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What am i doing worong with adding taxonomy

Hi im trying to add a ‘location’ taxonomy – after making the taxonomy in custompress the ‘Add location’ meta box appears fine in my listing admin area but when I try and add a town – say ‘stockport’ it juse appears small and faint with a tiny cross on the left hand side below the input box.

Any idea what foolish thing I am doing wrong ? can supply screen shot !

Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:58:22
  • phil
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Ari

    Yes sorry to be a pain – first time I have dabbled with this plug in and this type of site functionality

    BTW I have Buddy press installed – does this over ride the standard wp login ie when people sign up for the site using Buddy press forms will it then interact with directory then giving permission to create listing etc

    Cheers

    Phil

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  • phil
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Doh!

    Yes it works great and my advanced search plug in now picks up the entry on a search ‘by area’ which is fantastic

    Did you see other question re buddy press? Finally if we wanted slight customization to enhance the final site could we talk to you about that ?

    Thanks Ari I will stop asking questions soon.

  • aristath
    • Recruit

    @phil I’m glad this has been sorted out.

    Did you see other question re buddy press?

    What other question? Could you please post a link to that thread?

    Finally if we wanted slight customization to enhance the final site could we talk to you about that ?

    You can simply create a new post on these forums. If it’s something that we can help with then I’ll be more than happy to help out!

    Cheers,

    Ari.

  • phil
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Ari Thanks very much – pls see attached and below for a few queries

    1 Is it possible to code / script the 'contact user' button to enforce users to first register and make a profile before they can contact a person listing? The community will be based on a lot of trust as listers will be lending out their belongings so viewing profiles is an essential asset

    2 Please see attached image – the location of items is vital to the site – I managed to set up a location taxonomy but on the listing form need a drop down list to appear like the category taxonomy – can you help?

    3 The buddy press question was just to check the buddy press log in replaces the standard wordpress function – IE if I want people to register before they can make a directory listing the listing button wont appear until signed in on buddypress

    Thanks for your ongoing support !

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  • aristath
    • Recruit

    1 Is it possible to code / script the ‘contact user’ button to enforce users to first register and make a profile before they can contact a person listing? The community will be based on a lot of trust as listers will be lending out their belongings so viewing profiles is an essential asset

    Yes, it’s possible… but some custom coding will b required in order to get it right.

    You ‘ll have to locate that piece of code in the plugin and add a conditional statement like this:

    if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
    
// Do something if the user is logged-in
    
} else {
    
// Do something else if the user is logged out
    
}

    2 Please see attached image – the location of items is vital to the site – I managed to set up a location taxonomy but on the listing form need a drop down list to appear like the category taxonomy – can you help?

    I’m assuming you’ve used custompress to create these taxonomies.

    You will have to make them hierarchical in order for that control to be a list of all the available terms.

    3 The buddy press question was just to check the buddy press log in replaces the standard wordpress function – IE if I want people to register before they can make a directory listing the listing button wont appear until signed in on buddypress

    Yes, that’s how it works. Users have to register in order to be able to post a new listing and the BuddyPress registration form replaces (or rather complements) the WP original form.

    I hope that helps!

    Cheers,

    Ari.

  • phil
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Ari

    I want to have a home page slider featuring latest listings and perhaps three columns of other featured listing activity a bit like a typical ecommerce theme … do you have any other plug ins that will do the job or indeed can you suggest any? The directory seems to be working out a good fit in test mode but the site needs a bit more impact .

    Thank you

  • phil
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Thanks Ari thats great will do

    BTW my new ‘location’ taxonomies seem to be appearing in the list generated by my ‘category’ shortcode …how can i stop that?

    Also is it possible to create a drop down menu of the catagories ? I know it will req coding I just wondered if anyone had asked this before as a lot of ditectory sites have a category tab on the main nav with a drop down list.

    Thanks

  • phil
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Ari dont worry have sorted above

    I’m just testing the main functionality now ie sign up process – when i create an account and then head over to the email it says ‘incorrect activation key’

    Is there something I should be configuring differently?

    I also really only want clients in the front end of the site ? not to be directed into a wp type of log in envoironment .. so do I have to hack out thecode for wp – top admin bar ?

  • phil
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Hi Ari

    Sorry to press but have you any thoughts on why the authentication email would display ‘invalid authentication key’ when we text the sign up process?

    I cant really use the plug in if this is a ongoing problem

    regards

    Phil