GD Compatibility Pack for Genesis released

Hi, This probably sounds like a stupid question but exactly what does this do?

Is it mostly about adding the map to the home page and the formatting associated with it? What other advantages are there for using it?

I installed plug in. Then popular categories, map and search (in this order) are on home page. I go into widgets and delete all of those but they are still showing on front end. I deactivate the plugin and the 3 listed above are no longer showing on home page. I reactivate the plugin and they are showing again, then go to widgets and no widgets are showing in the GD widget area sections (top section, etc.)… both in Firefox and Chrome..

Thanks :).

Hi,

This plugin places all the GeoDirectory generated content into the correct wrappers for Genesis.
It has minimal styling, which is why you may think it isn’t doing much.

The reason for this is with so many Genesis child themes available, and each one doing things slightly differently, it didn’t make sense to include lots of styling changes in the core plugin.

Changes to the styles should be made in your child theme.

We will also be building child themes which have styling included, which will work along-side the plugin.

Hope that makes sense 🙂

Found a small problem…

I have set GD to use my own static home page. i.e. unchecked “Set geodirectory home page as your home”

This worked fine in my last theme. However, turning this plugin on it now included the map on my home page above all my content.

I *think* the following code in the plugin is causing this. I am just not sure how to fix it after trying different things…

// REPLACE HOME TOP SIDEBAR AFTER HEADER
function geodir_genesis_home_sidebar() {
		global $wp;
		if ( $wp->query_vars['page_id'] == get_option( 'geodir_location_page' ) || is_home() && !$_GET['geodir_signup'] ) {
        	dynamic_sidebar('geodir_home_top');
		}
}

Any ideas on how I can fix this code in the plugin?

Thanks!

Unfortunately that not only removes the map from the home page but also from:

http://MySite.com/location/

I still need the map to appear on the location page.

Thanks

I actually tried that exact same thing myself earlier today. But it did nothing and the map still displayed on the home page. I can only assume that GD is marking the home page with ‘geodir_location_page’ also?

John,

Thought I would throw out there for your final solution in your code changes that you can test for the setting on making the home page be the gd map is: get_option(‘geodir_set_as_home’))

Hope that helps!

Dave

Hi @websitu,

This is standard behaviour from the core plugin, the compatibility plugin doesn’t change that.
You should either set the map width (in the widget settings) to 100%, or use a child theme to alter the display of the map.

@dnosker,
Thanks for that, i will take another look at the map logic to try and cater for all scenarios.