[Kent Eimers]

Hi Steven.

I have a business directory that includes a number of categories for various businesses types (ex. “Legal”, “Financial”, “Health & Wellness”, etc.). I am interested in segmenting my directory by category type, then into 2 separate geographic “zones” that do not correspond perfectly to zip codes or cities.

What I would like to do is have a page for “Financial” businesses from “Zone 1”, a separate page for “Financial” businesses from “Zone 2”, a different page for “Health & Wellness” businesses from “Zone 1”, a separate page for “Health & Wellness” businesses from “Zone 2”, and so on.

I was thinking I could create “Zone” categories along with the business type categories, but need to know if it is possible to use shortcodes to create a list that includes 1 business type category AND 1 zone category per page as described above – ex. Health & Wellness businesses (only) from Zone 1 (only)?

Hopefully this makes sense. If so, is this possible?

Thank you!!!
Kent

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kent

You have two options.

Create the Zone One and Zone Two top level categories and create duplicate categories under each Zone. The if you’re using a premium template that has a category drop down you could use the enable_category_by_root_parent shortcode option.

The other option would be create your two zone categories and all the other categories and then use the category_in. Doing it this way, you would have to create a page for each category in each zone.

Personally, I’d op for the former because it would involves a lot less work.

Hope that helps.

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