Two dumb questions about the Home page

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  • July 19, 2014 at 1:05 am #9049

    purpleedge
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    1. What is the purpose of the GD Home page?
    2. Why does the location filter redirect to the home page instead of the Listings page?

    I can remove the Home Page Map and the Popular Posts widgets from the home page and have a regular home page. Sounds good!

    But, when I use the location filter, I get re-directed back to the Home page? And it creates a breadcrumb on the home page, in the wrong place! So why doesn’t the location filter redirect to the Listing page?

    On the other hand, if I click on a location in a breadcrumb, I get redirected to the Listing page – this makes much more sense!

    I can’t see why the Home page is being used as an alternative Listing page??

    Thanks in advance for an explanation.

    July 19, 2014 at 2:55 pm #9102

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    home = home of the default location/everywhere
    location = home of the selected location

    listing page = List of listing of 1 cpt or 1 category

    When you click a location on the breadcrumb, you are directed on the listing page for that location, only if you click it from a listing page.

    If you click it from a location page you are directed to a location page.

    Hope it is clearer now.

    Thx

    July 20, 2014 at 2:29 am #9157

    purpleedge
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    Thanks Paolo,

    So the GD Home Page is designed to show listings from multiple CPTs and/or multiple Categories. It is NOT designed to be used as a “static” Home Page without listings or a map. The widgets are available on the GD Home page so it can be used flexibly. It will show these listings for any selected location.

    It is a location landing page and can summarise CPTs and Categories for the selected location.

    The Listing page is a “drill down” to a specific CPT or Category from this (home) landing page.

    Is there any problem adding the breadcrumb bar and breadcrumbs to the (home) landing page, rather than putting the breadcrumbs in the wrong place on this page? It would make my site look more consistent.

    Is there any problem having a NON-GD Home page as my home page, and using the GD-Home page as a separate landing page in my site? In that way having the breadcrumb bar on the GD-home page is more consistent with other pages on the site, and I can leave it off my home page.

    OK, that makes more sense.

    July 20, 2014 at 2:35 am #9158

    purpleedge
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    Understanding this opens up creative ways of using the GD-Home page as more of a “location” landing page.

    For instance when a user selects a location this page could show a summary of information about the location, as well as listings and categories. Maybe that could be kept in a custom field added to the Locations data?

    Maybe I can just hide the breadcrumbs on this page?

    July 21, 2014 at 5:01 pm #9257

    Paolo
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    Hi Purpleedge,

    the breadcrumb is meant to appear in the “Location” home page and not in the “Main” home page.

    http://wpgeo.directory/ no breadcrumb
    http://wpgeo.directory/location/ yes breadcrumb

    If it’s not appearing for you it is a problem that we should solve or you will get a bunch of duplicate pages alerts. (bad for SEO)

    There is already a Location description field in the database. If you go to multilocation add/edit location, you will see this field: City Description.

    This is supposed to be output by a widget that you can place in any widget area (but that we never really finish coding and released).

    GeoTheme has this option. I’ll ask to Vikas and Stiofan to prioritize it.

    Thanks,

    Paolo

    July 21, 2014 at 11:48 pm #9302

    purpleedge
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    Thanks Paolo,

    I’m using the Enfold theme and the breadcrumbs on the location page appear in the wrong position, John is on to it!

    I also want the Enfold “breadcrumb bar” to appear on the home page – purely for styling reasons. Sound like I’ll need to figure out how to stop the breadcrumbs from appearing there.

    Thanks for the info about the place description, I think it will be useful for my site.

    July 22, 2014 at 4:40 pm #9424

    Paolo
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    you’re welcome!

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