Getting started questions

He Guust!

Thanks so much, got most of it working and have my search form next to the map now (http://newsite.eat-amsterdam.com/location/).

I have some other questions:

1) on a listing page such as this one: http://newsite.eat-amsterdam.com/places/netherlands/north-holland/amsterdam-1/restaurants-3/restaurant-nacional/
there are several boxes on the right side of the page, but there are no widgets in my GD listing right sidebar widget – so how can I edit what is shown here and what is not? I have no resolved this with CSS as follows:

.geodir-details-sidebar-user-links {
display:none;}

.geodir-details-sidebar-sharethis{
display:none;}

Will that work or will it mess up the functionality of the rest of the plugin? In firefox it works as I want but in Safari there is still a bar shown with the text ‘login failed’. Any idea why?

3) Is there a possibility to add a rating to a place? I have installed a plugin but that only allows me to rate posts and not ‘places’. I have added Rating at GeoDirectory-Place Settings-Sorting Options, but not seeing it anywhere. I’m probably doing something wrong but I can’t see what….

4) Can I change the names of the data-tabs on the detailed page of a place? And make some invisible?

5) Is it possible to add place attachments directly from my Media Library instead of from my computer?

6) I want to divide my places in multiple categories at the same time. For example: I have one restaurant that is in the following categories: Restaurants, -French Restaurants + Location, -Amsterdam East + Price, -midprice. How do I go about making sure that my visitors can search the map with the criteria they desire and showing all relevant places? I am seeing with testing that checking an unchecking categories is not very satisfying for this cause. For example, unchecking the box location still shows the restaurant (because it is in the restaurant category). Do you see what I mean? Please see here for visual example (http://newsite.eat-amsterdam.com/location/) There are just two places on the map at this point.

7) Some places are shown with the category icon of the restaurant category and other items are shown with the category icon of the location category. What creates this difference when both places are in the same categories? Why are they not all shown the same?

So…. Sorry for all these questions but you said if there was anything else 😉

Hi Guust,

Thanks for your quick reply. I’ll look into your answers to 1 & 4 tomorrow but had some additional questions on the advances search plugin:

– Will the advanced search form automatically be displayed? On the demo it looks like some categories have a custom search and others don’t.
– Can I search near a location instead of a title as it is now?
– Can I have 4 main categories of which two of them will have some sub categories? Will that work without purchasing Custom Type Post plugin?
– Are those custom post types in the drop down menu on the demo? Or are those the main categories?

3) I want to rate the places. I have added Rating at GeoDirectory-Place Settings-Sorting Options, but not seeing it anywhere. I’m probably doing something wrong but I can’t see what….

5) Is there no other way to upload the images to the correct folder? This means I have to download all images from my media library and upload them again one -by-one to the uploader. And this for over 100 posts with an average of three images….

6) I agree that having a category called Oost is a bit strange but I want visitors to be able to filter results on the area, without moving the map, so I figured creating a category for it will do the job…. Am I right?

7) Found it thanks!

8) Is there any way to add items from AiT themes directly to places through import tools that you know of by any chance? Importing an XML file does not work – it comes back with the following error: Invalid post type ait-dir-item

Hi!

Thanks again. I have some remaining questions:

a) Subcategories:
I have added subcategories (i.e. French Restaurants under the parent restaurant) but they are only made visible with an – sign before it. From the lay-out it is not quite clear that they are subs. How can this be adjusted? See http://newsite.eat-amsterdam.com/location/ for an example on the search form.

b) At the top of my search form there are two fields; one for search and one for near. Why is there no text showing in the (first) search field? And where can I adjust this?

c) Can I get a search button (as on the bottom of the advanced search form) at the top of the form – next to the ‘near field’ as well?

d) I have added Rating at GeoDirectory-Place Settings-Sorting Options, but not seeing it anywhere. I’m probably doing something wrong but I can’t see what… You said above that it looks like I have removed the standard rating system – how would I get this back to make sure the ratings are shown?

e) When uploading a cdv file to transfer old places into this plugin I want to attached the images as well, as you suggested. What is the post name for that? It is not mentioned here: http://docs.wpgeodirectory.com/core-general/#csv

Thanks again

a) yes, the only option is select because other options do not allow for multiple selections. But with all these options, the categories are not displayed as nested, just with an ‘-‘ in front of it. Other ideas on how to get the nested look as Tom submitted?

b) Perfect, thanks.

c) ok, any direction on where to edit this class (geodir_submit_search) and make it visible on the other location?

d) Yep. Fixed.

e) ok, get it now. Will try.

Thanks again.

e) Are post_rating & post_pricerange the accurate post type to use for the custom fields I have created? And how do I set the value for these post-types; same as in the custom fields?

thanks

checked the table and tested an upload. worked like a charm. thanks again Guust. You are a life saver.