[James Finlen]

Good Morning,

I am building a business directory and the following questions were presented to me recently.

Is there any review feature extension for the directory? A feature where users could rate each business? If not, is there a workaround that you might recommend to utilize an existing business review?

Is there a way to show the user of the business directory how far they are away from that particular business, without having to click on the address or “show map”? Thanks!

[James Finlen]

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[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Sorry, no, there is no ratings feature available or a workaround that I can recommend. There is no distance from my location feature, however, I do have an addon which I can send you. It is an advanced search which allows the user to search by radius from zip code. You can see this advanced search in action on this live third party site (the “Find A Therapist” section):

https://sscit.org/

If this will work for you, let me know and I’ll send you a copy. Normally I charge a fee to install and configure, but, with the license you purchased, I’ll installed and configure it on one site, no charge, so you can see how it is done. That way you can duplicate it on other sites as needed.

Hope this helps, let me know.

[James Finlen]

Steven, that sounds great! I will take advantage of that offer. I will set up the site that I would like to have it installed and get back to you ASAP.

An unrelated question- if I import url’s into some of the date fields, will they function properly and be clickable ect? I am trying to create more of a link directory, so have more options to upload links would help, Thanks!

[James Finlen]

If the date field would not work, is there another field that I could import links (url’s) to get more links in there during my upload? Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

No, importing into data fields will not create clickable links. I have not tested such a scenario but I do easily envios that would completely break the field as it expects a valid data format.

If you need more link fields to import into, you could add custom link types. You would do it just like custom email types. But, instead of cn_email_options for the filter name, you would use cn_link_options.

Hope that helps!

[James Finlen]

Great. I read the link and will install code snippets. Just to summarize.. I will change the word “email” to the word link all throughout the code, correct? And this will allow me to import additional links into whatever I name the new link in the codemail, correct? Lastly, will I create new snippet to add additional link options or add more code to the existing snippet? Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

Install Code Snippets, copy past the example code and change that one word ( cn_email_options to cn_link_options. Save and Activate the snippet.

As is the code will add two new links types, “primary” and Secondary”.

You can change those to suit or add more or add just one. For example:

function cn_my_new_link_types( $options ) {

    $options['codemail'] = 'Code Mail';

    return $options;
}

add_filter( ‘cn_link_options’, ‘cn_my_new_link_types’ );

This will add a single new option which you can import into, or, add manually when you add/edit an entry.

There is no other code to change or edit.

Hope that helps clear it up.

[James Finlen]

Steven, can you tell me how to achieve the category search features displayed on the site sscit.org? I know that you are going to share how to install the location search feature but I am also interested how to achieve multiple search options, as displayed on that site. Thanks!

[Steven Zahm]

@ James

it is a another extension that is in development to enable advanced search. It is stable and production ready and is installed on a couple dozen sites. The reason it is not simply just sold and requires me to install is due to the fact there is no UI for configuration. It is added the page with a shortcode. The one option, to setup the multiple category search, has a somewhat complex syntax (but simply when you see exactly how to configure it) in order to set up which category parents are to be displayed, what the default placeholder text should be and what the search results message header should be. Here’s an example:

[cn_multi_category_search category="2||Select Insurance Plan|The results are being filtered by the Insurance Plan(s): %s,8||Select Specialization|The results are being filtered by the Specialization(s): %s"]

Does that answer your question?

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