Google API conflict

Hello Stiofan

I really want GeoDirectorry to work for everything, but there are some things that just makes the other better for my purpose at the moment. I have a website that allows people to add their wildlife sightings in real time. This is what I use the Sabai Directory for.

For them to do this without hassle there are a few requirements. One is to not have the description field required, as that is not that important unless the observer wants to add some interesting info about the sighting. I tried the hiding method with your plugin, but it still leaves a white gap in the form that doesn’t look good. Having tags as a field also is not something I need and would love to remove entirely if possible.

A second edge Sabai has is a “Use current location” option, when adding location/address, so they do not have the hassle of finding their location manually. When adding sighting in real time, that is a requirement.

A third is to make it easy to find the correct species. They are categorized in several subcategories which makes it a hassle to find them if you have to go through one subcategory at the time to get to your species. This isn’t perfect in the Sabai plugin, but a bit easier than in GeoDirectory. The best would be to allow for preselected categories if you press “add sighting” on a given page, but that neither plugin can do. However, the Sabai creator has put it on his to do list for a later update.

Also very important is to allow for address/location in the gd_listing_map shortcode, as I have pages and profiles for countries with lots of info and species lists, as well as a map showing sightings from only that country. I do not see a parameter that allows me to do this in GeoDriectory. Is there? This is possible with the Sabai Directory plugin.

I actually bought the $199 year membership just now hoping it would allow me the tools to tweak GeoDirectory to my needs, but I still can’t do exactly what I wish to do. If I could, I’d stick with GeoDirectory for all purposes. For now I only use it for businesses and travel agencies to add business listings, which GeoDirectory is perfect for, and Sabai not that good. Unless I manage to get things working perfectly I might request a refund, as $199 is a bit much for me at the moment, but worth it if I can make it work.

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Hello Stiofan

I really want GeoDirectorry to work for everything, but there are some things that just makes the other better for my purpose at the moment. I have a website that allows people to add their wildlife sightings in real time. This is what I use the Sabai Directory for.

For them to do this without hassle there are a few requirements. One is to not have the description field required, as that is not that important unless the observer wants to add some interesting info about the sighting. I tried the hiding method with your plugin, but it still leaves a white gap in the form that doesn’t look good. Having tags as a field also is not something I need and would love to remove entirely if possible.

A second edge Sabai has is a “Use current location” option, when adding location/address, so they do not have the hassle of finding their location manually. When adding sighting in real time, that is a requirement.

A third is to make it easy to find the correct species. They are categorized in several subcategories which makes it a hassle to find them if you have to go through one subcategory at the time to get to your species. This isn’t perfect in the Sabai plugin, but a bit easier than in GeoDirectory. The best would be to allow for preselected categories if you press “add sighting” on a given page, but that neither plugin can do. However, the Sabai creator has put it on his to do list for a later update.

Also very important is to allow for address/location in the gd_listing_map shortcode, as I have pages and profiles for countries with lots of info and species lists, as well as a map showing sightings from only that country. I do not see a parameter that allows me to do this in GeoDriectory. Is there? This is possible with the Sabai Directory plugin.

I actually bought the $199 year membership just now hoping it would allow me the tools to tweak GeoDirectory to my needs, but I still can’t do exactly what I wish to do. If I could, I’d stick with GeoDirectory for all purposes. For now I only use it for businesses and travel agencies to add business listings, which GeoDirectory is perfect for, and Sabai not that good. Unless I manage to get things working perfectly I might request a refund, as $199 is a bit much for me at the moment, but worth it if I can make it work.

Thanks for your reply!

I’ve been working all evening to try to get this up and running as I want it to, but it is proving to be quite difficult..

I managed to sort out the description and tags part using the pricing packages, so I got the sightings form I wanted. Except for the “Use current location” option, but if that is coming soon, then that’s not an issue.

As I’ve been delving deeper trying to set things up I stumble up on other issues that I feel is solved a lot better in the other plugin, at least for my purposes. If I could tweak yours to do the same that would be great!

The lack of maps showing in places is a downside. Especially on the category page. What I want is for people to go to a category page (for a species) and see a map of all the sightings of that species, with the ability to search the map for sightings in a certain location, a date added, or sex observed, and similar custom filters I can add. This is possible in the Sabai Plugin. If the users want to have it shown in a grid, or in a list with maps, that is also possible, but default is the map.

The same goes for the page where I want users to search all sightings. I want to have a large map with all sightings, and a search bar where you can search anything within the sightings post type I’ve created, such as categories (species) and locations, with the additional aforementioned filters. In the search settings, however, I only see option for grid view or list view. For my purposes that won’t work.

I didn’t quite catch what you meant in #5 in your reply, but from what I could gather it doesn’t solve the problem I mentioned exactly, unless I’ve misunderstood. What I want is to have a shortcode I can post wherever I want on any post or page looking something like this: [gd_listing_map address=Norway]. This would then show a map for Norway with all sightings added in Norway.

There would also be no need for any sightings to have been added for that country yet either, so that if I want a map of Somalia showing on a page I could use [gd_listing_map address=Somalia], and a map of Somalia would show, even though no one has ever added a sighting from that country.

Let me give you a few examples in the next post. It’s private one as you would need login info to access the content.