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    Vantage - Using this theme for a business directory - categories are states/cities

    can i use Vantage to accomplish something like this in terms of functionality related to how the listings are "searched". right now in the demo of vantage i did not see how to search for listings by state and city. i only saw it based on the categories of the type of business. i would like to have both sets of categories which are "type of business" and "state/city"

    This is the model I want to replicate
    1. http://www.usatopdentists.com/
    a. See how it has a search function in the middle where the states and cities and specialties are autopopulated from the database in real time
    b. See how there is a list of specialties on the right side – ex. cosmetic dentistry
    i. http://www.usatopdentists.com/find-d...etic-dentistry
    1. And here it lists the 50 states and then you click a state to see a list of cities that have a cosmetic dentist
    2. I am thinking that if there is no cosmetic dentist in a city or state, then the system will not display the city automatically (instead of listing ALL cities and giving a result of “zero” found If you click a city with no cosmetic dentist
    2. http://www.usatopdentists.com/find-d...st-results.asp
    a. See how on the right side all 50 states are listed. Then you click a state and see on the next page a list of cities in that state
    3. Then it lists all matches for your query
    a. http://www.usatopdentists.com/find-d...etic-dentistry
    4. Each listing has its own listing page
    a. http://www.usatopdentists.com/find-d...cialty=general dentistry&city=alabaster&state=alabama&num=1
    b. I would like to give each listing a login so they can adjust their listing

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    Vantage is not currently multi regional capable in the way you describe, so whilst you could easily create categories for each state, and then add the type of business as subcategories, this will of course leave you with a lot of categories overall. The easier option is to just create the categories and select the location as you can see on the Vantage demo site. Outside of this, you could look at a WordPress multisite setup, giving each location its own subdomain, but you'd be looking at additional customization to get it all working together. Thanks.

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