The add-listings page is really poor

@stiofan Thank you! Never occurred to me to check there. I think the only ‘important’ remaining issue for me has to do with #7, so I’ll try to explain in more detail.

I’m creating a directory of health professionals, and I want to let prospective patients search for doctors based on a condition they’re suffering from, a particular therapy they’re interested in, or patient types (child, woman, etc). The listings will specify these specialties.

However, I also want to use those same facets for blog posts. So if a doctor says they specialize in oncology, I want them to be able to write content and have it tagged with ‘oncology’ so it’s easily found, and helps them establish their credibility. I can do this with http://dev.vitalityinnovations.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=plugin-information&plugin=custom-post-type-ui&TB_iframe=true&width=600&height=550

In the admin interface, these new facets show up automatically on the right side of the screen for both posts and gd_place entries. So far so good. Unfortunately, this isn’t the UI I can give the business owner, because if they have enough permission to use this screen, they also have enough permission to make their listing a premium listing if desired. But they do not show up on the add-listing.php page either.

I (don’t think) I can use the gd_categories for this purpose, because:
a) I’d need to be able to start my faceting process at a particular category, rather than list all of them
b) I can’t tag posts with these categories

Thanks again stiofan! This has already been enormously helpful. Please let me know if you need further detail. I’m happy to show you the site I’m working on and let you poke around if it helps.

2 UI’s:

1. A typical faceted search results ui ala amazon, yelp etc, where the facets would dynamically alter the listings you were shown. However, it would also filter a separate list of articles on the same page (http://take.ms/YTbyg)

2. A page dedicated to a particular condition or therapy that would do basically the same thing, but presented in more of an information first, directory second manner, and without the facets. (http://take.ms/qUpBF)

What do you think? Any suggestions on how to make that happen?

Display
If I follow your thinking, then yes. Or perhaps 3 widgets. 1 for the facets, 1 to display the places, and 1 to display the blog posts. I was led to believe this is beyond wpgeo’s current capabilities, and was thinking about trying to build it with facetwp, but I’m curious to get your take on things.

Input
Yeah, this is the part I’m less sure of how to put together easily. If there’s a way to do this with the CPT plugin, I’m all ears. I’m new to wordpress development, so I’m still trying to figure out ‘the wordpress way’ to do things.

Thanks Stiofan. I appreciate your insight.