[Steven Zahm]

@ Amy

Given this a bit more thought…

Use this link for your directory page:

http://earnestenterprisesllc.com/prairieside-dining-close/?cn-near-coord=42.8842689,-85.766693&cn-radius=1

Change the value for cn-near-coord to be the coordinates of your clients business. change the value for cn-radius to be the radius that all businesses are located within.

Edit the page with the [connections] shortcode. Add the order_by option setting its value to distance. So the shortcode should be something like “[connections order_by="distance"]`. Save the page.

Now, the entries should be listed in order of distance from your clients place of business.

Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

[Amy LeForge]

That sounds amazing, and I will try it shortly. That doesn’t give visitors an idea of the distance unless we do a text box though, right? Easily done of course. Just clarifying.

If I order by distance, can I then add the alpha index to the top of each page?

Thank you SO much.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Amy

RE: That doesn’t give visitors an idea of the distance unless we do a text box though, right?

Correct.

RE: If I order by distance, can I then add the alpha index to the top of each page?

Sorry, no, the character index only works when the default sorting is used.

[Amy LeForge]

Hmmm. Struggling to get the permalink changed. I added a custom permalinks plugin but it’s stripping out some characters and adding % instead. Thoughts?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Amy

What do you mean by custom permalinks?

[Amy LeForge]

Don’t I need to change the permalink to match the url you gave me? If not, where do I put it?

Sorry…this is new.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Amy

No, that link I gave you is a sample link. change the values as described earlier and use that link to add to the site’s nav as a Custom Link on the WP Menus admin page. YOu would add that custom link instead of using the “standard” page link.

Does that make sense?

[Amy LeForge]

Okay. I’m an idiot. I didn’t have a moment to respond and tell you sooner. I just put the link in as you suggested. It is not changing the sort order by distance using the link.

I used: http://earnestenterprisesllc.com/prairieside-dining-close/?cn-near-coord=42.9066197,-85.7650054&cn-radius=100

The sort is alphabetical. I have this for the shortcode:

[connections allow_public_override='TRUE' str_home_addr="Address" category=12]

Thoughts?

Thank you again for sticking with me through all of this!

[Steven Zahm]

@ Amy

RE: The sort is alphabetical. I have this for the shortcode:

This is because the order_by shortcode option has not been set to distance as explained in an earlier response.

Your shortcode should be:

[connections allow_public_override='TRUE' str_home_addr="Address" category=12 order_by="distance"]

Hope this helps!

[Amy LeForge]

Heh. Told you I’m an idiot!

That worked. Thank you so much. I’m still waiting for the client to decide about the text box option, so I may still bug you. But THANK YOU so much!

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