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  • December 27, 2017 at 9:03 am #410607

    Kathy Geisler
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    Hi,

    I am wondering if it is correct that a search for a particular listing works with a US city but not a US state. The state is what is filled in for the region field but it doesn’t work in the search window. The city brings up the listing however. Does this sound correct?

    thank you!!

    December 27, 2017 at 10:59 am #410616

    Kor
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    Hi Kathy,

    Searching by state should work. Could you please share your Website URL and also explain the steps to replicate it? You can use the private reply option below.

    Thanks!

    December 27, 2017 at 1:43 pm #410620

    Guust
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    The “Search for” field does not search locations.
    The “Near” field searches near the center of a location, see more at https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/gd-search/

    So if you search for a listing near the center of Los Angeles, you will get different results than searching near the center of California.

    If you want to search IN a city or IN a state, you should activate GD > Advanced Search > Enable Near autocompleter:

    Thanks

    December 27, 2017 at 7:38 pm #410635

    Kathy Geisler
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    December 27, 2017 at 10:17 pm #410649

    Guust
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    The CENTER OF Montana is nowhere near the CENTER OF Fishtail.
    So if you look for listings NEAR THE CENTER of Montana, you will not get any results.

    Please have another look at the link I posted earlier explaining the search funtion.

    I also now activated the option explained at point 4.6 on that page:

    Although the default search for this field is a NEAR THE CENTER OF search, with the Advanced Search addon, you can set this field to auto-suggest locations based on the title of the listings, see Near Autocompleter settings.

    Try typing in Montana now.

    Let us know if things are any clearer now. Thanks

    December 27, 2017 at 10:32 pm #410651

    Kathy Geisler
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    Nothing different happened when I typed in Montana. I even cleared my history.

    December 28, 2017 at 7:03 am #410684

    Guust
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    See image:

    December 28, 2017 at 7:39 am #410696

    Kathy Geisler
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    December 28, 2017 at 8:02 am #410698

    Guust
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    Your theme CSS was hiding the selections if you select from the location suggestions.
    I added some CSS at GD > Design > Scripts

    December 28, 2017 at 6:26 pm #410738

    Kathy Geisler
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    Hi Guust, CC Kathy, this is Matthew the programmer for the site. Apparently Kathy had a misunderstanding of how the search works in this thread which I would like to clear up. The location selections drop down was working but the location suggestions with the colored city, region, etc. was specifically turned off as part of the design which Kathy approved. Indeed, the material that you initially provided in the documentation was quite useful and it what I have been working from, though the site is not 100% configured, but I think Kathy is still a little unclear as to how the search works. One of the reasons that she is not seeing certain areas is the search radius is small, which I intend to increase, especially since Montana is a sparse state. In addition, I intend to import some more location data to make the search more efficient, but I have been having some troubles getting the CSV in the proper format, which I have started working on based upon the sample that Geodirectory provides, so I will let you know if there’s any issue there. Regarding the colored region, ,city, selections being displayed, I will discuss with Kathy. I’ll do a little tutoring with Kathy and we’ll let you know if there continues to be any further issue.

    Thanks so much for your help and patience!

    December 28, 2017 at 6:42 pm #410741

    Kathy Geisler
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    p.s. I have eliminated the distance limit, which will give a lot of results obviously, but may help get better results in some of the more remote areas. – Matthew

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