Essentially I want my site, upon arrival, to geolocate people, show them on the map listings around them (with the default 40 mile radius), and for those same listings to appear below the map with the Popular Post View Widget.

The issue is that this does indeed work sometimes (at least when the geolocate pop-up comes up) but the second you navigate away from the home page and then go back, the map is zoomed all the way out and shows every listing in the database. This is also the case if you’ve already accessed the site once, left the page, and then come back to it. It’s like it never geolocates you again.

The other problem that I’m running into while troubleshooting is that I know you can tick off on the map widget to disable auto-zoom, but the issue I’m running into there is that whenever you turn off autozoom and change the zoom to appear closer, it zooms into some random location in tennessee/kentucky rather than around the blinking blue dot that is my current location.

You guys have been a great help before, so I know we can try to figure this out together 😛

Thank you in advance!

You are not using the location switcher (I added it) so you were probably stuck in TN somewhere without realising.

You should not use GoDaddy’s caching, please turn that off. It is not compatible with GD.
https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/search/?bbp_search=godaddy

Any solutions?

But, there are new problems now. So it seems that the site is successfully going to a city and at least geolocating there. The problem? I want it to pinpoint the user’s exact location and then give them a list of options NEAR them. Not a list of options in their exact city. Living in a big city like Orlando, people may want the option of visiting places that are in the Orlando area but not necessarily the downtown area (where it seams to be automatically geolocating)

This now also seems to be causing an issue with the mile radius now too. No matter how wide I set it, it still seems to only pinpoint the exact city rather than giving me options of “near me”

ALSO, when I do click the “Near Me” button I get a prompt saying “Browser unable to find your location”

So perhaps maybe this is contributing to the issue?

The problem with the “near me” is most likely because of the caching.

So is there any possible way to make it so that when someone arrives at the site, it defaults to showing what’s NEAR them within the 50 mile radius?

It used to default to automatically selecting “Near:Me” and would show the listings of those places underneath…it’s just that the zoom was funky. But now that the switcher is there it doesn’t do that anymore.

Surely there’s a way to make this happen.

if you move out of that hosting plan that is not compatible with GeoDirectory because of its aggresive caching method, it will work as expected, however GeoLocation can only work after the user shared his location. It can’t work automatically without the user giving permission.

Thanks

Just facing some silly new problems now, but I’m sure it’s something I’m just overlooking.

The listings within the Popular Place View widget aren’t being sorted based on rating despite me having that option selected. Instead they’re being listed by how close they are to the ‘near me’ point.

Also for some reason now, when you do a search, you get a 404 and I can’t seem to figure out why. Anyone want to give the site a look and see if I’m overlooking something?