Near suggestions in search

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  • #527767

    P O
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    If I click “near” in the search bar I get:

    -Near me
    -A list of cities.

    It is not showing all the cities I have and it is not showing them in alphabetical order.

    How are those list of cities generated and displayed?
    How to show and order what I want?

    Thanks.

    #527838

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    Everything you need to know is here https://wpgeodirectory.com/downloads/location-manager/

    #527853

    P O
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    Thank you Stiofan.

    But I am not able to find how to show all cities in alphabetical order or how to choose which cities to show when clicking the near in search.

    The idea is to show the most accurate information to the user, so it has to show “all cities in alphabetical order” or “I decide what to show”.

    Can you please point me to the correct info in the link?

    Thanks.

    #527858

    P O
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    I also just noticed that it shows cities twice, so the dropdown grows twice because of this.

    This happens if you click on near and see the dropdown, click outside, click again near and see the dropdown with twice everything.

    So clicking many times in near shows everything double.

    How to prevent that as well. Show cities just once as expected.

    Thanks.

    #528094

    Stiofan O’Connor
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    We show in order of proximity to the user, this to us is the “most accurate information to the user” and to us it makes no sense to have it any other way, hence we don’t have an option for that. If we have many requests for this we may add it but yours is the first.

    The double results thing i could not replicate on our demo.

    Stiofan

    #528096

    P O
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    Thank you.

    1- If I am in Italy and I am looking to a US directory.

    a- Why not all cities appear in near when clicked?
    b- Why cities are not in alphabetical order?

    Also, if location is OFF, it happens the same, it shows incomplete and not alphabetical.

    So if I am in the oder side of the world, actually showing “order of proximity to the user” has no effect at all.

    Makes sense?

    What you say makes sense for local people that are actually in the exact city and want to see near places. But not for people planning to travel to that city and that is the problem I have. if someone plans to go there and click all cities should show, because it seems that the directory has 5 cities with places instead of 20.

    Just a matter of user experience.

    2- I just tested and see that it happens when you have the inspector open. So it is not a big problem. But if inspector is open, then the cities are displayed twice.

    Thanks.

    #528103

    Stiofan O’Connor
    Site Admin
    Post count: 22956

    1.a) Some sites have thousands of cities.
    1.b) Because they are in order of proximity to the user.

    We use the user’s IP so the location can’t be switched OFF.
    If a directory only have USA cities then it will still show them in proximity to the user.

    Someone traveling might expect to enter a few letters of the city, we then autocomplete it and if selected it will be the first option when they reopen the search.

    Stiofan

    #528104

    P O
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    Post count: 501

    I understand.

    It kind of confuses me when I click and see only 5. It seems there are no more cities to search and that is what I am trying to avoid. I was trying to let the user know:

    Hey, this are just 5, but we actually have 40, so start writing the name to see if it appears.

    That is what it is not clear when clicking there.

    But ok, if nothing can be done, I’ll live with it.

    Thank you.

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