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July 1, 2019 at 9:08 am #495608

Piotr Musiaka
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Hello,

this is probably a bug in gd_loop_actions based on link structure.

When i click search button in main search form. I have this link structure that start with hits -> ?geodir_search=1 etc, and gd_loop_actions not existing based on CPT.

When i click to category links is based about permalink structure the problem not exist.

Is it possible to create a searchable form of friendly links based on the permalink structure?

Is it possible to separate sorting based on CPT from sorting in terms of appearance such as grid, etc?

Best.

July 1, 2019 at 4:09 pm #495697

Alex Rollin
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Hello,

Can you share a link to a page and point out the issue you are confronting?

GD search URLs always contain a query string.

About sorting VS layout on archive pages, perhaps you are using GDV1 but these are separate ad either can be removed in GDV2 by editing the appropriate CPT archive template.

July 1, 2019 at 7:31 pm #495756

Piotr Musiaka
Expired Member

Post count: 18

Hello, im using v2 🙂

my site is now in localhost so not possible to show.

But here is an example

https://txartisan.com/places/category/wineries-1/carrollton/

as you can see we have two sorting option – first is sortby, second is view – grid etc.

When you click search button you will get this link – >

https://txartisan.com/search/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_place&s=+&snear=&sgeo_lat=&sgeo_lon=&city=carrollton

and you don’t have sorting option, you will have only option to change view.

July 1, 2019 at 9:30 pm #495782

Alex Rollin
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Sorting options are only available on CPT Archive pages, not search.

July 2, 2019 at 6:59 am #495823

Piotr Musiaka
Expired Member

Post count: 18

Why? this is not UX friendly. When i searching something i what to sort in the same page, this is rather standard practice in directory websites.
Is possible to make this work in GD?

July 2, 2019 at 9:28 am #495856

Alex Rollin
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Just to make sure there is no confusion, please check these examples. You will not find sorting on search:
Examples:

Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Vegan+Restaurants+Downtown&find_loc=Guadalajara%2C+Jalisco%2C+Mexico&ns=1

Trip Advisor: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Search?redirect&uiOrigin&ssrc=e&pid=3826&searchSessionId=06F922C26FC15A02562A3AA5D34A56151536250587122ssid&supportedSearchTypes=find_near_stand_alone_query&searchNearby&geo&q=vegan&enableNearPage=true&social_typeahead_2018_feature=true&returnTo=__2F__Restaurants&startTime&sid=06F922C26FC15A02562A3AA5D34A56151536250611546

That’s how search works on 100% of websites…

July 2, 2019 at 9:47 am #495861

Piotr Musiaka
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yelp
https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Vegan+Restaurants+Downtown&find_loc=Guadalajara%2C+Jalisco%2C+Mexico&ns=1

have sorting options

trip advisor –

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g33691-c26-Westminster_Colorado.html
booking
https://www.booking.com/searchresults.pl.html?aid=376384&label=Booking-PL-GokG1qZQBGAqiSCE_k2kpgS267754534271%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap22.475.000%3Aac%3Aap1t1%3Aneg%3Afi%3Atikwd-65526620%3Alp1011419%3Ali%3Adec%3Adm&lang=pl&sid=87a33cf10edf7f0c8ffc18303c1aaf46&sb=1&src=index&src_elem=sb&error_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Findex.pl.html%3Faid%3D376384%3Blabel%3DBooking-PL-GokG1qZQBGAqiSCE_k2kpgS267754534271%253Apl%253Ata%253Ap1%253Ap22.475.000%253Aac%253Aap1t1%253Aneg%253Afi%253Atikwd-65526620%253Alp1011419%253Ali%253Adec%253Adm%3Bsid%3D87a33cf10edf7f0c8ffc18303c1aaf46%3Bsb_price_type%3Dtotal%26%3B&ss=Szczecin%2C+zachodniopomorskie%2C+Polska&is_ski_area=&checkin_year=&checkin_month=&checkout_year=&checkout_month=&group_adults=2&group_children=0&no_rooms=1&b_h4u_keep_filters=&from_sf=1&ss_raw=szczecin&ac_position=0&ac_langcode=pl&ac_click_type=b&dest_id=-531881&dest_type=city&iata=SZZ&place_id_lat=53.428509&place_id_lon=14.552922&search_pageview_id=0a9f437a52e300a1&search_selected=true&search_pageview_id=0a9f437a52e300a1&ac_suggestion_list_length=5&ac_suggestion_theme_list_length=0&nflt=

trivago

https://www.trivago.pl/?aDateRange%5Barr%5D=2019-07-22&aDateRange%5Bdep%5D=2019-07-23&aPriceRange%5Bfrom%5D=0&aPriceRange%5Bto%5D=0&iRoomType=7&aRooms%5B0%5D%5Badults%5D=2&cpt2=92212%2F200&iViewType=0&bIsSeoPage=0&sortingId=1&slideoutsPageItemId=&iGeoDistanceLimit=20000&address=&addressGeoCode=&offset=0&ra=

hotels

https://pl.hotels.com/search.do?resolved-location=CITY%3A1036999%3AUNKNOWN%3AUNKNOWN&destination-id=1036999&q-destination=Warszawa,%20Polska&q-check-in=2019-07-04&q-check-out=2019-07-05&q-rooms=1&q-room-0-adults=2&q-room-0-children=0

and meny more small sites like

https://www.rentalhomes.com/listing?q=USA&gclid=Cj0KCQjwgezoBRDNARIsAGzEfe71gl7-KdrD4FdFkbSl9M2Tj2UZqtN9szliF5Fq-cAu8ApW4906LQUaAoAwEALw_wcB

And i find this GeoDirectory website – >
and it have it

https://throttlevibes2.wpengine.com/search/?geodir_search=1&stype=gd_event&snear&dist=150&spost_category%5B0%5D&s=+&sgeo_lat&sgeo_lon&etype=upcoming

July 2, 2019 at 6:37 pm #495940

Paolo
Site Admin

Post count: 31211

Hi,

those are all really category pages. We do the same if you select an option from the autocompleter. We’ll send you to a category page that you can sort.

But if you search free terms or by location, sorting is bad UX and will return wrong results.

This is a real search:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Search?geo=33691&searchNearby=&pid=3826&redirect=&startTime=1562089976376&uiOrigin=MASTHEAD&q=baked%20potato&supportedSearchTypes=find_near_stand_alone_query&enableNearPage=true&returnTo=__2F__Restaurants__2D__g33691__2D__c26__2D__Westminster__5F__Colorado__2E__html&searchSessionId=7F28B867461B3E0A0C13F63764B0EB0E1562089954376ssid&social_typeahead_2018_feature=true&sid=7F28B867461B3E0A0C13F63764B0EB0E1562089981647

As you can see there are no sorting options.

Booking and Trivago don’t allow free terms search. They’ll autocomplete your search with something from their database every time.

Yelp is the only one doing it, but if you do it on free terms search it will return no results. So it’s not a really good example.

The GeoDirectory site is doing it on Events only and it only allows sorting by all, upcoming or past.

For a more detailed explanation: https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/no-sorting-for-search-results/

https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/sorting-search-results-2/

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