Thread: Displaying by states?

Displaying by states?

Is there a theme or way to change the layout and add a main page feature that list states or maybe a drop down menu for a user to select his/her state.

Re: Displaying by states?

I was able to do this by hacking the tagging function.

Basically, instead of people typing in tags when posting an ad, people can choose a tag from a dropdown menu. And the dropdown menu is a list of all the states. So people tag their ad with their state.

Then I made a page for each state, and a header section with links to each state's page.

On each state's page is a list of category links with the tag appended.

For example, on the page for Alaska is a list of links like this:

http://www.example.com/category/blue-shoes/?tag=alaska
http://www.example.com/category/pink-shoes/?tag=alaska
http://www.example.com/category/red-shoes/?tag=alaska

Re: Displaying by states?

did you post anywhere what files you edited this is all new to me

Re: Displaying by states?

It was all new to me also, and it's been a while since i've dug into this code...

I may have just altered post-form.php by commenting out the tag input section and adding the tag-select as below:

<!-- <label for="post_tags"><?php _e('Tags','cp'); ?> <?php _e('(separate with commas)','cp'); ?></label>
<input type="text" id="post_tags" class="adfields" name="post_tags" size="60" maxlength="100" value="<?php echo $_POST['post_tags']; ?>" />
-->

<label for="post_tags"><?php _e('Region','cp'); ?></label>
<select size="10" id="post_tags" class="adfields" name="post_tags" >
<option value=''>Select One</option>
<option>Alaska</option>
<option>California-Northern</option>
<option>California-Southern</option>
<option>Colorado</option>
</select>

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and in header.php I included a section of links going to each state's page.

i'm no coding expert so any code ive posted is "use at own risk"

Re: Displaying by states?

I modified the ad post form to have them enter a more descriptive address including province or state. I then stored that as a custom field like the template does with the other fields. Next I added a way for them to select a province to filter on and placed it in a cookie. I modified each search to include the meta filter on that selected province.

That's a very rough description but it's doable. I did it in my clients site www.kucha.ca

Re: Displaying by states?

Care to do a tutorial?
I heard of someone incorporating subdomains to do something like this. I'll have to see if I can find it. It may have been on the Directorypress website.
I'll want to do this for my upcoming classipress site. broken down into provinces/territories.
I'll post back here if i find it.

Re: Displaying by states?

I might be able to give a tutorial tomorrow on how to approach this.

Can you post a tutorial please ? i am also interested in this modification. Thanks

Just take note that this is a very old post from an unverified user.

aaaaaaa it is true.

But it would be nice to have something like this