Your Vote for Widgets Spanning Custom Post Types

Guust,

I appreciate the work around idea. It certainly has merit.

The one challenge is that it probably isn’t as simple as one or two fields…if it was, you probably wouldn’t bother with more than one CPT anyway.

It is probably several fields across 5-15 different CPT, across 2-3 different pricing tiers (standard good-better-best marketing/pricing strategy). This seems like more of a nightmare to manage, which leaves excluding multiple CPT and fields, which waters down the site to little differentiation or value.

Or have multiple CPT and relevant fields, but have a potential disconnect on other pages because I’m limited to 1 CPT, or I have to have multiple, separate CPTs on a page (this was what I meant by “cobbled together”) for each CPT you want to include. For example, if I have one CPT on a listing page for restaurants, then anyone going to a location page rather than a specific category (CPT) will only be presented with restaurants. Maybe that is fine, maybe it isn’t. As it is today, that’s the only way it is presented. Maybe I don’t want all CPT, but maybe I want a random (or based on proximity to the user) selection of listings from the top 3 categories (e.g., restaurants, bars, shopping).

Don’t ask what GD can do for you, but what you can do with GD [Guust] 🙄

Sorry, but I think this is a poor, poor response from someone being given the role of moderator. What I’m trying to do is help foster the development of GD to be the best directory solution there is. That doesn’t happen by simply rolling over and accepting it as it is or it’s limitations, but challenging the development to be better. There may be reasons for those limitations, and that’s fine. Some of them may be true limitations, and others maybe self-imposed.

Unfortunately, I’m not a developer, coder, programmer, and I haven’t even done site design for years, so I’m limited on what I can do to help here. But I’ve been involved in software development, worked for a leading SEO agency done SEO work on some of the biggest brands in the world, so I will happily provide my expertise where I can to help things along.

If you misinterpreted my post as an attack on GD, I’m sorry…that wasn’t the intent. And likewise, if I misread the intent of your response, then simply take the above in context there as well.

cheers

@guust

Again, thanks for the ideas.

It’s all relative, but the 11 or so categories/CPTs planned are fairly paired down based on analysis of other popular, related sites and some general keyword research. Perhaps 1 or 2 could be combined, but that would really start to blur the relevancy.

In this case, the main reason for having multiple CPTs goes back to setting up unique, relevant fields. If GD could be setup to allow field customization at the category level (inherited or further customized at child levels below that), then CPTs would necessarily be needed for this. I’d prefer that and leave CPTs for things like directory listings vs. events vs. job listings vs. property listings, etc.

That said, I do agree with your #3 point about breadth.

I’ve been thinking about a pricing page as well like you have there, as much for greater presentation capabilities around pricing tiers as anything.

To add to purpleedge’s questions, I’d add a 1b. to the list:
The ability to restrict listing selection within categories, or put simpler, “forced submission to the lowest level.” Ideally this should also be left to admin discretion to either allow selection/submission into parent level categories (e.g., restaurants) or only allow in child levels (e.g., Italian restaurants, Chinese restaurants, etc.)