V2 Advanced Search – search by distance

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  • June 7, 2019 at 7:04 am #491485

    vivek
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    Hi, am a bit confused so can you pls help me out:

    1. I have set up the ‘search by distance” in the search settings in the CPT, and it appears in the search bar, but it seems to not work ie does not filter results by distance. Is this supposed to work in v2 or not (i read somewhere that its not functional in V2 yet, hence asking)

    2. I have been reading about the compass for ‘near me’ search, based on the ‘near me’ distance set in GD settings – but i do not see that in the search bar either. ( read somewhere that it appers if autocomplete is enabled in location settings, that is done, yet i don’t see it- also not sure how that is related to autocomplete)

    thanks, Vivek

    June 7, 2019 at 7:05 am #491486

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    June 7, 2019 at 12:27 pm #491541

    Alex Rollin
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    Have you removed GD Post Distance from the archive item?
    Hard to tell if it is working without that item displayed.

    The compass has been removed and replaced with the Near Me text in the near search field.

    June 7, 2019 at 12:58 pm #491550

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    June 8, 2019 at 1:47 pm #491696

    vivek
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    However, the other issue is that even after Near me is clicked and geolocation is done, that only works temporarily.

    On near me location page, if search by distance (SBD) is done then results are filtered for distance, and Distance to post (DTP) is also shown in the archive items on the search results page.

    However, even after that once other CPT/detail/ other pages are visited, and then again search by distance is done on the seach bar on some location / CPT page, then again results are not filtered by distance in SBD, and no DTP is shown anymore – so the lat/long seems to be not persisting and gets lost.

    Is this expected behaviour or am i doing something wrong?

    June 8, 2019 at 4:31 pm #491724

    Alex Rollin
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    June 8, 2019 at 6:07 pm #491745

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    June 10, 2019 at 6:19 pm #492092

    Alex Rollin
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    Search by distance works with near search. Try it out and let us know.

    Just type pune into the field without selecting “IN”

    June 10, 2019 at 6:19 pm #492093

    Alex Rollin
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    June 11, 2019 at 3:46 pm #492319

    vivek
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    Understood. Thanks very much, Alex.

    Also, wanted to check is there a possibility to sort the search results, like one can on an archive page. I am doing a default distance to post- nearest sorting, but in case a user wants to sort by name, or rating how can that be done in the search page?
    I do see a parameter in the URL “&sort_by=” but not sure how it works?

    June 11, 2019 at 10:16 pm #492376

    Alex Rollin
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    Please see: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/places/search/#faq
    Sorting options do not apply to search results.

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