GD and WordPress permalinks

1. GD > Permalinks > Add category in listing urls > YES

2. Not recommended, you may have do some code customization then.

3. Not sure I understand, but GD is already organized by locations, and categories etc.

The new version V2 has a few more permalink options.

GD uses CPT and location like that.
For examples Places and Events.
So your big content “categories” will be Places or whatever you rename the CPTs, and Locations, or whatever you rename that.

Using GD as a child setup, will still not allow you to put it under a WP category like Outdoors.
I don’t think there is any way to pretend Places are a sub-category of a WP category, unless you would write some code to rewrite all the URLs.

Hello,

1. Do you use Excel? Do you know how, when you open a new workbook, that you can have many different sheets inside the workbook? CPTs are like that, each one is a separate sheet. The only way to connect them is by “Linking Custom Post Types” using the Custom Post Types addons. Categories inside each CPT are unique to that particular CPT. The same is true for post and page categories and tags, they aren’t connected to GD CPTs, for example.

2. When the location page changes to a different country/region/city the title will change automatically based on the settings in the “Titles and Metas”. See an example for San Francisco here: https://wpgeo.directory/supreme-directory/location/united-states/california/san-francisco/

3. Many people think of the Location page as a ‘home’ page. By Default it shows “Everywhere” then it changes based on each location. It should not be set as the site Front page, but, you could certainly use a menu link like “Directory” and then point that to the Location page.

4. GDV2 uses design elements for personalizing template pages. GDV1 uses widgets. Which one are you using? I assume you are using GDV1 since you posted in the GDV1 forum.

GDV2 is Great! I mean, we all love it because it offers so many more opportunities for our members to personalize their sites.

I have setup sites like what you are looking for, in the past. The answer is not to think that one plugin or theme will solve the issue, but to think of ‘matching’.

For example, let’s say you make a WP Post category called “Hike Tour Guide” and then you have Places with tag “Hiking Tour Stop”.

These go together, ‘match’, so the question becomes how to use old and new tools to show them on the page that you have dreampt up in your imagination.

The answer is not just GD usually, but also tools that come with your theme or builders, using them to bring content/posts together and show them in ways that make sense to your site visitors.

I am sure GDV2 is what you should be using, especially if yours is a new site. It has a lot of great options for your niche that you may not use tomorrow but that you will want to have handy as your build out new features on your site over time.

Not sure what additional advice you are looking for, but, if you are looking for an intense study of your site strategy, you will probably need to look outside our support forum here.

If you are wondering whether you should upgrade, yes, you should.
GDV2 has over a hundred features/options that were requested by members.