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August 14, 2017 at 9:45 pm #391206

Lou Wheeler
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I’ve recently installed and started putting in some test data into my GD install, and am attempting to see how GD plays with my existing site. The site is not specifically a directory site, but I wanted to add in this functionality alongside the existing blog content.

I’d rather not switch themes, so I was looking for some documentation on specifically how to set up the pages inside the existing theme. Are there any tutorials or guides on how this can be done? I know that the Getting Started video touches on using a page builder, but it also is referencing using the starter theme. Is there any sort of information that I could go over as far as configuring pages for GD without using a GD theme?

Thanks!

August 15, 2017 at 3:25 am #391227

Guust
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It should work out of the box. If there is anything that is not quite right, detail the issue with a URL and login details in a private reply.

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August 15, 2017 at 3:49 pm #391307

Lou Wheeler
Free User

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I think I see my first mistake, I wasn’t looking at the GD Home page, but instead the Places archive.

So that said, is there any issue with renaming the GD Home page to something like Directory? Or do the pages all need to be named what they were out of the box for any reasons?

August 15, 2017 at 4:02 pm #391311

Paolo
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Absolutely not, you can rename the GD-Home to whatever is more convenient for your project.

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August 27, 2017 at 9:31 pm #393128

Lou Wheeler
Free User

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Okay, so I think I’ve come up with the main issue I’m having. None of the themes I’ve tried will actually show the theme sidebars on details pages, listing pages, etc. The GD pages just want to get rid of the sidebars and use its own aside containers for the sidebars. The two main themes I’d like to use are Fullby Premium and Hueman (both have other GD users with the same issues from searches here).

I know there’s the Theme Compatibility Settings, however I’m not sure exactly how that’s supposed to be used. I can’t find any documentation to explain exactly how it works. And from existing support threads, I don’t see any explanations either. You guys just jump into a site and work some magic, and that’s that.

Would it be possible to provide some sort of tutorial or walkthrough on how we could do this ourselves? I’m not necessarily looking for the work to be done for me, I just would like to know HOW to do the work lol. I’d assume that this would lessen the support load on you guys by quite a bit.

August 28, 2017 at 4:39 am #393159
Guust
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Sidebars on GD pages are controlled at GD > Design, see more at https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/layout/#directory

Add these shortcodes to a test page, and you will get all the links you need.
Those shortcodes will link you to the category, add listing and search pages.
From there you will get the detail pages.
```
[gd_advanced_search]
[gd_login_box]
[gd_cpt_categories]
```
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August 28, 2017 at 6:45 am #393175

Lou Wheeler
Free User

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I understand that GD has its own “sidebars”, but they aren’t the WordPress sidebars. My problem is that from the GD pages, they kill off the WordPress sidebars. For example:

Here’s an example theme homepage, note the theme sidebars:

Here’s the GD homepage, note the room for sidebars, but none appear:

Here’s the details page for an entry. Again, no theme sidebars:

For whatever reason, both in this sample theme (Hueman) and my original theme on the live site (Fullby Premium), these pages do not actually maintain the theme’s sidebars. Makes it pretty difficult to keep a consistency to the site.

August 28, 2017 at 7:51 am #393179

Guust
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That is correct, GD pages do not use the sidebars that your theme uses for the WP pages.
You can add the same widgets to the GD pages’ sidebar as you add to the WP pages’ sidebar, or you can redesign the GD templates as explained at https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/customizing-geodirectory-templates/

Thanks

August 28, 2017 at 9:59 pm #393274

Lou Wheeler
Free User

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Okay, so that answers the question then. Ugh, that sounds like a lot of effort, and doesn’t make changing themes easy haha. Thanks, I guess I’ll have to look at another plugin then.
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