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  • January 14, 2015 at 10:16 am #27466

    Utsav Goyal
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    When searching a keyword the autocompleter switches to everywhere city. For example if you search pizza in a particular city the results will show listings from everywhere city.

    When customizing the search within a particular category, listings shows all the category results. for example if i search cost for two in restaurants the results will show listings from all the categories. I had reported this problem to paolo a few days back is there any progress?

    Please help me sort this problem out

    January 14, 2015 at 3:14 pm #27501

    Simone
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    Hello,did you update the Advanced Search Filters addon to 1.1.4? (released on the 11th of jan)

    January 14, 2015 at 5:04 pm #27516

    Utsav Goyal
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    yes i did

    January 14, 2015 at 5:06 pm #27518

    Simone
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    Could you post your url and login details please ? I’ll alert Paolo

    January 14, 2015 at 5:20 pm #27522

    Utsav Goyal
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    January 16, 2015 at 4:42 pm #27707

    Paolo
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    hi,

    I’ve just tested your advance search and seems to be working as expected.

    1) Location will change only if you use the “near” autocompleter and select a location.

    If I search for Pizza > near indore and I click search without selecting Indore (city) and click search, it will return result from Everywhere, near Indore.

    If I’m missing something, please tell us precise step to reproduce the issues you are experiencing.

    2) You don’t have category as a filter in advance search, so yes it will return all categories….

    Let us know,

    Thx

    January 18, 2015 at 8:25 pm #27896

    Utsav Goyal
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    1. If i have already selected a city, should the search filter not automatically populate the field with the city that i have selected? How will a user come to know which field is to be populated to get the desired result? and when a particular user has already selected a particular city does that not, by default, mean that he/she is looking for results from that city itself?

    2. Yes i am aware of that issue and you also said that for creating custom searches we will have to create different custom post types. I also pointed out that such a thing would create duplication issues. Replies #26218 – 25. Is this not a major concern? because if a user is looking for a certain item in a particular category and getting results from all categories does that not make his search redundant?

    thanks,
    utsav goyal

    January 19, 2015 at 9:10 am #27933

    Utsav Goyal
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    These features were working very properly in geotheme, why can’t they be replicated in geodirectory? The fact that a user is searching for results in a particular category and getting results from all categories is undesirable for any business, is misleading the user and can ultimately result in increased bounce rates.

    At the same time as already pointed out, different filters might be required for different categories and many multiple places can and will have more than one category so creating a different custom post type for each category will not only create place duplication, but duplication of place tags as well. While this feature is working just fine in geotheme the current geodirectory requires us to do multiple 301 redirects create multiple posts with the same title(hence increase unnecessary effort) and ultimately makes the site inefficient

    How will a first time user come to know which search box to populate so that the user will only get results from his/her city. To redirect a user to everywhere city when a user has already selected a particular city is confusing and this might require a website owner to first train its users as to how to use the website, which is impossible.

    The purpose was to make the job of the user easier, but it seems now that geotheme was much more capable in accomplishing that task.

    January 19, 2015 at 10:19 pm #28086

    Paolo
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    1) in this case it works just like GeoTheme with the addition that you can switch location from the NEAR field too. So I don’t really understand what the problem is here.

    2) GeoDirectory can be used with or without custom post type. You can use places only and categories and it will work just like GeoTheme.

    For the duplication of posts thing, if you created 2 separate listing types, 1 for hotel and 1 for restaurants and your customer what to be listed in both, I think it’s normal that they have to enter to listings.

    If you created 1 post type (say places) with several categories and between them you have both restaurant and hotel, than they will be able to create 1 listings with 2 categories.

    GeoDirectory simply gives you the options to do both things described above, while GT only provides the 2nd option.

    Thanks

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