Thread: Search by Country, City and Location Category?

Search by Country, City and Location Category?

Hi there, I'm new but I've been keeping track of this theme for a very long time. You have got a good theme I must confess with improved look - When is the latest version of which the search by country, state and city will be implemented? - I want to be able to filter the category so user can get stuffs from there current location - just almost like the gumtree but not in that sense...

Kindly let me know... and I'll buy the theme ASAP.

Regards,
MannyMan

Re: Search by Country, City and Location Category?

This can be achieved using the plugin "WP Custom Search": http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp- ... ds-search/

It will allow you to create a search form widget that searches by post meta data... so you can create a drop down for "Country" or "State" or whatever custom fields you are using in your posts.

It does require a tiny bit of CSS styling to pot the widget in the same style as the ClassiPress theme - but thats quite straightforward.

Kim

Re: Search by Country, City and Location Category?

I'm going to take back my recommendation for WP Custom Field Search. The developer seems to no longer support it, and it doesnt handle sticky posts (Feature ads) very well - they show up in search results regardless of search terms/category.
Instead - I've achieved a similar thing using this method: http://appthemes.com/forum/showthrea...earch-function

Re: Search by Country, City and Location Category?

Thank kmaisch for pointing it out. Users looking for search hack for Classipress will now have alternative solution.

Re: Search by Country, City and Location Category?

Thanks I will try this when I get the theme - I was just wondering if the theme author has plan to incorproate these features in the next version/updates. I think a good classified themes should have it.

Note: I raised this request because I read in a thread dated january - the author said he would incoproate this feature now it is june and the recent version came out april but anyways its all good.

Cheers
MannyMan

Re: Search by Country, City and Location Category?

I think the developing team is just waiting for the release of Wordpress version 3.0 so as to make any changes of classipress, specifically with with requested features and fixes, conforms with the functions and features of WP3 .

Yep, filtering by state / country is something I need, too. Thanks for implementing asap.

The WP Custom Search plugin is total rubbish - we've tested it.

For anyone running, or proposing to run, a classified directory, then filtering is a must have feature but it's not doable if you rely on using custom fields to store hierarchical values such as country, region, city etc.

I recommend that you use categories exclusively for this because you can go deep and they are very easy to manage.

This plugin does the job very well of handling filtering but will not work with CP:

http://scribu.net/wordpress/query-multiple-taxonomies

WP custom search plugin is not any proper solution for proper search function. It does not give you the exact result what you are looking for.
I think CP must inculde this function in next update!

@ jomarkosabel

This feature - searching by city, region or in general by custom fields has been requested a few times.
And I was keen to know wether it'll be implemented in the job theme. Do I have overseen this feature?
Because the top bar doesn't show it. But in Europe we lot's of cities where users like to work, so they should be able to filter the results.

When will it be implemented?

Best, Andreas