizes? Or possibly it could just scroll through all the features businesses?

July 16, 2014 at 5:03 pm #8693

Paolo
Site Admin

Post count: 31206

Hi Caleb,

if you want to see this happening, please post a request here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/requests/

If many users vote for it, it will be prioritized.

Thx
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