Everyone is invited to the first Toolset competition and it’s all about custom searches.
The Best Custom Search
Why are custom searches so important?
E-commerce sites and directories typically have a lot of content. Instead of drilling down into categories, visitors want to run a quick search.
The Views plugin lets you build custom searches for anything. You can create searches by custom fields, taxonomy and even post parents.
The best thing about Toolset is that every site you build with it looks and works differently. So, if every site looks and works differently, which one is the best? That’s exactly what we’re going to find out!
Prizes
We hope that the fun in participation and the ideas that we’ll all share will be a prize by itself. Besides this, winners will receive free upgrades from your current account.
Views » Toolset (worth $70)
Toolset » Toolset for Life (worth $150)
Toolset for Life » Free WPML account (worth $79)
The competition will have three winners, one in each category:
Loveliest design
Best use of Toolset features
Most surprising concept
Who can participate?
Anyone with a valid account in wp-types.com for ‘Views’, ‘Toolset’ or ‘Toolset for Life’.
How to join?
To join the competition, show us your Toolset-based website, which includes a custom search. Explain how you’ve built it and how it’s working.
Submit your production sites (not under development) by:
leaving a comment here or (much better) on Toolset Facebook page. The comment should include the website URL (so we can match with the form submissions) and a brief description of your site. We need the comment here or on Facebook, so we can give you quick feedback about your submission.
Competition dates
The competition will be open from today and until Monday, Dec 21 (Christmas week). We will review all entries, announce winners and award prizes on Dec 23rd.
We hope to see a lot of sites. It’s going to be fun seeing what you build with Toolset and I’m sure that you’ll get some fresh ideas from others.
Entries, so far…
Site
A few words
http://myfoundrycorner.com/
The website offers for B2B ads in the foundry business. People can write and buy the right to get published ads, or they can also visit the “buy” page, which allows to search for an ad via the custom search.
I developed all the basis of cpt, front end forms, views with toolset. I also added some of my php to customize a lot of functionnalities.
http://carbatteryassist.co.uk/
Mobile Car Battery Replacement Service, I built the site to provide a battery replacement service and used Toolset (custom search ) so visitors could find battery type for there car
http://igsu.ranepa.ru/
Official site of International Institute of Public Administration and Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
All the specialized pages of the site (such as training programs, education, training areas, and others.) made using Types, Views and Access.
http://wheatquality.com.au/
The website is developed to allow farmers to submit their wheat to be indexed and classed by growing zones and classifications. Prior to developing the website the farmers would have to try find the classifications on a very large PDF document with rows and rows of wheat varieties.
At the strategy meeting I came up with the idea that we could build a custom post type and have it display on the front end which will make it very easy for the list to be filtered and searchable. Something that was never possible through a PDF.
http://trsabuyersguide.org/
The TRSA Textile Services Online Buyers’ Guide offers expedited access to scores of suppliers who have hundreds of products and services for textile service companies. Since the site was revamped in mid-2015, Online Buyers’ Guide traffic has doubled due to enhanced site navigation and graphics, along with tie-ins to a weekly e-newsletter.
http://arabicalmasdar.org/events/
Al-Masdar, is the source for Arabic language and Arab culture teaching materials, opportunities, news, and events relevant to both teachers and students. It is a single source for teachers to create, publish, and collaborate with colleagues on materials developed for their classrooms.
Large catalog of music releases available for licensing and sync to video.
http://www.imoveismarket.com/
The project was for a Brazilian real estate business who are still currently in the process of launching as well as creating listings. They required development of a real estate design along with creating a powerful custom search which met their requirements.
The Global resource for beatboxing – global and aimed at learners. There are custom searches for sounds, battles, cross linked database to beatboxer profiles.
http://theseconddisc.com/release-calendar/
The release calendar allows users to quickly find products by artist, genre, release date or keyword. The results are presented in a fully responsive user-sortable table, complete with links to product details, reviews and Amazon Affiliate links to facilitate shopping.
http://www.fddb.org/fulldome-shows/
FDDB.org – Fulldome Database is a worldwide listing of anything professionally related to immersive dome-based video projection environments. We are the global top resource of information about fulldome content, producers, venues, events and news.
FDDB.org targets all kinds of professional working in the fulldome business, as well as media artists and students.
Toolset allowed us to organise all this information around a user based community, where users can post, edit end interact with any posted content. The plugin allows us to facilitate networking among people spread all around the globe.
This client spotted a gap in the market for a website directory of Things to do in Dublin for kids.
Parents or minders can browse hundreds of kid friendly locations, party venues, parks, activities, restaurants, camps and suppliers of kid related services like magicians etc.
http://bchomez.com/
Vancouver Real Estate website
http://www.smarterdancer.com/
Smarter Dancer is a project by a father with two teenage daughters involved in ballet. The founder’s goal is to make smarter dancers by sharing information and thoughts about dance.
As a dance parent, he found himself searching the web for information about dance college programs, dance equipment, and audition schedules. As he collected more data, he realized he had a resource that he could share with other dancers and their parents.
The Smarter Dancer website heavily relies on the Types, Views, and Module Manager components of Toolset. The three pages powered by Toolset are:
* A curated collection of online dance articles, searchable by taxonomy.
* A listing of dancer retailers and their current specials and special codes, searchable by country (actually a taxonomy).
* A searchable listing of US colleges with dance programs. This search has many facets: college name, region within the US, degree program. Using the Views PHP API, we added a proximity search for US ZIP codes.
In the next week, we will be rolling out two new features powered by Toolset, both of which utilize post types with parent/child relationships:
* A searchable listing of dancing auditions for summer programs, colleges, a professional troops.
* A searchable listing of dancing conventions.
Both of these new features will involve custom searching via the Views PHP API.
The competition is closed. See who won in the winners announcement blog post. Everyone is invited to the first Toolset competition and it’s all about custom searches. The Best Custom Search Why are custom searches so important? E-commerce sites and directories typically have a lot of content. Instead of drilling down into categories, visitors want…
Official site of International Institute of Public Administration and Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Please consider extending the date. My site (under development) is a few days away from completion. Please….
I need to close the competition today and we are announcing winners tomorrow. No worries, this competition was a lot of fun and we’ll have more competitions in the near future.
Official site of International Institute of Public Administration and Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
http://igsu.ranepa.ru/
Thanks Alex. I’ll review and add my feedback.
And what is the prize for Toolset and WPML “for life” users? 🙂
A big thank you from the entire team at OnTheGoSystems
ahah ok 🙂
Find any property in Vancouver, BC with just 3 clicks!
http://bchomez.com
or http://bchomez.com/home-finder/ (with Maps)
Please consider extending the date. My site (under development) is a few days away from completion. Please….
I need to close the competition today and we are announcing winners tomorrow. No worries, this competition was a lot of fun and we’ll have more competitions in the near future.