Hello,
I'm looking for a solution to a directory that I am building within my website and I think your plugin might be what I'm looking for, but I need to get some clarity on this before buying. This directory will serve 4 different locations at this time and will have 7 main categories with 5 to 20 subcategories. If I am understanding all of this correctly, this is how I should set it up:
Directory - Custom Post Type
- Locations - main taxonomy
- City1 - child taxonomy
- City2 - child taxonomy
- City3 - child taxonomy
- City4 - child taxonomy
- Restaurants & Food - main taxonomy
- American - child taxonomy
- Mexican - child taxonomy
- Chinese - child taxonomy
etc, etc, etc...
- Professional Services - main taxonomy
- Attorney - child taxonomy
- Accountant - child taxonomy
etc, etc, etc...
Ok, we will have around 7 or 8 of the main taxonomies and then 5 to 20 child taxonomies. My first question is, is this the proper way to set this up? The second question I have and the most trouble I am having right now is how to pull the proper data into my pages?
I have a menu on my homepage that lists out the four cities we will be setting up. There is a drop down under each city with the list of main taxonomies. We need it so that when someone hovers over a particular city and then clicks on a main taxonomy for that city they will be taken to a page that will list out the 5 to 20 child taxonomies. From there, they would chose the category/child taxonomy they want to go to and then a list of 4 to 6 businesses in that category will be pulled up. We will create a page for each of these businesses that a client can visit if they click on that business.
What I am hoping is that your plugin here will help me easily accomplish this task. I need to make sure that when a city is selected it only brings up the businesses for the categories under that city/location.
Can this be done easily using this plugin? I know very little about php and I tried to figure this out going straight coding and I got the custom types and taxonomies set-up, but can't for the life of me figure out how to get my pages to pull in correctly. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me with this and if your plugin is the answer to my problems, then I will be buying it asap.
Thanks!
Tyy
We have two tutorials that take you through very similar sites:
Classified - https://toolset.com/learn/wordpress-classifieds-site/
Magazine - https://toolset.com/learn/create-a-wordpress-magazine-theme/
Both use nested Views. The external View goes through the top-level taxonomy and the internal View displays the posts that belong to it (in the magazine example) or the sub-categories (in the classifieds site).
The only thing that's missing right now is a way to let visitors filter content dynamically. We're working on it for Views 1.1. When ready (in 2-3 weeks), you'll also be able to display a search form that lets visitors look for content and specify search criteria, without having to drill-down into categories.
Does this help?
