Lists of trending businesses

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  • #241646

    Frank Ferris
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    Post count: 76

    Hi support!

    We would like to create admin-curated lists of businesses. Eg. “10 best sushi restaurants”
    (like this example from Zomato)

    What is the best way to do this? The only way I can think of is by using tags and then linking users to a link like https://domain.com/places/tags/top-sushi , but I’d really prefer to not have these then show up as publicly listed tags for each business. Is there a way to create hidden back-end tags or something similar?

    Thanks for any suggestions we can try!

    Frank

    #241960

    Guust
    Moderator
    Post count: 29970

    If you were using Whoop, you could use the List Manager maybe: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/geodirectory-lists-overview/

    The only other thing I can think of is to add them to a category that only admins can use, and then use a shortcode like https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-shortcodes/#poppost

    #242074

    Frank Ferris
    Buyer
    Post count: 76

    Thanks Guust. We already use GD Categories to sort businesses by type (eg. restaurants, cafes, stores), so we could only do it that way if there’s a way we can a 2nd set of backend categories to use with that shortcode?

    Or, ideally, can I create a custom multi-select field and use that in the Popular Post shortcode? Eg. in this field we would say if a business belongs to “group1″,”group2″,”group3” (admin-only field). Then we would just need to be able to specify this field in the shortcode.

    Like in this example shortcode below, could we replace “category=3″ with a custom parameter like newfield=”group1”?

    [gd_popular_post_view category=3 layout=5 add_location_filter=true character_count=0 show_featured_only=true]

    If that is impossible – is there a URL we could use to show a list of businesses under a certain custom field “group”?

    Thanks

    #242082

    Frank Ferris
    Buyer
    Post count: 76

    Actually, don’t worry about it. I think we’re over-complicating – we can just use tags to create these lists.

    Thanks Guust!

    #242139

    Guust
    Moderator
    Post count: 29970

    You’re welcome 🙂

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