Thread: Search Radius and location

Search Radius and location

Hi, I have a few questions about the radius and location filtering as this function is extremely important to me. The rest of the classipress theme, looks awesome!

1) Can you get rid of all of the countries from the location filtering except the ones you want for your site? Example - Only show the US and Canada and no other country to filter.

2) In the demo, I can see that you can filter from country and to state for the US, but if you change the country, it still only shows the US states. Example - If you changed it to Canada, can you have it show the provinces? (or other country regions?)

-Could you also have another filter below the state/province to filter further to city?

3) The radius search slide bar is a nice feature using zip/postal code. Is it accurate for Canada as well as the US? What about other countries?

4) Once you set your location filter, does all of your searching stay within that filtered location (even if you leave the site and come back another time) until you change it?

5) Can you have the location search function on the home page? Assuming that it keeps the settings until you change it, I think it would be beneficial to already be filtering from the home page once you start your search or click on the categories. (Similar to Kijiji, where you set your location before you start looking through categories or searching)

Thank you very much in Advance!

In answer to your questions:

1) Yes you can edit the field values and leave only countries you wish to have in the dropdown list.
2) There is no dynamic category option, i.e. if you select a country, it won't bring up a separate dropdown of states for that country. You can however list all states and provinces in that same list. Changing this would require customization on your part. There are further city/street fields which are part of the listing form also and used for Google map accuracy.
3) You still need to set your region in the ClassiPress admin dashboard, but you can use further advanced search fields for the location you're searching.
4) No, this information is not retained.
5) It would require customization to move the advanced search to the homepage as it currently is only available in the category view by default. Our themes are not encrypted, so you are free to make modifications if you wish. Thanks.

Thank you kindly for your fast reply! I just have a one of the answers that I would like to clarify.

4) My apologies, but I am not a developer, so this question may sound a bit silly....... Is it even possible to retain the info like in a cookie or some by some other means? I find that having to fill out the location again and again when doing multiple searches a little redundant. Therefore if there is any other way to do it, it would be great.

Thank you again!!

This may technically be possible, however would certainly require customization. AppThemes doesn't offer customization services, however we do have a certified partners page where you can find developers for hire. Thanks.